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28831 Wolfie: the wall came down on 9/11 -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service - funny, no one is denouncing Wolfensohn for looking for "root causes," though it does seem like he's trying to expand the WB's budget & power] THERE IS NO WALL: COMMENTARY. A Washington Post (A20) editorial entitled, "There is No Wall," says that World Bank President James Wolfensohn recently proposed a metaphor that deserves to endure. For too long, he said, an imaginary wall has separated the rich world from the poor, allowing us t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 08:54:25 PST 2002

28832 ObL a pill-popping insomniac -- rank: 1000

New York Post - March 12, 2002 WIFE CALLS BIN LADEN SLEEPLESS PILL-POPPER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 12, 2002 -- CAIRO - Osama bin Laden was taking tranquilizers to sleep and became enraged when one of his wives asked him if he was behind the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in 1998, the wife has revealed. In remarks published in the Saudi magazine Al-Majalla, bin Laden's wife - one of four - also disclosed that he moved his family to a sa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 08:22:12 PST 2002

28833 return to normalcy (cont.) -- rank: 1000

[further evidence that six months after 9/11, America's back to concentrating on the really important stuff] New York Post - LIZA'S NUTTY NUPTIALS By BILL HOFFMANN March 12, 2002 -- Liza Minnelli has unveiled the bizarre guest list for her upcoming wedding - and it brings brand-new meaning to the term "flash and trash." The quirky "Cabaret" star, who'll wed flamboyant Broadway producer David Gest on Saturday, has not only invited today's top celebs, but also an army of Hollyw ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 08:19:26 PST 2002

28834 TAs strike at UMIch -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 12, 2002 U. of Michigan Teaching Assistants Stage a 1-Day Walkout By SCOTT SMALLWOOD Teaching assistants at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor staged a one-day walkout Monday, and they are preparing for an indefinite strike if they don't reach a contract agreement with the administration in the next week. University officials and negotiators from the Graduate Employees Organization met in a bargaining session that lasted from 1:30 p.m. Sunda ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 08:10:01 PST 2002

28835 help with a WSJ link -- rank: 1000

alex lantsberg wrote: >could someone with a subscription to the journal please post this editorial. The WSJ isn't on Nexis, is it? DJ used to have an exclusive on it. Doug ---- Wall Street Journal - March 8, 2002 Under the Influence Senator Joe Lieberman began hearings yesterday on what he called the "troubling" Bush environmental policy. The hearings were prompted by the resignation of an Environmental Protection Agency director who accuses the Agency of cutting deals with industr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 08:05:27 PST 2002

28836 BPD -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >similarly, AA's insistence on abstinence based on this claim about >uncontrollable drinking Like I asked the other day, is there any evidence that AA is more effective than other approaches, or simply the passage of time? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 07:44:52 PST 2002

28837 Emanuel and Kaszak -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >My response to the name "Rahm Emanuel" is to cringe in horror and >fear, but that's because he was one of the White House people who >seemed most interested in winning PR victories and who cared the >least about substantive policies and their impact on real people. He >combines all the bad characteristics of the New Democrats with all >the bad characteristics of the New Democrats. Brad, do you think the New Dems have any good features? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 11 13:51:18 PST 2002

28838 Steel Tariffs -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >And on NPR the other day they were reporting on an ad >taken out by the Steelworkers praising Dubya. > >Perhaps the CPUSA and others should put their support >behind Georgie boy---go where the union support is and >all that.... Yeah, and W is a unilateralist and jingoist, just like the USWA! So much for international working class solidarity.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 11 12:50:49 PST 2002

28839 fundamentalist nut spurred tub mom -- rank: 1000

[wonder if Newt Gingrich will blame this in Xitan nuts the way he blamed similar things on the 60s] New York Post - March 11, 2002 PREACHER 'PREYED' ON YATES By MEGAN TURNER March 11, 2002 -- Andrea Yates' "spiritual leader" once sent her a newsletter that called modern mothers "Jezebels" and expressed concern for their "disobedient" children. Evangelist Michael Woroniecki's influence over the mother accused of murdering her five children has become an issue as test ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 11 08:34:43 PST 2002

28840 Russian press on Russia-US relations -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Nezavisimaya Gazeta >No. 45 >March 11, 2002 >WHAT WILL PUTIN SAY TO WASHINGTON'S BLACKMAIL? >The Kremlin has sustained too many foreign policy losses >to continue tolerating the situation So what can they do about it? Is this just empty huffing & puffing? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 11 08:05:47 PST 2002

28841 U.S. Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >In short, everyone should relax. > >The U.S. Gov is no crazier now than it has always been. Of course the U.S. has planned to use nukes or whatever it deemed necessary to get its way. The politics of the timing of this leak, though, is what's alarming - they're trying to scare the hell out of people, and it's working. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 10 18:50:42 PST 2002

28842 U.S. Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Los Angeles Times 9 March 2002 > >U.S. Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms >Military: Administration, in a secret report, calls for a strategy >against at least seven nations: China, Russia, Iraq, Iran, North >Korea, Libya and Syria. > >By PAUL RICHTER, Times Staff Writer > >WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has directed the military to >prepare contingency plans to use nuclear weapons against at least >seven countries and to bui ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 9 14:08:06 PST 2002

28843 abortion as insurance -- rank: 1000

"Abortion as Insurance" BY: PHILLIP B. LEVINE Wellesley College National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) DOUGLAS STAIGER Dartmouth College Department of Economics National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=302574 Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. W8813 Date: March 2002 Contact: PHILLIP B. LEVINE Email: Mailto:plevine at wellesley.edu Postal: Wellesley College 106 Centra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 9 14:02:13 PST 2002

28844 Are Happy Times Here Again? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Look, I understand that the monthly data is trending higher. I understand >that 4th quarter GDP was significantly positive. I also understand the >desire to avoid catastrophism. But do you really mean that an "expansion has >begun" in the conventional sense? From 1945-1991, the average "expansion" >lasted 50 months. Do you really think it's feasible that there will now be >over four years of unbroken expansion? If GDP growth averages 3. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 9 12:51:57 PST 2002

28845 Fwd: Over 50 search times at record low- Challenger -- rank: 1000

DATE March 8, 2002 FOR Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. For Release Upon Receipt Experience Seen As Productivity Edge WORKERS OVER 50 HIRED IN RECORD TIME Job search times for workers over 50 shortened last year despite a recession-related hiring slump, indicating that companies are filling positions with experienced, skilled employees to maintain productivity and fend off a potential knowledge drain as the huge Baby Boom generation begins retiring. After reaching ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 9 11:58:28 PST 2002