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29656 Tariq Ali's Forthcoming Book -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >In the March/April 2000 issue of New Left Review, Ali has a >great, combined review of >John Cooley's _Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and >International Terrorism_ and Ahmed Rashid's _Taliban: Islam, Oil >and the New Great Game in Central Asia_. Ali had Verso reject Rashid's book because it wasn't serious enough. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 21 19:53:47 PST 2002

29657 O'Neill: "WB has driven poor countries into a ditch" -- rank: 1000

Vikash Yadav wrote: >Below is a very similar article by the New York Times on O'Neill's >statement... It does appear that this "international compassionate >conservatism" is really a devious plan to destroy the World Bank. And that's bad? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 21 19:50:28 PST 2002

29658 Jude uncorks one -- rank: 1000

[hey gang, while I was away you were spared my Jude Wanniski fixation] A DR. GOEBBELS IN RED, WHITE AND BLUE Memo To: The Fourth Estate Editors From: Jude Wanniski Re: The Office of Strategic Influence The lead story in the Tuesday, February 19 NYTimes was headlined: "PENTAGON READIES EFFORTS TO SWAY SENTIMENT ABROAD," and as I read it I first wondered if it were some kind of joke. The subhead read: "New Office Proposes to Send News or Maybe False News to Even Friendly Lands." ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 21 18:25:24 PST 2002

29659 Rah RAh -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >NYC is bidding for the 2012 Olympic Games and they have brought on a >Silicon Alley venture capitalist to help promote the city Jerry Colonna, yeah. Mark Dery interviewed the two of us during Mark's brief tenure as editor of Artbyte. Colonna's a decent guy, no Kevin Kelley-style madman. Marched with the SWP at one time, he said. Worried about income polarization. Implied that Kozmo.com would turn profitable, but he couldn't say that outright because there was supposedly some ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 21 18:14:17 PST 2002

29660 hit the anarchist -- rank: 1000

On my Mac, it didn't work with IE 5.1, but it did with Netscape 6.2. Doug Heer, Jeet wrote: >hey, I can't get this game to work... any suggestions as to how this thing >works.... > >> ---------- >> From: / dave / >> Reply To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 16:36 >> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >> Subject: Re: hit the anarchist >> >> Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> > <http://www.dolph ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 21 16:56:10 PST 2002

29661 La France n'existe pas -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >This just in from the food-court of the Starship Europa: > >>"For Mr Caldagues, the cafe-owner, the end of the franc means the end of > >France itself. > > >>"France no longer exists," he said. "It's Europe now." > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1825000/1825952.stm > >-- Dennis It's weird to meet the newborn euro. What a strange currency it is, in its physical form. No hi ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 21 15:53:08 PST 2002

29662 Facism and court decisions (was The New N at zi$m) -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Because of Nader No, because of Gore. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 21 14:52:08 PST 2002

29663 sado-monetarism -- rank: 1000

michael perelman wrote: >I just returned from the UC Davis Library. Here is the reference. > >Healey, Denis. 1989. The Time of My Life (London: M. Joseph). >491: "At first I used to describe these comic-strip > syllogisms as 'punk monetarism'. Later, when my children > told me this was unfair to the youth culture, I used the > phrase 'sado-monetarism, instead." Also unfair to sadism, which unlike monetary policy, is consensual. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 21 14:40:28 PST 2002

29664 Pass the bong -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >You mean De Overkant, which if I remember right is a modest, very laid back >rasta hangout where the proprietor has rigged a "menu" that pops down and >opens up when he pulls a string? Or do you mean the Other Place, near the >red light district? Nope, The Other Side, on Reguliersdwarstraat. A gay-ish place with a good techno soundtrack, one of our fave coffeeshops. The Greenhouse is pretty cool too. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 21 14:15:50 PST 2002

29665 sex roles -- rank: 1000

[no source given, but the forwarder seems reliable...] Different takes on men who take time off for family Rebecca Theim Published February 20, 2002 Although mothers who take time off from the job to care for children frequently contend that they feel professionally penalized, a new study indicates that fathers who do so are viewed even more negatively. Julie Holliday Wayne, an assistant psychology professor at Wake Forest University, asked 242 research volunteers to review mock personnel files ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 21 14:01:00 PST 2002

29666 hit the anarchist -- rank: 1000

Smash an anarchist with a baseball bat and score valuable points: <http://www.sponsoredbydiesel.com/splash_13.html>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 21 13:06:00 PST 2002

29667 an alternative -- rank: 1000

Just catching up. For all you who've despaired of sex with humans, take a look at <http://www.dolphinsex.org/>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 21 10:05:26 PST 2002

29668 O'Neill on grants -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's clipping service - O'Neill never says where this grant money is supposed to come from, does he?] U.S. TREASURY CHIEF PUSHES MORE FOREIGN AID GRANTS. US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill hotly defended the Bush administration's foreign-aid policy in a public exchange Wednesday with senior European officials, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and billionaire philanthropist George Soros, the Wall Street Journal reports. A quiet conference on international assistance Wednesday unexpectedl ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 21 09:29:17 PST 2002

29669 voicemail -- rank: 1000

has this one come by while I was away? <http://www.witcity.com/enron/>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 20 15:20:35 PST 2002

29670 Pass the bong -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >[Wonder how Doug's handling the space cakes...:->] Didn't touch 'em. Fattening, you know. Besides, The Other Side was sold out of them when we dropped by. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 20 15:05:08 PST 2002