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28786 Input Requested (Re: Dicks n' Dough) -- rank: 1000

Marco Anglesio wrote: >Finally: anyone who is willing to help with the archive can help. If you >want to write a feature-rich list archive program, or can suggest an >alternative to hypermail, go to it. I'm sure you all know that I'm not >exactly replete with spare time, and while constructive criticism is >valued, constructive help is even better. And it's been too long since I offered a public thank you to Marco for hosting the archives. Thanks, again, Marco. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 10:49:28 PST 2002

28787 Walzer on the Left -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook quoted: >CHOMSKY: It's not as bleak as I thought it was forty years ago. In fact, >what I've insisted over and over again, and I think is true, is that the >effect of the popular activism of the last forty years has been to make >the country a much more civilized place. We're so used to thinking that we're powerless and that everything's getting worse, but I think NC's right here. I think you could add that race relations, relations between men and women, tolerance of ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 09:00:01 PST 2002

28788 Walzer on the Left -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >What, exactly, are the likes of Chomsky, Cockburn, and Said et al "doing"? >I seem to remember Chomsky crying wolf about the humanitarian disaster that >the US was attempting to quietly inflict on Afghanistan... and ignoring the >fact that US intervention likely helped alleviate the famine alluded to, I >can't recall Walzer saying anything half as stupid. At a repulsive and tedious Dissent event last week, which for some reason I subjected myself to, ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 08:48:54 PST 2002

28789 Hicks & Inbreds -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote, quoting Kelley: >>the complaint is that many lefties--lifestyle or not--would never be caught >>dead mentioning that they would flee from living in the cultural tundra of >>the south bronx. that is a recognizably racist desire and urban flight has >>been a frequent focus of left critique > >You're kidding, right? OK, put me on record as saying that I would >flee from the tundra, cultural and otherwise, of the South >Bronx--not because th ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 08:39:14 PST 2002

28790 Fwd: How Class Works announcement (fwd) -- rank: 1000

[me too, but I'm not listed below] Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:48:14 -0500 From: mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu To: mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu Subject: How Class Works announcement Dear friend and colleague- Please distribute the announcement below to lists and individuals who might be interetsed. I hope to see you at Stony Brook for the How Class Works conference beginning June 5. You can find more information and registration material on the Website indicated below. Thank you. Michael Zweig ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 08:25:27 PST 2002

28791 Rudy pulling in $10m this year -- rank: 1000

[Calvin Trillin pulls in $20k for a speech?] New York Post - March 15, 20002 RAKE-IT-IN RUDY NOW A $10M MAN By DAVID SEIFMAN March 15, 2002 -- Rudy Giuliani - who never earned more than $195,000 a year at City Hall - may pull in $10 million this year on the speaking circuit, The Post has learned. "It's really unbelievable," said one friend. "The demand for him is amazing. He's turning away offers." Giuliani's agent, the Washington Speakers Bureau, charges a minimum of $100,00 ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 08:15:48 PST 2002

28792 academic freedom in Israel -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 15, 2002 Israeli Professors Accuse Education Minister of Attack on Academic Freedom By HAIM WATZMAN Faculty members in Israel are accusing the country's education minister of trying to stifle the academic freedom of a University of Haifa drama professor who, in a freshman survey course, reportedly compared Israeli soldiers to Nazis. The minister, Limor Livnat, sent a letter of complaint last month directing the university's rector, Aaron Ben-Ze'e ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 15 08:08:36 PST 2002

28793 no Pickering -- rank: 1000

At 6:30 PM -0500 3/14/02, Yahoo! Alerts - Breaking News wrote: >WASHINGTON _ Senate committee votes against Pickering confirmation >to appeals court.

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 16:07:34 PST 2002

28794 Joanna's requests, was Re: Who is Peter Fisher? -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "joanna bujes" <joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com> >To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:24 AM >Subject: Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #5804 > > >> At 03:15 PM 03/13/2002 -0500, you wrote: >> >Of course, were you to tell me that New York financial >institutions' >> >derivative books had a net notional principal that was long the >> >dollar t ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 16:00:43 PST 2002

28795 ball cookery -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 13:03:09 PST 2002

28796 Jesus Christ's body found in Kashmir -- rank: 1000

Kendall Clark wrote: >*But*, all of the tired nonsense about >the virgin birth, perpetual virginity and the like is long gone. Really? I bet if I dropped into a Catholic church in Queens I'd find plenty of it. And don't forget Satan! He's among us!! <http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/national/14SATA.html> >INGLIS, Fla., March 13 - Carolyn Risher, the mayor of this little >town, never saw Satan riding in the back of a Cadillac down U.S. 19. > >She never saw him buying grap ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 12:42:44 PST 2002

28797 Vegans kill animals too -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >i think he's referring to Lifton's thesis: the nazi doctors had a >thang for making the national body healthy by cutting out the >cancerous jew. > >when we start talking healthy society, etc. this kind of analysis >isn't a cheap shot, at all. Lifton, yes, and also Robert Proctor's Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis, which has a fascinating chapter on the health fads that spread through Germany in the 1920s. The worship of organicism, purity, and health, as ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 12:38:02 PST 2002

28798 WSJ edit board on CNBC -- rank: 1000

[one of the positive externalities of doing a talk radio show is that you get all kinds of press releases - here's news that they've brought a camera into the nuthouse known as the WSJ editorial page - could be a new Frederick Wiseman project!] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD WITH STUART VARNEY" TO DEBUT FRIDAY ON CNBC Topics Include Foreign and Domestic Policy and the State of the Economy WHAT: The debut of "WSJ Editorial Board with Stuart Varney," a weekly seri ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 12:23:57 PST 2002

28799 Capitalism and Science -- rank: 1000

Juan Jose Barrios wrote, quoting Carl Remick: > > At 03:15 PM 03/13/2002 -0500, you wrote: >> >2. Ad agencies are now helping pharmaceutical companies with their R&D. >> >Mirabile dictu, some agencies even have their own labs for >>clinical tests -- >> >a more nightmarish combo of hucksterism and science I can't imagine. >> > >I may be doing some research on R&D funding in LDCs. Do you (or anyone) have >specific sources for your ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 12:06:10 PST 2002

28800 Vegans kill animals too (Sacredness) -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >If I can be so crude as to quote a pop-zenner, Alan >Watts Please do. I love Alan Watts ("zen for people with credit cards," as the WFMU program guide once put it). He's hilarious. Doug

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