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28096 Senate passes Homeland Security -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >You cannot >underestimate the satisfaction a great chunk of male population receive >from gratuitous putting down people who cannot defend themselves. How's this different from your repeated comments about the pathology of the underclass? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 20 12:11:13 PST 2002

28097 Senate passes Homeland Security -- rank: 1000

Brian O. Sheppard x349393 wrote: >But, thanks to last-moment add-ons approved by the U.S. House, the >measure goes even farther. It: > >-- Reverses a lopsided previous vote that would have prevented >companies that set up headquarters off-shore to avoid taxes from >benefiting from Homeland Security contracts. > >-- Protects drug companies from lawsuits over vaccines. Although >Republican leaders claimed they would revisit the issue, the bill >ends lawsuits against c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 20 11:15:51 PST 2002

28098 commercial scholarship -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 20, 2002 Scientists Accuse Toxicology Journal of Industry Ties, Urge Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest By LILA GUTERMAN Forty-five scientists sent a letter Tuesday to the publishers of the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, accusing it of being little more than an industry mouthpiece. "The editorial bias of the journal is pro-industry and essentially it reads like an industry trade publication, but it's masked as a peer-rev ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 20 10:36:32 PST 2002

28099 "Red Encyclopedia"? Re: Corn transcript -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I wonder just how many organizers and activists each left-wing >organization can count on. On another mailing list, I found a >website called "Red Encyclopedia," on a page of which estimates of >"cadres" and/or "members" of various left-wing organizations -- >ranging from the Democratic Socialists of America, the Green Party, >the Industrial Workers of the World, to the Spartacist League -- are >listed: <http://www.r ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 20 10:34:37 PST 2002

28100 Corn transcript -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Corn's response to Doug is pretty solid, IMO. The transcript >doesn't say much for the success of his appearance, but you >only get better at these things by doing them. Get better at what things? Arguing a principled antiwar position, or saying "The peace movement is controlled by Communists, but <mmmmfffff>...."? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 20 10:32:02 PST 2002

28101 even soldiers find censorship too strict -- rank: 1000

["There Ought to be Limits to Freedom," as W said in reaction to gwbush.com...] Boston Globe - November 20, 2002 THE MEDIA Pentagon drawing battle lines with press By Mark Jurkowitz WASHINGTON - When Army Times writer Sean Naylor linked up with the 101st Airborne Division in Kandahar to cover the Afghanistan fighting, he found that instead of the traditional practice of being housed with the troops, reporters were ''quarantined'' in media tents. During USA Today reporter Andrea Stone's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 20 09:47:16 PST 2002

28102 Norm Coleman's interesting family situation -- rank: 1000

So Garrison Keillor wrote this about Minnesota Sen-elect Norm Coleman in Salon on Nov 7: >Norm got a free ride from the press. St. Paul is a small town and >anybody who hangs around the St. Paul Grill knows about Norm's >habits. Everyone knows that his family situation is, shall we say, >very interesting, but nobody bothered to ask about it, least of all >the religious people in the Republican Party. They made their peace >with hypocrisy long ago. So this false knight made his ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 20 09:40:37 PST 2002

28103 Ghani -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: > >I've just posted my October 4, 2001, interview with Ashraf Ghani, the >>anthropologist who is now finance minister of Afghanistan (surely one >>of the least enviable jobs in the world), but who then was a former >>Johns Hopkins professor and World Bank consultant. It's at >><http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#Individual>. > >Least enviable? Aren't you cutting against the left's party line >that his government is a tool ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 19 16:54:17 PST 2002

28104 Ghani -- rank: 1000

I've just posted my October 4, 2001, interview with Ashraf Ghani, the anthropologist who is now finance minister of Afghanistan (surely one of the least enviable jobs in the world), but who then was a former Johns Hopkins professor and World Bank consultant. It's at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#Individual>. There's nothing earth-shattering about the interview, but it is a brush with fame. Apologies for the bad sound quality - it's a combination of very cheap tape that wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 19 15:11:13 PST 2002

28105 our fundamentalists -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] "Congressman Pitts doesn't believe in stoning anybody." Gabe Neville, confirming that his boss, Rep. Joseph R. Pitts, Pennsylvania Republican, abruptly canceled an appearance at a religious conference after learning its members support the execution of homosexuals and abortion providers and stoning disobedient children. - Washington Times

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 19 14:34:06 PST 2002

28106 Alan Wolfe: US no empire -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[More bromides with brio from Alan Wolfe, Distinguished Professor of >Liberal Reassurance at Boston College:] And published in Alex Star's "Ideas" section of the Boston Globe, I see. Anyone been reading this regularly? Is it a newspaper version of Lingua Franca? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 19 14:06:09 PST 2002

28107 Fwd: [cultstud-l] Demi Moore on Vanity Fair -- rank: 1000

L - more delights from cultstud! - love d >X-From_: bounce-cultstud-l-130701 at lists.acomp.usf.edu Tue Nov 19 >16:49:53 2002 >Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:49:09 -0500 >From: Geoff Stahl <geoffs at cam.org> >Subject: [cultstud-l] Demi Moore on Vanity Fair >To: "CULTSTUD-L: A listserv devoted to Cultural Studies" ><cultstud-l at lists.acomp.usf.edu> >MIME-version: 1.0 >List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:leave-cultstud-l-130701Y at lists.acomp.usf.edu> & ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 19 14:01:00 PST 2002

28108 Corn transcript -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I'd like to know what David Corn thought he was accomplishing by >appearing on that show. Here's his response. I suppose I'm violating etiquette by sharing it, but there doesn't seem to be anything terribly personal in it, and I'm not very troubled by my indiscretion. Doug ---- >Thanks for writing. Since when is the truth bad for the peace movement? I >wrote what I did. O'Reilly would have used the piece with or without me. I >went on the show knowing that he would ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 19 13:57:37 PST 2002

28109 Corn transcript -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Actually, in substance nothing Corn said was wrong or inaccurate. The venue >sucked, but as Chuck notes, the truth sucks more. And while Corn can be >faulted for saying the truth where it can be misused, the movement should >be criticized for creating the truth in the first place. I'm all for that. But it's not just that the "venue sucked" - it couldn't be otherwise. You can't go on O'R and say, "These rallies have been organized by Communist s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 19 11:58:20 PST 2002

28110 Corn transcript -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >It's easy to berate Corn, Cooper, and Hitchens for the way in which >they have framed their criticism of ANSWER. But I have to ask where >the other leftist writers have been with a more constructive public >criticism of ANSWER? The only person here who I know has engaged in >this is Liza. You're right. But Liza did it the way it should be done (not that I'm biased or anything) - acknowledging context and complexity, with her antiwar sentiments fully on display. Neit ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 19 11:42:48 PST 2002