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26011 affirmative action in nudity -- rank: 1000

Apropos the why don't men do it question, there's this item from today's Page Six: >THE most talked-about image at the Rotterdam Film Festival in >Holland isn't on screen. It's on the front page of the fest's daily >newspaper - a buck-naked photo of Ed Lachman, co-director (with >Larry Clark) of the teen raunchfest "Ken Park." Lachman - also the >cinematographer for "Far From Heaven" - explains to The Post's V.A. >Musetto: "We were doing this interview ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 29 09:54:42 PST 2003

26012 SOTU ("Drink! Drink! Drink!") -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I strongly recommend Patricia A. Dunn, _Leaning Re-Abled: The Learning >Disability Controversy and Composition Studies_, Boynton/Cook Pub., >1995. There is a certain incoherence involved in on the one hand endless >wailing about "Leninist" elitism and on the other hand inability to >resist the temptation to sneer at the intellectual capacity of others, >whether they are presidents or conficts. Oh come on. This guy is the beneficiary of the most expe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 29 09:09:58 PST 2003

26013 Slavoj on W, Schroder, & Spielberg -- rank: 1000

[This appears in German in today's Frankfurter Rundschau <http://www.fr-aktuell.de/uebersicht/alle_dossiers/politik_ausland/krieg_gegen_irak/?cnt=102738>. Here, in an lbo-talk world exclusive, is the English version, courtesy of the author.] GERHARDT SCHROEDER'S "MINORITY REPORT" AND ITS CONSEQUENCES Slavoj Zizek In The Minority Report (2002), Steven Spielberg's last film based on a Phillip Dick short story, criminals are arrested before they commit their crime, since three human ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 29 09:01:38 PST 2003

26014 newspaper edits turn against war -- rank: 1000

Editor and Publisher - January 28, 2003 Newspaper Editorials Turn Against War NEW YORK -- Although newspaper opinions once appeared virtually monolithic in support of an attack on Iraq, editorials from many of America's leading newspapers are now among the voices questioning the wisdom of, or timetable for, the possible conflict. Despite rising doubts, however, there doesn't seem to be one U.S. newspaper among the top 50 dailies by circulation that is strongly "antiwar." The papers app ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 29 06:39:22 PST 2003

26015 Ari & Russell -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] RUSSELL MOKHIBER - The San Francisco Chronicle reported yesterday that a number of major American corporations -- including Hewlett-Packard and Bechtel -- helped Saddam Hussein beef up its military in the 1980s. And also the Washington Post last month in a front-page article by Michael Dobbs said the United States during the '80s supplied Iraq with cluster bombs, intelligence and chemical and biological agents. In that same article, they reported that Donald ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 28 17:45:36 PST 2003

26016 Same old same old (Was DeLeuze, etc.) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >By the way, Gar, I resent your seer at my profession Calling Dr Freud. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 28 17:35:35 PST 2003

26017 SOTU ("Drink! Drink! Drink!") -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >http://www.marcmelzer.net/sotudg/ I haven't been able to raise that all day - you're like the third mention I've seen of it. What is it? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 28 17:38:06 PST 2003

26018 Rivera and Kahlo 1 -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Well I have actually seen the film and it is very good. The Counterpunch >review on the other hand was rather lame. This is suppoesed to be "provocative" in the sense that neocons do when they think by using a bigoted turn of phrase they're transgressing the hegemony of PC and being fresh and bold. It was annoying when Hilton Kramer and the gang did it in the 80s. It's really a crock in 2003. A very offensive crock too. Must dig out some of Hitch's rants about Da ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 28 17:31:40 PST 2003

26019 Jordan's Islamists issue ifatwa-i against journos -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Here's the al Qaeda >connection: with a democratic Iraq and a democratic SA there >will be no US bases in SA for Osama to be pissed about. RIght. No U.S. bases in SA. That's the U.S. goal. That, and democracy. It's all clear now. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 28 17:27:38 PST 2003

26020 "disgusting" petitions? -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"We know Carrol has signed a pretty disgusting pro-Slobo >petition. " > >this has been mentioned a few times, almost as evidence of some form of >political crime...am not familiar with this specific petition , though >the trashing of the petition-signer's character and politics is familiar >... is it disgusting because it didn't condemn milosevic? because it was >written on dirty paper? whaaa? No, not the Slobo petition again. That's a dead t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 28 17:26:16 PST 2003

26021 Dept of Labor censors union publication -- rank: 1000

Brian O. Sheppard wrote: >(Texas AFL-CIO eNews) Just how many union members are there in Texas? My cliched Yankee image is 0, but it's obviously a positive number. So how many? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 28 08:36:53 PST 2003

26022 Whither the "Anti-Globalization" Movement? Re: Raimondo on WWP -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone wrote: >Also, a lot -- even most -- of the "anti-globalization" activists have been >actively protesting the war, and bringing to that movement an >anti-imperialist, social justice consciousness, as well as playful >sensibility, creative tactics, confrontational energy, etc. I think for a >lot of people, protesting the war is sort of inseparable from protesting >things like the WEF, it's just that even more people participate in the >anti-war prot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 27 11:58:48 PST 2003

26023 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >I dont know how this discussion morphed into this. >First, Martha made some excellent points As far as I'm concerned, her review of the movie (which I haven't seen, but hey, when's that every disqualified someone from having an opinion? Zizek's written articles on movies he hasn't seen too) was completely unexceptionable. The only controversial bit for me was the hit on not-fully-opaque clothing. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 27 13:10:55 PST 2003

26024 Merrill guy: war would devastate investment banking -- rank: 1000

[spare a tear for the pinstriped set] Merrill exec warns of Iraq war impact on banks By Thomas Atkins, European Banking Correspondent DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 27 (Reuters) - The top European investment banker for Merrill Lynch <MER.N> on Monday said a long war in Iraq would be devastating for the sector, which could face further job losses if business does not pick up. Cuts that have seen 50 percent of staff disappear at some investment banks could slice deeper if fears of a prolonged equit ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 27 13:02:13 PST 2003

26025 Blix talks tough -- rank: 1000

[guess it's time for Iraqis to test their bomb shelters] Blix Raps Iraq for Gaps in Arms Program Disclosure By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - With the United States escalating threats of war, the chief U.N. arms inspector sharply criticized Iraq on Monday for not disclosing all of its long-range missile, chemical and biological arms programs. But Hans Blix, in addressing the U.N. Security Council, was not able to corroborate U.S. claims that Baghdad had rebuilt its weapons of mass des ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 27 11:56:25 PST 2003