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29521 Enron -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote: > > There will be calls for >> legislative reform, but for the sake of bi-partisanship, congressional >> Democrats will do nothing. Hearings will proceed and various boards >> and commission will promise to do better. > >Why should Dems be bipartisan- they actually do like winning elections, >whatever you think of their progressive credentials, and the advantage of >Democrats becomin ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 11 10:18:31 PST 2002

29522 Orwells? -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >A particularly dumb piece from the tinted pages of the NY Observer. > ><http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage5.asp>http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage5.asp > >Wonder what Rosenbaum gets paid to ramble like this. Watta gig! This may be worse. This, in fact, may be one of the worst pieces of journalism of the new century. Why does Hertzberg need to flatter the Sulzbergers? Is he looking for a job? Doug ---- The New Yorker - January 14, 2002 COMMENT HOW ALL ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 11 10:03:45 PST 2002

29523 ENE: more dirt -- rank: 1000

Oh, this is getting so exciting: At 12:20 PM -0500 1/11/02, Yahoo! Alerts - Breaking News wrote: >WASHINGTON _ Enron asked top Treasury official to intervene with >bankers as it negotiated credit extension.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 11 09:46:27 PST 2002

29524 more diversity, say capitalists -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - January 11, 2002 Lack of Diversity in Higher Education Could Result in Worker Shortage, Report Says By ALEX P. KELLOGG The United States faces a social and economic crisis if diversity in higher education isn't drastically improved, a coalition of corporate chief executives and university presidents says in a report released on Thursday. The report, titled "Investing in People: Developing All of America's Talent on Campus and in the Workplace," notes tha ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 11 06:34:37 PST 2002

29525 Soviet Union better than Yeltsin -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >On another note, anybody who talks about "ugly Stalinist architecture" has >obviously never seen any. How many beautiful buildings have been built in the U.S. since the end of WW II? Not houses, but large urban buildings that everyone can see? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 11 06:33:43 PST 2002

29526 9-11 suspicious trading -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >by Anthony Sutton, a far rightist fired from the Hoover Institution. Sutton >wrote, "Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, " >http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/bolshevik_revolution/ >cited by many including this book that got up to #29 on the NYT bestseller >list, >(with help from Gary Null of WBAI) What did that quack Null have to do with it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 11 06:22:42 PST 2002

29527 Pak aims to halve debt servicing in 3 yrs -- rank: 1000

Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >The Times of India > >WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 02, 2002 > >Pak aims to halve debt servicing in 3yrs Is the monosyllable "Pak" not perceived as an epithet? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 10 16:20:06 PST 2002

29528 Enron -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >As for legality, just wait. Today was lovely. Maggot Ashcroft with >illegal campaign contributions from Lay. And Anderson admitting that >they've been destroying the documents, and the White House admitting >that the Enron maggots were crawling all over the place. And Bill Lerach > with permission to take discovery as to whether the Biggies have been >hiding their gains. Don't you think at least a couple of them panicked >and did some truly stupid incrimi ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 10 15:55:41 PST 2002

29529 Posties -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Hakki Alacakaptan crossposted: > >> lib obscurantism. Here's an old Paglia comment from Salon: >> >> priori thesis. For those in the humanities, where anti-aesthetic British >> cultural studies (shaped by the out-of-date Frankfurt School) has become >> entrenched, I recommend "The Social History of Art" (translated into English >> in 1951), an epic work by the Marxist scholar Arnold Hauser ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 10 15:40:28 PST 2002

29530 antiglobo = nazi? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Can someone untangle this spaghetti? Who is attacking whom >for attacking whom, and why? Damn - I was hoping you could! Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 10 13:22:42 PST 2002

29531 Some (Possibly) Clarifying Questions , was Re: Who is a capitalist. . . . -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Two simple yes or no questions, and I think it's useful to answer them >as a framework for this discussion. > >Do you, Doug Henwood, believe that a capitalist class exists? Yes. I'd say it consists of direct owners of the means of production, large stockholders, high-end financiers, and very senior execs of very large firms. >And if it exists, is it a ruling class? Good question. I'm tempted to say that not all capitalists are members of the ruling class, and no ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 10 12:56:52 PST 2002

29532 Who is a capitalist nowadays? (was Re: Negri on globo -- rank: 1000

Chris Beggy wrote: >I'm old fashioned, though. Don't H&N suggest that the >capitalists are those who exercise great sway over biopower and >reproduction, rather than production? That would be officers of >media companies, armed forces, large employers, and mailling list >moderators. For some people, four walls are three too many. Yours in power, Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 10 12:51:44 PST 2002

29533 antiglobo = nazi? -- rank: 1000

[does anyone know anything about this lunacy? much more at the URL] <http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/01/10/25249.html> 18:30 2002-01-10 BILL WHITE: VIRTUAL RETCH SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER JOINS WITH PORNOGRAPHERS AND NEO-CONS TO ATTACK THE ANTI-GLOBALIST MOVEMENT "A solid case can be made that the Third Reich National Socialists were the first Green Party - a genocidal pack of ecofreaks." That strange quote was one of many published by militant neo-liberal activist Michael R ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 10 12:50:03 PST 2002

29534 paper -- rank: 1000

By the way, that Krueger/Mas paper on Firestone is at <http://www.irs.princeton.edu/pubs/pdfs/461.pdf>.

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Date:	Thu Jan 10 07:30:32 PST 2002

29535 bosses, please be nice to your workers -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 10, 2002 The Hidden Cost Of Labor Strife TREAT WORKERS WELL, and they'll work harder. Treat them harshly, and they'll get even. So union leaders, lefties and labor economists preach, hoping to persuade bosses that it's in their interest to keep workers happy. But hard evidence that better-paid, better-treated workers are more productive has been skimpy. Plenty of companies prosper while treating workers as interchangeable parts. Now a pair of Princeton University ec ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 10 07:26:53 PST 2002