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24556 [lbo-talk] predicting elections -- rank: 1000

<http://members.bellatlantic.net/%7Evze3fs8i/air/Elections.htm> An Algorithm for Determining the Winners of U.S. Presidential Elections Daniel Debowy New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York Eric Schulman Alexandria, Virginia Abstract We present an algorithm for determining the winners of United States presidential elections, based on the previous experience of the major party candidates for President and Vice President. The algorithm correctly determines the winner of ea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 24 10:01:07 PDT 2003

24557 [lbo-talk] Greens banned from Parliament after anti-Bush protest -- rank: 1000

So what's the rap on Bob Brown? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 24 09:03:35 PDT 2003

24558 [lbo-talk] RE: Film Notes -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: >I think a University'd count as a "capitalist firm." Has the Fortune 500 started giving tenure? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 23 13:56:40 PDT 2003

24559 [lbo-talk] Bob Pollin in NYC -- rank: 1000

[be there or be square!] Verso and Labyrinth Books Invite You To a Reading with Professor Robert Pollin, Author Of The Critically Acclaimed New Book Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity Tuesday, October 28th 7:30 p.m. 536 West 112th Street New York Labyrinth Books: (212) 865-1588 Economist Robert Pollin is one of the country's leading authorities on living wage policies and the co-author of The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy. He is the foundin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 23 12:42:35 PDT 2003

24560 [lbo-talk] Girl Scouts as lesbian shock troops -- rank: 1000

[it's not often that a list lurker is quoted in The Pridelets Files] >The Pridelets Files for October 23 > On this day in 2000, "National Review" editor Kathryn Jean Lopez >says that "Unlike the Boy Scouts, which has upheld its stand against >homosexual scout leaders, the Girl Scouts welcome lesbians and >made 'loyalty' and God optional in their oath long ago. 'The Girl >Scouts' leaders hope to make their youthful charges the shock troops >of an ongoing femi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 23 11:48:47 PDT 2003

24561 [lbo-talk] poverty chic -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >The poverty of America's deep south - where I grew up - is now imitated by >Britain's trendiest. How sick is that? What's wrong with the Brits? Don't they have their own native culture of poverty that swells can ironically appropriate? Is the UK that tired? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 23 11:29:27 PDT 2003

24562 [lbo-talk] injury reports MIA -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher Online - OCTOBER 23, 2003 Press Underreports Wounded in Iraq Few Newspapers Tally Injuries, Accidents By Seth Porges NEW YORK -- When newspapers reported this week on poor medical and living conditions for Americans injured in Iraq, it might have come as a shock for some readers. For months, the press has barely mentioned non-fatal casualties or the severity of their wounds. E&P reported in July that while deaths in combat are often tallied by newspapers, the many non- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 23 11:18:37 PDT 2003

24563 [lbo-talk] JFK - withdrawal from Vietnam? -- rank: 1000

Just curious if anyone who's commented on this has read Galbraith's piece.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 22 20:18:20 PDT 2003

24564 [lbo-talk] JFK - withdrawal from Vietnam? -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Yes, I believe Chomsky has contested this contention Yup, and I was very persuaded. But Jamie Galbraith is a serious person and his father was a close advisor to JFK and it feels like a rethink might be necessary, which is a pain. As Jamie said when I told him that, quoting his wife, it's a cruel multivariate world out there. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 22 17:03:38 PDT 2003

24565 [lbo-talk] Bush bounce? -- rank: 1000

[from Ruy Teixeira] The So-Called Bush Bounce Ipsos/Cook Political Report poll of 1,001 adults, released October 10, 2003 (conducted October 7-9, 2003 Frank Newport and Lydia Saad, "Bush Job Approval Up Despite Iraq, Economy," Gallup Organization, October 14, 2003 Princeton Survey Research poll of 1,004 adults for Newsweek, released October 14, 2003 (conducted October 9-10, 2003) Washington Post/ABC News poll of 1,000 adults, released October 14, 2003 (conducted October 9-13, 2003) Mik ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 22 13:33:01 PDT 2003

24566 [lbo-talk] JFK - withdrawal from Vietnam? -- rank: 1000

Jamie Galbraith (whose father was an influential advisor to JFK) argues that Kennedy *did* want to withdraw from Vietnam: <http://www.bostonreview.net/BR28.5/galbraith.html>. Noam Chomsky disagrees. Maybe someone who knows this territory better than I can comment. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 22 12:51:46 PDT 2003

24567 [lbo-talk] McKinsey on offshoring -- rank: 1000

An optimistic take: <http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_page.asp?ar=1363&L2=7&L3=10&srid=63&gp=1>. (You may have to register.) The savings enjoyed by companies that move labor-intensive service industry work from the United States to countries with lower labor costs have triggered an exodus of US business-processing jobs. Some analysts project that by 2015 roughly 3.3 million of them will have moved abroad. This prospect has prompted calls for the government to restri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 22 11:22:58 PDT 2003

24568 [lbo-talk] 200K Jobs A Month? What About The 344K Promised Earlier? -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Monthly job creation of 200,000 and maintaining >unemployment at its current level is far from a >satisfactory economic performance. The long-term average growth in U.S. employment is about 2% a year, which at present employment levels, would translate into 229,000 new jobs a month. So 200k would be 13% below that average. But coming after losses averaging 31,000 a month over the last year, it would seem pretty good. So W could spin it pretty positively if the gain ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 22 11:13:05 PDT 2003

24569 [lbo-talk] pain & development -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: >The history of developing nations over the last 50 years >present abject lessons for those Keynesians, Fabians and self-styled >Marxists who still think that there are pain-free development schemes. What painful development scheme(s) do you recommend? (That's a serious, not a wiseguy, question.) Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 22 06:37:56 PDT 2003

24570 [lbo-talk] Re: the neo-neocons -- rank: 1000

I just got back from another of those chatfests at the Council on Foreign Relations, this about the new book by Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay, America Unbound. The authors draw a distinction between neocons - Wolfowitz, Kristol, etc. - and "assertive nationalists" - Cheney, Rummy, and W. The former want to remake the world; the latter, just to assert American interests. The acid test of the difference is "nation building," with the neocons (or "democratic imperialists&qu ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 21 16:38:41 PDT 2003