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26176 lessig on eldred and the five -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Easterbrook wrote a great piece Wow, you really *do* read TNR too much. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 17 07:34:17 PST 2003

26177 lessig on eldred and the five -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Forget Marxism--my theory of history, which is driven by the exploitation of >bedwetters at the hands of non-bedwetters, explains 95% of what goes on in >the world! You read the New Republic too much. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 16 21:59:14 PST 2003

26178 lessig on eldred and the five -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >This upsets the story, and Lessig, and me. "Vulgar Marxism explains 90% of what goes on in the world." - Bob Fitch

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Date:	Thu Jan 16 15:47:07 PST 2003

26179 LaRouche on tuning pitch -- rank: 1000

For this bit of oddness, thank John Halle. Doug ---- <http://www.belcantosociety.org/belcanto/pages/magazine2.html> LaRouche and the Tuning Pitch In an article in The Washington Post on the LaRouche-sponsored bill to lower the tuning pitch, Joe McLellan wrote, "Zucker has taken a firm lead in opposing the legislation" and went on to quote Opera Fanatic at length, calling OF's articles "an exhaustive study of pitch and LaRouche." ("Lyndon LaRouche's Pitch Battle&quo ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 16 15:43:26 PST 2003

26180 the execution of MLK -- rank: 1000

Has anyone heard about this? No one's mentioned it on any lists I'm on yet. Doug ---- <http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/nopq-titles/pepper_w_act_state.shtml> An Act of State The Execution of Martin Luther King by William F. Pepper [Verso, 2003] William Pepper was a young journalist, just back from Vietnam, when he first met Martin Luther King Jr. His photographs and first-hand accounts of the war prompted King's unflinching commitment to oppose it. On 15 April 1967 Pepper proposed an ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 16 15:23:55 PST 2003

26181 President Bush denounces racial preferences in university admissions -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >I have heard that Yale was supposed to have started up tightening >up on legacy admissions in the early 1970s, after Dubya had already >attended that institution. "Inky" Clark - a Bonesman, by the way - started transforming Yale's admission system in the late 1960s, accepting fewer people like W and more people like me (public HS grads of undistinguished social pedigree). When I was there in the early 1970s, there were still a few W types around - dunderh ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 16 11:53:45 PST 2003

26182 more audio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: January 9, 2003 Ellen Frank (of Emmanuel College and Dollars & Sense) and Max Sawicky (of EPI and Maxspeak.org) on the Bush tax package * journalist Tim Shorrock on the Korean crisis It joins other recent shows: December 19, 2002 Mark Hertsgaard, author of The Eagle's Shadow, on how the U.S. is seen abroad * Thomas Burke, author of Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights, on the litigation explosion December 1 ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 16 11:16:40 PST 2003

26183 Keeping it brief (Was Re: Lazare -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Here are some excerpts from Farrakhan's speech at the million >man march. Wow. No wonder Jude Wanniski loves him so much! Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 16 10:26:58 PST 2003

26184 Shinui -- rank: 1000

Reed Tryte wrote: >Also, "a terrible Levantine dunghill" is quite a >phrase. Nobody uses language that, um, vivid in >American politics anymore. Pat Buchanan? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 16 09:56:52 PST 2003

26185 abortion poll -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I would not pay too much attention to such crap. The pro-life vermin >tried this trick in Maryland in 1992 based on results of a similar poll >(the so called question 6 which asked for restriction on repreductive >freedom). And they woke up to a very big surprise, as the question was >defeated at the polls by the ratio 2:1. > >Opinion polls are notoriously misleading - for a number of good reasons, >people tend to give "politically correct ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 16 09:10:04 PST 2003

26186 non-voters -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >That is a very important observation which underlies the importance of a >"vanguard party" in organizing the masses. Without such a party, the >masses are a reactionary mob, populist rhetoric and "noble savage" >mythology notwithstanding. Wow, if any short comment ever revealed the psychology of a vanguardist, this is it. The masses are too ignorant and stupid on their own and need to be "liberated" by an elite. Of course, if ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 16 08:30:26 PST 2003

26187 a $50 hamburger -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - January 16, 2003 -- Truffle-burger is $50 king THE Old Homestead has already been dethroned as home to the city's most expensive hamburger. Superchef Daniel Boulud has just upped the ante with his own whopping $50 burger - knocking the Old Homestead's $41 Kobe Beef number, introduced just last week, off its pricey pedestal. Boulud's new and improved DB Burger is an even more luxurious version of his $29 original, which held the title of the city's most expensive until ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 16 08:13:13 PST 2003

26188 abortion poll -- rank: 1000

[This is very tendentiously worded. The person who forwarded this to the public opinion list urged readers to contrast this with more objectively phrased polls at <http://www.pollingreport.com/abortion.htm>. Still, the numbers aren't as good as a lot of pro-choicers think.] New poll shows tilt to protect unborn By Cheryl Wetzstein THE WASHINGTON TIMES Nearly 70 percent of Americans say they favor "restoring legal protection for unborn children," according to a new poll that pro-l ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 16 07:53:48 PST 2003

26189 Hitch to the peaceniks -- rank: 1000

Peter K forwarded this gem from Bush publicist Hitchens: >The line that connects Afghanistan to Iraq is not a straight one by >any means. But the oblique connection That's a beaut. Neither is the line connecting me to Madonna a very straight one. He's entered Bartley-land with this stuff. > is ignored by the potluck peaceniks, and one can be sure (judging >by their past form) that it would be ignored even if it were as >direct as the connection between al Qaeda and the Taliban. S ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 16 07:40:18 PST 2003

26190 Shinui -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - January 15, 2003 Secular party strikes a chord among Israelis By Sharmila Devi Disenchantment with Israel's political establishment and corruption scandals surrounding Ariel Sharon's Likud party have thrown the spotlight on a protest party that has shot up in opinion polls and could be in a position to determine who will be in the next coalition government. Shinui, a staunchly secular party, has struck a chord with Israelis who resent the hold of the religious authorities over ...

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