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28051 Aschroft's evolution -- rank: 1000

[via nettime] From: "Ivo Skoric" <ivo at reporters.net> To: nettime-l at bbs.thing.net Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:26:58 -0500 Please compare what you see at: http://www.arkzin.com/competitor/htmls/skoric1.html and http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/1097/ijge/gj-7.htm So, Ashcroft in 1997, as a senator, during Clinton's administration was an outspoken opponent of FISA - he wrote: " The FBI wants access to decode, digest, and discuss financial transactions, personal e-mail, ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 26 08:38:42 PST 2002

28052 A Pig Returns to the Farm, Thumbing His Snout at Orwell -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Almost forgot this one: > >>The woodland creatures, led by the beavers - read Islamic >>fundamentalists - incensed at the destruction of their environment, >>attack the twin windmills, > >As if this were the cause of 9-11. > >Doesn't this guy just scream, "Shill!" or at least dense? Is it plausible that the author's name is really John Reed? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 26 08:20:43 PST 2002

28053 life on campus -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 26, 2002 Colleges Can Decide What to Tell FBI About Foreign Students, Registrars' Group Says By MICHAEL ARNONE A letter that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has sent colleges requesting certain information about their foreign students has prompted the Association of American College Registrars and Admissions Officers to remind colleges what data they do and do not have to give federal investigators. In a statement on its Web site, the asso ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 26 08:08:08 PST 2002

28054 John Rawls, RIP -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >A great one gone. He left the world a better place than when he >found it. We are all in his debt. We are? I never felt the debt. From what I've read, it seems like an industrial strength supply of tedium, and what I've heard from fans doesn't sound any more impressive. Could you explain why he's so important that you'd string together three obituary cliches in his honor? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 26 07:56:45 PST 2002

28055 less free content -- rank: 1000

>TIME SAID READY TO UNPLUG FREE CONTENT > >NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Free access to Time Inc.'s most popular magazines >could disappear from the Internet. The AOL Time Warner (AOL) unit has >concluded that providing Web content at no charge hurt circulation and >that Web-based advertising is too meager to make up the difference, the >Wall Street Journal reported. The upshot: some of that content may >migrate to the company's subscription-based America Online service. > > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 25 11:16:25 PST 2002

28056 Oprahism -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - November 25, 2002 Godlike gabber IS Oprah Winfrey the next L. Ron Hubbard? The touchy-feely talk show titan is the leader of a new American religion, says University of North Carolina professor Kathryn Lofton. Oprah's 20 million followers seek spiritual transformation by following a way of life and rituals designated by her - including reading specific texts, writing and shopping, Lofton says. The professor defines Oprahism's primary tenets as "self-indulgence and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 25 11:01:33 PST 2002

28057 AC nails Cooper perfectly -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Nor do I think either >was involved in levitating the Pentagon, another >very early action. It is amusing to imagine what >D. Henwood thought of those events, at the time. I loved 'em. It was before my brief conservative turn. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 25 08:41:18 PST 2002

28058 AC nails Cooper perfectly -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I have no problem giving the SWP full credit for a movement that, despite >majority opposition to the war by mid-1968, was unable to stop the war for >another five years, and in fact saw the war expand to Cambodia and Laos, >including mass near-genocide bombings in Cambodia in 1973. > >If that is the model of success promised by sectarian-led movements, then my >opposition to the WWP is just further validated. You're asking a lot. If the criteria of suc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 25 08:09:35 PST 2002

28059 suing MCD's -- rank: 1000

[This takes litigiousness to sillier levels.] At 12:37 AM -0500 11/25/02, editor at thesmokinggun.com wrote: >Is Ronald McDonald legally responsible for super-sizing America's >overweight teens? Some obese New York City kids sure think so: > >http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/mcsuit1.html [oh and] >First, it was her dented cans. Now Britney Spears, novice >restaurateur, has to contend with a legal bid to force her >five-month-old eatery into bankruptcy over thousands in u ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 25 08:05:22 PST 2002

28060 you too can write Post heds! -- rank: 1000

Editor and Publisher online - November 22, 2002 'NY Post' Staffers Create Headline Game Challenge Your Hed-Writing Skills By Chris Nammour NEW YORK -- "Angry Nun Stabs Jealous Urologist." This headline, not surprisingly, isn't real, but anyone in the hinterlands craving a slice of big-city tabloid humor now has a place, or rather a card, to turn. New York Post TV Editor Michael Shain and retired Post crime reporter Mike Pearl have created Man Bites Dog, a game that challenges wannabe e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 24 12:00:50 PST 2002

28061 Fwd: Re: History of the Mormons -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] From: "BENTON MCCUNE" <bentonmccune at msn.com> To: "LBO Talk" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: Re: History of the Mormons Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 13:10:33 -0600 I think you're referring to the Joseph Smith biography, No One Knows My History, by Fawn Brodie. I read it 9-10 years ago and remember it being quite good. It's not so good if a complete history of the Church is what's looked for. Ben Date: Sun, 24 Nov 20 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 24 11:38:12 PST 2002

28062 Alterman's list -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Oh boy! Makes the heart race. Who's FitzGerald? Who's Power? Who's >McGrory? Who's Meyerson? >Hoffmann? Green? And who's Alterman? Who really gives a fuck what he thinks? Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 24 11:33:29 PST 2002

28063 Hitchens has completely lost his mind -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >You know, I honestly don't understand why Hitch's recent antics surprise >people. Hitchens has been unhinged for quite a while now. Have Nation-lefty >types just been in denial? He was at the Nation for almost 20 years. He's a very talented writer, an eloquent speaker, and most people at and around the magazine like him personally - he can be very warm and charming. His transformation is a professional, political, and personal loss, and I don't see any point in prete ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 24 11:01:46 PST 2002

28064 more on the moron incident -- rank: 1000

Toronto Star - November 23, 2002 Chirac leaps to PM's aid on 'moron' flap LOUISE ELLIOTT CANADIAN PRESS PARIS (CP) A furious French President Jacques Chirac shielded Prime Minister Jean Chretien from questions about a scandal surrounding his communications director Saturday, saying the subject had no place at an international meeting on aid to Lebanon. "We are in France," Chirac said sharply to a reporter during a news conference at L'Elysee, his palatial home. "We are not here t ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 24 10:54:38 PST 2002

28065 Bush says he and Putin are buds -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >GEORGE BUSH SAYS VLADIMIR PUTIN IS ONE OF HIS CLOSEST FRIENDS What in god's name does that mean? How many times have they been together? Do they talk about their inner lives? Does Putin think he's a moron? Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 23 12:17:11 PST 2002