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28276 Hitch -- rank: 1000

Jeet Heer wrote: >So I think this would >be a good jumping off point -- is a non-imperial occupation even imaginable? These formulations are giving new life to the word Orwellian. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 4 09:24:54 PST 2002

28277 WP ombud: demo deserved p. 1 -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - November 3, 2002 Ombudsman Listening to a Different Drummer Michael Getler is The Post's ombudsman. He can be reached at (202) 334-7582 or by e-mail at ombudsman at washpost.com, or c/o The Washington Post, 1150 15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20071. By Michael Getler Last Saturday, some 100,000 people, and possibly more, gathered in downtown Washington to protest against possible U.S. military action against Iraq. The Post did not put the story on the front page Sunday. ...

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

28278 Cramer buys TSC shares -- rank: 1000

[wow, what an optimist] >James Cramer Bought 20,000 More TheStreet.com Shares > > >DOW JONES NEWSWIRES > > >WASHINGTON -- TheStreet.com (TSCM) director James Cramer purchased >20,000 shares of the company's common stock Thursday and Friday, >according to a Form 4 filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange >Commission. > >Cramer bought the shares through Cramer Partners LLC for $2.60 to >$2.65 a share. After the transactions, he indirectly owned 1.4 >m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 4 09:12:41 PST 2002

28279 women taking over colleges! -- rank: 1000

New York Post - November 4, 2002 HEY, U. GO, GIRLS! By CARL CAMPANILE The Big Man on Campus is rapidly becoming the Only Man on Campus. Young women have outsmarted men by quietly and successfully turning Big Apple colleges into feminine domains. In the City University of New York, 62 percent of the students at its 17 undergraduate campuses are women. Only 38 percent are men. The gender disparity is staggering at some CUNY campuses. * At Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, 78 percent of the student ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 4 08:51:14 PST 2002

28280 Hitch -- rank: 1000

Ok, looks like I've booked Hitchens for the radio this Thursday, 5 PM. Any thoughts on what I should ask him? Questions on Orwell would be nice, as well as the obvious. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 4 08:34:54 PST 2002

28281 Are Marches Pep-Rallies? (was Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s) -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I don't think any activist who has spent any time reading history of >popular movements is going to buy into the idea that mass >mobilizations in and of themselves are going to stop a war or >radically change public opinion. Who said that demos "in and of themselves" were the whole of antiwar strategy? In an earlier post, you advocated trying everything. I'm all for that. ANSWER-organized rallies and black bloc hits and 998 other flowers should bloom. Over th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 4 08:24:56 PST 2002

28282 Are Marches Pep-Rallies? (was Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s) -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >grubby door-to-door organizing When we had dinner months ago, you kvetched about the PIRG model of politics, yet it seems like you're still pretty enamored of the basic strategy. Could you reconcile? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 4 08:07:39 PST 2002

28283 Information Awareness Office -- rank: 1000

Can't remember if this has come up here, but it's a humdinger - and directed by John Poindexter! <ttp://www.reason.com/0210/artifact.shtml>, <http://www.darpa.mil/iao>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 4 07:53:03 PST 2002

28284 high numbers of blacks in prison... -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Such hypotheses are either aggressively ignorant of the dynamic of U.S. >history and culture or they are smple vulgar racism. I don't think much >slack should be given those who mouth nonsense about the "culture of >violence," the "culture of poverty," etc. They are, if one is >charitable, serious ignorance. Welcome back, Carrol. Did you have a restful vacation? Batteries all recharged? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 3 08:45:22 PST 2002

28285 80% of straight men have pretended to be gay! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > > > 80% Of Straight Men Have Faked Being Gay At Some Point, Says Survey > ><snip> > >> The Dating Channel's panel of relationship experts, including Text >> Jockey's & viewers, were surveyed on the subject of sexuality and dating > >Besides the fact that N is too small to be significant, I suspect the >Dating Channel's panel of relationship experts is probably pretty >unrepresentative of the general male population. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 2 14:08:22 PST 2002

28286 Fw: David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Actually I was pushing on the easy libertarian "anti-government" consensus >that sees military action as horrible, but far more deaths due to the >operation of the infrastructure of capitalism as "non-intentional." Eh? A revolutionary Leninist party isn't interested in the infrastructure of capitalism? That's bizarre. >Let me be straight-- I don't think the Iraq war or even US military wars in >general are even close to the most important ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 1 15:09:37 PST 2002

28287 why I love the Elliott Wave Theorist -- rank: 1000

Where else can you read prose like this? >Next week should be a very active week. Monday will see a Super moon >(perigee-syzygy), Tuesday is election day, which may posses >quasi-cyclical properties, Wednesday is the Fed meeting on interest >rates and Thursday is a Fibonacci time ratio date (21 trading days >from Oct. 10 low). In addition, next week approaches the theoretic >mid-point of the 10-week cycle, which last bottomed on October 10. >All of this occurs with the blue- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 1 14:58:37 PST 2002

28288 Fw: David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Disabled people -ADAPT - have protests at least twice a year -- >major ones and most groups don't come out in support of our demos. >It is usually about 500 crips out in the rain, in the streets. We >don't even get mention in the "progressive" media. I guess we must >be spewing out alienating rhetoric. That is a joke. So this just >reinforces my point -- where are the organizers whom all will >follow? The mythical organizers? Nathan's talkin ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 1 14:33:58 PST 2002

28289 another jobless recovery? -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >I was looking at some of the latest economic indicators, and I was >amazed at the 3% economic growth this quarter, despite increases >in unemployment and long-term unemployment. Consumer spending >saves the day again: up 4.8% this quarter! My question for the >economics wonks: How long can this party last? I mean, how >far into debt will people go if unemployment and the threat of >unemployment continues to increase? That's the $64b question right no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 1 13:40:15 PST 2002

28290 girls skeptical of business--and they mean it -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >"Girls also expressed more doubt about the goals driving big >business. Only 19% considered business to be 'honest and ethical,' >the survey found." > >"Boys are just as skeptical as girls when it comes to corporate >honesty and ethics, but the survey shows that they are more willing >to overlook that and pursue a business career anyway." > >just goes to show how girls are impractical. <cough> > >http://www.chicago ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 1 13:34:41 PST 2002