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29491 it's come to this -- rank: 1000

At 11:00 AM -0500 1/17/02, Fast Company wrote: >Love Is the Killer App | by Tim Sanders >In the face of war and recession, what the business world needs is less >greed -- and more love. So says Yahoo senior executive Tim Sanders, who >argues that now more than ever, the road to prosperity is paved with a >commitment to generosity. >http://www.fastcompany.com/online/55/love.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 17 09:49:38 PST 2002

29492 we don't need no sweetheart contracts -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >ah, purchasing complicity. doug, you were sent an enron t-shirt at one >point, weren't you? I wish. I do have a Federal Reserve Bank of New York t-shirt, but got it indirectly from a staffer in a private transaction, not from the PR office. The Fed and the World Bank buy economists in bulk, with various fellowship and consultant arrangements. Not that your average orthodox economist has to be persuaded to revere these institutions, but still... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 17 07:04:16 PST 2002

29493 we don't need no sweetheart contracts -- rank: 1000

[from a piece on Enron's White House connections in today's NYT] Paul Krugman, an editorial columnist for The New York Times (news/quote), said he was also paid $50,000 to serve on an Enron advisory board in 1999. He disclosed his connection in a Jan. 24, 2001, column about Enron. "This was an advisory panel that had no function that I was aware of," Mr. Krugman said today. "My later interpretation is that it was all part of the way they built an image. All in all, I was just anot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 17 06:41:10 PST 2002

29494 The case against conspiracy -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Not a massacre. If I'm dug in and you're stupid enough to >charge my position, the onus is on you. mbs > >> The horrors of mechanized warfare confuse things. E.g., how would you > > categorize the Battle of the Somme, where wave on wave of UK > > soldiers walked into German machine gun fire, resulting in 35,494 British > > seriously wounded and 19,240 dead in a single day -- a massacre or ritual >suicide? Did that charge make any kin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 16 15:22:17 PST 2002

29495 The case against conspiracy -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Hi, > >This is Wednesday. I like Cockburn on Wednesdays. On Thursdays I >think he is a pompous conspiracist. On Mondays I think he is a nasty >brute. The rest of the time I think he is an entertaining writer. > Yup, Ace is a Pearl Harbor conspiracist. Doug ---- <http://ww2.antiwar.com/cockburn/pf/p-c060801.html> Left Coast by Alexander Cockburn Antiwar.com June 8, 2000 Things You Can't Say in America FDR knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor John Flynn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 16 14:30:14 PST 2002

29496 litigation and politics -- rank: 1000

Heer, Jeet wrote: >Toobin's comments strike me as historically short-sighted. Did liberals >invent judicial activism? What about all the conservative decisions of the >19th and early 20th century, upholding segregation and striking down social >reforms? The period from the 1950s to the early 1970s was only a small >liberal island in a sea of judicial conservatism, I would argue. Your earlier examples blocked political reform. Toobin - making a point I've made myself, which is why ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 16 14:25:16 PST 2002

29497 The case against conspiracy -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: > > 3. The very name "Pearl Harbor," for all but the ignorant, >> is virtually synonymous with "a provoked and expected >> attack, permitted to happen for the purpose of shocking >> the American public into enthusiastic support for a war >> that it had previously refused to accept." >> > >This is a novel and dubious definition for "Pearl Harbor," unless >you spend your time reading right-wing cons ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 16 14:02:46 PST 2002

29498 Barro: Afg needs a good dictator -- rank: 1000

Business Week - January 21, 2002 ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT By Robert J. Barro The military successes in Afghanistan have demonstrated the awesome technological prowess of U.S. air power. However, as the campaign evolves into a nation-building operation, we shall find that our skills in the social and political arena do not match our military talents. The U.S. vision for a postwar Afghanistan relies on the familiar recipes of democracy and massive foreign aid. Unfortunately, neither is likely to work ef ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 16 14:01:37 PST 2002

29499 litigation and politics -- rank: 1000

An excerpt from a profile of legal writer Jeffrey Toobin in Publishers Weekly, January 11, 2000 <http://www.publishersweekly.com/articles/20000110_83934.asp>: >"My thesis about the Clinton scandals relates a great deal to the >evolution of political culture and the political class in this >country," Toobin says with zeal. "Like any storyteller, I love a >good irony. And basically what happened is part of a larger >development that is regrettable, I think: that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 16 13:31:17 PST 2002

29500 different from you & me -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Financial Times - January 15, 2002 > >THE AMERICAS: Kerkorian contests claim NEWS DIGEST >By ANDREW EDGECLIFFE-JOHNSON > >Kerkorian contests claim > Turns out the document is at <http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.shtml>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 16 09:58:59 PST 2002

29501 Up and down the road to a big anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But as far as Seattle (and this applies even more to later protests) I think >the vast number of activists are peaceful, disciplined fighters for >justice-- and they have refused to restrain the small number of vandals and >violence-freaks who give the police the excuse to arrest and beat the shit >out of the rest. First of all, people who smash windows aren't "violence freaks." You may not like what they do, but it's pretty minor league stuff. By u ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 16 09:20:54 PST 2002

29502 different from you & me -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - January 15, 2002 THE AMERICAS: Kerkorian contests claim NEWS DIGEST By ANDREW EDGECLIFFE-JOHNSON Kerkorian contests claim Kirk Kerkorian, the 84-year-old billionaire behind MGM's casino's and studios, said yesterday he would contest a child support claim in which his ex-wife is asking for Dollars 320,000 per month for their three-year old daughter. The claim, lodged in the Los Angeles Superior Court by Lisa Bonder Kerkorian, would be the largest in California history and would ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 16 09:15:49 PST 2002

29503 fun reading -- rank: 1000

The U.S. military on crowd control: <http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/19-15/toc.htm>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 15 15:27:25 PST 2002

29504 Up and down the road to a big anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Friends and family who are both antiwar and pro-global justice, when I told >them the Seattle style protests were coming to town, could only marvel at >the insanity of the idea of picking a rumble with the NYPD right now. Who said anything about picking a rumble, except the Daily News and some loons in government? Who do you think picked a rumble in Seattle? Are we just not allowed to have large demos anymore? You want to go along with that? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 15 15:06:27 PST 2002

29505 Girlish Figure -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >So many people struggle to look like the fantasy images in TV and film. This >woman's trying to imitate the fantasy images of fetish art. She's suffering >to be more kinky (and bec she gets off on pain, I guess). It's the old >problem of where you draw the line with living out fantasies. I don't buy >the idea that it's OK to live out fantasies of violence and oppression, >which can somehow be compartmentalized so as not to take over the rest of >you ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 15 13:55:14 PST 2002