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28081 Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

On my radio show this afternoon, 5-6 PM eastern US time, WBAI, New York, 99.5 FM and <http://www.wbai.org>: * Alexandra Robbins, author of Secrets of the Tomb, a book about Yale's Skull & Bones secret society * Linda Greuen, a former Wal-Mart worker who's now working with the UFCW's effort to organize the world's largest corporation, in honor of the union's national day of action against Wal-Mart * Amy Caiazza, editor of a new study by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, on the ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 21 11:11:28 PST 2002

28082 Rev Al Baghdad-bound -- rank: 1000

New York Post - November 21, 2002 SHARPTON FLYING TO BAGHDAD By DEBORAH ORIN WASHINGTON - The Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday said he's been promised visas by Iraq and plans to lead a delegation to Baghdad on Dec. 8, the deadline for Saddam Hussein to produce a list of all his weapons of mass death. Sharpton said he may go to Baghdad even if the Bush administration refuses to authorize his trip, thus violating the current U.S. policy that except for journalists, American passports aren't valid for tr ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 21 09:32:43 PST 2002

28083 Harvard re-invites poet -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 21, 2002 Harvard Department Reverses Decision to Cancel Lecture by Poet Who Has Harshly Criticized Israel By PIPER FOGG The English department at Harvard University has reissued an invitation that it had rescinded just last week to a University of Oxford poet and professor who has harshly criticized Israel. Department officials said Wednesday that they had reinvited Tom Paulin -- despite reported opposition from Harvard's president -- in order ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 21 10:01:01 PST 2002

28084 "fragments" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Whether I am or am not arrogant is also irrelevant. To what? To the prospect of war in Iraq? To long-term climatic changes? To whether anyone should listen to a word you say? Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 21 09:27:23 PST 2002

28085 Morgan Stanley: Union, No! -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - November 21, 2002 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,844169,00.html> US bank in hot water after telling clients to pull out of unionised firms Charlotte Denny, economics correspondent One of America's leading investment banks, Morgan Stanley, has outraged US unions by telling clients to pull their money out of heavily unionised industries. "Look for the union label - and run the other way," the analysts say in a research note circulated to n ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 21 08:53:26 PST 2002

28086 lbo-talk-digest V1 #6999 -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >As far as sex is concerned - it certainly does not need marriage >anymore, thanks to the progress in reproductive health. But marriage >does lower the transaction cost of sexual relationships quite >considerably, hence its continuing appeal as a venue for sexual >liaisons. You European guys are sooooo romantic! Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 21 07:07:32 PST 2002

28087 Perle: inspections or not, let's hit Saddam! -- rank: 1000

Mirror (London) - November 21, 2002 <http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12377231&method=full&siteid=50143> Bush aide: Inspections or not, we'll attack Iraq Exclusive By Paul Gilfeather, Whitehall Editor GEORGE Bush's top security adviser last night admitted the US would attack Iraq even if UN inspectors fail to find weapons. Dr Richard Perle stunned MPs by insisting a "clean bill of health" from UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix would not halt Ameri ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 21 07:01:15 PST 2002

28088 Contact Information, Etc. Re: Corn transcript -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I haven't read your original post, I haven't read all of this post I'm >responding to. I'll take another look when I get my sight back, at least >partially, in the next 24 to 48 hours. I hope you get your sight back, and quickly, but how can you respond to things you haven't even read? You remind me of my egomaniacal college roommate who would carry on "conversations" while listening to Captain Beefheart at full volume with headphones. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 21 06:56:26 PST 2002

28089 Norm Coleman's interesting family situation -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I forgot about Dick. That pretty much seals it -- is adultery a negative >indicator or what? I rest my case. Adulterous presidents have better economic records. Read about it in LBO #103, imminently forthcoming. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 20 19:51:46 PST 2002

28090 Bob Kerrey, insider -- rank: 1000

[from a friend at the New School] Insider Sales Cloud the Tenet Tale By Melissa Davis Staff Reporter 11/14/2002 07:03 AM EST Tenet (THC:NYSE - news - commentary - research - analysis) insiders have been blessed with more luck than some of the hospital chain's unfortunate patients. A number of officers and directors at Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Tenet pulled off the stock market equivalent of a medical miracle this year, some of them selling their Tenet shares just weeks before the company took ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 20 15:48:14 PST 2002

28091 Bush & polling -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0204.green.html> [...] Bush's Brain On the last day of February, the Bush administration kicked off its renewed initiative to privatize Social Security in a speech before the National Summit on Retirement Savings in Washington, D.C. Rather than address "Social Security," Bush opted to speak about "retirement security." And during the brief speech he repeated the words "choice" (three times), "compound intere ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 20 15:31:37 PST 2002

28092 Iraqi general/liberator arrested for war crimes -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] RICHARD BEESTON, TIMES, UK - Danish police arrested an exiled Iraqi general tipped as a possible replacement for President Saddam Hussein. He faces charges that he was responsible for killing thousands of Kurds in a chemical weapons attack 14 years ago. The arrest of General Nizar Khazraji, the former Iraqi Chief-of-Staff and the most senior officer to defect from Baghdad, appeared to wreck any chances that he might lead a mutiny in the Armed Forces and help ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 20 15:16:34 PST 2002

28093 Senate passes Homeland Security -- rank: 1000

Dddddd0814 at aol.com wrote: >A couple comments on this thread (and we'll see if this slips by without any >fecies-inspired comments from Hennie) And what the fuck is this supposed to mean? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 20 15:05:53 PST 2002

28094 Fwd: Organized religion - organized swindle -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:27:26 -0500 From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> Subject: Organized religion - organized swindle To: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Here is a piece that speaks volumes of the nature of organized religion, at least in my neighborhood. I find it amusing. FYI - Bishop Showell is a local slum lord whom our community has been fighting for several years. Wojtek -----Original Message----- From: washingtonhill [mailto:washingtonhill ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 20 14:36:11 PST 2002

28095 Salon circling the drain? -- rank: 1000

NOVEMBER 20, 2002 Salon Offers Free Access If You View Ads Struggling Site Introduces 'Ultramercials' By Michael Liedtke, AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO -- (AP) Fighting for survival, the online magazine Salon.com has introduced an unusual advertising program that waives subscription fees for readers willing to wade through an interactive commercial. Salon Media Group Inc. is offering "Ultramercials" sponsored by Mercedes-Benz as an alternative to paying for premium access, which cos ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 20 14:34:40 PST 2002