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30796 demographics -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >What are those numbers (201,399,etc)? I'm guessing it's the number in the sample. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 11:15:38 PDT 2001

30797 demographics -- rank: 1000

[reader demographics, from the magazines' respective websites] The Nation Demographic Profiles Age 18-34: 17% 25-54: 56% 55 or greater: 41% Median age: 51.6 Sex Male: 65% Female: 35% Household Income $50,000 or more: 70% $75,000 or more: 46% $100,000-150,000: 20% $150,000 or more: 10% Median household income: $75,500 Mean household income: $84,900 Market value of primary home $200,000 or more: 223 48% Net Worth Median net worth: $283,300 Mean net worth: $502,700 Education Attended college: 2 ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 10:53:57 PDT 2001

30798 Fwd: Investing in Public Health/Cursor.org -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:00:57 -0700 From: "Media Watch" <mwatch at cruzio.com> Please consider adding your name or organization in support of the statement below. Bio-terrorism seems to be hitting close to home. The natural response is concern for our families and friends. But we don't have to submit to fear - there's something powerful we can do. A strong public health response can make the difference between a worldwide epidemic and a frightening but quickly contained outbr ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 10:29:58 PDT 2001

30799 HRW on Slobo -- rank: 1000

[new fuel for old fires] From: Human Rights Watch <hrwatchnyc at igc.org> Subject: In-Depth Report Documents Milosevic Crimes Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:06:39 +0000 In-Depth Report Documents Milosevic Crimes New Statistics Show Direction from Belgrade (Pristina, Kosovo, October 26, 2001) Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and his inner circle of political and military leaders are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo, Human Rights Watch said to ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 10:27:03 PDT 2001

30800 numbers problems -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Irresponsible is not the same thing as unreasonable. It may be >irresponsible to offer a reasonable estimate or guess. And no one >was thinking clearly at the time. Besides, what's the point? 2,000-3,000 ain't so bad? This, from Mr Carl "No Civilian Casualties" Remick? Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 10:18:49 PDT 2001

30801 America gets back to the important stuff - celebrity -- rank: 1000

>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53084-2001Oct25.html > >The Reliable Source >By Lloyd Grove >Washington Post Staff Writer >Friday, October 26, 2001; Page C03 >THIS JUST IN . . . >What do Chief Justice William Rehnquist and former call girl Tracy >Quan have in common? They've both agreed to participate in the >University Club's 12th annual Meet the Authors Night and Book Fair >on Nov. 28, schmoozing and signing copies of their latest literary >e ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 09:35:41 PDT 2001

30802 BVM weighs in -- rank: 1000

From: fatimapr at softcom.ca <fatimapr at softcom.ca> To: "Your Solution Against Terrorism" <fatimapr at softcom.ca> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:48:20 -0400 Subject: "RALLY AGAINST TERRORISM" MEDIA RELEASE FROM: THE FATIMA CENTER, 266 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222 CONTACT: Coralie Graham, 905-871-7607 or coraliegraham at softcom.ca OR WEBSITE: www.fatima.org 26 October 2001 - FOR RELEASE: IMMEDIATE "RALLY AGAINST TERRORISM" SET FOR NEW YORK Mid-November ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 07:51:47 PDT 2001

30803 Anthrax Probe Shifts To Homegrown Hate Groups -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >We live in the era of an escalating rightist terror, which could >pave the way for fascism - just as it did before. No cause for >celeb. if good ol' boys did it. I'm not sure how you get here. If it is right-wing nuts, 99.99% of the American pop hates them, and they've got half the FBI and every third cop in the country after them. How does this advance their posish? Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 07:32:13 PDT 2001

30804 wit -- rank: 1000

The Bretton Woods gang is thinking in tandem, kind of like Time & Newsweek covers. The IMF's annual report, which just arrived in the mail, is called "Making the Global Economy Work for All." The World Bank's forthcoming Global Economic Prospects 2002 reports is called "Making Trade Work for the World's Poor." See, they really really care. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 25 15:41:45 PDT 2001

30805 Slavoj in NYC -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>All you Zizek fans in NYC - the great man will be speaking at >>Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Av, Manhattan, at 7:30 PM on October >>29. His talk, which promises to "take apart liberal >>multiculturalism," is called "The Only Good Neighbor is a Dead >>Neighbor!" >> >>Doug > >Great, just in time for Halloween. Why not check him out Instead of carping from your suburban redoubt? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 25 15:23:15 PDT 2001

30806 Slavoj in NYC -- rank: 1000

All you Zizek fans in NYC - the great man will be speaking at Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Av, Manhattan, at 7:30 PM on October 29. His talk, which promises to "take apart liberal multiculturalism," is called "The Only Good Neighbor is a Dead Neighbor!" Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 25 14:13:20 PDT 2001

30807 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >Depends. Do you know that the Afghan invasion was planned as early as March >in line with the requests of Unocal and other oil interests from the US >Congress and are discounting the implications thereof, or have you never >heard about this? > >At the risk of being obnoxious, may I stress that this war is not about >terrorism. How do you know? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 25 13:10:30 PDT 2001

30808 Anthrax Probe Shifts To Homegrown Hate Groups -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >At 02:51 PM 10/25/01 -0400, Seth Ackerman wrote: >> > Published on Thursday, October 25, 2001 in the New York Post >>> Anthrax Probe Shifts To Homegrown Hate Groups >>> by Murray Weiss > > >i find this truly bizarre. right when they could stand to score some >more victimized american points, right when they could stand to >score a dunk shot on Iraq, they're not. (thank all known deities). >there's a reason why someone wants to pu ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 25 12:49:22 PDT 2001

30809 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Given the evidence above in conjunction with the reasoning of some >list members, the US would be justified in bombing Saudi Arabia Just which listmembers have supported bombing? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 25 12:26:54 PDT 2001

30810 Note to the "ladder of force left" -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Then I don't understand why you condone or call for "considerable >use of force," since application of US force is guaranteed to be >"out of all proportion to the stimulus." I've responded to this so many times that I wonder whether you have a reading comprehension problem (which seems unlikely) or whether it's some meconnaissance systematique de la realite, as the man said (which seems more likely). Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 25 09:45:08 PDT 2001