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28996 Posting whole articles -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: > >Here's a hoax letter from a guy claiming to represent TIME, sent to >the admin of utah.edu-supported listservs (I presume the same guy >sent one to Marco). Yoshie > >---------- > >Oh, come on. > >There's got to be better than that around. If it's just spam, its no >threat. There has to be more going here. That's a very close replica of the one that Marco & I got. I was ready to fold, but Marco questioned his identity and turned out to b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 12 11:35:17 PDT 2002

28997 Say it ain't so Martha. -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Wednesday June 12, 11:38 am Eastern Time >Reuters Business Report >ImClone News Hits Martha Stewart Shares > >NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. >(NYSE:MSO - News) fell sharply on Wednesday on concerns about Martha >Stewart's personal involvement with the former head of ImClone Systems Inc., >who was arrested on insider trading charges, analysts said. ImClone's office is four floors below mine - they have the whole sixth floor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 12 11:29:45 PDT 2002

28998 Buchanan & Taki in new mag venture -- rank: 1000

[Taki is just vile vile vile. He had a page all to himself in New York Press until recently, and he brought in Claus von Bulow, of all people, as a columnist.] New York Post - June 12, 2002 Right-wing pundit and sometimes presidential candidate Pat Buchanan and Euro-society journalist Taki Theodoracopulos are working on the launch of a new national fortnightly conservative magazine to rival The Weekly Standard and the National Review. The new magazine will be called The American Conservative and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 12 11:23:48 PDT 2002

28999 Insight Needed -- rank: 1000

Maria Gilmore wrote: >Interesting. Shatner is not an American. He's Canadian. Also Jewish. And a moron of epic proportions. He took Rania Masri to task for citing the history of the region and using stats. We don't care about all that old technical stuff! Rania did a heroic job standing up against the aggressive stupidity of Maher, Shatner, and some right-wing woman from the Oxygen network. Al Franken was remarkably subdued. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 12 11:18:24 PDT 2002

29000 Shekel Rate, Interest Rate, Stagflation and 'Good' Inflation -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: >Obvioulsy Israel is in the second type of Inflationary >period...which in our case seems to me pretty much a form of >stagflation: an inflationary period accompanied by rising >unemployment and lack of growth in consumer demand and business >activity. > >Israel has raised the interest rate several times in the past year Which is basically all central bankers know how to do. I don't know much about Israel's economy, but the security situation, to put it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 12 10:59:16 PDT 2002

29001 Insight Needed: Why Is Bill Maher Such An Ass? -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: > The pioneering gay, socialist rocker, Tom Robinson "Wish I had a Ford Cortina..." He's married to a woman now, isn't he? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 11 17:54:22 PDT 2002

29002 Fwd: fuller Bari jury award story -- rank: 1000

Jury awards California activists $4.4 million Associated Press/Knight Ridder Washington Bureau OAKLAND, Calif. - Twelve years after they were arrested in the bombing of their own car, two Earth First! activists were awarded about $4.4 million Tuesday in a federal suit claiming they were framed by Oakland Police and FBI agents. After 17 days of deliberations, jurors awarded the money to activist Darryl Cherney and the estate of Judi Bari, who died of cancer in 1997. Cherney and Bari were injured ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 11 15:22:13 PDT 2002

29003 Chinese labor movement -- rank: 1000

[bounced for excessive length - here's the URL and the intro] >From: "steve philion" <philion at hawaii.edu> >To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >Subject: The Third Wave of the Chinese Labour Movement in the Post-Mao Era >Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:29:09 -0500 > > >http://iso.china-labour.org.hk/iso/article.adp?article_id=3D2397 > >China Labour Bulletin > >The Third Wave of the Chinese Labour Movement in the Post-Mao Era=20 > >5 June 20 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 11 12:47:12 PDT 2002

29004 workfare -- rank: 1000

Reuters Company News FEATURE-Firms look to welfare rolls as labor shortage looms By Karen Jacobs ATLANTA, June 11 (Reuters) - Emory Bent says a job helped turn his life around. Bent, 37, had been homeless, jobless and struggling with drugs before getting a job at Home Depot Inc. (NYSE:HD - News) in New York about three years ago. Last month, the former welfare recipient graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in psychology. Bent now says he wants to become a counselor to help others. It ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 11 11:19:51 PDT 2002

29005 Insight needed: why is Bill Maher such an ass? -- rank: 1000

eric dorkin wrote: >as a libertarian, I think he would be predisposed to the notion of self-rule, There are real principled libertarians, and then there are what I once heard characterized as the "I got mine, so fuck you" kind. I think Maher's one of the latter. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 11 10:29:47 PDT 2002

29006 Patriotism, Hendrix -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >No one yet has given any evidence whatever that personally watching TV >leads to knowledge of anything. Best laugh I had all day. Thanks. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 10 15:13:09 PDT 2002

29007 This doesn't make any sense does it? -- rank: 1000

pms quoted Fortune: >What else will foreign investors buy besides U.S. assets? The euro? Japanese >treasuries? French growth stocks? They don't have to move 100% out of U.S. assets into non-U.S. assets. Just a shift of a few bill here and a few bill there can make a big difference. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 10 14:52:15 PDT 2002

29008 FBI goes to college -- rank: 1000

[How nice that the FBI is getting expanded authority to snoop. The original stories are at <http://sfgate.com/news/special/pages/2002/campusfiles/>.] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 10, 2002 Documents Link FBI to '60s Efforts to Ruin Career of Clark Kerr, Newspaper Reports The San Francisco Chronicle reported over the weekend on more than 200,000 pages of Federal Bureau of Investigation documents showing that the bureau had engaged in unlawful activities at the University ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 10 14:43:14 PDT 2002

29009 Bowie on IP -- rank: 1000

christian11 at mindspring.com wrote: >But then again, Bowie is the one who pioneered selling his name on >futures markets, no? Can't you trade futures on Bowie's income these >days? Bonds. He securitized his future royalties in a bond sale a few years ago. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 10 13:29:00 PDT 2002

29010 great moments in disclosure -- rank: 1000

Excerpt from a May 24 form 8-K SEC filing by Adelphia Communications, the scandal-ridden cable TV company under investigation for sweetheart deals with the Rigas family, its founders: >Unless expressly noted otherwise, you should NOT assume that: > >-the transactions discussed herein were presented to or approved by >the Board of Directors or the independent or disinterested directors >of the Board of Directors or, if so approved, if such approval was >based on accurate complet ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 10 13:17:32 PDT 2002