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28171 Baudrillard "weighs" in -- rank: 1000

Le Monde diplomatique - November 2002 TERRORISM IS SOCIETY'S CONDEMNATION OF ITSELF The despair of having everything _______________________________________________________ The West's mission is to make the world's wealth of cultures interchangeable, and to subordinate them within the global order. Our culture, which is bereft of values, revenges itself upon the values of other cultures. by JEAN BAUDRILLARD * _______________________________________________________ IS globalisation inevitable? Wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 14 16:34:00 PST 2002

28172 academic freedom at Harvard -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >o.r. is very good on laws, rules, and social pressure to be >brought to bear on "anti-gay" prejudice. they should not be >discriminated against in employment, housing, and certainly >not beat up on the streets. BUT, he also doesn't appreciate >"going out in public and seeing two guys kissing". (esp if a >minor child is around) I think that reflects broad public opinion - approval of civil rights laws is high, but of same-sex marriage, low. Mi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 14 16:27:00 PST 2002

28173 wankers inspire terror panic -- rank: 1000

Sydney Morning Herald - November 13, 2002 <http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2002/11/13/FFXVYV83G8D.html> Porn fans trigger terror alert Three men carrying strange-looking documents who took turns locking themselves in the toilets before take-off on a plane leaving Paris for Hong Kong, were thrown off the plane after causing a terrorism alert. It then became clear they had only been relieving sexual urges, airport officials said. The three men, sailors returning to their homes in the central ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 14 15:39:32 PST 2002

28174 NYT eyeing FT? -- rank: 1000

[scary horrible news!] Telegraph (London) - November 14, 2002 Today New York, tomorrow the world (Filed: 10/11/2002) Having bought the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times is rumoured to want to acquire the FT. Richard Siklos reports from New York When the chairman of the New York Times and the publisher of the Wall Street Journal shared the dais on a media panel last week, it was inevitable that the discussion would turn to the Times' burgeoning global ambitions. Karen Elliott House ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 14 12:20:45 PST 2002

28175 Lerner: condemn Palestinian terror -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >My recollection of Lerner from Berkeley is not very positive. Bob Fitch recalls Lerner in his Berkeley days reading Heidegger - pretty rare in the late 1960s. Fitch asked him, "Why are you reading that Nazi gasbag?" Lerner responded with great earnestness, "He's very important." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 14 10:47:41 PST 2002

28176 80% of straight men have pretended to be gay! -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >Quoting Jeffrey Fisher <jfisher at igc.org>: > >> i wonder what it means to "pretend" to be gay. is that flirting with >> men? is that pretending to be a queen? what? > >I think it's just saying you are gay. This is so stupid though, >unless you know >which kinds of gay guys are actually cool, sexy, a good investment, or >whatever, in a given context. >So what *is* impressive, is that presumably said gay-acting guys ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 14 09:04:53 PST 2002

28177 Lerner: condemn Palestinian terror -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Michael Pollak wrote: >> >> I just think he mumbled it the >> way he did because he's a bad writer rather than because of how he thinks. >> For all his faults, this theme of genuine friendship and solidarity among >> peoples has always been Lerner's main bag, he's downright goopy with it. > >In an issue of what is now called SR or Socialist Review but at a time >when it was still called Socialist Revolution there was a longish &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 14 08:32:59 PST 2002

28178 sex and the left -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >Hmm, yes. I've been working on footnote fetish. >It's actually more tiring than I expected. I find endnotes much less tiring - less bending and squinting. Though of course the symbolism is much different. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 14 09:03:19 PST 2002

28179 society notes -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - November 14, 2002 WHITE House press secretary Ari Fleischer, 41, and his new bride, Office of Management and Budget staffer Rebecca Davis, 26, are one cost-conscious couple. Before their wedding last Saturday in Washington, they registered at cheapo chain Target, where they requested such frugal items as a "Forrest Gump" DVD and the board game Scattergories, reports the Jewish Forward. Peter Sagal, host of the National Public Radio quiz show "Wait, Wait, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 14 08:20:47 PST 2002

28180 Safire on the IAO -- rank: 1000

New York Times - November 14, 2002 You Are a Suspect By WILLIAM SAFIRE If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you: Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend - all these transactions and communications will go in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 14 08:01:32 PST 2002

28181 David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

Dddddd0814 at aol.com wrote: >Lovely. Now it's about "doobs" "rants" and "shit, man"...... And you think that's a problem originating with others? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 13 20:30:34 PST 2002

28182 academic freedom at Harvard -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >How much is Summers acting out of conviction and how much not to upset >contributors to the poor little Harvard Endowment? The board of the Harvard Corporation (are there any universities besides Yale & Harvard that call their governing body the Corporation?) surely knew what they were getting when they hired Summers. If they didn't know he was a rude egomaniac they weren't reading the papers. If they just wanted some smooth patrician to ooze over rich alums th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 13 15:47:35 PST 2002

28183 US indicts FARC -- rank: 1000

U.S. Indicts Colombia's Top Rebel Military Leader 48 minutes ago By Deborah Charles WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) announced on Wednesday the indictments of Colombian rebel leaders on charges of kidnapping and drug trafficking to finance their war on the government. "In three separate indictments, leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by its Spanish-language acronym FARC, stand charged with hostage taking and drug traffic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 13 15:23:37 PST 2002

28184 Russian vulgarity -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss, or anyone, what do you make of Putin's wacko remarks on circumcision the other day? The intro to an RFE/RL piece on JRL said: >Russia: Putin's Statements On Chechnya May Reflect Public Opinion >By Gregory Feifer > >Russian President Vladimir Putin's vitriolic speech against Chechen rebels >issued on the heels of this week's EU-Russia summit may have surprised the >West, but at home, the remarks have caused barely a ripple. Instead of >causing embarrassment, Putin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 13 15:05:17 PST 2002

28185 Greenspan: economy soft, not falling down -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >Doug Henwood fwd'd: > >>Greenspan: Economy Soft, Not Falling Down > > >(Dr. Richebächer had something to say about this today. Any thoughts >about the "crucial novelty" vis-a-vis global synchronization he >mentions?) > > >BUBBLE AFTERMATH >by Kurt Richebächer > >"Encouragement of consumption is no benefit to commerce, >for the difficulty lies in supplying the means, not in >stimulating the desire of consumption; a ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 13 13:41:25 PST 2002