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28906 Plunge Protection Team? -- rank: 1000

Not to fall prey to convention, but 1) this stuff comes mainly from right-wing conspiracists, who circulate it without much evidence, and 2) would it be such a bad thing if it were true? Should the authorities stand back and let the system collapse? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 27 15:24:39 PDT 2002

28907 Times in need of Left Business analysis! -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> >>Plenty in the forthcoming issue of LBO, #101, now in preparation. >>... >Plus some nice Larry Summers gossip. > >Trouble with gossip is, it has a very short shelf-life. Any hint >what this tidbit about LS may be? That will be available to subscribers upon publication. Can't give everything away! Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 27 13:12:04 PDT 2002

28908 37 Percent of College Students Would Evade Draft -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >37 percent of college students would evade draft > >BY CASSIO FURTADO Herald Washington Bureau > >Miami Herald > >Posted on Fri, Jun. 21, 2002 > >WASHINGTON - Thirty-seven percent of American college students would >try to evade the draft if one were called today, according to a >nationwide poll released Thursday. > >The survey by Republican pollster Frank Luntz While this is good news, take anything from Luntz with a grain of salt. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 27 12:31:23 PDT 2002

28909 9th circuit and the "bucher" -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I think he just a skillful symbol manipulator who makes a living by >peddling ideologies. A few years ago The Nation exposed his third >party campaign as a scam to milk the system. In this case, he is >merely supplying what his audience wants to hear. What's scary is >the people who buy this crap. There is a quite of number of them in >rural and suburban America. Of course, he's failed badly at every presidential run. So there can't be that many peo ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 27 09:21:39 PDT 2002

28910 lack of aid keeps 170,000 out of college -- rank: 1000

[the report is at <http://www.ed.gov/offices/AC/ACSFA/whatnew.html>] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 27, 2002 Lack of Aid Will Keep 170,000 Qualified, Needy Students Out of College This Year, Report Warns By STEPHEN BURD Washington Nearly 170,000 of the top high-school graduates from low- and moderate-income families are not enrolling in college this year because they cannot afford to do so, according to a report released on Wednesday by a group that advises Congress and ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 27 09:11:04 PDT 2002

28911 Why was there low unemployment in the 90s? -- rank: 1000

Blade Blade wrote: >What caused the relatively low unemployment in the US >in the 90s? The Fed allowed it to happen - i.e., it stood aside and let the U rate fall as borrowed money and irrational exuberance drove the economy into a boom. It didn't worry about rising wages and inflation because the rest of the world was falling apart, so prices behaved themselves. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 27 09:04:29 PDT 2002

28912 Times in need of Left Business analysis! -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >So can we stop talking about David Horowitz? I'm eager to hear some good >left spin on what's happening here! Plenty in the forthcoming issue of LBO, #101, now in preparation. My comments on the evolution of a global ruling class, Nomi Prins analyzes the telecoms disaster, and the usual commentary on markets and the economy on the Money page. Plus some nice Larry Summers gossip. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 27 09:06:07 PDT 2002

28913 Lightweights and Losers (Was: Sidney, Hilton, Cornel, etc.) -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >So who's playing the ranking game now, Doug? jks I said I'm not innocent of snobbery. Hey, isn't one of the attractions of Marxism that it's an intellectually rigorous, nonsentimental form of egalitarianism? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 27 09:01:55 PDT 2002

28914 Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

Tonight, on my radio show, 5-6 PM NYC time: *Richard Goldstein, author of The Attack Queers, on the new gay right. *Rahul Mahajan, author of The New Crusade, on Bush's recent Middle East speech. WBAI, 99.5 FM in NYC, and on the web at <http://www.wbai.org>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 27 08:59:05 PDT 2002

28915 AFA freaks on PoA -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:06:55 -0500 Subject: AFA Says 9th Circuit Seeks To Remove All Vestiges Of Religious Heritage From Public Square To: "dhenwood at panix.com" <dhenwood at panix.com> From: "American Family Association" <afa at afa.net> Special message from AFA Chairman, Donald E. Wildmon AFA Update! AFA Says 9th Circuit Seeks To Remove All Vestiges Of Religious Heritage "Americans will no longer remain silent in the face of such judicial arrogance. It ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 26 19:02:33 PDT 2002

28916 Lightweights and Losers (Was: Sidney, Hilton, Cornel, etc.) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I've sort of wondered over the years at the thinness of the >contributions from Harvard professors of english. I understand that >Helen Vendler is quite respected as a critic of 20th century poetry Her stuff on Stevens, as I remember it, was good, but not inspired, and next to all the interesting stuff that was happening in criticism in the early 1970s, seemed pretty dusty. I was at dinner with a bunch of folks in Munich who were pointing out that Harvard collects dis ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 26 16:40:23 PDT 2002

28917 Fwd: PPI Trade Fact Of The Week -- rank: 1000

X-From_: ppi_admin at dlcppi.org Wed Jun 26 15:36:33 2002 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:29:43 -0500 From: "Progressive Policy Institute" <ppi_admin at dlcppi.org> Subject: PPI Trade Fact Of The Week To: dhenwood at panix.com 26-JUN-02 =================================== PPI TRADE FACT OF THE WEEK: Half of all WTO dispute cases involve the United States. =================================== THE NUMBERS: WTO cases filed by U.S., Clinton Administration: 64 WTO cases filed against U.S., ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 26 16:37:32 PDT 2002

28918 Lightweights and Losers (Was: Sidney, Hilton, Cornel, etc.) -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Fiest of all, West is perfectly able, if no heavyweight. Etc. Heavens, Justin, you're obsessed with rating and ranking people. I'm not innocent of snobbery myself, but there's something to be said for a more democratic spirit. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 26 16:33:45 PDT 2002

28919 Cabbage Queen: exonerated of any ridiculousness? -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >LOL > >have to hang in. If only The Nation bestowed more titles like "Cabbage Queen." Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 26 16:28:12 PDT 2002

28920 Fed on deflation -- rank: 1000

Tom Schlessinger points to this: <http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/ifdp/2002/729/default.htm> >International Finance Discussion Papers >Preventing Deflation: Lessons from Japan's Experience in the 1990s >Alan Ahearne; Joseph Gagnon; Jane Haltmaier; Steve Kamin >2002-729 (June 2002) > >Abstract: This paper examines Japan's experience in the first half >of the 1990s to shed some light on several issues that arise as >inflation declines toward zero. Is it possible ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 26 15:40:34 PDT 2002