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27301 [lbo-talk] How's It Feel -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Well, New York's murder rate is double Moscow's. Russian Mafia indeed. Hey, but it's less than half what it was a decade ago! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 17 08:24:56 PDT 2003

27302 [lbo-talk] making law - and money - in Iraq -- rank: 1000

New York Law Journal - April 17, 2003 Helping Shape Iraq's New Laws Law Firms See Opportunities in Iraq Anthony Lin The Central Intelligence Agency recently estimated the gross national product of Iraq at somewhere in the neighborhood of $59 billion. It is a fair bet that the ultimate cost of the country's postwar reconstruction will far exceed that figure. So while many issues relating to how Iraq's reconstruction will proceed and who will pay remain unsettled and highly controversial, lawyers ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 17 08:01:46 PDT 2003

27303 [lbo-talk] bedside reading -- rank: 1000

Just heard that a copy of Tariq Ali's Clash of Fundamentalisms was found in Abu Abbas' Baghdad bedroom when he was busted. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 16 13:17:37 PDT 2003

27304 [lbo-talk] more on Syria -- rank: 1000

Shalom! Enclosed you'll find a bi-partisan bill, introduced by two of the most experienced members of the House International Relations Committee, ELIOT ENGEL (D-NY) and ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN (R-FL). Senators Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) will introduce the bill in the Senate. You may want to share it with your own Congressman and Senators. Syria collaborated with Saddam's regime! It has hosted more global-reach anti-US terrorist and narco-terrorist organizations (from Latin Ame ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 16 12:40:53 PDT 2003

27305 [lbo-talk] Lee Greenwood: more dangerous than crack? -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I've always been struck by this song, the key >line of which is "at least . . ." The self- >pity or bathos or something is so thick and >pathetic. Like some other country songs. It's >like we lost the house, my woman left me, and >my dog died all over again. Or as some pseudo-country stoner once said, freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 16 12:26:59 PDT 2003

27306 [lbo-talk] repeal term limits? -- rank: 1000

Anyone know anything about this? Good to see those house Dems hard at work! _________________________________________________________________ 108th CONGRESS 1st Session H. J. RES. 11 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 7, 2003 Mr. SERRANO introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _________________________________________________________________ JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 16 12:14:43 PDT 2003

27307 [lbo-talk] Lee Greenwood: more dangerous than crack? -- rank: 1000

Stannard67 at aol.com wrote: >Lee >Greenwood's song Proud To Be An American was playing A fascinating text indeed. It doesn't matter if I lose it all - job, health insurance, house, whatever - at least I'm free! And you don't agree, I'll pull your ear off. Doug ---- Artist: Lee Greenwood Title: Proud To Be An American Album: [ Unsorted ] Lyrics provided by www.MaxLyrics.com If tomorrow all the things were gone, I'd worked for all my life. And I had to start again, with just my children and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 16 12:01:50 PDT 2003

27308 [lbo-talk] a shred of hope -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >You are so fixated on the war (which again two-thirds of House Dems voted >against authorization) that you ignore the full-scale Dem opposition to >Bush's domestic agenda. But the point of the piece is that they're too scared to campaign on it. It looks like they're going to go with some pale imitation tough guy. Of course, the first primary is almost a year away. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 16 11:54:59 PDT 2003

27309 [lbo-talk] a shred of hope -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >So Bush is nowhere near secure. In fact, he's toast if this is the best he >can do with fullout military rah-rah behind him right now. But thankfully he's got a bunch of wimpy Dems to bail him out! Doug ---- New York Times - April 16, 2003 Looking at Postwar Bush, Democrats Are Gloomy About 2004 By ADAM NAGOURNEY WASHINGTON, April 15 - The swift fall of Baghdad has complicated what many Democrats had already viewed as the difficult task of unseating President Bush an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 16 10:49:36 PDT 2003

27310 [lbo-talk] The Making of Saving Private Lynch -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >I thought that he did not have to honor agreements. From the looks of the paper, evidently he does. Could anyone here here comment on the status of The Times these days? It's not the ruling class sheet it used to be, is it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 16 10:30:30 PDT 2003

27311 [lbo-talk] a shred of hope -- rank: 1000

Bush's latest Gallup approval ratings are 69% approve, 26% disapprove, a gap of 43 percentage points. The poll was taken April 7-9, as Baghdad was falling, and the numbers were essentially identical to March's. These are much weaker than Daddy Bush's numbers, which were 89/8 (a gap of 81 points) as the Gulf War ceasefire took effect on Feb 28 91 - and W's own numbers just after 9/11, when they were 90/6, the highest since Gallup started asking the question in 1941. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 16 10:26:56 PDT 2003

27312 [lbo-talk] The Making of Saving Private Lynch -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >At 12:46 PM 4/16/03 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Kelley wrote: >> >>>The Times is a Murdoch paper: >> >>But largely insulated from his evil influence. >> >>Doug > > >Don't keep up with this either. How so? This is from a profile of The Rupe in the NYT of April 7 by David Kirkpatrick: >People who work with Mr. Murdoch said his degree of influence over >the content of his newspapers varies significantly depending on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 16 10:15:02 PDT 2003

27313 [lbo-talk] LA Times reporter stabbed in ass -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - April 16, 2003 WAR WITH IRAQ Rioters Stab L.A. Times Reporter By Paul Watson, Times Staff Writer MOSUL, Iraq -- In the middle of a riot Tuesday, a group helping a man with a long, deep gash on his forehead asked whether I would photograph them. When I did, about 300 people rushed me, shouting, "American! American!" As the mob approached, I saw that I had no escape. The only thing that kept them at bay - for several minutes anyway - was a group of about 20 people who ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 16 10:04:06 PDT 2003

27314 [lbo-talk] Cuba petition -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Justin-- I wasn't celebrating left unity-- you missed the irony. I >was reacting to Doug's earlier valorization of left unity in the >antiwar movement. I don't think that anyone who spends half his professional life cranking out apologetics for Israeli policy qualifies as a member of the antiwar movement. Especially if they write essays in Dissentary arguing that Korea was a "just war." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 16 09:56:56 PDT 2003

27315 [lbo-talk] How's It Feel -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Columbine was a demographic phenomenon. Out of so many people who attend >schools, a certain number will do something rash. It had no cultural >significance (except perhaps at the most abstract,even tautological, >level -- we live in an individualized civilization). How common is murder in high schools outside the U.S.? Not very, I'm guessing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 16 09:55:48 PDT 2003