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28846 AA Not for Drunks Only (was Borderline Personality) -- rank: 1000

Stuart323 at aol.com wrote: >The multi-billion dollar "treatment" industry is almost totally >controlled by AA programs (the "MInnesota model"). For the last >decade about 900,000 people a year have undergone treatment. I'm still catching up, but is there any evidence that AA is effective? Is anything more effective than the passage of time? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 9 11:53:08 PST 2002

28847 Quit making fake moves -- rank: 1000

BARTELBYVQF at cs.com wrote: > Sheesh this shit makes >me want to go to Norway for Speaking of which, whatever happened to those Norwegian metalhead Nazis who burned churches and stuff? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 9 11:40:08 PST 2002

28848 Jesse V -- rank: 1000

Just got a review copy of Micah Sifry's new Routledge book on third party politics, which comes with a blurb from Jesse Ventura. Any Minnesotans on the list - or anyone else for that matter - care to comment on just what he's accomplished politically, ideologically, whatever? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 9 09:23:53 PST 2002

28849 Personal exchanges -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> > >OK, but no more personal exchanges, eh? jks > >^^^^^^^^ > >CB: Get real. There are always personal exchanges arising on these lists. More sweetness & light, comrades! Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 8 14:47:23 PST 2002

28850 the new biothreat -- rank: 1000

Tularemia --- United States, 1990--2000 <http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5109a1.htm>

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Date:	Fri Mar 8 14:30:14 PST 2002

28851 Borderline Personality -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Wed, Mar 6, 2002, Christopher Rhoades D˙kema wrote: > >> The psychoanalytic literature on Borderline Personality is very >> interesting, and calls for a political interpretation, mostly because it >> captures the details of advanced degeneration of the bourgeois ego. >> Just as the Frankfurt School appropriated the psychoanalytic thought of >> 75 years ago in a fruitful way, we need to do the same now. Much of the >> chan ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 8 14:15:25 PST 2002

28852 Are Happy Times Here Again? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Quite possible. The latest unemployment numbers, in and of themselves, >suggest the recession is over. -- mbs You could argue that it ended late last year even - lots of things reached their extremes then, and have been trending higher since. In the U.S., that is. Much of the rest of the world ain't doing so good (except Oz). There are some anomalies in today's employment report. Much of the gain in payrolls came from retail. But the seasonal adjustment techniques exp ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 8 12:11:06 PST 2002

28853 AMERICANS ARE DOWN ON CORPORATE AMERICA -- rank: 1000

Jay Salter wrote: >Chris, >Please cite the source of this apparent news story. I'd like to review the >entire report. >Thanks, >Jay Salter > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >[mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Chris Kromm >Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:02 PM >To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >Subject: AMERICANS ARE DOWN ON CORPORATE AMERICA > > >February 26, 2002 >AMERICANS ARE DOWN ON CO ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 7 05:45:20 PST 2002

28854 David Lynch -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: > || -----Original Message----- > || From: Doug Henwood > > || Justin Schwartz wrote: > || > || >What's his name, who did the sliced cow cross section in London? > || >That's not entertainment. > || > || It's entertaining that people take it seriously and pay big money for > || it. The whole London art scene of the 90s is as funny as the NY art > || scene was in the 80s. I miss Kostabi and Schnabel and what's-his-name > ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 5 13:49:54 PST 2002

28855 Puzzled -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Can anyone help with this? Doug? Is it saying that the only folks >who made money in the buble were the professionals? the insiders? I >don't quite follow. > >Thanks, Joanna >_________________________ > >In the 2/25 issue of Barron's, Ableson wrote the following: > >"Dalbar, a Boston-based outfit that for a quarter of a century has >been specializing in doing a wide range of research on financial >service outfits, conspicuously includ ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 5 12:35:08 PST 2002

28856 David Lynch -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >What's his name, who did the sliced cow cross section in London? >That's not entertainment. It's entertaining that people take it seriously and pay big money for it. The whole London art scene of the 90s is as funny as the NY art scene was in the 80s. I miss Kostabi and Schnabel and what's-his-name who was briefly married to Cicciolina and did those hilarious giant photos of them fucking. Funnier than sitcoms. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 5 08:02:15 PST 2002

28857 Superceding liberal democracy -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Jefferson's America Which one is that? The slaveholding aristocracy? The self-reliant anti-urban yeomanry? That of the 1930s CPUSA? Please clarify. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 5 06:07:24 PST 2002

28858 The Sopranos -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I would have thought feminists would see it as an exercise >in raging masculinism. Which can look like critique, if you watch it right. Tony is under the care of a female shrink, after all. Besides, apropos the aesthetics thread, the show is so damn good that you could overlook its ideological flaws. It's nicely complex - you don't know whether to love Tony or condemn him, sometimes. And there are the moments like after Dr Melfi's rape, when you sort of wish that sh ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 5 05:55:18 PST 2002

28859 university business -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 5, 2002 Value of University Licenses on Patents Exceeded $1-Billion in 2000, Survey Finds By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK American colleges and universities and the inventors who work at them collected more than $1-billion in royalties, created 368 spin-off companies, and filed for 8,534 U.S. patents in the 2000 fiscal year, according to the latest licensing survey by the Association of University Technology Managers. The royalty figure is 40 percent higher ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 5 05:36:08 PST 2002

28860 sex, lies, and women's mags -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cjr.org/year/02/2/featherstone.asp> FAKING IT Sex, Lies, and Women's Magazines BY LIZA FEATHERSTONE Standing on line at the grocery store almost anywhere in America, the hapless shopper is bombarded with insistent exhortatory headlines: blow his mind; sexual bliss secrets!; get his sexual attention instantly; what he's thinking about you . . . naked. Perhaps she stands in front of them to prevent her mother or her kid from reading them aloud. Or she skims the copy to see if it ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 4 14:51:57 PST 2002