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28411 terror summit -- rank: 1000

[Do papers other than the Post use the term "homicide bombers"?] New York Post - May 21, 2002 TERROR, INC. By NILES LATHEM and VINCENT MORRIS May 21, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden's henchmen huddled with top Hamas and Hezbollah honchos less than two months ago in Beirut for a "terrorist convention" that U.S. officials fear laid the groundwork for a massive new attack. It is believed that the secret session March 23 launched the recent frightening flurry of "intell ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 21 15:04:17 PDT 2002

28412 WB anthrax scare -- rank: 1000

[Reuters via NY Post] WORLD BANK ANTHRAX WARNING ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 21, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Some 1,200 World Bank employees were advised to stay home from work today after inconclusive tests detected anthrax contamination on mail bound for their building. After routine anthrax testing of mail that was to be delivered to one of five World Bank buildings in Washington came back positive, it was put through a second, more sophisticated, tes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 21 15:02:14 PDT 2002

28413 moral judgments -- rank: 1000

At 12:19 AM -0400 5/21/02, Gallup NewsAlerts wrote: >Few Americans Give Nation High Marks for Moral Values > >Seniors are the most critical > >Full Story: >http://www2.gallup.alerts.com/newsalerts/Clickthrough.jsp?NotificationID=1202806&Address=dhenwood@panix.com It's mainly queers and fornication...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 21 14:39:10 PDT 2002

28414 priest scandal proves gays shouldn't marry, oinks National Review -- rank: 1000

[Opening the priesthood to gay men? When did that happen, in like the 12th century?] National Review - June 3, 2002 Gay Priests and Gay Marriage What the one issue has to do with the other By Stanley Kurtz The sex-abuse scandal currently plaguing the Catholic priesthood has already grown to the point where it poses a serious threat to the power, prestige, and credibility of the American Catholic Church. The sky, so to speak, is falling. An institution whose fundamental strength and continuity ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 20 16:33:13 PDT 2002

28415 voting access -- rank: 1000

>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:00:05 -0600 >From: Tobi Hale <haletobi at charter.net> >To: AAalerts <armchairactivist at yahoogroups.com> >Subject: [L-News] voting access > >This will impact all people in the non-dominant culture most. >Those with disabilities in the dominant culture will also be impacted. >It has far-reaching implications. >Can we claim that we are not being represented if we can't have >a private ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 20 13:42:41 PDT 2002

28416 Stephen Jay Gould dies -- rank: 1000

Sad news... At 3:33 PM -0400 5/20/02, Yahoo! Alerts - Breaking News wrote: >BOSTON Biologist and Harvard University professor Stephen Jay Gould >has died, his assistant says

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Date:	Mon May 20 12:35:55 PDT 2002

28417 Is your neighbor a terrorist? -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >http://snitchreport.com/test/index.html > Damn. I don't have any car, my hair is short, don't have any facial piercings, and am wearing Gap jeans. The most I can aspire to is sleeper cell, apparently. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 20 11:58:07 PDT 2002

28418 can't find a job? work for free! -- rank: 1000

DATE May 20, 2002 FOR Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. INTERNSHIPS MAY BE ALL THAT'S OFFERED By John A. Challenger Not since internships became synonymous with Monica has the need for this kind of work become so important. This spring's 1.2 million college graduates were destined to have a tough time finding any kind of opening even before the recent government report on a surge in productivity that guaranteed that this would be one of the most difficult years for finding a job. The bad n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 20 09:00:26 PDT 2002

28419 second-wave attacks -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Others may see it as >anti-imperial resistance. Really? You can see the Taliban as a product of imperialism - of the anti-Soviet manipulations of the 1970s and 1980s, of Washington's promotion of reactionary Islamism as a counter to secular leftism - without seeing it as something admirable. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 20 07:04:50 PDT 2002

28420 WTC toxicity -- rank: 1000

Announcing a Panel Discussion Wednesday, May 22 7:30 pm at the Brecht Forum, 122 West 27th St., 10th floor, Manhattan 212-242-4201 www.brechtforum.org $6/$8/$10 (sliding scale -- no one turned away) TOXIC FALLOUT FROM THE WORLD TRADE CENTER CATASTROPHE Co-sponsored by "Capitalism, Nature, Socialism" When the World Trade Center towers fell, dangerous toxins were released into the atmosphere, and the remaining dust contains carcinogens, including asbestos. The enivironmental aftermath ...

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Date:	Mon May 20 06:19:21 PDT 2002

28421 South Asia -- rank: 1000

Apropos Kashmir, Rakesh Bhandari sent this link to an article in the Economic & Political Weekly on conflicting nationalisms in South Asia: <http://epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2002&leaf=05&filename=4450&filetype=html>.

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Date:	Mon May 20 06:06:37 PDT 2002

28422 Kashmir Re: second-wave attacks -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >we know how useless opinion polls are Speaking of which... New York Times - May 20, 2002 U.S. Attitudes Altered Little by Sept. 11, Pollsters Say By ADAM CLYMER ST. PETERSBURG BEACH, Fla. May 19 - Authorities on public opinion meeting here this weekend expressed doubt that the attacks of Sept. 11 had led to fundamental changes in American attitudes. Even the nation's willingness to restrict civil liberties after Sept. 11 followed historical patterns, except f ...

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Date:	Mon May 20 05:58:19 PDT 2002

28423 Fwd: BOUNCE lbo-talk at lists.panix.com: Non-member submission from [Bradford DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>] -- rank: 1000

[since I have to forward, I get to respond in prepended fashion - yeah, I'm all for democratic politics - if only we had more of it in the USA - people didn't vote for an escalated war in 1964, but they got one anyway - more people voted for Gore than Bush, but we got Bush, thanks to a creakingly idiotic 18th century electora contraption - I didn't vote for someone who speaks nonsense like that in French, did I? - I like Big Macs, and I also suspect I'd like the Niman Ranch rib eye steak grilled ...

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Date:	Mon May 20 05:54:24 PDT 2002

28424 Fwd: BOUNCE lbo-talk at lists.panix.com: Non-member submission from [Bradford DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>] -- rank: 1000

X-From_: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Sun May 19 23:13:31 2002 Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 23:13:30 -0400 (EDT) From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com To: lbo-talk-approval at dont.panix.com Subject: BOUNCE lbo-talk at lists.panix.com: Non-member submission from [Bradford DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>] >From dhenwood at panix.com Sun May 19 23:13:30 2002 Received: from uclink4.berkeley.edu (uclink4.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.25.39]) by dont.panix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixLC1.6) ...

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Date:	Mon May 20 05:47:19 PDT 2002

28425 second wave attacks -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Al Qaeda is not a minor problem. And the "left" makes itself look ridiculous >insisting that it is. It is a problem. But do you trust the very agents & institutions that had a large hand in creating the problem to solve it? We've got a principal (people like us who'd like to stay alive) / agent (the U.S. imperial state) issue here. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 19 17:03:24 PDT 2002