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26026 World Bank celebrates PA! -- rank: 1000

[hey, man, Wolfie's one of us!] <http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20087178~menuPK:34457~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html> A Better World Is Possible By James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank Thousands of anti-globalization activists from all over the world are gathering this week in Porto Alegre, Brazil, for the World Social Forum's third meeting. The Forum, which runs through January 28 and is held simultaneously as the World Economic For ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 28 08:44:03 PST 2003

26027 JT & MS -- rank: 1000

L - ha! JT pays a visit to Martha Stewart! <http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?030203fa_fact> love d

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Date:	Mon Jan 27 11:04:38 PST 2003

26028 new Lieberman site -- rank: 1000

<http://www.joseph2004.org>

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Date:	Tue Jan 28 09:15:13 PST 2003

26029 Fwd: LBO-talk's favorite charities? -- rank: 1000

Received: by mail3.panix.com (mbox dhenwood) (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Tue Jan 28 15:30:18 2003) X-From_: erasmusregret at yahoo.com Tue Jan 28 15:28:52 2003 Return-Path: <erasmusregret at yahoo.com> X-Original-To: dhenwood at panix.com Received: from web13101.mail.yahoo.com (web13101.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.146]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 79548982C6 for <dhenwood at panix.com>; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:28:52 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <200301282 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 28 12:32:45 PST 2003

26030 Strange election day in Israel -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: >Well, voter turnout was significantly less than 70%... At 8:00 P.M. >they estimated 63.5%. So what's it mean? Sharon in coalition with the religious parties? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 28 12:31:54 PST 2003

26031 SOTU -- rank: 1000

So what are the odds on the State of the Union effect? My guess is that as long as Bush avoids visibly frothing, it will be proclaimed a "home run" by the pundits, who will condede that he still has a little more work to "close the deal" on the war, but conclude that the speech was a masterful and heroic intervention that has changed the course of history. Am I being too pessimistic? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 28 11:45:57 PST 2003

26032 social notes -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >The Hilton twins hang out with the Johnson & Johnson spawn? Apparently. > And is "Amelia >Fanjul" the effluvium of the Fanjul sugar empire? Must be. Good thing there's no god, otherwise I'd be reminded of Jefferson's remark about he trembles for his country because he knows god is just. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 28 11:26:22 PST 2003

26033 Jordan's Islamists issue ifatwa-i against journos -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >And the anti-imperial resistance continues . . . Against whom is this directed? No one here that I know of has endorsed fundamentalist Islam as a worth anti-imperial force. Just because Hitch does it doesn't make it cool. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 28 10:28:48 PST 2003

26034 the stupidity of American journalism (cont.) -- rank: 1000

[from Romenesko's Media News] "Activist" Huffington booted off Oregonian's op-ed page <http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/dan_hortsch/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1043499521223241.xml> Oregonian Oregonian associate editor Doug Bates says Arianna Huffington's <http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/> columns remain "snappy and readable," but she's "dragged herself across the line from being a commentator to being an activist" with her anti-SUV campaign. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 28 09:48:02 PST 2003

26035 41, at party, sez no war -- rank: 1000

It's not pagesix - it's Cindy Adams. <http://www.nypost.com/seven/01272003/gossip/cindy.htm> Doug Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >clicking around on pagesix and cant' find this. is there a link? > > >On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 10:47 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] >> >>CINDY ADAMS, NY POST - AT a private secure party in a small social >>gathering, George Bush the elder the senior the former president the Barbara >>h ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 28 09:44:02 PST 2003

26036 Same old, same old -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >No. It's not obvious to me. But I'm a pretty poor >leftist. I'm a fan of Hayek and Mises, and hard-headed >about efficiency. >jks >--- >Why? What if people prefer to trade off efficiency for other perceived >goods? They're softheaded then. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 28 09:23:22 PST 2003

26037 from left to right -- rank: 1000

Michael, the reason there's a size limit is to cut down on bandwidth. Breaking down a long piece into three parts may trick majordomo, but it still irritates me. That was 50 fucking k man. For a piece that long, provide a URL or offer to send it to people offlist. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 28 08:57:07 PST 2003

26038 social notes -- rank: 1000

[first Monica has a handbag line, then Nicky, soon everyone - *I* want a handbag line!] New York Times - January 28, 2003 BOLDFACE NAMES Chatty Kathy By JOYCE WADLER ou know how it is when you're a mom: you become a chauffeur - no, in this case, we better say messenger. So it was, anyway for KATHY HILTON, when daughter NICKY HILTON had a party for her handbag line at Bungalow 8 on Thursday night. Nicky, it turned out, needed her earrings, so Ms. Hilton brought them down from home, home being the ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 28 08:48:50 PST 2003

26039 41, at party, sez no war -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] CINDY ADAMS, NY POST - AT a private secure party in a small social gathering, George Bush the elder the senior the former president the Barbara husband put the odds of war with Iraq at: "Fifty-fifty." I wasn't present. I thus am not bound by any off-the-record atmosphere. I therefore report what one invitee with the big ears and big mouth subsequently reported. And that is that President Bush the First also said: "I'd guess there is no war.&quo ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 28 08:47:14 PST 2003

26040 Albert & Hahnel or Marx & Engels? -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: His sixth post of the day. Do you think that rules don't apply to you? People have complained to me that arguing with you & Yoshie is impossible since they observe the posting limits and you & Yoshie don't. Stop. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 27 15:30:28 PST 2003