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28666 Marxist gets tenure, area residents outraged! -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 27, 2002 Texas College Grants Tenure to Marxist Professor Despite Community Protests By JAMILAH EVELYN A Texas community college on Monday granted tenure to a self-described Marxist professor despite protests from some local residents who say the professor is a threat to the area's conservative views. David Michael Smith, a government professor at the College of the Mainland, had written several guest columns for local newspapers, some of which q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 27 09:34:14 PST 2002

28667 Naomi Klein in Argentina -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >'Cause now it's clear that Bush/IMF would prefer a full blown >social crisis, followed by military coup Really? After almost two decades of crap about "democracy"? I realize the propaganda machine doesn't adhere to the highest standards of consistency, but wouldn't they have a wee bit of a problem handing a coup? Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 27 09:05:19 PST 2002

28668 death -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >BTW, I once heard "actuary" defined as a person who didn't have the >personality to become an accountant And I heard that an economist is one who doesn't have the personality to be an accountant! Where does that leave the game theorists? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 26 14:01:19 PST 2002

28669 death -- rank: 1000

Find out when you're statistically slated to die: <http://longtolive.com/LongToLive.asp>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 26 13:26:23 PST 2002

28670 Fed considered extreme measures -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Was it really a full decade ago that Larry Summers and I wrote about >how it would be unwise to push trend inflation far below five >percent because of the danger that one might then find that a single >adverse shock would get the economy wedged into such an unpleasant >position? 5%? My god, that seems almost Weimarish these days. What about the absence of inflation making it difficult to cut real wages? Is that part of the unpleasantry? Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 26 12:51:28 PST 2002

28671 Fed considered extreme measures -- rank: 1000

edickens wrote: >Yes, greater transparency is the mantra of neo-liberal financial >reform. The Fed >usually presents arguments for greater flexibility (and thus less >transparency) >for the sake of easing; but when the archives open we usually find that their >real concern was for how to tighten. The official word is that they are >investigating the kinds of things everyone keeps telling the Bank of Japan to >try: Direct intervention in the FX market, "operation-t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 26 12:09:13 PST 2002

28672 Fwd: Saddam Did Not Gas the Kurds -- rank: 1000

X-From_: phocking at polyconomics.com Tue Mar 26 12:28:42 2002 X-Sender: jwanniski at polyconomics.com Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:38:29 -0500 To: politics at polyconomics.com From: Jude Wanniski <jwanniski at polyconomics.com> Subject: Saddam Did Not Gas the Kurds Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: politics-request at polyconomics.com Over the weekend, President Bush and Vice President Cheney both repeated the charge that Saddam Hussein had used poison gas to kill his own citizens. I believe the ch ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 26 09:48:02 PST 2002

28673 Putin da popular -- rank: 1000

Naji Dahi wrote: >Please do not stop. That is why I signed on this list for. I did not sign to >read people flaming the hell out of each other and accusing each other of >slander and racism ;-) Megadittoes, comrade. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 26 09:46:13 PST 2002

28674 Russian attitudes toward collectivism, communism -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >If this constant flood of posts on Russia bugs anyone, let me know. Not me. Keep 'em flowing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 26 09:34:46 PST 2002

28675 Stagflation and Russia -- rank: 1000

dlawbailey wrote: > I wondered what the relationship between M1 and GDP might be. None, absolutely none. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 26 08:58:10 PST 2002

28676 Fwd: IMC Palestine Launched -- rank: 1000

The Independent Media Center - Palestine, <http://jerusalem.indymedia.org>, was founded to record and explore the current practices of the Israeli occupation and the real background to the conflict. For the first time this will be a truly free forum for the Palestinian people who choose to participate. The unique characters in our voluntary group come from many parts of Palestine but the majority are refugees from areas now occupied by Israel. The reality of life for the Palestinians is co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 26 08:22:38 PST 2002

28677 Fed considered extreme measures -- rank: 1000

edickens wrote: > >From the perspective of the historical preoccupations of central bankers, >the FOMC blundered by getting locked into a transparent monetary policy. >This is yet more floundering around trying to find a way out--a task that >will be become urgent the next time the FOMC's international concerns come >into conflict with its domestic ones. But transparency's the thing everywhere, not just at the Fed. The markets and the press are constantly complaining about the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 25 15:57:04 PST 2002

28678 growth club -- rank: 1000

[Richard Gilder was the lead investor in ValuJet, the airline done in by a crash caused by shoddy practices, and a major funder of Gingrich's foundation.] Business Week - April 1, 2002 The Club That's Clubbing Republican Moderates Stephen Moore is a venture capitalist of a different stripe. Rather than seek seed money for new companies, the Washington economist prospects for politicians. And he uses his network of 5,000 "investors," known as the Club for Growth, to identify and underwr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 25 15:06:33 PST 2002

28679 porous screens -- rank: 1000

USA Today - March 25, 2002 Tests show no screening improvements post-Sept. 11 By Blake Morrison In the months after Sept. 11, airport screeners confiscated record numbers of nail clippers and scissors. But nearly half the time, they failed to stop the guns, knives or simulated explosives carried past checkpoints by undercover investigators with the Transportation Department's inspector general. In fact, even as the Federal Aviation Administration evacuated terminals and pulled passengers from mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 25 14:52:40 PST 2002

28680 felon disenfranchisement -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I appreciate the Florida bit, but the operational question, >aside from mundane issues of fundamental rights, is >how much the vote would change in non-inmate felons >could vote. I think this is addressed in the original paper, which I haven't read yet <http://www.socsci.umn.edu/~uggen/PolCon.pdf>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 25 14:25:10 PST 2002