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29881 My middle name is Strange -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I've always known that, but it occurs to me that I never even wondered >whether it should be written > > Harry S. Truman >or > Harry S Truman > >And I can't recall now what the usage was in headlines, news articles, >magazines, etc. There must be some facsimiles of his signature on the >web someplace. On the White House web site, there's no period <http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 11 11:00:39 PST 2002

29882 My middle name is Strange -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I suppose older geezers than I already know this, but I thought this was >even better than the fact that Harry S. Truman's middle name is "S." >Robert S. McNamara's middle name is Strange. It was his mother's maiden >name. And Paul Volcker's middle name is Adolph. He didn't like people to know this, back when people knew who he was. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 11 10:58:33 PST 2002

29883 USAID promoting water privatization in SA -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - December 10, 2002 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY: US aid agency wades into South African water controversy By Alan Beattie in Washington and James Lamont in Johannesburg The US Agency for International Development (USAid) has sponsored a report that backs the idea of water privatisation in South Africa, sparking complaints that it is interfering in domestic politics. The report by Padco, a Washington-based consultancy under contract to USAid, has been circulated at donors' meetings in S ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 11 09:34:39 PST 2002

29884 Lula's appointments for Treasury and Dept. Environment -- rank: 1000

So it's Palocci as fin min - who promises a wonderfully austere and orthodox budget. How's this going to play in Brazil? Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 10 17:51:05 PST 2002

29885 GOP flukes are few -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe _ December 10, 2002 NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Democrats add it up: GOP flukes are few By David M. Shribman, Globe Columnist WASHINGTON - Even with the holiday cheer on the radio and the colorful displays in the store windows, a dark, wintry gloom is settling on the Democratic Party. Poll results show strikingly positive ratings for the Republicans. President Bush retains strong support. Democratic leaders are already worrying about the party's prospects for 2004. But the gravest indicato ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 10 17:37:17 PST 2002

29886 fat GIs? -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] TIMES, UK - As U.S. troops prepare for war in Iraq a report is about to reveal that more than half of them are overweight. A panel of nine medical experts commissioned by the Pentagon is expected to say that 53.9 per cent of US military personnel over the age of 20 would be classified as too fat to fight under federal obesity standards. A fifth of those aged under 20 would also fail the fat test, The Times has learnt. . . A Pentagon document seen by The Times ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 10 15:40:03 PST 2002

29887 Xmas shopping -- rank: 1000

Wow, where else can you get a Nixon/Presley mousepad, or a Nixon cappuccino mug? <http://www.nixonfoundation.org/store/index.cfm>. Orders submitted by Dec 14 can be shipped in time for Christmas! Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 10 13:43:34 PST 2002

29888 reprieve for Donahue? -- rank: 1000

USA Today - December 9, 2002 Media Mix Peter Johnson Audience enlivens Donahue's talk show MSNBC talk-show host Phil Donahue is taking a page from Mark Twain: Reports of his death appear to be an exaggeration. Just weeks after parent network NBC was ready to pull the plug on Donahue's 6-month-old gig, he may have gotten a reprieve. Executives like his shows now that he has begun hosting before a studio audience, as he did in his old daytime talk days. Thursday's program on angry white men drew 5 ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 10 13:31:46 PST 2002

29889 Getting it right -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >You hold Doug up as a standard. I hold him up as an >ideal. Very few of us are as smart, fast, careful, >knowledgeable, and efficient as Doug. He's as good as >they come for that reason, and we should aspire to be >like him, but there aren't that many of us who are -- >scholars or journalists. We should criticize the >errors of left (and other) journalists, but we have to >take their work for what it's worth even if it isn't >as good as Doug ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 10 13:28:26 PST 2002

29890 Fed leaves rates unchanged -- rank: 1000

[No surprise here. "Balanced risks" means no bias towards further easing, but that could change if the economic numbers weaken. Lately they've been a mixed, basically trendless, bag.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/BoardDocs/Press/monetary/2002/20021210/default.htm> Release Date: December 10, 2002 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate unchanged at 1-1/4 percent. The Committee continues to believe that t ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 10 12:50:38 PST 2002

29891 Pat Robertson & anal sex -- rank: 1000

Amazon removes link in sex manual flap <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/po/20021210/co_po/amazon_removes_link_in_sex_manual_flaphttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/po/20021210/co_po/amazon_removes_link_in_sex_manual_flap> Community - Planet Out Amazon removes link in sex manual flap Mon Dec 9, 7:51 PM ET Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network SUMMARY: Amazon.com on Friday removed a link to an anal sex manual for men that was featured next to a listing for a book ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 10 10:51:19 PST 2002

29892 aging viewers of news -- rank: 1000

<http://www.mediaweek.com/mediaweek/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1775302> The Graying of the News John Consoli DECEMBER 09, 2002 - A little more than a year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks had people riveted to TV news shows, droves of viewers -- especially in younger demographic categories -- are drifting away, both from the network newscasts and 24-hour cable networks. Not surprisingly, most of the new viewers still watching are in older demo groups. The nightly news ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 10 09:32:37 PST 2002

29893 Fwd: BUSINESS ALERT: William Donaldson to Be Named SEC Chief -- rank: 1000

[Donaldson is a Bonesman, of course! No doubt someone with a resume like his will be tough on Wall Street.] BUSINESS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal Dec. 10, 2002 President Bush picked William Donaldson to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, Republican officials said. An announcement was expected later Tuesday. A co-founder of investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Mr. Donaldson has also been a chairman and chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange. FOR MORE INFORMATI ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 10 08:38:53 PST 2002

29894 Goldman Sachs: high dollar not in US interest -- rank: 1000

>DAILY FINANCIAL MARKET COMMENT 12/10/02 Goldman Sachs Economics > >* Two questions about the new economic team are foremost in >investors' minds. The first is the 'strong dollar policy.' We >do not expect any quick and explicit changes in this area, which >is the Treasury Secretary's responsibility. However, our own >view is that a strong dollar is no longer in the interest of the >United States.

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Date:	Mon Dec 9 15:36:33 PST 2002

29895 more Toni -- rank: 1000

<http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/09/1426230> Antonio Negri, "B as is Red Brigades" The following is a dialogue with Anne DuFourmantelle from Negri's recently published "Abecedaire Politique" (Calmann-Levy 2002), and was translated by Thomas Seay. "B" as in Red Brigade [Brigades Rouges] Toni Negri: One should be careful not to think of the Red Brigade as the sum-total of the 70s movement; nor should one think of that movement as set off in his ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 9 11:35:30 PST 2002