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29716 Was boom a dream? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Your confidence in the reliability of official numbers is inspiring, >Doug. But I persist in believing that the glowing federal data >regarding US economic health in recent years owe much to the >principle of Garbage In, Garbage Out. See Gretchen Morgenson's >column in the NY Times today, "Scandal's Ripple Effect: Earnings >Under Threat," e.g.: > >"'All of these mechanisms that were designed to present a company's >financial conditi ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 10 07:40:22 PST 2002

29717 Twinkling -- rank: 1000

Nathan: >I thought Cooper's piece was a pile of crap -- why spend the first >part of precious space about PA on trashing domestic folks rather >than highlighting the positive -- but the general view of process >being more serious in such places than in our "process-obsessed" >groups strikes me as true. I find the process of many student and >"anarchist" groups to be incredibly elitist and anti-democratic, >with endless meetings and insider-manipulated pro ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 10 07:30:29 PST 2002

29718 Interview with Hardt; My two cents on P.A. -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Do you think this might have something to do with protecting intellectual >property/patents? "Bill and I both have issues about intellectual property...." - Bono, at the WEF, in response to a question about a Brazlian journalist about low-cost AIDS drugs

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Date:	Sat Feb 9 07:53:10 PST 2002

29719 Twinkling -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I thought Cooper's piece was a pile of crap -- why spend the first part of >precious space about PA on trashing domestic folks rather than highlighting >the positive -- but the general view of process being more serious in such >places than in our "process-obsessed" groups strikes me as true. I find the >process of many student and "anarchist" groups to be incredibly elitist and >anti-democratic, with endless meetings and insider-manip ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 9 08:25:21 PST 2002

29720 The Panic Spreads -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss quoted: >The Panic Spreads >Benjamin Fulford, Forbes Global, 02.18.02 > >You can no longer safely shrug off Japan's economic crisis. It just might >drag the world into a depression. >The world--including even the previously sanguine Japanese--is now catching >on to the fact that Japan's 12-year slump has deteriorated into a full-blown >crisis, threatening a wild global ride. Falloffs in various indicators in >the world's second-largest economy resemble the p ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 9 08:21:58 PST 2002

29721 linda lay in the news -- rank: 1000

Leslilake1 at aol.com wrote: >JEFF ST. CLAIR: > >"It turns out that Linda Lay's weepy interview with Lisa Meyers of NBC News >this week was as phony as an Enron stock prospectus. The tears shed by Lay's >latest trophy wife were scripted by public relations mavens from the >powerhouse firm Hill and Knowlton... > >Now the Lays face poverty and deserve pity, not jail time. "We're broke," >Linda moaned. "We're selling everything we own." The tears ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 9 08:08:48 PST 2002

29722 Fwd: Herbert Marcuse website launch -- rank: 1000

From: Christian Fuchs <christian at igw.tuwien.ac.at> To: frankfurt-school at lists.village.virginia.edu Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 03:00:46 +0100 Herbert Marcuse Archive <http://cartoon.iguw.tuwien.ac.at/christian/marcuse/>http://cartoon.iguw.tuwien.ac.at/christian/marcuse/ maintained by the Herbert Marcuse Association In the Information Age, the conditions for Critical Theories of Society have changed. With this Web Site we are trying to supply material on the topicality of Herbert Marc ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 9 07:43:33 PST 2002

29723 wow -- rank: 1000

At 7:39 PM -0500 2/8/02, Yahoo! Alerts - Breaking News wrote: >WASHINGTON _ Taliban foreign minister has turned himself in to U.S. >forces in Afghanistan.

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 16:49:35 PST 2002

29724 Fwd: sexuality of christ -- rank: 1000

[a helpful archive-reader writes - it should have been a translation from the french] Hi, just read this from the lbotalk archives: >A whole book on the topic of the Son of God's erections appeared >sometime in the 1980s. I think it was a translation from the French, >of course. >Doug I think you must be talking about "The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissnce Art and in Modern Oblivion". it's by Leo Steinberg, born in Moscow, Ph.D. from NYU. it came out in 1983. great illu ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 16:12:44 PST 2002

29725 Fwd: U.S.: Incomplete Access to Sept. 11 Detainees -- rank: 1000

United States: Incomplete Access to Sept. 11 Detainees INS limits tour for human rights groups (New York, February 8, 2002) The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) continues to refuse to disclose basic information about people detained after September 11, Human Rights Watch said today. Although the INS permitted Human Rights Watch and other groups to visit two New Jersey jails on Wednesday, February 6, agency officials refused to answer fundamental questions about the detainees and in o ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 15:51:34 PST 2002

29726 Discernibly "Turgid" Penises outlawed -- rank: 1000

rhisiart at earthlink.net wrote: >At 04:56 PM 2/8/2002 -0500, you wrote: >>Carrol Cox wrote: >> >>>Jim Westrich wrote: >>> >>>In Lysistrata one of the characters asks another if he has a javelin >>>hidden under his toga. >> >>And what about all those Renaissance paintings of Jesus, visibly >>erect under his toga? >> >>Doug > > >solely artistic interest on your part, doug? or did you find >yourself deep ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 14:44:11 PST 2002

29727 recycling -- rank: 1000

Just noticed this suggestion at the bottom of a screen when I was browsing on Amazon.com: >Doug Henwood, make $417.65 >Sell your past purchases at Amazon.com today! Guess they move more units that way... Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 14:43:14 PST 2002

29728 Discernibly "Turgid" Penises outlawed -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Even the Baby Jesus erect (not covered) with St. Anne seeming to stroke >him. There's a long scholarly article on this someplace, perhaps >Critical Inquiry. If I recall correctly, the article argued that the >convention was meant to emphasize the Incarnation by emphasizing the >body, and what better way to emphasize body than an erection. Milton >wrote a sonnet on the circumcision of Jesus. A whole book on the topic of the Son of God's erections appeared some ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 14:21:01 PST 2002

29729 Discernibly "Turgid" Penises outlawed -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Jim Westrich wrote: >> >> Locust Township (PA) has outlawed "the showing of covered male >> genitals in a discernible turgid state." $300 fine/90 days for >> violatiions, children under 10 exempt. Fondling your own genitals >> also outlawed. >> > >In Lysistrata one of the characters asks another if he has a javelin >hidden under his toga. And what about all those Renaissance paintings of Jesus, visibly erect under ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 13:56:38 PST 2002

29730 Cooper on PA -- rank: 1000

rhisiart at earthlink.net wrote: >i have to hand it to you, doug. you're loyal. even to sleazy marc cooper. I did it just for you, comrade. >by the way, there are better sources about the Porto Alegre meeting than coop. Really? I had no idea. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 13:35:15 PST 2002