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29416 Bourdieu: interview with Loic Wacquant -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - Friday, January 25, 2002 Loic Wacquant Discusses the Influence of Pierre Bourdieu, Who Died Wednesday, and His Last Projects By SCOTT McLEMEE Pierre Bourdieu, one of the "master thinkers" shaping French intellectual life, died in Paris on Wednesday, following a struggle with cancer. A professor at the Collège de France, Mr. Bourdieu was among the leading sociologists of his generation. His models of "habitus" and "cultural capi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 25 09:04:38 PST 2002

29417 Life and Debt -- rank: 1000

This movie will be shown at the BAM movie theater in Brooklyn on Sat Feb 9. I think it starts at 6, and there will be a panel afterwards (of which I'll be a member). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 25 08:57:49 PST 2002

29418 bankruptcy -- rank: 1000

Having corrected my error of addressing my query to my bankruptcy source, and not this list, I've now gotten an answer. "He" is Daschle. >1) he agreed that the bankruptcy bill from the last session could go >directly to the floor for a vote, rather than following the usual >rules of new session-new committee. With Leahy now in charge of the >judiciary and both Toricelli and Biden off the judiciary committee, >the committee votes to amend the bill into a far more consume ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 25 08:36:50 PST 2002

29419 Debt a la Enron -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >How about the the possibility that Enron's practices in hiding debt -- >partnerships, off-shore accounts, etc. -- are not unique to Enron? If a >significant number of other American firms are doing similar things to >tweak their balance sheets (with the help of complaisant auditors) -- >wouldn't the true state of the American economy over the last few years be >quite different from the common estimate? Yes, it would be. And profits would be lower, too ( ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 25 08:21:27 PST 2002

29420 Noam in Turkey -- rank: 1000

<http://www.indexonline.org/news/20020109_turkey.shtml> Turkey: Book of lectures attacked Chomsky to attend publisher's trial Veteran critic of US foreign policy Noam Chomsky is the focus of a court case brought by a top Turkish anti-terrorism prosecutor, citing a Turkish translation of a collection of his essays. Publisher Fatih TaÞ faces a year in jail. Chomsky will travel to Turkey to attend his trial. Index on Censorship reports. Turkey's chief of terrorism prosecutions is to bring a s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 25 07:53:58 PST 2002

29421 moving things along -- rank: 1000

A diehard apologist for the Democrats doesn't believe me when I quoted you (anonymously, of course!) as saying Daschle was quietly moving the bill along. He asks: >So what evidence do you have to support your model other than ephemeral >"moving the bill along" gossip. To repeat, why hasn't Daschle appointed >people to the conference committee? I won't even quote the bits where he suspects your knowledge and sophistication! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 24 13:18:51 PST 2002

29422 cancer -- rank: 1000

It's a commonplace among quacks, I mean alternative health gurus, that cancer rates are rising out of control. This new article from the CDC argues otherwise - though there are still big disparities by race/ethnicity. <http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5103a1.htm>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 24 13:05:36 PST 2002

29423 bankruptcy -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Anonymous sources are all very well and I have no doubt that there is >pressure from the credit card companies, but any theory of absolute Dem >malfeasance has to explain why the delay? The forward motion of the bill has >been in Daschle's hands since it was passed in the Senate and he has not >advanced it. So what's blocking his action? > >As far as Congressional politics, I live in a world of committee votes, >parliamentary rules of procedure, co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 24 12:48:20 PST 2002

29424 bankruptcy -- rank: 1000

My bankruptcy sources say that Nathan's picture of the Dems is - surprise, surprise! - a bit too upbeat. First of all, many supported the bill initially, and are now a bit embarrassed as the economy's weakened. But important Dems are still doing the work of the creditors' lobby - e.g., Biden (he's the senator from MBNA, after all); Schumer's Wall Street friends have him supporting a version of reform; and Daschle is "quietly moving the bill along, behind the scenes." Others are lying l ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 24 12:17:09 PST 2002

29425 premodernism -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >No, not sappy at all. I watched a TV bio of domestic arts diva >Martha Stewart on E! last night (I've sunk that low), and all >interviewees agreed on what nasty, cold, grasping, joyless >individual she is -- a woman who destroyed her marriage and >estranged her child by being such a greedy, ambitious, uncaring >control freak. Rather than being the apotheosis of domestic >contentment, her life presents a grotesque parody of it. MS, who >came from not ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 24 11:35:16 PST 2002

29426 Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

Today on my radio show, 5-6 PM NYC time, WBAI 99.5 FM and <http:/www.wbai.org> or <http://www.2600.com> [net links are sometimes flaky]: * Amy Coenen and Kathie Sarachild of Redstockings <http://www.afn.org/~redstock/> to talk about Redstockings (yes, they're still around 30 years later) and their new national health care campaign * Jane Bussey of the Miami Herald, on Argentina and other Latin hotspots * Joel Schalit (of Bad Subjects and Punk Planet fame) to talk about his new ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 24 11:33:00 PST 2002

29427 Budget follies -- rank: 1000

Mark McEahern wrote: > > They didn't forecast the exact timing of a recession. The average >> growth rates they predicted over the full period were low enough to >> allow for the requisite number of recessions within that timespan. > >Is it merely cynical (or rhetorical) to suggest that everything is going as >planned for Bush & Co. with respect to the budget. There's some quote in >the nyt today something to the effect that the deficits and shrinking >su ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 24 10:20:47 PST 2002

29428 Dems delay the Bankruptcy bill-- again -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Well-- the bankruptcy bill has been used by folks on this list for >two years as the example of Democratic subservience to corporate >interests. Yet the darn thing never seems to quite become law due >to various Democratic maneuvers. -- Nathan Newman So what did Daschle mean when he said, upon taking over as majority leader, that he wanted to move the bill through? And who were all those Dems that voted for the thing in the first place? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 24 08:10:56 PST 2002

29429 Budget follies -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >In cutting the forecast of the 10 year surplus by $4 trillion, from last >year's forecast of $5.6 to the current forecast of $1.6 trillion, the >Congressional Budget office allots the blame as follows: > >$1,280 billion to the Bush tax cut > $929 billion to the recession > $562 billion to increased interest on the national debt > $550 billion to higher spending > >My question is: I could swear Max said the original forecasts include ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 24 07:31:43 PST 2002

29430 Chomsky publisher busted in Turkey -- rank: 1000

[has this made the rounds already and I missed it?] TURKEY SUES CHOMSKY PUBLISHER FOR TELLING UNAPPROVED TRUTH In another astonishing demonstration of the profound commitment to democracy on the part of the USA's coalition partners in the war on terrorism, the Turkish government brought charges against Istanbul's Aram Publishing for printing a translated Noam Chomsky essay collection, entitled "American Interventionism." The book includes a lecture Chomsky gave at Ohio's University of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 24 07:23:49 PST 2002