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26116 military numbers -- rank: 1000

Business Week - January 27, 2003 GOVERNMENT Commentary The Draft: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Again By Paul Magnusson At the height of the Vietnam War, I paid my grad-school tuition by serving as a resident adviser in an undergrad dorm. I was besieged by anxious young men with questions about the military draft, so I read the regulations and became a volunteer draft counselor. It was a discouraging experience. I offered students help in writing the essay required for conscientious objectors. I d ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 22 12:52:01 PST 2003

26117 Criminal investigation -- rank: 1000

In his 5th post of the day, andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I am not under any >illusions ...less than 24 hours after being revealed as the third-busiest poster on the list. Being a lawyer and all, you must realize that rules apply even to cashiered philosophers. >Here are the average number of postings per day for all listmembers >with an average of >1 between 1/11/02 and 1/20/02: > >Michael Pugliese 6.4 >Yoshie Furuhashi 6.2 >andie nachgeborenen ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 22 12:36:40 PST 2003

26118 more polls -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - January 22, 2003 Support For a War With Iraq Weakens Majority in Poll Critical of Bush's Record on Economy By Dana Milbank and Richard Morin Seven in 10 Americans would give U.N. weapons inspectors months more to pursue their arms search in Iraq, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that found growing doubts about an attack on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. In addition to the public's skepticism about military action against Iraq, the poll found that a majority of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 22 11:47:56 PST 2003

26119 Alan Spector on the Washington March -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox quoted Alan Spector: >This march did not have nearly as much of a leftist political nature as >many of the 1960's marches, but this brings to mind a complex set of >issues. One could say that it would have been even better if it were >200,000 committed leftists with an understanding of imperialism -- that >would probaby mean that there are many hundreds of thousands of more >moderate opponents, meaning an even larger anti-war movement. > >But on the other hand, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 22 11:14:59 PST 2003

26120 the execution of martin luther king -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >I just heard Keith Carson give his read on the Pepper book. Carson is in >charge of the King papers at Stanford. Pepper's going to be on my radio show tomorrow at 5 PM. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 22 10:52:54 PST 2003

26121 Zogby -- rank: 1000

For all you polling geeks out there, there's a good dissection in The American Prospet of the surveys done by Rush Limbaugh's favorite pollster, Zogby: <http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/2/mooney-c.html>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 22 10:42:31 PST 2003

26122 subject change -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >But its external conduct has been much worse. Are you >suggesting that apartheid democracy for Jews makes >Israel on balance less bad, despite occupation, home >demolition, land theft, settlement building, >assassinations, etc.? Hey, but that's history, and as all good American's know, history's bunk. We have to be forward looking. There's a chance that Saddam may do something dastardly someday, so he's gotta go. QED. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 22 10:41:03 PST 2003

26123 Raimondo on Ritter -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >but raimondo, don't let that get in the way of a good rant. >(and take the fucking cig out of your mouth, that is *so* >white trash.) Oh, but isn't it all part of his (not entirely unsuccessful) homme fatale routine? How many rightwingers even try? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 22 10:29:16 PST 2003

26124 subject change -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Are you honestly concerned, or do you really believe, that W is on >the verge of launching a nuclear attack somewhere? And do you really believe that SH is on the verge of launching a nuclear attack? He knows that if he did, or anything like it, Israel and/or the U.S. would vaporize Iraq. You're accepting the bellicose premises of the Bush worldview, even if you dissent on the operational details. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 22 10:23:20 PST 2003

26125 UN demo 1/27 -- rank: 1000

***Stop the War on Iraq before it starts*** Weapons Inspections begin at home Date: January 27th Time: 9:00am Place: Isaiah Wall in front of the United Nations, 43rd street & 1st Ave. With the entire national and international community focused on the United Nations, on Monday, January 27, 2003, Chief UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix will present his report on Iraq. Regardless of the conclusions, the Bush Administration will try and find any excuse to invade Iraq in its efforts to control the ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 22 10:18:20 PST 2003

26126 University Inc -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - January 22, 2003 Conflict of Interest Is Widespread in Biomedical Research, Study Finds By LILA GUTERMAN Approximately one-fourth of biomedical scientists have financial affiliations with industry, according to a new review of studies about academic conflicts of interest. The review, conducted by researchers at Yale University School of Medicine and published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association, also concludes that two-thirds of ac ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 22 10:07:39 PST 2003

26127 how much a mobster makes -- rank: 1000

New York Post - January 22, 200 3 CRIME PAYS LOUSY By KATI CORNELL SMITH Heading up a crime family is not nearly as lucrative a job as it's cracked up to be, a mob turncoat said yesterday. Joseph "Little Joe" Defede - testifying at the racketeering trial of Peter Gotti - said he earned only $1,014,000 as boss of the Luchese crime family from 1994 to 1998. The approximately $250,000 a year doesn't come close to what a corporate CEO - even an honest one - earns. Gotti's lawyer, Gerald Sh ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 22 09:48:43 PST 2003

26128 Prize for finding Aussie PM's email address -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: >When it is found, perhaps someone could send him an email saying "I bet >you're glad you don't actually live in Canberra." So where's he live? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 22 09:36:56 PST 2003

26129 Volunteer "human shields" to head for Iraq -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Just how popular is Bush in the States right now? Is he still Putin-level >super-dooper popular? His approval rating just slipped below 60% for the first time since 9/11. In the poll Gallup completed on 9/10/01, he was at 51% approve and 39% disapprove. In the 9/22/01 poll, it was 90/6. In the 1/10/03 poll, it was 58/37. His approval rating is falling an average of 2 percentage points a month, so if it continues to erode at this rate, it should be around 14% by election ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 22 09:44:50 PST 2003

26130 BUSINESS PROPOSAL -- rank: 1000

[This is pretty funny. I don't know if Pithouse is the author though.] Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:34:29 +0200 From: "Richard Pithouse" <Pithouser at nu.ac.za> To: <debate at sunsite.wits.ac.za> IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED : HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH 202.456.1414 / 202.456.1111 FAX: 202.456.2461 DEAR SIR / MADAM, I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, AND CURRENTLY SERVING AS PRESIDENT ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 22 09:34:23 PST 2003