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29071 conference -- rank: 1000

I think I mentioned this before, but since it's getting close to the date, why not again? The Group for the Study of Working Class Life at SUNY-Stony Brook is sponsoring a conference on "How Class Works," this Wednesday-Sunday (June 5-9). (The Wednesday event is an evening plenary, and Sunday's an informal wrap-up; the bulk of the conference is Thursday-Saturday.) I'll be speaking on Thursday afternoon on financial markets as class institutions, and on Friday about the globalization of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 4 07:28:45 PDT 2002

29072 party -- rank: 1000

It's like old times! <http://www.mozilla.org/party/2002/faq.html>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 3 18:17:28 PDT 2002

29073 centipede -- rank: 1000

Reuters: "The overall tone is absolutely shoot first and ask questions later -- you see that in Tyco and in El Paso," said Cummins Catherwood, a money manager with Rutherford Brown & Catherwood, which oversees $750 million. "Seven or eight shoes have dropped and you're thinking this must be a centipede."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 3 17:33:51 PDT 2002

29074 Alterman 24-7 -- rank: 1000

Peter K. quoting Hitchens: >He insists, however, that he's still a Marxist. Like Desai, admiring it as a revolutionary force, forgetting that thing about the limits to capital being capital itself. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 3 16:50:28 PDT 2002

29075 Fwd: Spy on your employees! -- rank: 1000

[most interesting spam I've gotten in some time] From: "Officer Web" <bxabl at dsbc.icl.co.uk> Subject: Spy on your employees! Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 15:35:45 -1900 Protect your family on the Internet Make sure they are being safe on the Internet with [x] Internet Safety Monitoring Software. Big Brother will hide on your computer and secretly record all instant messages, chat, email, web sites and more! Once you install it, it becomes completely invisible. Then, after the compute ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 3 15:35:48 PDT 2002

29076 Why not emigrate? -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >She's what I call a patriot, or anyway someone who loves her country. Should we love our country just because we're born there, or does it have to earn our love. Didn't Burke say that to be loved, one's country must be lovely? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 3 14:56:14 PDT 2002

29077 headlines we never thought we'd see -- rank: 1000

At 5:15 PM -0400 6/3/02, WSJ Editors wrote: >U.S. stocks tumbled Monday as mounting distrust of corporate America >outweighed strong economic reports.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 3 14:43:54 PDT 2002

29078 waiting for Mr Rich -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Gee, don't they have more obviously pressing issues to analyze in >_Jerusalem_ than the US marriage rate??? I'm guessing we've got better stats for the econogeeks to play with. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 3 12:27:19 PDT 2002

29079 waiting for Mr Rich -- rank: 1000

[The CEPR's webiste <http://www.cepr.org> is down, otherwise I'd give the URL for the original paper.] Financial Times - June 3, 2002 THE AMERICAS & INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY: Women in US waiting longer for Mr Rich By David Turner, Economics Staff, in London Women are responding to the increasing disparity in male earnings by delaying marriage while they seek a wealthy husband, according to a research paper* looking at the US marriage market. But this intensely practical approach towards w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 3 11:10:23 PDT 2002

29080 more US popular support for Palestinian state -- rank: 1000

At 12:17 AM -0400 6/3/02, Gallup NewsAlerts wroteL >Nearly Half of Americans Favor Independent Palestinian State > >Views of Sharon, Arafat growing more negative over time > >Full Story: >http://www2.gallup.alerts.com/newsalerts/Clickthrough.jsp?NotificationID=1334531&Address=dhenwood@panix.com >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Gallup polling throughout the last decade has shown that attitudes >toward the Middle East conflict are s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 3 06:44:02 PDT 2002

29081 Self-Love Re: Question for Liza.... -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >As Justin says, "modest self-love is natural and healthy." :-> Yup. I remember "healthy narcissism" from the days when I studied self-love. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 2 21:03:14 PDT 2002

29082 Summers dictates? -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 14:41:17 -0700 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Bradford DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re:Gulliver in Putiput land (Russia-US summit) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Michael Pugliese quotes, from the _New Republic_, Stephen Kotkin's review of Strobe Talbott's _The Russia Hand_: >http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020603&s=kotkin060302 >>...Talbott rightly notes that the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 2 15:23:21 PDT 2002

29083 fasten your seat belt, America -- rank: 1000

[If you try to visit the alneda.com website, you get the error message "No web site is configured at this address."] Report: Al Qaeda Tells U.S. to Get Ready for Attack Sun Jun 2, 7:04 AM ET CAIRO (Reuters) - The pan-Arab daily al-Hayat published Sunday what it said was a statement from an al Qaeda spokesman warning the United States to get ready for another attack. "What is coming to the Americans will not, by the will of God, be less than what has come," the newspaper quote ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 2 12:26:49 PDT 2002

29084 Question for Liza about Palestinian Solidarity Activism at OSU -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I don't defend myself and set the record straight about what I say >and do on when Mine baits me on marxmail There's a difference between "baiting" and outright lying, which is what Proyect does. And it's extremely exasperating to be lied about by a vicious sect of one (though I guess now the spousal team are a sect of two). What do you do? Descend into the mud and wrestle with him/them? Let the lie stand where any net surfer can come across it? Watch sev ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 2 12:00:01 PDT 2002

29085 Fwd: Re: Patriotism -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list - CRD, you've got the "owner" address in your address book or something] From: Cĺhristopher Rhoades D˙kema <crdbronx at erols.com> To: "LBO-TALK" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: Re: Patriotism Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 14:47:44 -0400 " Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:10:56 -0400 From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Re: Patriotism Justin Schwartz wrote: >Saul Alinsky once said you don't eat a ham sa ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 2 11:50:23 PDT 2002