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25531 William Gaddis: player pianos, rise and fall of -- rank: 1000

[via nettime, for all you Gaddis fans out there] "Stop Player. Joke No. 4" [1951] William Gaddis Selling player pianos to Americans in 1912 was not a difficult task. There was a place for everyone in this brave new world, where the player offered an answer to some of America's most persistent wants: the opportunity to participate in something which asked little understanding; the pleasure of creating without work, practice, or the taking of time; and the manifestation of talent where t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 4 14:50:24 PST 2003

25532 These are some of my favorite marches -- rank: 1000

topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au wrote: >I am utterly amazed at the problem you Americans have at the participation of >these guys in the movements. Nobody cares that the PSTU (ie. fourth >internationalists) or the PC do B (semi-maoists) show up in numbers One difference is that in the U.S., their numbers would be in the middle two digits. > and speak >at Brazilian rallies. We simply know that they aren't going to be brainwashing >the rest of the country. When I interviewed Naomi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 4 14:44:34 PST 2003

25533 we've got your kids, so talk! -- rank: 1000

[how odd they think god is on their side, when we know he's on ours!] New York Post - March 4, 2003 HE'LL SPILL HIS GUTS, OR ELSE By NILES LATHEM and BRIAN BLOMQUIST WASHINGTON - A CIA team will use "all appropriate measures" to convince the just-captured mastermind of the 9/11 attacks to talk - including dangling freedom for his two young sons, who are in U.S. custody. Law-enforcement sources told The Post that the CIA has had the 7- and 9-year- old sons of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 4 13:58:26 PST 2003

25534 Slavoj speaks (in nyc) -- rank: 1000

>PRESS RELEASE > >Event: >SLAVOJ ZIZEK >lecture: "LOVE WITHOUT MERCY" > >Date: >MONDAY, MARCH 10th, 2003, >7:00pm (Free admission) > >Place: >DEITCH PROJECTS >18 WOOSTER STREET >(between Canal & Grand), >NEW YORK, NY 10013 > >Slavoj Zizek, the world-renowned philosopher and cultural theorist, >will be holding his regular, biannual town meeting in New York City >on March 10th at Deitch Projects (18 Wooster Street) in conjuncti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 4 13:07:26 PST 2003

25535 These are some of my favorite marches -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Nathan may disagree with me about this, but I would add that tame >protests are alienating. There is a time and place for tame >protests--like the rally on the Ellipse during A16--but people are >more interested in militant protests than most organizers understand. Some people want tame, some people want militant. Why should the same forces and same events try to appeal to both? Division of labor, comrades! And, as Adam Smith famously declared, since division of labor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 4 12:46:02 PST 2003

25536 Lula vs. his critics -- rank: 1000

[another from the WB's daily press review] ===================================================================== Lula Fires Salvo at Critics to Warn Reform in Brazil Will Take Time ===================================================================== Lula Fires Salvo at Critics to Warn Reform in Brazil Will Take Time. In four attempts over the last 14 years to win presidential elections, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was seen as too radical to govern Brazil. Now that he is in office, he is concerned ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 4 12:33:02 PST 2003

25537 military and postwar aid -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily press review] ===================================================================== Military Goals 'Must Not Taint Postwar Aid' ===================================================================== Mistakes made after the US-led war in Afghanistan, where aid efforts were often confused with military goals, must be avoided at all costs in Iraq, a senior European aid official warned Monday, reports the Financial Times. Poul Nielson, the European Union's commissioner fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 4 12:31:42 PST 2003

25538 Gore sez... -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 4, 2003 Bush-hater Gore Vidal bets on Saddam OUTSPOKEN ex-pat literary lion Gore Vidal says the U.S. would lose a war with Iraq. "I don't see us winning the war," Vidal told WABC Radio the other day. "We have made enemies of one billion Muslims . . . Whatever Saddam has that might be atrocious - mustard gas, pox, viruses - we will ensure that he uses it." Vidal's opinion is rooted not in military knowledge but in his pathological hatred of Pre ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 4 11:47:59 PST 2003

25539 Hillary clarifies -- rank: 1000

[only a day after she said she supported W...] New York Post - March 4, 2003 HILL'S WAR ADVICE: LET'S WAIT AND SEE By KENNETH LOVETT WATERVLIET - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday said she could support war with Iraq - just not yet. After touring an upstate arsenal, Clinton said before America goes to war, the Bush administration should continue efforts to build an international coalition and see if inspections work. But the former first lady wouldn't say just how long America should delay m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 4 11:44:22 PST 2003

25540 they've already outlawed drugs - sex & rock n roll next? -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:53:11 -0800 (PST) From: Drug Policy Alliance <alerts at actioncenter.drugpolicy.org> Subject: ACTION ALERT: Congress Seeks to Ban Live Music and Dancing ***CONGRESS SEEKS TO BAN LIVE MUSIC AND DANCING!! ***COULD HAPPEN THIS YEAR; WE NEED YOUR HELP Congress is considering two pieces of legislation that could effectively ban live music and dancing, while throwing innocent people like you in jail. If enacted, either bill could prevent you from hearing your favorite ba ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 4 08:57:24 PST 2003

25541 god & the media in America -- rank: 1000

[why is it inexcusable to mock superstition?] New York Times - March 4, 2003 God, Satan and the Media By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Claims that the news media form a vast liberal conspiracy strike me as utterly unconvincing, but there's one area where accusations of institutional bias have merit: nearly all of us in the news business are completely out of touch with a group that includes 46 percent of Americans. That's the proportion who described themselves in a Gallup poll in December as evangelical ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 4 08:53:56 PST 2003

25542 Brits "shifting mood" on war -- rank: 1000

[the pollster seems to be trying to sell the idea too] Media Release MORI House, 79-81 Borough Road, London, SE1 1FY Telephone: 020 7347 3000 Fax: 020 7347 3800 4 March 2003 Mood Shifts on War with Iraq 'Smoking gun' would win Blair support for action Tony Blair is starting to win the war of words over Iraq, with new research from MORI showing a strong increase in the number of Britons backing military action. In a luncheon speech to the D Group in London today, Wednesday, MORI chairman Profes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 4 08:47:38 PST 2003

25543 vote early & often -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 22:52:38 -0500 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> Veteran White House correspondent and columnist Helen >> Thomas has called George W. Bush "the worst president in >> all of American history." Do you agree? >> >> Yes 1809 votes (69 %) >> No 812 votes (31 %) >> >> Total Votes: 2621 >> >> Vote at <http://www.globeandmail.com/>. > >I' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 20:00:12 PST 2003

25544 economists against unilateral war -- rank: 1000

[wow, William Sharpe & Jeffrey Sachs!] <http://www.ecaar.org/Iraq.htm> As American economists, we oppose unilateral initiatives for war against Iraq, which we see as unnecessary and detrimental to the security and the economy of the United States and the entire world community. If war would serve to counter a clear threat to the country, the economic consequences would be secondary. But we question whether war would serve security and not increase the risk of future instability and ter ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 19:59:31 PST 2003

25545 vote early & often -- rank: 1000

Veteran White House correspondent and columnist Helen Thomas has called George W. Bush "the worst president in all of American history." Do you agree? Yes 1809 votes (69 %) No 812 votes (31 %) Total Votes: 2621 Vote at <http://www.globeandmail.com/>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 19:52:38 PST 2003