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27811 Ramsdell obit -- rank: 1000

Chicago Tribune - October 25, 2002 ALEC RAMSDELL, 31 Chicago jazz musician, poet By Kim Barker Tribune staff reporter Alec Ramsdell, 31, of Chicago, a jazz musician and poet, died Friday, Oct. 18, in Chicago of a heroin overdose, hours before he was supposed to perform. Although he struggled with addiction for years, Mr. Ramsdell stopped using heroin about four months ago and seemed happy, friends and family said. Mr. Ramsdell rented a practice studio for his piano, started a job as a bicycle me ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 30 06:41:40 PST 2002

27812 Steve P vs. Chris H -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Well, I don't think he really buys into the Bush rhetoric -- he certainly >doesn't regarding Iran, as he pointed out to you. He has his own reasons for >supporting Saddam's ouster, and he makes a much better case than does Bush, >who relies on bluff and bluster. But the only people around right now who are going after Saddam are the Bush gang, whether or not he buys into their rhetoric. And Bush doesn't want a democratic Iraq - he wants to make Gen Tommy Franks ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 30 06:36:58 PST 2002

27813 a death -- rank: 1000

Sad news: I just got an email saying that long-time listmember Alec Ramsdell died in Chicago on Oct 18. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 30 06:15:43 PST 2002

27814 Putin the Invulnerable -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Chechnya again helps Russia's Putin polish image So what do you think, Chris? Were the 115 necessary casualties, or were the authorities too brutal with the gas? Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 17:14:46 PST 2002

27815 how the U.S. gathered prisoners for Gitmo -- rank: 1000

From: "Steven Hertzberg" <stevenhertzberg at hotmail.com> To: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Mirror.co.uk - WALLACE A HUMAN RIGHTS OUTRAGE Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:47:50 -0800 Doug, Unfortunately, I can't post to the list today, as I am away from my regular computer and my regular email account. But I thought that you might be interested in posting this to LBO-talk Steven -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 15:11:09 PST 2002

27816 Fwd: Special Wellstone Memorial Issue of Minneapolis Weekly -- rank: 1000

X-From_: SPerry at citypages.com Tue Oct 29 17:21:21 2002 From: Steve Perry <SPerry at citypages.com> To: 'Doug Henwood ' <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Special Wellstone Memorial Issue of Minneapolis Weekly Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:10:53 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 for those who are interested, here's the address for a special wellstone memorial issue of city pages, just posted online: <http://www.citypages.com>

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 14:34:45 PST 2002

27817 wishful thinking -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] DAVID BROOKS, ATLANTIC MONTHLY - During the most recent presidential election a Time magazine-CNN poll asked voters whether they were in the top 1 percent of income earners. Nineteen percent reported that they were, and another 20 percent said that they expected to be there one day.

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 13:30:46 PST 2002

27818 18 ways to hate your neighbor -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Europe isn't ethnically pure. If you look at the proportions of the >foreign-born, immigrants, and/or non-nationals out of the total >populations, many European nations are as diverse as, and some of >them are more diverse than, the United States. USA is way behind >Canada and Australia in the proportions of the foreign-born in the >total population and the labor force. Of course Europe isn't ethnically pure. If it were, they wouldn't have spent so mu ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 13:23:34 PST 2002

27819 Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >You got my number, daddy-o. Nuance is for reactionaries! > >By the way, how's the anarchist movement doing these days? I mean, how much >longer before we communally decide?! Dennis, I've gotten several complaints about your recent posts - they're too nasty and repetitive. The complainers are right. We all know how you feel about Stalinoids and Yoshie, and now you're going after Gordon and anarchism too. You can be sharp and funny, but you haven't been lately. Pl ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 13:20:36 PST 2002

27820 weak, traitorous CIA worried about "root causes" of terror -- rank: 1000

<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/021029/1/3472u.html> Agence France Presse - October 29, 3:46 PM CIA CONCERNED US WAR ON TERROR IS MISSING ROOT CAUSES The US Central Intelligence Agency has warned that US counterterrorist operations around the world may not eliminate the threat of future attacks because they fail to address the root causes of terrorism, according to new documents. In an unusual display of candor, the CIA pointed out that continued instability in Afghanistan, challenges facing Sau ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 12:50:22 PST 2002

27821 press freedom -- rank: 1000

I may have missed it, but Thomas Seay posted an AP story on Reporters Without Borders' press freedom ranking, but not a link to the original. It's at <http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=4116>. Dogu

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 12:48:19 PST 2002

27822 Steve P vs. Chris H -- rank: 1000

Listmember Steve Philion is the caller who goes up against Gen. Hitchens on Talk of the Nation <http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/totn/20021024.totn.03.ram>, starting at 35:57. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 12:46:13 PST 2002

27823 New Haven antiwar resolution -- rank: 1000

List alum John Halle reports: At 10:33 PM -0500 10/28/02, John Halle wrote: >I thought I'd let you know about the anti-war resolution I passed >through the board here. I believe it may be the first of any >largish East Coast city. (Do you know otherwise.) > >You'll see the resolution (attached) is pretty boiler-plate stuff. >But I suppose what is most significant is the margin it passed by- >24 to 2. Of course, many of those voting in favor were dragged >kicking and scr ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 12:26:44 PST 2002

27824 report on Hook conference -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - October 28, 2002 Despite Boycott by Neoconservatives, Conference on Sidney Hook Pleases Participants By DANNY POSTEL New York A hotly anticipated conference on the legacy of Sidney Hook -- boycotted by some neoconservative scholars because of the participation of Cornel West -- proceeded Friday and Saturday with barely a trace of controversy. Hook (1902-1989) taught philosophy at New York University for more than 40 years. His engagement in high-profil ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 11:49:34 PST 2002

27825 Kinsley on war -- rank: 1000

Slate.com - October 24, 2002 Home What Bush Isn't Saying About Iraq President Bush won't discuss two big reasons he wants to invade Iraq. By Michael Kinsley So, why exactly is Iraq different from North Korea? Both are founding members of President Bush's "axis of evil," and both deserve that honor. North Korea has now admitted to a nuclear weapons development program on about the same timeline as what we only suspect about Iraq. So, why are we barely complaining in one case and off to ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 11:27:28 PST 2002