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26086 subject change -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >"In future, if you have nothing more to say on a topic, other than to insult >those who do, then it might be better to just say nothing. It is silly to >want to have the last word when you have nothing more to say." >> >> Bill Bartlett >> Bracknell Tas > >Well, stop poking at me and puffing your chest ("my reasoning doesn't have a >mark on it") and chances are I'll ignore you. > >Also, I love the tendency of th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 24 08:34:33 PST 2003

26087 Hollow ANSWER? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I have a hard time believing that the WWP pays 100 of it cadre to be >full time organizers. I can believe a dozen or so, but 100? How much >money are they taking out of the other 200 Well let's do the math. Let's assume they've got 300 members employed at the average hourly U.S. wage of $15 working full-time (2000 hrs/year) and they tithe, that's an annual income of $900,000 (3,000 * 300). Clearly they couldn't pay 100 salaries out of that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 24 08:31:51 PST 2003

26088 top 10% plan no substitute for AA -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - January 24, 2003 Texas Admissions Plan Has Not Increased Diversity at Flagship Campuses, Study Finds By WILL POTTER The "top 10 percent" plan used for admission to public universities in Texas has failed to restore minority enrollments to their levels when affirmative action was permitted, according to a study released Thursday by a team of sociologists. The study's release came barely a week after the Bush administration filed legal briefs urging the U. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 24 08:17:04 PST 2003

26089 Ritter talks -- rank: 1000

[love those objective headlines!] New York Post - January 23, 2003 U.N. 'PERV': LEAK RUINED MY IRAQ PEACE MISSION By ADAM MILLER and MARSHA KRANES Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter yesterday suggested that court-sealed details of his Internet sex-sting arrest were intentionally leaked to sabotage his planned peace mission to Iraq. Because of "the timing" of the leak - about "something that occurred nearly two years ago" - he had to cancel his trip to Baghdad, where ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 24 08:09:02 PST 2003

26090 Raimondo on Ritter -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >When it comes to 40 years olds shtupping teenage daughters, us Dads >are fairly murderous. I mean humorless. That was a Freudian slip. jks It may be unethical or evidence of psychopathology or generally ill-advised. But illegal? C'mon. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 24 07:57:47 PST 2003

26091 the Abe Rosenthal award winner! -- rank: 1000

In honor of former NYT columnist Abe "I'm Writing As Bad As I Can" Rosenthal (as Spy mag called him), the worst paragraph in the newspaper of record all week must be this from Nicholas Kristof's column today <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/opinion/24KRIS.html> on the biggest affirmative action baby of them all, W: >Instead of mocking Mr. Bush for hypocrisy, though, we should focus >on something else: The affirmative action succeeded. If he was in >part a diversity can ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 24 07:42:21 PST 2003

26092 Fwd: Senate staff mostly White, study finds -- rank: 1000

Story from The Washington Afro American and The Washington Tribune http://www.afro.com/content/anmviewer.asp?a=113&z=1 Senate staff mostly White, study finds By Hazel Trice Edney NNPA Washington correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) -- The newly convened, all-White United States Senate not only doesn't look like America, neither does its staff. Only 8.3 percent of the Senate's Washington-based office staffers are African Americans, fluctuating very little over the past decade, according to the &qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 24 07:36:14 PST 2003

26093 Turkish peace forum -- rank: 1000

"War is NOT the answer" – International Peace Forum in Turkey Istanbul, January 22 Peace activists from Britain, Greece, Germany, Israel, Sweden, USA, and Yugoslavia are meeting in Istanbul to voice their opposition to the war plans on Iraq. Turkey holds the key to the northern front in this war. The International Peace Forum will voice the call of the international community to turn this key into a key for peace. The Turkish government has not yet given permission to the U.S.A for th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 24 07:35:41 PST 2003

26094 Is Gitlin <agent baiting deleted> -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Good deal, now lets resume bashing Gitlin in ways that he so amply deserves. I'm listening to it now. What a shit he is. He's pressing all the buttons to make NPR liberals dislike the peace movement. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 23 19:33:19 PST 2003

26095 Raimondo on Ritter -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >budge wrote: > >>Personally, I don't think of a 16 year old as a 'child'. > >>>Yeah, that was a weird outburst from jks. According to the age of >consent chart at , most >jurisdictions around the world - including, it seems, most U.S. >states - have an age of consent of 16. > >That's because YOU don't have a teenage daughter. So is that the basis of policymaking? I though ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 23 19:31:12 PST 2003

26096 Is Gitlin on FBI payroll? -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Git says a more middle-class message would be more effective >than ANSWER's stew of half-baked radical bromides. But many of the speakers at the DC demo weren't very radical, and there was a great diversity of signs. And I think you should never underestimate the number of oddballs in America. We just have to make them our oddballs! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 23 18:20:18 PST 2003

26097 Raimondo on Ritter -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Although that said, I've gotta say I *do* think it reflects on his >credibility as an inspector. Yeah, but this was a case of the little head leading the big one around. Unless Ritter had a crush on Saddam, things would probably be different when he was bomb-sniffing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 23 18:17:14 PST 2003

26098 Novak on Iraq -- rank: 1000

[more from SS's PR] ROBERT NOVAK, CAPITAL GANG - I can't imagine that anybody would say, we're going to war because there are 11 empty warheads, probably left over from 10 years ago. These warheads are not the nuclear weapons we've been warned about. They travel about 12 miles. But this is being used as a pretext for a decision that's already been made at high levels of the U.S. government to change the government in Iraq. . . Most disturbing thing is that Secretary of State Powell, a lot of peo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 23 17:38:49 PST 2003

26099 Pentagon wants slowdown on Iraq? -- rank: 1000

[anyone know anything about Capitol Hill Blue? this via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] DOUG THOMPSON, CAPITOL HILL BLUE - Senior Pentagon officials are quietly urging President George W. Bush to slow down his headlong rush to war with Iraq, complaining the administration's course of action represents too much of a shift of America's longstanding "no first strike" policy and that the move could well result in conflicts with other Arab nations. "We have a dangerous role reversal h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 23 17:37:46 PST 2003

26100 Fwd: MRG Conf 2003 -- rank: 1000

The nascent Center for the Humanities and Public Sphere, the Department of English, and the Marxist Reading Group presents: Born of Desertion: Singularity, Collectivity, Revolution March 20-22 at the University of Florida, Gainesville Keynote Speakers: Michael Hardt and Kristin Ross Where is the Left now? How do we materialize collective formations, and enact a justice in their name? How do we do this at a moment when the world market and the right-wing body politic, prodigiously engineering and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 23 16:42:33 PST 2003