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28261 Mid-term elections -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >It is quite sad to see a guy with the used car dealer background and the >name of a nationally recognized exterminator company becoming the >governor of this state. Instead of the descendant of a bootlegger and stock manipulator? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 5 15:36:36 PST 2002

28262 On "Some Leftists" as a subject -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Sentences that begin "Some X is..." are usually tautological and silly, >unless a specified narrow population (e.g., frequent posters to lbo) is >denoted by X. Yo, Moses, does the air ever get too thin up on that mountaintop? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 5 15:27:58 PST 2002

28263 David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Ridiculous-- the "hard core lefties" don't fit the bringing out large >numbers category. Unions and the mass membership groups do, when they >choose -- see the Solidarity Day, Millenium March, and Webster abortion >marches for the scale they can do when they choose. Most of the time they >don't, because they are skeptical of big rallies except at dramatic moments. Who, unions? They don't like large rallies for the very reason they can be effective ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 5 15:19:39 PST 2002

28264 Glaspie/Hussein ... -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >There is, however, another point of view, a point of view that looks >deeper into Argentinean history. There's an individual tale for every middle- and low-income country that explains its underdevelopment. But what about the system as a whole? Why do the same countries repeatedly fail to close the gap with the high-income countries? Aren't there some broader structural constraints on them - the heritage of imperialism, enforced technological backwardness, export or ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 5 15:14:56 PST 2002

28265 HRW on one of our SOB's -- rank: 1000

From: Human Rights Watch <hrw-news at topica.email-publisher.com> Subject: Afghanistan: Torture and Political Repression in Herat Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 06:42:05 -0700 Afghanistan: Torture and Political Repression in Herat U.S., U.N. Warlord Strategy Fails Afghan People (New York, November 5, 2002) - The U.S.-led coalition forces are actively backing a warlord in western Afghanistan with a disastrous human rights record, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The 51-page r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 5 14:50:40 PST 2002

28266 reverse Sokal effect -- rank: 1000

[what is it about the French?] Chronicle of Higher Eduation - web daily - November 5, 2002 French TV Stars Rock the World of Theoretical Physics By RICHARD MONASTERSKY It didn't move at quite the speed of light, but the rumor last month circled the globe within minutes and roiled the ranks of theoretical physicists. It seemed that a pair of French twin brothers who were national television personalities had duped several physics journals by tying together a nonsensical string of trendy terms and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 5 14:26:27 PST 2002

28267 product discontinued -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - November 5, 2002 MATTEL has stopped making its best-selling Harry Potter vibrating broomstick, but the toy company says its decision is not based on the plaything's popularity as a pre-teen sex toy. As we reported in September, Mattel's Nimbus 2000 drew raves from kids but horrified parents who found their teenage daughters riding the buzzing $19.99 broomsticks. In the wake of our story, Time Out New York even rated the Nimbus along with bona fide vibrators in its Sex ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 5 14:07:53 PST 2002

28268 Are Marches Pep-Rallies? (was Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >But wouldn't it be even easier to bring them out of the wood work if we >had simultaneous small demos in their own downtowns? Baltimore isn't but >a half hour from Washington. But if they were from Cleveland they'd >probably be balked. > >Don't small local demos do everything big demos with less effort and less >need for the party structure? And denser connections made with people who >live close enough to easily consider doing something else wit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 5 13:32:07 PST 2002

28269 Hitch -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >How did you finally get him to respond after all of the unanswered >e-mail? Persistence. > By saying you think he's a Republican shill? I didn't say that - the barista (male - why is a feminine noun applied to both men and women?) in the expresso joint next door did. I liked Hitch's Clinton book a lot. >You could ask him about the book he edited with Christopher Caldwell >that comes out this month. You like Caldwell, right? Yup, though he's been much too friendly ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 4 19:24:27 PST 2002

28270 Hitch -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Or to put that more pithily: does he think the utterances of the Bush >Administration are Orwellian? And if not, why not? I just got the book and am only a few pages into it, but he offers these definitions of "Orwellian": "to imply crushing tyranny and fear and conformism" and "to recognize that human resistance to these terrors is unquenchable." The sense in which "Eastasia isn't our enemy, Eastasia is our friend!" doesn't a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 4 15:15:18 PST 2002

28271 Germany not decided on whether US can use bases -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - November 1, 2002 No Thaw in German-U.S. Ties Top official says his nation has not decided whether to allow use of its bases for war on Iraq. By Paul Richter Times Staff Writer November 1 2002 WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON -- Chilled by a frigid reception from the Bush administration during a visit here, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Thursday that his nation hasn't decided yet whether U.S. forces will be allowed to use bases in Germany if the United States launches a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 4 15:09:06 PST 2002

28272 war & the election -- rank: 1000

The New Republic - November 4, 2002 TRB FROM WASHINGTON Backfire by Peter Beinart If there's one thing everyone knows about the 2002 elections, it's that Iraq helps the Republicans. "Democrats desperately need to erase Iraq as an issue," insisted election guru Charlie Cook in National Journal on September 21. "The prospect of war with Iraq is dealing Democratic candidates a triple blow," warned The Washington Post's Thomas B. Edsall on October 10. But what if it's not true? O ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 4 15:04:08 PST 2002

28273 more on life in Gitmo -- rank: 1000

Observer (London) - November 3, 2002 Distant voices tell of life for Britons caged in Camp Delta Letters to families reveal hunger strikes and suicides in US jail for terror suspects Paul Harris and Burhan Wazir The letters are brief and blunt. Crammed into eight lines in block capitals, the postcards ask after family and friends and wish a happy birthday to a much-loved brother. Asif Iqbal, 20, from Tipton in the West Midlands, could be any prisoner writing home to a concerned family. But Iqbal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 4 15:01:09 PST 2002

28274 Hitch -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Saddam Hussein has been effectively "contained" for the past >decade--deterrence and "containment" do seem to work almost all the >time, after all. But I don't like what "containment" does to the >people of Iraq at all. And I am scared of what Saddam Hussein might >do--I mean, launching two aggressive wars against neighbors is not >confidence building, is it? Well, the first war was launched with the approval of the U.S., an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 4 09:58:33 PST 2002

28275 Hitch -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >"Suppose, Mr. Hitchens, that we succeed by 2005 in hanging the last >Oil Sheik with the guts of the last Fundamentalist Mullah. Will we >then have achieved Utopia? If not, what would you put next on the >agenda?" How would you answer that? Are you for a war on Iraq? Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 4 09:26:28 PST 2002