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28876 David Lynch -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Actually no one is calling Doug an aesthete or a formalist -- it's just >Doug building his private fantasy of an intellectual lone ranger again. Carrol Cox also wrote: >The fear of conformity is >probably the greatest weakness of U.S. intellectuals in the 20th and >21st centuries. Tell me, Carrol, to whom to you conform? Or is the tragedy that there's no one around for you to conform to? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 2 11:42:04 PST 2002

28877 Utrice speaks -- rank: 1000

A flyer circulating around NYC advertises, on the letterhead of Afrikan Echoes ("Afrikans Must Have Power," "Afrika/Afrikans Must Unite") advertises: >SIS. UTRICE LEID >Sunday March 10, 2002 > >THE UNTOLD STORY OF WBAI > >A REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY >OF WHAT HAPPENED BEHIND >THE SCENES. A WHO'S WHO >AND EXPOSE OF THE RING >MASTERS/MISTRESSES >AND THEIR PUPPETS. > >AT > >WASET KOMMUNIVERSITY >271 S0. 9th Street @ 13th Av. >Newar ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 1 18:26:01 PST 2002

28878 Kuttner on the Dems -- rank: 1000

Business Week - March 11, 2002 ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT By Robert Kuttner How the Democrats Lost Their Fastball They can hardly take on Bush when they, too, pander to corporate interests and act like Republicans on taxes, the budget, and deregulation President Bush seems impregnable to partisan criticism. Polls show the opposition Democrats with latent voter support on economic issues--everything from unemployment to Enron to health insurance. But the Democrats seem utterly unable to exploit these vot ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 1 14:33:12 PST 2002

28879 anarchorgasm -- rank: 1000

From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) To: "Lbo-Talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: Nixon on the '60s "a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire . . . " --Washington Post, 3/1/02, p. A2

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Date:	Fri Mar 1 14:22:00 PST 2002

28880 David Lynch -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >But I want to ask , and I am not being snotty, what are the >standards that make Pound's or Stevens' poetry good ? Call me an aesthete and a formalist, but freshly beautiful use of language, and emotional and/or intellectual complexity. What makes so much "political" art bad is that it recycles cliches - that it's painfully earnest and straightforward. Tell the truth, but tell it slant, as Emily Dickinson said. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 1 13:57:38 PST 2002

28881 WSWS on Pearl -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: > "CIA agent or asset, " (insert sarcasm symbol) Pearl writes >a story with this headline, Body Count: War in Kosovo Was Cruel, >Bitter, Savage; Genocide It Wasn't >-- Dec. 31, 1999 This piece is well worth reading: <http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/pearl123199.htm>. "[I]ntimate acts of barbarity rather than mass murder" - a phrase that it's hard to imagine appearing in the NYT. Pearl also did that excellent critica ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 1 13:53:12 PST 2002

28882 Zizek -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >>Every day in the White House the daily polls are pored over to >>see what that average American is feeling. The economy depends on how they >>feel. The war depends on how they feel. Sure, their feelings are manipulated >>by politicians and entertainers just like a big fat dog rolls over when >>given a treat and tickled on the tummy. Is that an excuse? > >Well the problem here is that you're assuming the average American >is a subject. ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 1 13:38:29 PST 2002

28883 David Lynch -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >--- P.J.Wells at open.ac.uk wrote: >> The other day someone described film-maker David >> Lynch as a Reaganite. Why? >> >> Julian > >I, too, would like to know. Even if he is a >reaganite, he's a damn fine director. The same person >called him boring, and I certainly dont find that to >be true. "Mulholland Drive" was one of my favorite >movies this year. So what if Lynch is a Reaganite? What bearing does that have o ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 1 10:06:13 PST 2002

28884 Fwd: Re: Zizek -- rank: 1000

[Alan, please address these to <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> and not to <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com>.] X-From_: a.finlayson at swansea.ac.uk Fri Mar 1 11:46:53 2002 From: "Finlayson A." <A.Finlayson at swansea.ac.uk> To: "'owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com '" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: Re: Zizek Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:48:50 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 OK, so: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 1 09:32:18 PST 2002

28885 Alternet brouhaha -- rank: 1000

[this is long, and probably too inside baseball for most, so just a lead an URL] <http://www.narconews.com/hazenstory1.html> Ethics Problems at Alternet "Alternative" Media Can Be Corrupted, Too By Al Giordano "He (Bob McChesney) suggests that I was flailing around with tin cup in hand. This kind of thinking is very destructive and makes me apoplectic." -- Don Hazen, Alternet, February 2002 News organizations have a special duty to abide by basic ethical practices. That ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 1 08:51:24 PST 2002

28886 Japanese unemployment -- rank: 1000

[any comments from our Japan correspondents?] At 8:37 AM -0500 3/1/02, The Dismal Scientist wrote: >Employment Situation for Japan (5.3 % Unemployment) > >The Japanese labor data continue to look bad, with employment >falling, and unemployment rising. The unemployment rate, however, >fell by 0.2 percentage points to 5.3%, as workers dropped out of the >labor force. The unemployment rate, while high by Japanese >standards, nevertheless masks a much higher incidence of >j ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 1 08:37:16 PST 2002

28887 Fwd: Re: Zizek -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] From: "Finlayson A." <A.Finlayson at swansea.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Zizek Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:15:15 -0000 Dennis wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Finlayson A. wrote: > It srikes me now that the US is the LEAST 'globalised' country in the world. Nonsense. It's got a Third World electoral system and a Second World economy, but its culture, mass media, and selected service industries are global through and through. Read the mass culture carefully, and ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 1 08:31:59 PST 2002

28888 Harvard, living wage, and protest -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 1, 2002 Harvard U. Reaches Tentative Pact With Janitors, Clarifies Policy on Protests By AUDREY Y. WILLIAMS Harvard University has tentatively settled a contract dispute with its janitors that will pay them $11.35 an hour, ending a long-standing debate that prompted sit-ins last spring. The settlement comes the same week that the university announced a new interpretation of its policy on campus protests that is designed to discourage such disrupt ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 1 08:28:08 PST 2002

28889 Fwd: News from The Smoking Gun -- rank: 1000

[wow - the Enron code of ethics & a John Ashcroft ditty on the same day!] Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:51:31 EST From: editor at thesmokinggun.com Dear Friends: While we're not usually chasing the same document as the Smithsonian, our two august institutions have both just landed copies of the coveted 64-page "Code of Ethics" once distributed to employees of Enron, the scandal-scarred energy firm. Be the first to read it at: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/enron/enronethics1.shtml Now we ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 1 08:21:15 PST 2002

28890 more on Pearl -- rank: 1000

Zachary was a WSJ reporter for years, so he's not some Hate America First type. At 8:42 PM -0600 2/28/02, AlterNet wrote: >THE LESSON OF DANIEL PEARL'S DEATH >G. Pascal Zachary, AlterNet >Instead of asking journalists to toe the Pentagon's line, our >government must allow reporters to keep their impartial >distance -- or more men like Daniel Pearl may end up dead. >http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12504

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