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27796 war demographics -- rank: 1000

A demographic breakdown of those favoring war on Iraq, according to Pew <http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=163>: total 55% men 59 women 50 white 59 black 31 hispanic 55 under 30 56 30-49 60 50-64 55 65+ 39 conservative 65 moderate 55 liberal 40 conserv Rep 76 mod/lib Rep 71 cons/mod Dem 43 liberal Dem 33

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 31 08:33:23 PST 2002

27797 Israeli boycott update -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - October 31, 2002 British Publisher, Citing Academic Boycott, Won't Sell Book to Israeli University By HAIM WATZMAN Jerusalem St. Jerome Publishing, in Britain, has refused to sell a book it publishes to an Israeli university, as part of the company's boycott of Israeli academic institutions. St. Jerome, an academic publisher specializing in translation studies, is owned by Mona Baker, a member of the faculty of the University of Manchester. In June, Ms ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 31 08:20:07 PST 2002

27798 more on Harken, Harvard, and W -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe - November 30, 2002 Harvard invested heavily in Harken By Beth Healy and Michael Kranish, Globe Staff, 10/30/2002 It was a moment of deep embarrassment in 1991 when Harvard University's prestigious endowment fund admitted it had just experienced its worst loss ever. Jack Meyer, Harvard Management Co. president, said at the time he hoped the fund would never again take such a big hit, a $200 million write-down. Back then there was relatively little focus on one major reason for the l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 30 14:21:41 PST 2002

27799 chechen terror link overblown? -- rank: 1000

[Chris D, what do you make of this? From Johnson's Russia List] National Post (Canada) October 30, 2002 Terror links are overblown Most Chechens dream of a free state, not an Islamic one By Matthew Fisher (mfisher at nationalpost.com) Vladimir Putin insists there is an international dimension to last week's attack by Chechen terrorists in Moscow that would justify Russian forces striking beyond their own borders in what could be described as the country's own global war on terrorism. The Russian ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 30 12:56:44 PST 2002

27800 Are Marches Pep-Rallies? (was Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s) -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Fucking ANSWER You're sounding as sectarian as a Trotbot (and thanks to Angela Mitroupolos for coining that lovely word). Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 30 11:45:17 PST 2002

27801 Chico State -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Moosa believes that the Univ. has been dumbed down. He gives most >students D's and F's, then gets low or no enrollment. I think he is >serious about what he is doing. What do you think? Is it being dumbed down? Profs are generally under pressure to give good grades and please the "consumers," no? Don't you lose students when you tell them you expect them to read a book or two? Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 30 10:08:17 PST 2002

27802 Are Marches Pep-Rallies? (was Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s) -- rank: 1000

DoreneFC at aol.com wrote: >As for "ineffective channels of dissent," I have a lot of confidence >in people's ability to make progress based on dialogue that only >intermittently spill into street demos. To me the street demos are >powerless without all the behind Apparently doing penance for its earlier dreadful coverage (prompted by FAIR, I'm guessing), today's NYT reported on another reason for big demos - when they work, they're energizing, and they make people feel les ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 30 09:56:12 PST 2002

27803 Putin the Invulnerable -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Special forces also knocked out the windows to let gas out. No one's >identified the gas as of yet, but speculation has it that effective >dose may have been near lethal dose. >NEW SCIENTIST NEWSFLASH > >Russian gas clues point to cocktail > >Further clues to the identity of the knock-out agent used to end the >Moscow hostage crisis have emerged, indicating that a likely >candidate is a cocktail of an opioid narcotic such as fentanyl >supplemen ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 30 09:50:01 PST 2002

27804 Steve P vs. Chris H -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Would you feel safer with a nuclear Iraq? Isn't it bad >enough that Pakistan is armed? It's worse. They've got more of them, and some really creepy fuckers could get their hands on them. Most rational people think that Saddam would use nukes, if he had them, only as a desperation move if cornered. Not Pakistan's nukes if AQ types got hold of them. But we're not supposed to talk about that now, because Pakistan is our friend now. It would be a cliche to call this Orwel ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 30 09:32:07 PST 2002

27805 Chico State -- rank: 1000

[Hey Michael Perelman, you know this guy? Don't your students drop your class when you tell them they have to read a book?] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - October 30, 2002 California Appeals Court Backs Professor in Dispute Over His Demanding Approach to Teaching By SCOTT SMALLWOOD A finance professor known for being hard on students has won a legal battle against California State University at Chico, which had demoted him because he wouldn't change his teaching style. The professor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 30 09:19:55 PST 2002

27806 Gore V's conspiracy article -- rank: 1000

The Observer said on its website that it couldn't post the full text of Gore Vidal's article on Bush's complicity in 9/11 for "rights" reason, but some less constrained sorts did at <http://9-11congress.netfirms.com/Vidal.html>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 30 09:10:58 PST 2002

27807 high numbers of blacks in prison... -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >You confound incarceration rates with violent crime, which accounts for at >most 10% of sentenced prisoners. Not according to the BJS: PERCENT OF SENTENCED STATE INMATES BY TYPE OF CRIME 1990 2000 violent 46% 49% property 25 20 drug 22 21 public order 7 10

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Date:	Wed Oct 30 09:05:10 PST 2002

27808 Braz elec (cont.) -- rank: 1000

2) "What is 'Democratic' and 'Participatory' About All This?": Interview with Lourival Pereira, president of SAGERS, union of silo and warehouse workers of Rio Grande do Sul [Note: The following interview is reprinted from O Trabalo newspaper, published by the O Trabalho current of the Brazilian Workers Party (PT).] Q: How do you evaluate the results of the first round elections on Oct. 6th? Lourival Pereira: It is very different from 1998. At the time what we did was wage a campaign o ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 30 09:02:05 PST 2002

27809 Fwd: Brazil Elections: Part 2 of Dossier -- rank: 1000

[No idea who the OWC is, but this seems interesting. In two parts...] OWC CAMPAIGN NEWS - distributed by the Open World Conference in Defense of Trade Union Independence & Democratic Rights, c/o S.F. Labor Council, 1188 Franklin St., #203, San Francisco, CA 94109. To SUBSCRIBE, contact the OWC at <ilcinfo at earthlink.net>. To UNSUBSCRIBE, contact the OWC at <ilcinfo at earthlink.net>. Phone: (415) 641-8616 Fax: (415) 440-9297. Visit our website at www.owcinfo.org - Notify if a ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 30 09:01:56 PST 2002

27810 US deficit -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Is it time to start saying "dollar bubble"? When it crashes it could be bad... What about housing bubble? Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 30 06:44:11 PST 2002