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29476 Science, Science & Marxism -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >>And the USSR rationed by queue, we by price. The 40m without health >>insurance are experiencing a shortage. The thousands sleeping on the >>sidewalk in NYC tonight are experiencing a shortage. There's plenty >>to criticize about Soviet planning, but let's not overlook our own >>problems in the process. >> > >I'm disappointed in you, Doug. When have I ever? And you know I >think that health care is a public good not to be deal ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 19 10:46:22 PST 2002

29477 Electoral College reform -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Nathan Newman wrote: > >> One of the things that pissed me off most about Nader is > >It's the suit, the *suit*, I tell you, far more irritating than those >Cisco stock options. We need to get him Spock's earlobes, or a Max Payne >T-shirt with bloody handprints on it. The Double Beretta Candidate, as it >were (one for each wing of the one-party state). Don't forget the socks! I heard that shortly after graduating from ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 19 10:24:50 PST 2002

29478 Talk silenced? -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >At 05:57 PM 1/18/02 -0500, Seth Ackerman wrote: >>Kelley wrote: >> >>> why? i don't know the inside dope here, apparently. >> >>I didn't mean to give the impression that I was at that party. I was using >>my imagination. (Though I've been to parties like it, e.g. the premiere >>party for Brill's Content.) >> >>Seth > >i guess i was asking: what was so important about the party that >someone ought to write a tom ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 18 15:35:13 PST 2002

29479 Recover -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Speaking of which...where oh where is LBO. How about an article on Argentina? Very soon, and there's one of those. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 18 15:19:37 PST 2002

29480 Talk silenced? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Kelley wrote: > >> why? i don't know the inside dope here, apparently. > >I didn't mean to give the impression that I was at that party. I was using >my imagination. (Though I've been to parties like it, e.g. the premiere >party for Brill's Content.) Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel was described in the story on that party in Talk #2 as the "socialist socialite" (or maybe it was the "socialite socialist"). Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 18 15:05:53 PST 2002

29481 Talk silenced? -- rank: 1000

[This gets higher billing than "CNN: Musharraf believes Osama bin Laden may be dead from kidney ailments... "] XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI JAN 18 2002 16:02:37 ET XXXXX EXCLUSIVE: TINA'S TALK HALTS PUBLICATION; PLUG PULLED ON MONTHLY MIRAMAX/HEARST has pulled the plug on TALK magazine -- effective immediately, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The current issue on newsstands will be the last, say top sources. The magazine's staff will be told of the dramatic development during a 5 pm [E ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 18 14:02:38 PST 2002

29482 Ander$en -- rank: 1000

Enron's auditor, Andersen, was also a big campaign contributor: <http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v6/alertv6_38.asp>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 18 13:39:50 PST 2002

29483 Science, Science & Marxism -- rank: 1000

Leslilake1 at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 1/18/02 4:00:18 AM Pacific Standard Time, >owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com writes: > ><< As for lines, it's not a big problem. We don't face chronic shortages. >> > >A little bit of a detour from the main point, but at the hospital where I >work I've noticed that we regularly get notices that there is a shortage of >certain drugs (some of the steroid drugs & antibiotics), and that we should >subs ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 18 13:31:03 PST 2002

29484 Corporate Defaults Smash Records -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Well, there's a chance they're right. Lots of indicators are >> bottoming, even looking up - and not just in the U.S. It's not a done >> deal yet, but... > >But what's financing the expenditure that causes those indicators to rise? > >Today's NY Times: "Last week, the Fed reported that consumer borrowing rose >in November by $19.8 billion, the biggest monthly increase since the Fed >began keeping rec ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 18 13:26:58 PST 2002

29485 Cato on SA -- rank: 1000

Cato Daily Dispatch January 18, 2002 http://www.cato.org/ http://www.cato.org/dispatch/01-18-02d.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Saudis Hint at U.S. Departure * Poll: Americans Don't Trust Government Completely * French Justice Minister: Time to Consider Marijuana Decriminalization -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SAUDIS HINT AT U.S. DEPARTURE The Washington Post reports today that Saudi Arabia's rulers a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 18 10:12:59 PST 2002

29486 cities & violence -- rank: 1000

"Cities and Warfare: The Impact of Terrorism on Urban Form" BY: EDWARD L. GLAESER Harvard University Department of Economics National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) The Brookings Institution JESSE M. SHAPIRO Harvard University Department of Economics National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=293959 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://post.economics.harvard.edu/hier ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 18 09:54:28 PST 2002

29487 Corporate Defaults Smash Records -- rank: 1000

Barry DeCicco wrote: >From: "Chris Kromm" <ckromm at mindspring.com> > >>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bond defaults by companies more >>than doubled last year to record levels, and default >>rates surged to 10-year highs, but issuers and >>bond investors can expect better times ahead, >>analysts said on Monday. > >Sigh. If only I had a dollar for every article I've >seen in the past year which said that things were bad, >but they'll get be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 18 09:39:46 PST 2002

29488 Science, Science and Marxism -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >jks -- There's no comparison with Soviet goods, none. Soviet TV sets >regularly >exploded; the smart purchaser kept a bucket of sand by the set. There was a >actually a TV show under perestroika that was based on making fun of >worthless goods. A handful of Soviet products, machine tools and the like, >were world market quality. For the rest, Soviet industry made stuff that was > >unmarketable. > >They built pretty good MiGs and Kalashnikovs and s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 18 09:27:45 PST 2002

29489 Noamhoredtz -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >Cian O'Connor: > >> I gave up half way through. Second half any better? > >With JR you either go all the way or you don't go at all. So where's JR coming from? Straight paleocon anti-interventionist? Does he buy the whole libertarian economic model too? And the paleocon fondness for 1840 small-town white America? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 18 07:55:24 PST 2002

29490 Enron, your retirement planning counselor -- rank: 1000

A reminder that "mug" has several meanings: <http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1064180464&tc=photo>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 17 10:59:49 PST 2002