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28921 Cabbage Queen: exonerated of any ridiculousness? -- rank: 1000

New York Post - June 26, 2002 MARTHA'S SALAD DAZE By BILL HOFFMANN ---- [image omitted] NO WAY, JANE: CBS's Jane Clayson tries to grill cabbage queen Martha Stewart. ---- With Congress, the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission probing the ImClone insider-trading scandal, Martha Stewart wants to focus on more important matters - like salad. The domestic diva brusquely brushed off questions about insider trading yesterday to concentrate on whipping up a tasty chicken and c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 26 15:36:54 PDT 2002

28922 Martina on the US -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Sam Smith's Progressive Review] Tennis Great Navratilova Attacks U.S. Values Wed Jun 26, 8:06 AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. tennis great Martina Navratilova criticized her adopted homeland in a German newspaper on Wednesday, saying money is the only thing that matters there. Navratilova, a Czech-born American who won 18 grand slam singles titles when she dominated women's tennis in the late 1970s and 1980s, also wrote in an article for Die Zeit weekly that she believed free speech was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 26 15:30:20 PDT 2002

28923 close the borders! -- rank: 1000

[Borjas is an immigrant scholar, but now that he's here, he wants to shut the door. And get some grants in the process, as he reveals at the end.] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 26, 2002 Panelists Clash Over Value of Foreign Students at American Colleges By CATHERINE E. SHOICHET Washington Federal policies that allow foreigners to study in the United States create a national-security risk and fail to produce significant economic and social benefits, a prominent immigration sch ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 26 12:55:12 PDT 2002

28924 More Plato -- rank: 1000

Tahir Wood wrote: >Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:03:54 +0000 >From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> >Subject: Re: More Plato > >Tahir, you are an arrogant, illiterate fool, and it's people like you who >turned me off M<arxism in the second place. Goodbye. jks > >Actually, you've said all this and more before, but the only one >who's really going to tell me goodbye is the list owner and until he >does I'm going to comment on your ridiculous p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 26 12:50:21 PDT 2002

28925 volume -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese - Maybe if you didn't send so many 19k posts to this list and the countless others you're on, I would get one of these practically every day: At 12:19 AM -0700 6/26/02, Internet Mail Delivery wrote: >X-From_: MAILER-DAEMON Wed Jun 26 04:31:08 2002 >Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 00:19:14 -0700 (PDT) >From: Internet Mail Delivery <postmaster at sims1.snfc21.pbi.net> >Subject: Delivery Notification: Delivery has failed >To: owner-lbo-talk at dont.panix.com >MIME-v ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 26 12:52:48 PDT 2002

28926 RES: The Left Party (?) Contextualizes Henwood -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: >-----Mensagem original----- >De: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >[mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]Em nome de Doug Henwood >Enviada em: terça-feira, 25 de junho de 2002 19:26 >Para: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >Assunto: Re: The Left Party (?) Contextualizes Henwood > > >Max B. Sawicky wrote: > >>From: http://www.leftparty.org/links.html >> >>"Left Business Observer: Doug Henwood's newsletter >> foc ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 26 12:27:41 PDT 2002

28927 Fed does nothing, as expected -- rank: 1000

[A non-event, basically.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/BoardDocs/Press/monetary/2002/20020626/> Release Date: June 26, 2002 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate unchanged at 1 3/4 percent. The information that has become available since the last meeting of the Committee confirms that economic activity is continuing to increase. However, both the upward impetus from the swing in inventory investment and the gro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 26 12:11:56 PDT 2002

28928 Underemployment -- rank: 1000

Blade Blade wrote: >Where can I find statistics for underemployment? You can't, really. How can you define it rigorously enough to put a number on it? Is a pianist who earns her money by driving a cab underemployed? Does the answer change if she's a good pianist or bad? If she's a jazz pianist or classical? If she lives in Boise or Brooklyn? In the U.S., there are numbers for what the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls "alternative measures of labor underutilization" at <http://ww ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 26 10:36:00 PDT 2002

28929 Post-Keynesianism -- rank: 1000

Blade Blade wrote: Are these books mainly an overview of the school of thought? Those would be useful and I'll probably read them, but mainly I'm looking for fundamental canonical works in the field Paul Davidson, Money and the Real World Basil Moore, Horitzontalists and Verticalists (loopy) Hyman Minsky, John Maynard Keynes Can "It" Happen Again? Stabilizing an Unstable Economy I find Davidson mostly a pointless snooze, bu some people revere it; Moore fairly loopy and also mostly poin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 26 10:31:49 PDT 2002

28930 Sidney, Hilton, Cornel, etc. -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Aftermath > >The attack did not impress radical intellectuals. Not even >those who were themselves critical of Hook's pragmatism >found Jerome's approach productive. Rather than stigmatize >Hook, Jerome's hatchet job reinforced the convictions of >many who already held the Communist Party's theoretical and >political approach hapless. Etc. 19k without context or identification. Did we really need this, Michael? Wouldn't a summary a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 26 09:36:55 PDT 2002

28931 The Chomsky Documentation Project -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >An imperial power can enforce peace in a peripheral reason only if >all the thugs-with-guns in the region think that the imperial power >has a *long* memory and never forgets an insult. Everyone in the >world knows that the Murka has a short memory, and that consistency >of foreign policy is unlikely given that foreign policy's principal >use is as a domestic political football. Hence Murka sticking its >nose into the Balkans is unlikely to improve matter ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 25 15:28:14 PDT 2002

28932 The Left Party (?) Contextualizes Henwood -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >From: http://www.leftparty.org/links.html > >"Left Business Observer: Doug Henwood's newsletter > focusing on money and business. Written from a > solid left-Keynesian perspective." Damn. That's pretty much the same thing Ernest Mandel said. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 25 15:25:34 PDT 2002

28933 US public supports move on Iraq -- rank: 1000

POLL ANALYSES June 21, 2002 Removing Saddam Considered an Important Foreign Policy Goal Majority favors sending U.S. troops to overthrow Iraqi president by Jeffrey M. Jones GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Some experts believe Iraq will be the next target of the United States in the war on terrorism. Earlier this year, President Bush authorized the CIA to take any action necessary to topple Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. Results of the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll find about half of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 25 14:32:14 PDT 2002

28934 Sidney, Hilton, Cornel, etc. -- rank: 1000

[just back and catching up...] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 20, 2002 Neoconservative Scholars Pull Out of Conference After Learning That Cornel West Will Attend By PIPER FOGG Several prominent neoconservative scholars and writers have backed out of a conference at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York -- after finding out that Cornel West was among those who would be participating. Organizers of the conference, which will examine the legacy of a neoconservati ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 25 13:37:45 PDT 2002

28935 lbo-talk-digest V1 #6340 -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"I've never seen Chomsky display any sympathies for the bestiary >Cockburn has praised - Larry Pratt, Ron Paul. Can't imagine it either." > >don't know the first name, but ron paul ? what is "bestial" about him? Christian fundamentalist, goldbug, anti-abortion theocrat. Larry Pratt runs Gun Owners of America who loved the Central American death squads. Ace opened a profile of him by declaring that one of the pleasures of talking with Pratt is t ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 19 13:27:07 PDT 2002