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25981 Vystosky -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I dare to say that an average Pole under state socialism had a far >greater exposure to foreign ideas and publications than an average US-er >in this self-styled bastion of freedom. Was that because it was officially forbidden in Poland? The ban made it interesting, but the lax enforcement made it easy to run around. Here in the U.S., almost everything is legal and available, but no one notices, because it's all hidden in the open. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 30 16:11:29 PST 2003

25982 Fwd: The Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna has a new website -- rank: 1000

[and videos of the Doctor too!] Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:12:21 -0800 Subject: The Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna has a new website From: "e-Flux" <info at e-flux.com> 01/27/03 SIGMUND FREUD - ANALYZE THIS! The Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna has a new website. <http://www.freud-museum.at> Sigmund Freud-Museum Berggasse 19, 1090 Vienna AUSTRIA tel: +43 1 319 15 96 fax: +43 1 317 02 79 office at freud-museum.at SIGMUND FREUD - ANALYZE THIS! The Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna has a new ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 30 16:09:45 PST 2003

25983 Fwd: The truth hurts... -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] >From: "Alexandre Fenelon" <afenelon at zaz.com.br> >To: <owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >Subject: The truth hurts... >Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:50:49 -0200 > > > >It seems we Brazilians wasted our vote.... > >http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jan2003/lula-j27.shtml

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 15:22:51 PST 2003

25984 Comcast rejects antiwar ad -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >So the question becomes, At what point before birth do human rights >obtain? Aquinas thought five or six months into gestation. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 13:13:34 PST 2003

25985 Jobs @ WBAI -- rank: 1000

MEMBERSHIP ASSISTANT POSITIONS FOR FEBRUARY MEMBERSHIP DRIVE FEBRUARY 12 - 28th, 2003 WBAI February's Membership drive will start on Wednesday February 12th, 2003and is scheduled to end on Saturday February 28th, 2003. This will be a 2-½ week Fundraising Project and we are hiring membership assistants to help us with this drive. The membership assistant will work in the tally room during the drive and assist volunteers with completing the pledge cards correctly with all the necessary member and ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 13:12:38 PST 2003

25986 Mandatory fatherhood -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of technical difficulties] Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:34:17 -0500 From: "Lisa Frank" <lisa.frank at ranknfile-ue.org> To: dhenwood at panix.com Nathan Newman wrote: > Let's flip the issue a bit-- why can mandatory fatherhood be imposed on men > if a woman gets pregnant? If she chooses not to get an abortion, a one-time > sexual encounter can become a lifetime financial responsibility with no > choice by the man involved. Some anti-abortion feminists ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 12:32:46 PST 2003

25987 Pro-choice v. pro-abortion (Re: Comcast rejects antiwar ad -- rank: 1000

jimmyjames at softhome.net wrote: >The day that I don't have to read listservs dominated by men who >whine about fat cow pregnant wimmins, who mock and judge squishy >jello titted broads with broods, who get grossed out by stretch >marks, and who talk about how to identify women who've (i crap you >negative) "calved" by examining the curvature of their hips, lower >back, and tummy, is the day I'll start expending an ounce of thought >considering this proposal. Wow, ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 11:59:45 PST 2003

25988 lbo-talk-digest V1 #7336 -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Have you ever considered stand-up comedy? Standing up for too long makes my back hurt. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 11:37:12 PST 2003

25989 Fwd: Biden Introduces New RAVE Act -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:59:45 -0800 (PST) From: Drug Policy Alliance <alerts at actioncenter.drugpolicy.org> *** Biden Introduces New RAVE Act!!! *** Your Help Urgently Needed Several weeks ago we warned you that last year's RAVE Act was incorporated into Sen. Daschle's domestic security bill (S. 22). It gets worse. Senators Biden (D-DE), Grassley (R-IA), Feinstein (D-CA), and Lieberman (D-CT) have introduced it as a stand-alone bill (S. 226 - which is not posted on thomas.loc.gov yet. W ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 11:13:25 PST 2003

25990 AOL reports largest loss in corporate history -- rank: 1000

Nomiprins at aol.com wrote: >Wait til 'analysts' get hit with the $50 billion in WorldCom >writedowns to come, or the $24 billion from Qwest. Worse yet, the >slew of ailing telco and media companies that have only started to >'amortize down' their goodwill because a full writedown would mean a >full bankruptcy filing. So, companies like Lucent are taking little >quarterly losses at a time which represent mere fractions of their >true goodwill loss. But, it's all okay by curr ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 11:09:40 PST 2003

25991 affirmative action in nudity update -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - January 30, 2003 Rear window FEMALE moviegoers have Heather Graham to thank for the profusion of naked male butt shots in "The Guru." Even though she plays a porn star in the romantic comedy, Graham's contract included a no-nudity clause, so she came up with an alternative. "Heather and I conspired that, in a kind of womanly revenge, we would get [co-star] Jimi Mistry naked on screen as much as possible," says director Daisy von Scherler Mayer. As i ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 11:07:15 PST 2003

25992 Italian gov't: antiwar = terrorist -- rank: 1000

<http://www.metamute.com/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=24&NrSection=5&NrArticle=826&ST_max=0> 'Diffuse Political Illegality' The Extension of Terror In Italy by Agnese Trocchi This week, in anticipation of imminent conflict in Iraq, the Italian Minister of Internal Affairs Giuseppe Pisanu has decided that the moment is right to deal a blow against voices in disagreement with the war. In a document entitled 'Internal and International Terrorism', ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 10:34:19 PST 2003

25993 "dollface" and other bad club turns. -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >The PC police are... ...mostly a figment of your imagination.

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 10:28:23 PST 2003

25994 "dollface" and other bad club turns. -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Of course it would be easier to use comfy terms that lefties know by rote. This is a dodge. This isn't a forum where PC speech predominates, nor where the left catechism is recited uncritically. But you're using inflammatory language that comes right out of yahoo right-wing talk radio, the debased currency of normal American political discourse. I don't see what's refreshing or thought-provoking about it at all. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 08:41:05 PST 2003

25995 affirmative action in nudity -- rank: 1000

jimmyjames at softhome.net wrote: >exposed the jewels Historical gossip note: former Talking Heads bass player Jerry Harrison used to take an exercise class on the Upper West Side of Manhattan during the 1980s. He wore short shorts and no undies and his jewels were frequently on view. Though he was a rockstar, the exposure provoked embarrassed giggles rather than excitement among the viewers. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 08:37:18 PST 2003