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30331 the cost of cigs -- rank: 1000

Manna for tobacco haters: * Annual Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs --- United States, 1995--1999 <http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5114a2.htm>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 12 08:16:31 PDT 2002

30332 Enron suicide note disclosed -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Thu Apr 11, Carrol Cox wrote: > >> An overwhelming number of suicides, whatever their immediate occasion, >> have clinical depression as their general context. > >No argument there. I have an honest question though. I was under the >impression that while the pain may be indescrible, the fact that a >clinically depressed person is depressed is inescapable to both themselves >and anyone who sees them on a daily basis. So that if you a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 12 05:55:42 PDT 2002

30333 on the air -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >heard you on KPFK today, doug. excellent job! Why thanks. I was afraid I was being too orthodox without invoking the requisite denunciations of capitalism. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 11 21:19:13 PDT 2002

30334 ace confesses? -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >>Brad DeLong wrote: >> >>>From my perspective, the really scary thing is self-plagiarism: >>>writing a paragraph, looking at it, and then thinking that it is >>>remarkably similar to a paragraph I wrote last year... >> >>This is known in the trade as repurposing. >> >>Doug > > >I thought "repurposing" was when you took something you'd already >written, and dressed it up in a different out ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 11 12:27:29 PDT 2002

30335 Outin vows to nurture small businesses -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Heuvel would also be the wife of Stephen Cohen, right? Yes - though she goes by vanden Heuvel as a surname. From the hills, in Dutch, I believe. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 11 12:17:56 PDT 2002

30336 ace confesses? -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Brad DeLong wrote: > >> Of course, this is much less scary than is the claim that the NYT's >> coverage of Cardinal Law's pedophilia-enabling is part of a Jewish >> anti-Catholic plot to erode the moral authority of the Vatican to >> criticize Israel... > >--a stupid and vicious smear of Cockburn. Here's what he wrote, from NY >Press (emphasis added to a passage rather accurately capturing the debate >on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 11 08:23:52 PDT 2002

30337 anti-globalization label -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Surely we can have a more sophisticated theory of politics than >that. Even 154 years ago, Charlie and Freddie were writing that the >"executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for >managing the affairs of the bourgeoisie"--leaving the possibility >that the legislature of the modern state, especially a >democratically-elected legislature, might well be something else... Right. Checked out the U.S. Congress lately? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 11 08:14:21 PDT 2002

30338 ace confesses? -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >From my perspective, the really scary thing is self-plagiarism: >writing a paragraph, looking at it, and then thinking that it is >remarkably similar to a paragraph I wrote last year... This is known in the trade as repurposing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 10 20:59:46 PDT 2002

30339 Turkey's Prime Minister: Israel is genocidal -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Hakki, where are you? He unsub'd. I tried to coax him back, but he said tempers were too hot. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 10 17:21:30 PDT 2002

30340 [Infobeat] Fw: 'We control America' -- rank: 1000

Naji Dahi wrote: > > > > At this point, a furious Sharon reportedly turned toward > > >> > > Peres, saying "every time we do something you tell me >> > > America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell >> >> > > you something very clear: Don't worry about American >> > > pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control >> > > America, and the Americans know it." >> > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 10 16:44:48 PDT 2002

30341 IMF -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Michael Mussa has some interesting reflections on how the IMF >operates and ought to operate, in the context of the collapse of the >neoliberal model in Argentina... > >http://www.iie.com/papers/mussa0302-1.htm >http://www.iie.com/papers/mussa0302-2.htm Mussa: "I shall argue that the Fund did make at least two important mistakes in Argentina: (i) in failing to press the Argentine authorities much harder to have a more responsible fiscal policy, especial ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 10 13:58:42 PDT 2002

30342 another journalist rolls over for W -- rank: 1000

Providence Journal - April 10, 2002 The president is religious and resolute, Woodward attests BY TOM MOONEY Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE -- A woman in the audience wanted to know about President Bush's religious conviction. How strong is it and what role does it play in his decisions? Few other than the commander in chief himself would dare claim knowledge of such a personal issue. Bob Woodward didn't hesitate. "It's sincere and genuine," the journalist said flatly from the podium y ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 10 13:54:17 PDT 2002

30343 anti-globalization label -- rank: 1000

Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> Does India exercise dominion over India? If so, which Indians? > >Does North Korea exercise dominion over North Korea? If so, which North >Koreans? Good question, though I'm not sure of its relevance here. The point of my question was to say that India's sovereignty is constrained by global forces, and that the Indian government, like all governments, largely represents the interests of the ruling class ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 10 13:50:21 PDT 2002

30344 anti-globalization label -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >More broadly, however, I do think that the big problem with Seattle >was precisely the absence of an image of utopia around which people >could rally. That's not the way I remember it. The fantasy utopia was one of a humane universalism, a world free of violence and exploitation. A bit thin on the details, but I don't see how you could ever accuse the "Seattle" movement of a lack of utopian thinking. If anything, there's too much of it, and not enough groun ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 10 13:44:38 PDT 2002

30345 anti-globalization label -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >In a post a second ago on this thread, I refered to GDP growth under >Stalin's "build factories or I'll shoot you" economic policy. > >The USSR in the years under Stalin's reign had an estimated GDP growth of >300% in 30 years (I'm going by stats cited in the Russian business magazine >Kommersant), even taking into accountthe ravages caused to agriculture by >forced collectivization, destruction of 40% of the USSR's productive >capacity by the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 10 13:29:27 PDT 2002