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25501 three years later: Osama's sons = 85 Dow points -- rank: 1000

Wall St Week Ahead-No party for bubble anniversary Friday March 7, 5:35 pm ET By Denise Duclaux NEW YORK, March 7 (Reuters) - Monday marks the third anniversary of the biggest party ever hosted by Wall Street, but investors will pass the day with gloom -- and a sizable dose of bitterness -- as the countdown to war and the erosion of the market continue. The technology-stuffed Nasdaq composite index (IXIC) soared as high as 5,132.52 on March 10, 2000 -- hitting a level never seen in its roughly 3 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 7 20:17:03 PST 2003

25502 torture by wax -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nypost.com/delonas/2003/032003.htm>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 7 20:09:37 PST 2003

25503 Hans & Lizzie -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 7, 2003 We hear . . . THAT Lizzie Grubman and Hans Blix live in the same condo complex in the East 60s. "I'm told that Blix gets many fewer packages than Lizzie," says a neighbor, "and photographers don't go to the trouble of waiting outside to get a picture of him" . . .

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 7 20:03:38 PST 2003

25504 Was Bush tranked for war speech? - Washington Post -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: ><http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54629-2003Mar7.html> > >"Maybe Bush thought he was, indeed, coming across as cool and temperate >instead of bored and enervated, and this was simply a rhetorical >miscalculation. On the other hand... the president may have been ever so >slightly medicated." Wow, that's a pretty tough piece for the WP. Is the bourgeoisie getting worried, or is Shales just freelancing? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 7 19:52:17 PST 2003

25505 happy sodomy day, from J Stalin -- rank: 1000

>THE PRIDELETS FILES for March 7 > On this day in 1934, Article 121 bans male sodomy in all the >republics of the USSR, punishing consenting same-sex activity among >men with "deprivation of freedom" for up to five years, if caught.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 7 19:31:34 PST 2003

25506 Hitch-Turk -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >I would have thought by now, that you realized that your >old friend, Hitch, is a slimy piece of shit. It's a lot easier to say that if you never knew the guy. He's very likeable, and I thought he was very talented too. So it's sad to see him acting so shittily now if you used to think very highly of him. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 7 19:29:50 PST 2003

25507 Legacy admissions (Was: W's transcript) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >What they >have at Hahvahd, I wouldn't know. They're called "finals clubs," but they're pretty weak tea next to the likes of Skull & Bones. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 7 07:40:25 PST 2003

25508 Gallup poll -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >The economy had better not deterioate because the Bush >administration could have left itself very isolated internationally. >Blair is under intense pressure. Well this morning's U.S. jobs report was a real stinker. Over 300,000 jobs lost - recession quantities. The dollar's off on the news... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 7 05:50:31 PST 2003

25509 The War Party's Fucked -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I am puzzled that there could be any question about this. Clear U.S. >hegemony is an unmitigated disaster for the human species. (Doug himself >has often noted that the fall of the FSU was a disaster for the world.) Yup, still think that. But I was thinking Pax Americana (which was, of course, never very peaceful) vs. the run-up to WW I. >Doug has argued for a >gradualist achievement of socialism. That is a daydream ...and its sudden revolutionary achievement is ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 6 19:29:05 PST 2003

25510 NYC on the war -- rank: 1000

<http://www.ny1.com/ny/TopStories/SubTopic/index.html?topicintid=1&subtopicintid=1&contentintid=28399> NY1/Newsday Poll: Two-Thirds Of New Yorkers Say Terror Threat Will Increase In Event Of War MARCH 06TH, 2003 Two-thirds of New Yorkers say the threat of terrorism in the city will rise if the United States take military action against Iraq. The findings are part of an exclusive NY1/Newsday poll. NY1's Andrew Siff filed this report. More than 4 in 10 city residents are flat-out opp ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 6 15:38:13 PST 2003

25511 fox etc -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: > > It actually started before Downey. E.g., Joe Pyne on TV and Long John >Nebel >> and Barry Farber on radio, but I guess they were all pretty genteel by >> today's standards. >> >> Carl > >In the late-80s, I was a regular on Farber's nightly radio show in NY. He's >pretty right-wing and could get testy, but overall he was quite considerate >and polite. > >He used to taunt me in that Southern voice -- "Deeeennnis! ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 6 11:18:49 PST 2003

25512 fox etc -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >Surely there is in terms of how it's advertised? There's a difference between >Lehrer and whatever-is-what-hard-copy-was, surely? Well yeah, the News Hour is "marketed" (the quotes signifying that it's not marketed very aggressively) as serious stuff for serious people. But most of the shows that don't approach that level of high-minded tedium are looking more & more like O'Reilly - lots of shouting, posturing, testosterone. I can't imagine why anyo ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 6 07:54:20 PST 2003

25513 fox etc -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >Is "The O'Reilly Factor" marketed in the states as current affairs or as >tabloid? In the U.S. these days, there's hardly any difference. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 6 07:33:21 PST 2003

25514 Ari sez... -- rank: 1000

groschke at luminousvoid.net wrote: >On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, / dave / wrote: >> Michael Pollak wrote: >> >> >>MR. FLEISCHER: Helen, I dispute the premise of your question >> > >> > >> > Anyone know who this Helen is? >> >> That would be Helen Thomas, the "Dean" of the White House Press Corps, >> no? The same correspondent who grilled Ari on the potential bombing of >> Iraqi citizens back in January. I thi ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 6 07:29:43 PST 2003

25515 Ari sez... -- rank: 1000

[Have the members of the press been getting vitamin B-12 injections? The opening fifth or so of today's briefing.] <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030305-7.html> March 5, 2003 Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer 12:21 P.M. EST [...] Q Ari, just so we can be clear. The statement that came out of Paris this morning sure looked definitive when you read it. Are you insisting that this is not a veto threat by these countries? MR. FLEISCHER: Well, I'm pointing out that as the ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 5 20:47:16 PST 2003