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29251 don't boycott israeli academics -- rank: 1000

topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au wrote: >I would agree wholeheartedly that it is wrong to boycott Israeli nationals >living abroad, but I cannot see the difference between boycotting Israeli >academic institutions and boycotting any other area of the Israeli economy. I >don't see why universities should be exempt on the basis of some notion that >they are ostensibly places of high learning and humanism. At any rate, I don't >think I would waste much time with the finer points of t ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 14 08:49:11 PDT 2002

29252 anecdote -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list, by Christopher Rhoades Dykema (please change your address book entry!!] - is this true? sounds fishy] >The London Times >Diary > >July 09, 2002 > >TONY BLAIR's special relationship with George W. Bush is under >considerable strain. Not only do the two disagree on Yassir Arafat's >tenure as leader of the Palestinian Authority, but Blair has started >telling disparaging anecdotes about the President. Baroness Williams >of Crosby recalled ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 14 08:47:52 PDT 2002

29253 Yahoo fun -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I sent d_henwood at yahoo.com the pointed-to file . . . and got exactly > > that. So did Yahoo fix it? > >Danny at NTK asks: Was it an HTML mail you sent? They are the only ones >that are messed with -- presumably because only in that format can the >commands take off and rejigger Yahoo's programing. Ah, text only. HTML mail is annoying. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 13 14:44:17 PDT 2002

29254 Greens reject GOP funds offer -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] STEVE TERRELL, New Mexican - State Republican Party Chairman John Dendahl is taking heat from Democratic and Green party leaders for offering the Greens big bucks to field Congressional candidates to try to drain votes from Democrats. Dendahl confirmed he had spoken several times with state Green Party leaders about the possibility of a six-figure contribution to the Greens if they ran candidates in the First Congressional District - which primarily is in Alb ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 13 13:39:26 PDT 2002

29255 Yahoo fun -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Mention "mocha" in an HTML mail to a friend with a > @yahoo.com account, and your choice in coffee will be > silently switched to "espresso". I sent d_henwood at yahoo.com the pointed-to file: >Yahoo's Seven Word Fragments You Can't Say In Email >=================================================== > >eval => review >mocha => espresso >expression => statement >javascript => java-scrip ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 13 12:20:42 PDT 2002

29256 Cuba/Re: why the left is so hopeless in AmeriKKKa -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Other capitalist countries are at the moment >doing a better job of defanging the U.S. than the ultras are. This is a test of whether it's Empire or the U.S. emipre, no? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 13 11:48:11 PDT 2002

29257 Wolfie on Cuba -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Michael Pugliese for pointing this out. Note the improvement in the social indics since 1990; so much for the "it's all a holdover from the old days" arguement.] <http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43b/185.html> Learn from Cuba, Says World Bank By Jim Lobe, IPS, 1 May 2001 WASHINGTON, Apr 30 (IPS) - World Bank President James Wolfensohn Monday extolled the Communist government of President Fidel Castro for doing "a great job" in providing for the social wel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 13 11:30:51 PDT 2002

29258 Cuba Social Indicators Pre-Castro -- rank: 1000

Stuart323 at aol.com wrote: >Why should Castro and dictatorship be credited with Cuba's good >marks in various social, educational, and medical areas? Cuba had >good marks in all those areas pre-Revolution. Yeah, and Argentina used to be one of the richest countries in the world. As they say in the mutual fund ads, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 13 11:19:06 PDT 2002

29259 Cuba/Re: why the left is so hopeless in AmeriKKKa -- rank: 1000

JCWisc at aol.com wrote: >Call it the _Dissent_ syndrome. A periodical which, I hear, is on its deathbed. No money, dwindling staff. Becoming the battle mag of the anti-Chomsky left seems not to have worked as the new mission for the new millennium. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 13 11:16:08 PDT 2002

29260 a cartoon -- rank: 1000

Adolescent, perhaps... <http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l2_if.jsp?a=51>. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 13 08:20:57 PDT 2002

29261 don't boycott israeli academics -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The Academic Boycott of South Africa: Symbolic Gesture or Effective >Agent of Change? Of course, one difference between that and an Israeli boycott is that in SA, there was a righteous mass movement calling for it. There's no comparable force in Israel, is there? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 13 08:16:37 PDT 2002

29262 Cuba/Re: why the left is so hopeless in AmeriKKKa -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: > Well, I'm still rather shocked at that set of stats re: Cuba >and Haiti. >How is it that a leftist revolution in the latter, under constant >unrelented pressure from the Empire 90 miles away (see, "The >Cuban Counter-Revolution, " one of the books I cited in this >thread or any of the books from Ocean Press like, "The Cuban >Exile Movement.") but, the recipient of billions in aid from >the fSU, and until recently discounte ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 13 07:51:43 PDT 2002

29263 Cuba -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: >Expecting different sources than the CIA, I turned to the >appendix of, "The Cuba Reader, " edited by a team from the long >time leftist think tank, the IPS, published by Grove Press. (Their >readers on El Salvador and Nicaragua were classics, the former >for example reprinted the great piece from New Left Review by >Harald Jung on the origins of the FDR-FMLN). Nope, the same GDP >and GSP stats, though from the mid-80's. Impressive health a ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 13 07:45:48 PDT 2002

29264 Fwd: Cuba -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] From: Christopher Rhoades D˙kema <crdbronx at erols.com> To: "LBO-TALK" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: Cuba Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:12:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Couldn't we consider reserving the word "AUTHORITARIAN" for the kind of mass psychological analysis for which we are indebted to ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 13 07:43:10 PDT 2002

29265 Robinson Stevens RIP -- rank: 1000

[is this like Drexel going under? not quite, but...] At 5:41 PM -0400 7/12/02, WSJ.com Editors wrote: >FleetBoston Financial has decided to close Robertson Stephens, its >investment banking division that in its heyday took some of the best-known >dot-coms public. The decision comes after weeks of often-tense negotiations >between Fleet and a management-led buyout team at Robertson.

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Date:	Fri Jul 12 15:08:59 PDT 2002