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29761 more Bill & Bono -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - February 5, 2002 OBSERVER: Social butterflies AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS Rudy Giuliani and Bono - the undisputed pop stars of this year's World Economic Forum - made quick departures from the global get-together in New York to see something truly important: the Super Bowl. Giuliani, New York's wildly popular former mayor, was spotted in the luxury seats of the Louisiana Superdome paying close attention to the game. Irish rock star Bono and his band, U2, made it on to the field, sin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 5 16:18:08 PST 2002

29762 Rumsfeld: the Nazi model -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>What made it fascinating, was that Lehrer and Rumsfelt both looked at >>each other as if they didn't believe what had just happened. >> >>Chuck Grimes > >Yes! Normally the Lehrer show is a narcotic so powerful it should >be on the controlled substances list, but I stumbled onto this >exchange while channel surfing and had difficulty retrieving my >eyebrows from the ceiling. I seem to recall that Rumsfeld used some >expression strai ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 5 14:39:28 PST 2002

29763 Gap sinking? -- rank: 1000

[the favorite target of anti-sweatshoppers ain't doing too good] Business Week - February 11, 2002 More Than Just a Bad Patch at Gap Rising debt and a falling credit rating are taking a toll For the past couple of years, critics have lambasted Gap Inc. (GPS) for its lousy fashion sense. But the naysayers may soon have something else to focus on: a balance sheet that's becoming increasingly threadbare. The next two quarters will be critical for Gap. While no one yet expects the San Francisco-base ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 5 14:02:32 PST 2002

29764 Another world is possible -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >The left once believed Another World Is Inevitable. And many in the ruling >class glumly agreed. Maybe it's healthy, though, to shed some of that old >hubris. And maybe it's time now to shed some of that old uncertainty and get a little nervy again. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 5 13:15:52 PST 2002

29765 Rumsfeld: the Nazi model -- rank: 1000

[This was pointed out by BuzzFlash.com, which mainly seems like a laundered PR arm of the Dems, but this is a gem. Rumsfeld, last night, to Jim Lehrer on the NewsHour.] DONALD RUMSFELD: Well, I think when you say "that different," it's important to understand that you can - when the Germans transformed their armed forces into the Blitzkrieg, they transformed only about 5 or 10 percent of their force. Everything else was the same, but they transformed the way they used it, the connectiv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 5 11:18:04 PST 2002

29766 Eurodollars (abd Negri) -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >I mean, that is what >eurodollars are, this stateless money, that defies any >central bank's regulation. Not exactly. They could not exist without the consent of the Federal Reserve, and would be very unlikely to exist if it weren't for very large banks operating under the "too big to fail" doctrine. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 5 11:11:48 PST 2002

29767 WB cover PA -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] SERIOUS IDEAS BEHIND PORTO ALEGRE THEATRICS. Critics of the anti-globalization movement casually observing the World Social Forum (WSF), which ends in the Brazilian port city of Porto Alegre today, could easily conclude the event was little more than a socially aware carnival, an open fair for vendors, artists and politicians to sell their products and ideas, says the Financial Times (p.8) in a report. Yet in many ways the forum was a success for i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 5 11:04:06 PST 2002

29768 Scalia is a pig -- rank: 1000

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2002/02/04/scalia.htm USAToday 02/04/2002 Scalia questions Catholic stance on death penalty WASHINGTON (AP) Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Monday criticized his church's position against the death penalty, saying that Catholic judges who believe capital punishment is wrong should resign. The devout Roman Catholic said after giving it "serious thought" he could not agree with the church's stand on the issue. Scalia questioned the church's op ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 5 08:19:11 PST 2002

29769 bad nooz for Dems -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I have all the criticism of Gore in the world - remember I was the one who >bet on him blowing the election, while everyone on this list was confidently >predicting he would win the election. > >But the fact is that he won more votes than Bush and actually won a higher >percentage of the vote than any Democrat since 1976. And if Nader hadn't >divided the progressive vote, he would have translated that numerical vote >into winning the election. That ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 5 08:16:05 PST 2002

29770 Bill Gates takes rich to task -- rank: 1000

Cian O'Connor wrote: >Except they don't do the research do they. Publicly >funded universities do. They don't do basic research. They develop new drugs, often drawing on publicly funded basic research (with money in the U.S. coming from the National Institutes of Health). They really love to develop new versions of old drugs - tweak a molecule, and get a new, patentable, more expensive version of Valium or whatever. Then spend a bundle marketing the stuff. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 5 08:03:30 PST 2002

29771 the NYC demos: a report -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=featherstone20020204> A Recovered Movement by Liza Featherstone On Saturday, February 2, approximately 12,000 demonstrators gathered in New York City to protest the meeting of the World Economic Forum. Since September 11, mainstream commentators and even a few activists had been singing dirges for the so-called antiglobalization movement. Dissent was deemed unpatriotic in wartime, and insensitive to our national tragedy. Protesters were l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 4 19:06:02 PST 2002

29772 Bill Gates takes rich to task -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Rockefeller, like Gates, turn to philanthropy only after public antipathy >to seemed like it could have adverse consequences. I don't think that's the whole story. I think people who get stinking rich want to justify their lives somehow - to become significant beyond the world of moneymaking. They want social capital to match their economic capital. It flatters their egos, neutralizes any residual guilt they may suffer from, and they get to determine where they spe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 4 17:13:38 PST 2002

29773 bad nooz for Dems -- rank: 1000

[So what's going wrong, Nathan?] Roll Call - February 04, 2002 Frost Poll Yields Ominous Results By Ethan Wallison A much-guarded internal poll presented to House Democrats last week at their annual retreat paints a grim picture of the party's outlook in 22 districts that are considered key to Democratic prospects of winning the majority in November. Among the findings in the survey, a portion of which was obtained by Roll Call, are that Democrats face huge deficits among "persuadable" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 4 14:41:36 PST 2002

29774 Bill Gates takes rich to task -- rank: 1000

Jim Westrich wrote: >"Not only is the cost of inequality the cost we incur for no >economic benefit, but all indications are that it imposes a >substantial economic burden which reduces the competitiveness of the >whole society." > > -Richard Wilkinson, *Unhealthy Societies: The >Afflictions of Inequality* Actually this seems not to be true. Christopher Jencks told me he could make the effect appear or disappear just by tweaking the specifications o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 4 14:23:12 PST 2002

29775 Bono's loves -- rank: 1000

[from a story in Saturday's Wash Post] >U2's Bono kept a low profile today after on Thursday proclaiming >himself a "spoiled-rotten rock star" who loves cake, champagne and >the world's poor.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 4 13:45:56 PST 2002