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25141 [lbo-talk] SEP in the news -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - May 13, 2003 Publishing House Criticizes U.S. Government for Arrest of Iraqi Scientist on 'Most Wanted' List By DANIEL DEL CASTILLO A respected academic publishing house in the United States is demanding the immediate release of Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, an Iraqi scientist whom U.S. military forces arrested last week because of suspicions that she is a key figure in Iraq's alleged biological-weapons program. South End Press, which published Ms. Ammash's ...

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Date:	Tue May 13 12:20:47 PDT 2003

25142 LBO 105 (was Re: [lbo-talk] Hummers (LBO 104)) -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >Any idea when that could hit the presses? Early June. Gotta finish polishing up the book manuscript this week, and then it's probing the mysteries of oil. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 13 12:12:23 PDT 2003

25143 [lbo-talk] It's a Holiday Inn Oklahoma -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Austin is probably the only city not on a coast that's worth a damn? I like Chicago, and Minneapolis seemed pretty ok on my brief visit this past weekend. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 13 11:30:46 PDT 2003

25144 [lbo-talk] It's a Holiday Inn Oklahoma -- rank: 1000

Brian O. Sheppard wrote: >The 'rebel' Texas Dems were discovered in a Holiday Inn in Oklahoma, out >of the jurisdiction of Texas law enforcement. Apparently Texas police are >heading there anyway, to talk with them. Would I be leaping to unfair conclusions, Yankee style, to say that Texas is alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) a frightening and ridiculous place? Are there redeeming factors I'm overlooking? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 13 11:20:29 PDT 2003

25145 [lbo-talk] Zakaria (was Re: Friedman) -- rank: 1000

Timothy Francis-Wright wrote: >That reminds me: did you run into Fareed Zakaria at the POR reunion? No, much to my regret. Most famous attendee was Richard Brookhiser, followed by Walter "Wally" Olson. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 13 11:17:53 PDT 2003

25146 [lbo-talk] Saudi terror bombings -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >I'm not holding my breath waiting for the liberal >hawks to wonder if invading Iraq was such a good idea >after all. They're more likely to say it's time to take out Saudi Arabia! Doug

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Date:	Tue May 13 08:53:58 PDT 2003

25147 [lbo-talk] JFK snorted coke, Frankie hung like a horse -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - May 13, 2003 SINATRA SCOOP ON KENNEDYS A BOMBSHELL new book by Frank Sinatra's valet lifts the lid off the seedy side of Old Blue Eyes' long and colorful relationship with the Kennedys. In "Mr. S.: My Life with Frank Sinatra" (HarperCollins), excerpted in the June issue of Playboy, Sinatra's devoted valet George Jacobs claims that: * He saw then-Sen. John F. Kennedy doing lines of cocaine with his brother-in-law Peter Lawford in a guest room of Sinatra's Palm ...

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Date:	Tue May 13 08:49:43 PDT 2003

25148 [lbo-talk] gazooks! muncher to run YWCA! -- rank: 1000

[love the "Wildmom" typo for their fearless leader!] From: AFA Action Alert <afalert at lists.afa.net> Subject: YWCA hires lesbian feminist as leader - May 13, 2003 Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 04:00:00 -0500 AFA Action Alert! YWCA hires lesbian feminist as leader "We fear the focus will now become homosexual indoctrination among young girls." - Don Wildmon The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) has just hired Patricia Ireland to become the chief executive officer of ...

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Date:	Tue May 13 08:04:38 PDT 2003

25149 [lbo-talk] Questions -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: >1-How much of wealth (in USA, but also in other industrialized countries) >is the result of inheritance? I think Doug already quoted something like >70%? I reviewed the available evidence in Wall Street (and there's not much), and in the U.S. it looks like 50-75% is the result of direct inheritance or the appreciation of inherited funds. But it's very hard to tell, since the best source of info is estate tax returns, and, as the saying goes, estate taxes are al ...

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Date:	Mon May 12 18:26:44 PDT 2003

25150 [lbo-talk] Fidel drops in -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I don't like repression either, but you're not going to get anywhere >if you persist in acontextual, a priori, nonhistorical false >equivalencies. There's a real problem. If you want to have >progressive govts at all, you have to have some better answer than >saying: let the US in to do what it likes, which is to blow them to >hell. Brad resolutely refused to answer, or address, or even >acknowledge these concerns. I expext better from you. > I ...

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Date:	Mon May 12 12:24:32 PDT 2003

25151 [lbo-talk] Fidel drops in -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Substitute the words "terrorism" for the "U.S." and you have the Ashcroft >position on civil liberties. U.S.: big country that's tortured smaller ones for over a century, has created millions of enemies because of it, has a long-standing grudge against Cuba. Cuba: small country that's been mostly nice to its neighbors but has been terrorized by the world's most powerful country for four decades.

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Date:	Mon May 12 11:08:59 PDT 2003

25152 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [DEBATE] :politically motivated hackers deface website -- rank: 1000

POLITICALLY MOTIVATED HACKERS DEFACE WEBSITE ARTICULATING POST-WAR DEMANDS BANGKOK, 12 May: Politically-motivated hackers have defaced the web page containing a statement calling for the immediate withdrawal of US and UK troops from Iraq. Using United States and Israeli flags to obliterate the text and making an automatic link to the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the cyber censors made it impossible for supporters visiting the web site to sign the demands. The statement, entitled "Int ...

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Date:	Mon May 12 05:17:12 PDT 2003

25153 [lbo-talk] Vidal repudiates Hitch -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >Maybe Msgr Peter K. can enlighten us? Or has he disappeared >during my absence and Hitch's capitulation? He's gone. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 11 20:52:39 PDT 2003

25154 [lbo-talk] Fwd: mortgaging the earth, the musical -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 17:50:00 -0400 To: dhenwood at panix.com From: John Halle <john.halle at pop.snet.net> Subject: mortgaging the earth, the musical Doug, I hope this solicitation does not violate LBO protocol. If not, could you forward it to the list? Thanks, John Dear LBOers, As a result of this exchange in 1999 http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/9911/2164.html http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/9911/2174.html I wrote a piece called Mortgaging the Earth which is now making the rounds of the ...

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Date:	Sat May 10 14:40:02 PDT 2003

25155 [lbo-talk] Krugman: Tax cut twice as big a scam as you thought -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Thanks, Doug. As I read the charts you directed me to, there are 2 >million fewer jobs in the US than there were when Bush became president. >That would seem to argue some fairly serious distress, reported or not. >Can war fever and a stoked fear of terrorism overcome that? It has so far, hasn't it? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 9 22:04:23 PDT 2003