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29236 Freddy -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 16 13:36:34 PDT 2002

29237 sodomy in the USA -- rank: 1000

[for those of you keeping score - reformatted for readability] In light of the fact that Lambda Legal has just asked the US Supreme Court to overturn the abominable decision in Bowers vs Hardwick (1986) in their appeal of the Texas sodomy case I read this footnote in the recent Arkansas Supreme Court case invalidating that state's sodomy statute with interest (excerpt of Footnote 4 follows): Nine states have invalidated sodomy laws by judicial decision: *Georgia--Powell v. State, 510 S.E.2d 18 ( ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 16 12:50:42 PDT 2002

29238 DEBT CLOCK -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Unlike other broken clocks, this one is never right. > >It lumps together debt the Gov owes to itself with debt >it owes to the public. How can the government owe money to itself? Or, more precisely, how can the government service a loan made by itself? Can my right pocket lend money to my left pocket? Assuming the government has to make good on its SS obligations, it's got to come up with the cash somehow - by borrowing from the public, raising taxes, or cutting ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 16 11:22:33 PDT 2002

29239 The "irony" of Telecom -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>pms wrote: >> >>>Network built on the backs of investors, for sale, cheap. What a happy >>>coincidence. For someone. >> >>That's your sixth post today. Three too many. >> >>Speaking of telecoms, watch for former investment banker Nomi >>Prins's piece on the topic in LBO #101, going to press tomorrow >>morning. >> >>Doug > > >And the "nut" grafs are? I should give this informati ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 15 15:09:41 PDT 2002

29240 oh well -- rank: 1000

At 5:44 PM -0400 7/15/02, WSJ Editors wrote: >The Dow industrials made a dramatic recovery late Monday, wiping out >nearly all of a 440-point loss.

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Date:	Mon Jul 15 14:50:17 PDT 2002

29241 Fwd: [stop-imf] IMF insists Ecuador pay debts before health care -- rank: 1000

ECUADOR: IMF Wants Future Oil Revenues to Service Debt, not Health By Kintto Lucas QUITO, May 29 2002 (IPS) - The IMF has conditioned approval of a loan to Ecuador on the modification by parliament of a law that earmarks for health and education 10 percent of revenues from the oil exports that will be piped through a new heavy crude pipeline still under construction. The revenues attained from the OCP pipeline, which will carry crude from the Amazon jungle region to Pacific coast ports, must go ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 15 12:01:33 PDT 2002

29242 Charting the Establishment -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >The names with the ugliest charts just struck me. They're names from long >Wall Street history. > >JP Morgan, Bank of NY, Mellon, Citigroup > >http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=@^bkx&d=t > >(not sure what you'll get here. if you just get a list of index components, >hit "detailed" on top right of graphic) That's seven today. Is there a reason you think you should be exempt from the posting limit? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 15 11:24:01 PDT 2002

29243 US economy "fundamentally strong" -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >So, Doug, any calls from financial reporters yet? Nope. The usual Pacifica types, but not a peep from the mainstream. We must be a ways from the bottom. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 15 11:21:48 PDT 2002

29244 The "irony" of Telecom -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Network built on the backs of investors, for sale, cheap. What a happy >coincidence. For someone. That's your sixth post today. Three too many. Speaking of telecoms, watch for former investment banker Nomi Prins's piece on the topic in LBO #101, going to press tomorrow morning. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 15 10:57:20 PDT 2002

29245 Cop Watching is Illegal -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: His sixth post of the day. Is there some reason you think you should be exempt from the limit, Justin? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 15 10:19:34 PDT 2002

29246 volume -- rank: 1000

Justin & Paula - you're at 5 posts today and it's just barely after noon, eastern time. Please cool it. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 15 10:03:33 PDT 2002

29247 Fwd: FW: boycotts Of South Africans and, now, Israelis -- rank: 1000

[Sent to me, again. CRD, please fix your address book!!!!!] From: Christopher Rhoades Dykema <crdbronx at erols.com> To: "LBO-TALK" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: FW: boycotts Of South Africans and, now, Israelis Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 21:59:21 -0400 I wrote to Chris Lowe, who is an Africanist, and very well informed on events there in the more and less recent past, to ask about the boycotts of South Africa in the eighties. This is what he wrote. Christ ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 15 09:47:00 PDT 2002

29248 US economy "fundamentally strong" -- rank: 1000

[you think they'd avoid these Hooverian echoes...] July 15, 11:40 am Eastern Time Reuters Company News Bush says U.S. economy fundamentally strong BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Monday the United States was suffering a "hangover" from an economic binge, but that the country's economy was fundamentally strong. ADVERTISEMENT "In order for us to have the security we all want, America must get rid of the hangover that we now have as a resul ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 15 09:02:26 PDT 2002

29249 GIlroy on British higher ed (and branding) -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - July 15, 2002 Cultural Studies and the Battle for British Higher Education By PAUL GILROY This month the University of Birmingham announced that it was closing, or restructuring, three of its departments. Given the chaotic state of higher education in Britain, that was not surprising. But the closures have attracted comment and opposition, particularly because one of the units was the original program brave enough to use the term "cultural studies ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 15 07:40:17 PDT 2002

29250 anti-stalinism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: Six posts so far today, twice the quota. If you don't make some effort to observe the quota, Michael, you're going on vacation. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 14 08:53:49 PDT 2002