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29176 Nation Books vs. Nation magazine -- rank: 1000

Village Voice - July 24-30, 2002 Press Clips Laundering the 'Truth' 'The Nation' Defuses a French Bombshell by Cynthia Cotts Accordin g to the back cover of Forbidden Truth, a bestseller published in France last fall and released in this country last week, a round of "secret diplomacy between the Bush administration and the Taliban" may have provoked Osama bin Laden into launching the September 11 attacks. As proof, authors Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie point to a July 200 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 24 09:49:08 PDT 2002

29177 a press release -- rank: 1000

At 9:42 AM -0400 7/24/02, eReleases.com wrote: >U.S. Beer Drinking Team (USBDT) Announces Production of Beer >Television > >SEVERNA PARK, MD, July 24, 2002 -- The United States Beer >Drinking Team (www.USBeerDrinkingTeam.com) announces >production of Beer Television (www.BeerTelevision.com) for >syndication and Internet webcast. Beer Television is the >first and only, "All Beer; All The Time" television show >dedicated to informing the 84 million responsible ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 24 09:28:30 PDT 2002

29178 latest abortion poll -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr020724.asp> July 24, 2002 Public Opinion on Abortion Policies Making News Americans generally favor parental notification and partial birth bans; mixed on U.N. family planning funding by Lydia Saad GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Abortion policy debates are popping up in several venues. In the U.S. Senate, a Bush judicial appointee faces scrutiny over her abortion record. In the U.S. House of Representatives, legislation is pending to outlaw the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 24 08:52:15 PDT 2002

29179 Gold -- rank: 1000

Nomiprins at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 7/23/02 9:07:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >dhenwood at panix.com writes: > >>And as Larry Kudlow would say, this is a sign the Fed should ease. >>Speaking of Kudlow, why does that airhead have a TV show along with >>that sociopath Cramer? >> > >part of rehab? If so, then their trek to health comes at the expense of mine! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 24 08:35:06 PDT 2002

29180 Gold -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Why do you have a *thang* for Jude Wanniski? Because he's interestingly weird. He shows his family commie/union organizer roots now & then. I wouldn't want him setting policy. >Why are Glassman and Hassett still running around loose? Because as Keynes said, it's better for one's reputation to fail conventionally than succeed unconventionally. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 24 06:49:12 PDT 2002

29181 obesity in America: who cares? -- rank: 1000

"Public Opinion and the Politics of America's Obesity Epidemic" BY: J. ERIC OLIVER Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School TAEKU LEE Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=313824 Paper ID: KSG Working Paper No. RWP02-017 Date: May 2002 Contact: TAEKU LEE Email: Mailto:taeku_lee at ksg.harvard.edu Postal: Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Gove ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 23 18:31:25 PDT 2002

29182 stock market facts -- rank: 1000

<http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^GSPC&d=c&t=my&l=on&z=m&q=l> either things aren't so bad, or there's a long way to go...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 23 18:11:08 PDT 2002

29183 Gold -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 07:11 PM 07/23/2002 -0400, Doug wrote as to why gold is going down... > >>Deflation. Why's that counterintuitive? > > >aaaah. Thanks, I was wondering about that too. And as Larry Kudlow would say, this is a sign the Fed should ease. Speaking of Kudlow, why does that airhead have a TV show along with that sociopath Cramer? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 23 18:06:57 PDT 2002

29184 savemartha.com -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >from www.savemartha.com (featured on CNN today) A clip from the archives.... >New York Post - July 19, 2002 > >PRO-MARTHA RALLY A BIT UNDERDONE >By GILL SMITH > >A rally for embattled domestic diva Martha Stewart was more of a >bust than a boost yesterday - when only four people bothered to show >up. > >Organizers expected more than 50 fans to gather outside the CBS >studios on Fifth Avenue, where Stewart has been a no-show for a >weekly slot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 23 16:11:30 PDT 2002

29185 East Timor joins IMF -- rank: 1000

At 6:15 PM -0400 7/23/02, NewContent at InternationalMonetaryFund.org wrote: >New on the IMF Website > > Press Release: East Timor Joins the IMF, >http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2002/pr0234.htm > > News Brief: IMF Managing Director Welcomes East Timor's >Membership, http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/nb/2002/nb0273.htm

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 23 15:42:13 PDT 2002

29186 Banking index dives -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Counter-intuitively >gold plunged today. Boingggggg. Deflation. Why's that counterintuitive? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 23 13:01:15 PDT 2002

29187 stock market facts -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Many activists are doing all these things. Nathan, you frequently paint this portrait of innumerable activists tirelessly doing excellent things. I admire them for doing so. But if there are so many of them working so busily, why is America so fucked up? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 23 08:32:13 PDT 2002

29188 reassurance -- rank: 1000

Doesn't this power trio inspire confidence? <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020722/168/1w9uf.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 23 08:24:15 PDT 2002

29189 Fisk: FBI distrusts ISI -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - July 23, 2002 US wary of Pakistan intelligence services' links to al-Qa'ida By Robert Fisk in Islamabad The FBI is becoming almost as distrustful of its Pakistani counterpart as the CIA is of the warlords across the border in Afghanistan. During the trial of journalist Daniel Pearl's murderers -- which ended with the conviction of the British public schoolboy Omar Sheikh -- one small but disturbing fact never made its way into the headlines: that one of the co-accused was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 23 07:35:44 PDT 2002

29190 language -- rank: 1000

In today's NYT, James Bennet writes: >Previous killings by Israel of leaders of Hamas have preceded spikes >in the violence here. Israel maintains that such targeted killings, >which Palestinians call assassinations, are essential to its >self-defense. American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed.: >as-sas-si-nate 1. To murder (a prominent person) by surprise attack, >as for political reasons[.....] Those Palestinians will say anything! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 23 07:18:10 PDT 2002