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30241 Supreme Court? what's that? -- rank: 1000

Washington Times - April 23, 2002 Rice for brains Top Stories Kellyanne Conway, president and CEO of the Polling Company in Washington, is still shaking her head over the results of her new poll showing the nation is vastly unaware of who - or even how many - justices sit on the United States Supreme Court. Nearly two-thirds of 800 Americans polled could not name a single member of the current court and just 32 percent knew that there are nine justices. Only five persons in the entire survey cou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 24 09:47:14 PDT 2002

30242 DC cops -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] GETTING COPS TO BEHAVE I One of the astonishing things about the recent demonstrations in Washington is how much better the Metropolitan Police Department behaved compared to its unconstitutional, abusive, illegal, and counterproductive handling of the last large protests in April 2000. The story, while local in nature, has more general applicability for two reasons: (1) we don't get that much good news these days and (2) the good news in this case appears t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 24 09:44:32 PDT 2002

30243 Fwd: Web Content Management -- rank: 1000

star.matrix at verizon.net wrote: >oooh oooh. nice spam from LOB. don't use that address for anything >else! woot! woot! enjoy! <yawn>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 24 09:34:06 PDT 2002

30244 Socialists and Equality -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >might be better to talk about equity, not equality, and the differences there. > >equity refers to fairness, whereas equality refers to sameness. I'm reminded of South African finance minister Trevor Manuel, at the World Economic Forum. As I reported at the time: At 10:13 AM -0500 2/4/02, Doug Henwood wrote: >And, during his presentation, he made a point of distinguishing >equity from equality. I went up to him afterwards to ask to develop >tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 24 09:36:12 PDT 2002

30245 Disaster in France-What Must Be Done Now -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The most misguided aspect of the Greens in my mind has always been their >assumption that you can build a mass movement around electoral campaining, >rather than the reverse being true. I've always said that the say the >AFL-CIO and the NAACP walk out of the Dems to form a third party is the day >I'd walk out with them, since that would mean there would be a real base to >build campaigns and turnout around. The first sentence is competely true, but the ne ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 23 15:04:25 PDT 2002

30246 No ANSWER -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Read below how tovarish CB and tongzhi CC get along so >swell. I love how a misreading of an article - by a retired professional close-reader - is followed by a "I know nothing about," and is finished off with a vigorous series of judgments and pronunciamenti. It belongs in a great moments of chutzpah museum, if there were one. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 23 14:49:57 PDT 2002

30247 Business Week & the Nineties -- rank: 1000

[majordomo bounced this because of all the html and graphics - here's the text] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Subject: Business Week & the Nineties Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:18:54 -0400 [Apologies for html, but you need it for the charts {suppressed - ed.{. This came up a week or so ago. Dean finally finished this, after my egging him on. Feel free to circulate, with credit of course to Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research. mbs] Business Week Restates the Ninetie ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 23 14:45:26 PDT 2002

30248 Buchanan on LePen -- rank: 1000

[this was sent to the list but it bounced because, thank god, linda at buchanan.org isn't a subscriber - to save time & trouble, I've been deleting most bounces unread (which can include posts from actual subscribers sent from unsub'd addresses) - I read this one by mistake] Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:58:00 -0700 From: Linda Muller <linda at buchanan.org> Subject: Fw: [BRIGADE] PJB: The Earthquake in France To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Dear Brigade, "The vision ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 23 12:37:47 PDT 2002

30249 Columbia GESU campaign -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:35:23 -0400 From: Local 2110 Uptown <TOP2110 at 2110uaw.org> To: TOP2110 at 2110uaw.org Subject: IMPORTANT DAY OF PROTEST APRIL 29 GSEU CALLS FOR ONE-DAY WORK STOPPAGE APRIL 29 Last month, TAs and RAs at Columbia voted on union representation with GSEU/UAW. Based on post-election reports, we are very confident that the union won. But, unable to defeat the union in a fair election, Columbia is now appealing the NLRB decision that gives RAs and TAs the right to org ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 23 11:22:57 PDT 2002

30250 Disaster in France-What Must Be Done Now -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >And the soft right doesn't induce splintering because of what... exactly? What soft right? The species liberal Republican is virtually extinct, aside from a few protected enclaves (e.g. the NYC City Hall right now). I suppose you could call the DLC soft right, but they've taken over what's conventionally regarded as the lefter party. (Oh, no, I forgot about those 60 good pwogwessives in the House, and all those splendid activists on the ground who've accomplished so much. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 23 11:26:35 PDT 2002

30251 UK budget, Israel -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >It's historical memory of Auschwitz, not identification with Ariel >Sharon, that is one of the principal drivers of U.S. policy. The U.S. government? Really? You actually think that the senior officials of the USG care about this sort of thing, beyond PR concerns? The people who snuffed three million Indochinese and a million Iraqis? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 23 11:30:21 PDT 2002

30252 the Newest World Order -- rank: 1000

Finally found Nicholas Lemann's New Yorker article on the Bush imperial strategy online: <http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020401fa_FACT1>. A flavorful excerpt: >When George W. Bush was campaigning for President, he and the people >around him didn't seem to be proposing a great doctrinal shift, >along the lines of the policy of containment of the Soviet Union's >sphere of influence which the United States maintained during the >Cold War. In his first major foreign-poli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 23 10:49:39 PDT 2002

30253 McReynolds on A20 -- rank: 1000

From: DavidMcR at aol.com Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:42:33 EDT Subject: Washington DC Rally Report When I got home at midnight Saturday from Washington I was dead tired - as were tens of thousands of others across they country.To catch the 6 a.m. bus from the War Resisters League office in lower Manhattan I had skipped sleep Friday night. But I had enough energy left when I got home that I almost typed this up last night. Almost . . .but not quite. I fell asleep with good intentions. So let me ge ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 23 10:36:02 PDT 2002

30254 Hayek -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >It's deep hard stuff. Hayek? Deep hard stuff? Are you serious? Regardless what you think of him, that seems an odd characterization. I much prefer Keynes's comments on Prices & Production, a deeply bizarre book: "one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45, and yet it remains a book of some interest, which is likely to leave its mark on the mind of the reader. It is an extraordinary example ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 23 10:11:40 PDT 2002

30255 Fwd: question about Manuel Castells -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >That was my experience exactly, except that I blamed it more severely on >him. At first skim, he looked like he was going to connect a lot of >interesting stuff that hadn't been connected before. But after 50 pages >my strong impression was that the only connection he provided was >juxtaposition, and that his only theory was that everything was somehow >connected. He excels at creating empty but important-sounding phrases like the "space of flows.& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 23 07:32:22 PDT 2002