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29596 religion test -- rank: 1000

Yet another net.diagnosis - what religion are you? Thanks to Sam Smith's Progressive Review: <http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 3 07:21:58 PST 2002

29597 Afghan famine averted -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - December 31, 2001 Massive Food Delivery Averts Afghan Famine By Marc Kaufman Washington Post Staff Writer The delivery of unprecedented amounts of wheat to Afghanistan over the past month has averted a major famine this winter, international and American relief officials said last week. Although they are wary of claiming total victory, officials said they believe the overall food supply in Afghanistan is now sufficient and conditions are stable enough to deliver food throughout ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 3 07:18:50 PST 2002

29598 US economy turning? -- rank: 1000

[The bourgie consensus is now that the U.S. economy is bottoming, or has already bottomed, and is about to turn up, perhaps strongly. The leftie consensus is that it's only begun worsening. Hmmm.] Wall Street Journal - January 3, 2002 Manufacturing Sector Shows Signs of Life In Latest Indication of Economic Upturn By GREG IP Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The battered manufacturing sector showed signs of emerging from a year-and-a-half long slump, as a widely watched sur ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 2 18:54:52 PST 2002

29599 Argentina -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray quoted The Guardian: >Mr Duhalde is certainly better equipped than any of his immediate >predecessors to steer Argentina out of its grave crisis.... Why's that? The Financial Times reported: "Analysts say he effectively bought control of the Peronist party in Buenos Aires - the wealthiest and most populous province - during his term as governor. To do so, he ran up huge debts, with the result that the province is today facing bankruptcy." Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 2 18:19:14 PST 2002

29600 tell Rudy what you think -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 09:07:48 -0500 From: "Xpress Press(tm) News Service" <MichaelKoenig at XpressPress.com> Subject: Public Invited to Say Farewell to Rudy Giuliani in Tribute Book FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CelebrateSomebody.com Invites the Public to Say Farewell to Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in A Tribute Journal to be delivered in on January 28th Stamford, Ct. -- January 2, 2002 -- /Xpress Press/ -- Tribute gift book publisher, CelebrateSomebody.com invites the public ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 2 06:42:12 PST 2002

29601 Muscular Xians -- rank: 1000

Just when Christopher Hitchens thought Muscularity was dead. This from WFMU's <http://www.wfmu.org> listener newsletter. >Friday, January 4, 3-6pm >THE MUSCULAR CHRISTIANS >Singer-songwriter types musically, but knife-twistingly poignant and >lyrically disturbing. The Muscular Christians bring to mind Michael Hurley >and Townes Van Zandt crossed with Palace, Bill Callahan and The Frogs! Tune >in for something absolutely fresh for the new year! On The Cherry Blossom > ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 1 17:22:38 PST 2002

29602 Muddy Screaming Blairs -- rank: 1000

Cian O'Connor wrote: >Living Marxism was the mouth piece of the >Revolutionary Communist Party - a bizarre, right wing, >marxist cult. Cue to James Heartfield, to tell all.... Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 1 15:42:21 PST 2002

29603 What n' BAI? -- rank: 1000

rhisiart at earthlink.net wrote: >why aren't you helping with the fund raising, doug? no public spirit? I'd have been happy to. I was told I was pre-empted by a national braodcast. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 28 15:31:35 PST 2002

29604 What n' BAI? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >What's going on? Instead of Doug's show there's something itself Free >Pacifica. They're doing an all-day national fundraiser, the first time all 5 Pacifica stations have begged in unison. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 28 15:11:25 PST 2002

29605 Zizek -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >>ravi wrote: >> >>>louis proyect >> >>If this keeps up, I'm going to reconfigure majordomo to bounce >>anything with the above-cited alphanumeric configuration. >> > >huh? did you have to make an example out of me? Heavens no, and sorry if it seemed that way. I was just reacting to the proliferation of citations of that name, whoever it is that it refers to. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 28 13:14:38 PST 2002

29606 work, curse of the drinking class -- rank: 1000

"Employment, Wages, and Alcohol Consumption in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data" BY: ERDAL TEKIN Georgia State University Department of Economics Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=300649 Other Electronic Document Delivery: ftp://ftp.iza.org/dps/dp432.pdf SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection location. When URLs w ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 28 12:29:28 PST 2002

29607 Bull Dyke -- rank: 1000

DHK wrote: >http://www.angelfire.com/or/sociologyshop/MASTER.html >Steps in overcoming Masturbation (Mormon Advice circa >1970) Actually that's not Mormon advice. The author of that screed, Mark Petersen, was some kind of Protestant fundamentalist who used to hang out in the University of Virginia medical library in the late 1970s, when I worked there as a grad student. He was trying to find scientific evidence that masturbation and nonmarital sex were harmful, and that the only accepta ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 28 12:00:11 PST 2002

29608 Zizek -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >That isn't very nice, especially after the kind words that Proyect >had for you on February 8. "Chuck 'Zero' Munson, who is to the Internet for anarchism, as I am for Marxism." Chuck, those are fighting words! Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 28 11:51:30 PST 2002

29609 Zizek -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >louis proyect If this keeps up, I'm going to reconfigure majordomo to bounce anything with the above-cited alphanumeric configuration. Speaking of which, it's plea-for-funds time again. If I have to read insulting material directed at me on this list, could I get some help paying for it? Either paypal dhenwood at panix.com some money, or send it the old-fashioned way to the address below. Thanks. -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer Village Station - PO Box 953 New York NY 1001 ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 28 11:46:25 PST 2002

29610 Alexander Cockburn on Daniel Pearl -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >5) People whose work you rip off in this way are likely to read your >stuff, and to remember what you did for a *very* *long* *time*... There's the failure to do the legwork, and the misleading use of inline citations - and then there's the practice favored by certain journalists whose names we'll leave out of this who lift whole passages from correspondents, word-for-word, without so much as a thank you, much less a pair of quotation marks. One remembers that for a ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 28 08:10:54 PST 2002