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27256 [lbo-talk] Cuban HDI -- rank: 1000

Michael McIntyre wrote: >On the other hand, had the Cuban Revolution not installed a police state >and a personalistic dictatorship, it's quite possible that it wouldn't >have survived the decades of U.S. assault in order to make those gains. Sadly, I'm afraid that other hand is much bigger than the original hand, especially for a country in this hemisphere. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 10:01:53 PDT 2003

27257 [lbo-talk] MSNBC: straight from the center -- rank: 1000

This is from a WSJ piece on MSNBC's postwar strategy: >Long criticized for lacking clear brand identity, MSNBC hopes to >play off the perceptions that CNN bends leftward and Fox News >rightward. "I want MSNBC to be known as the 'straight shooter' news >channel," Mr. Sorensen says. My god. CNN is left, and the network that dumped Donahue to hire Savage is the center? What a loony bin America is. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 09:33:17 PDT 2003

27258 [lbo-talk] Re: neocon economists -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Where does somebody like Jude Wannisky fit in this geneology of the >dismal? Not a real economist? No, and not a neocon either. Jude's the ur supply-sider, along with Arthur Laffer. He's off in his own world a lot of the time - he supported Buchanan early in the 2000 campaign, but he's more of an internationalist that Pitchfork Pat. He's opposed to sanctions of any kind, opposed the war on Iraq too. But his major passion is the gold standard. If we'd just revert to gol ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 09:22:00 PDT 2003

27259 [lbo-talk] that odd Miller piece -- rank: 1000

[Back in the 80s, Spy magazine used to make relentless fun of Miller in its column on the NYT. Back then, she was not popular with her colleagues at all.] New York Oberserver - April 28, 2003 Off the Record by Sridhar Pappu On April 21, New York Times reporter Judith Miller broke what appeared to be one the most important stories since the war in Iraq began. In a piece that ran on the paper's front page, Ms. Miller reported that a scientist in Saddam Hussein's chemical-weapons program, in speaki ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 09:15:27 PDT 2003

27260 [lbo-talk] Small schools -- rank: 1000

Please, if you're responding to something, quote only relevant portions - and especially not the entirety of a 20k post! I'm not paying for the bytes anymore, but it can be mighty inconvenient to download all that superfluous text. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 06:46:53 PDT 2003

27261 [lbo-talk] Hitch returns to 7th grade -- rank: 1000

I sent this to Christopher Hitchens yesterday afternoon: >Christopher - > >It really saddened me to see you write and say these things recently: > > > >>In his responses, Hitchens mostly ignored the questions and went >>for the laughs. The biggest came when he ridiculed Berkeley, where >>he has been teaching, as "the world capital of absurd-istan." >>Hitchens decided to milk the laughs: "I tell them about Saddam's >>torture and fasci ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 23 06:25:31 PDT 2003

27262 [lbo-talk] Hitch & Horowitz -- rank: 1000

[Did this get reported here?] <http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/03/29/books-wiener.php> The biggest name to quit the Left and sign up with the Bush war project received a warm welcome in Beverly Hills last weekend, when Christopher Hitchens told David Horowitz's Wednesday Morning Club, "If you live long enough, you will find David Horowitz." [...] In his responses, Hitchens mostly ignored the questions and went for the laughs. The biggest came when he ridiculed Berkeley, where he has ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 22 15:56:05 PDT 2003

27263 [lbo-talk] Small schools -- rank: 1000

[This is long, but it could be interesting. Anyone know anything about this?] UNDERNEWS SPECIAL REPORT SMALL SCHOOLS Apr 22 2003 From the Progressive Review Edited by Sam Smith Since 1964, Washington's most unofficial source 1312 18th St. NW #502, Washington DC 20036 202-835-0770 Fax: 835-0779 E-MAIL: mailto:news at prorev.com REVIEW INDEX: http://www.prorev.com/ LATEST HEADLINES: http://prorev.com NEWS BY TOPIC: http://prorev.com/heads.htm UNDERNEWS: http://www.prorev.com/indexa.htm SUBSCRIBE: ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 22 15:10:04 PDT 2003

27264 [lbo-talk] selling plasma to fund school -- rank: 1000

[This sounds like it should be datelined Kinshasa, but it's here in the USA. Thanks to Michael Yates for pointing this out.] Oregonian - April 22, 2003 These parents give from heart to help fund Eugene school Margie Boule You've heard of auctions and raffles and car washes and myriad other ways Oregon schools and parents are scrambling to raise money to pay for basic educational services. But I can just about guarantee you've never heard of a fund-raiser like the one put together by the Family S ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 22 12:31:34 PDT 2003

27265 [lbo-talk] Hitch: Halliburton Huzzah! -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Not a parody, I'm afraid. > ><<http://slate.msn.com/id/2081707/>http://slate.msn.com/id/2081707/> > >Straw men and women set up and mowed down in a tidy fashion. Plus, >no mention of Halliburton's (among other US-connected companies) >involvement with Saddam during the 90s, under UN cover, and >oftentimes through a German company front. I think Cheney and gang >scored something like $73 million during this period, but that's ok, >se ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 21 07:00:19 PDT 2003

27266 [lbo-talk] Margolis: The Big Lie -- rank: 1000

dave dorkin wrote: >Funny....I think Margolis meant Justice ROBERT >Jackson and not Samuel.... > > >--- mike larkin <mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_apr20.html > Well, Judith Miller reports in today's NYT that they've found their repentant scientist leading them to the chemical weapons sites - though they won't let her interview the guy, they won't specify what chemicals, and they checked her copy before it could be ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 21 04:35:54 PDT 2003

27267 [lbo-talk] five years... -- rank: 1000

Senator: New Iraq Government Could Take Five Years Sun Apr 20, 1:13 PM ET By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Republican lawmaker said on Sunday it could be at least five years before a new government is up and running in Iraq (news - web sites). As the U.S. administration was reportedly considering a long-term military arrangement in the country, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar said the U.S. effort led by retired Gen. Jay Garner to begin rebuilding pos ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 20 20:12:52 PDT 2003

27268 [lbo-talk] 'Jon Stewart's Perfect Pitch' -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >aren't you overstating your case just a tad, here? stewart >strikes me as more akin to the smothers brothers than >johnny carson . . . personally, i think stewart is cooler >than rich makes him sound in this column, but maybe i'm a >liberal wuss. I think he's really funny, and the show is like the most critical thing on TV. I'm wondering who Carl thinks is funny, if anyone. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 20 14:21:03 PDT 2003

27269 [lbo-talk] Timid capitalists -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >THE TIMID CORPORATION James, you've been singing this song a long time. I'm curious - do you think the world would be a better place with more cowboy capitalists? Is the problem with contemporary capitalism that it's not capitalist enough? Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 20 08:32:10 PDT 2003

27270 [lbo-talk] Re: Right Wing Antiwar Sites -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Him and Taki Theodoracopulos, who's bankrolling it. > >> There can be common cause with libertarian opponents of the Patriot >> Acts, but not with the close-the-boarders crowd. > >At their inaugural press conference, one of the reporters asked Buchanan >how, given his views, he could justify setting up shop with an immigrant >like Taki. Buchanan answered "Well, I don't think he crawled in across >the Rio Grande." The reporters ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 19 20:21:15 PDT 2003