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31141 Jude W: hands off Iraq! -- rank: 1000

Memo on the Margin November 28, 2001 Memo To: Rich Lowry, National Review editor From: Jude Wanniski Re: Saddam's nuclear power plant I see in the current National Review that you are continuing your campaign to declare all-out war on Iraq as soon as possible to destroy the regime of Saddam Hussein once and for all. This time you make the case for counter-proliferation of nuclear weapons and reckon we must start with Baghdad. Your "Delay or Die?" column is not only vigorously a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 28 11:57:14 PST 2001

31142 NYC peace event -- rank: 1000

WESTSIDE PEACE ACTION Presents a TEACH IN FOR PEACE AND CIVIL RIGHTS "U.S. Media After September 11" Professor Ervand Abrahamian Baruch College Graduate Center at CUNY Professor of History "Religious Perspective in the Current Crisis" Robert Brashear Pastor West Park Presbyterian Church Member of the Steering Committee of Churches for Middle East Peace Ecumenical Project "Military Implications of U. S. Response" William Hartung Senior Fellow World Policy Institute ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 28 11:27:29 PST 2001

31143 EPI fellowship -- rank: 1000

[non-sub'd address again] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Subject: Fellowship at EPI Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:56:35 -0500 THE MARCIA McGILL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP Purpose To provide advanced graduate students with experience in policy-relevant empirical research and to assist them in developing their own research/dissertation topic. Activities The research fellow will assist EPI economists in empirical research, providing an opportunity to develop as well as use statistical and methodolo ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 28 11:00:53 PST 2001

31144 SF event -- rank: 1000

[as promised, further details] caipirinha productions, in association with mother jones magazine, presents: CHASING WINDMILLS OF PEACE forum discussion #3 is this war necessary? are there alternatives? tuesday, december 11, doors open at 5pm the presidio film centre- 39 exposure gallery + palm room 39 mesa street, san francisco 6pm- 8pm - panel discussion with LAURA FLANDERS, SCOTT SAGAN, DOUG HENWOOD - Q & A with audience also: - IARA LEE's short documentary, 'beneath the borqa in afghanis ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 28 10:58:47 PST 2001

31145 job opp'ty -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Subject: Three Openings at EPI Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:51:30 -0500 Two of these are Ph.D. slots, the other is for an MA (or MPP, etc.) There is also a research assistant opening (see our web site at epinet.org) Note that *I* am *not* the contact for these jobs. mbs LABOR ECONOMIST J1 Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination J1 Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs J42 Monopsony; Segmented Labor Marke ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 28 10:55:26 PST 2001

31146 taliban/burmingham -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Not quite comparable. Feminism imposed by an imperialist power in >one of its "colonies" thends to have the opposite effect--even >though people "know" better. It feels like an attack on their >identity--at least according to Fannon. To the women too? Or just the men? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 28 10:15:30 PST 2001

31147 USA best at making love and war -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Only Americans would care about such crap. Durex is a British company and the story was datelined Wellington, which if unmodified by a country, would presumably refer to the city in New Zealand. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 28 09:46:20 PST 2001

31148 Rieff on humanitarian imperialism -- rank: 1000

[So is there any correct socialist/internationalist position on this?] Wall Street Journal - November 28, 2001 Nation-Building: Too Important To Be Left to U.N. By David Rieff. Mr. Rieff is writing a book on humanitarian aid. The decision by the Northern Alliance to send a delegation to the U.N.-sponsored conference on Afghanistan, which began yesterday, is being hailed as an enormously hopeful sign. In a fatuous demonstration of the triumph of hope over experience, the president of the Security ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 28 09:13:27 PST 2001

31149 postwar plans -- rank: 1000

[from the WB's daily clipping service] DONORS PLEDGE REBUILDING HELP AS AFGHANS BACK U.N. PLAN. International donors and development experts yesterday pledged to help Afghanistan rebuild its shattered economy, amid calls for a cancellation of the country's debt and the creation of an international trust fund to channel donor funds, Agence France-Presse reports. The pledges came at a three-day conference [in Islamabad] aimed at taking the first steps to getting Afghanistan back on its feet after ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 28 09:10:32 PST 2001

31150 next on the list... -- rank: 1000

Sunday Times (London) - NOVEMBER 25 2001 US targets three more countries JAMES CLARK, NICK FIELDING AND TONY ALLEN-MILLS, WASHINGTON THE war on terrorism is to be extended to three new countries as soon as the campaign in Afghanistan is over. Targets linked to Osama Bin Laden in Somalia, Sudan and Yemen will be at the top of the hit list, according to senior sources in London and Washington. Tony Blair and President George W Bush have agreed that the momentum created by the anti-terror coalition ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 27 15:23:42 PST 2001

31151 Black Magic Update -- rank: 1000

posted from non-sub'd address >From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) >To: "Lbo-Talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:57:32 -0500 > >Anybody see Harry Potter yet? I took my daughter >over the holidays. She's old enough now to be taken >to the movies without creating a civil disturbance. > >What a huge sloppy mess. It makes E.T. look like >Hamlet. Kids will love it for the special effects. The >story is really stupid ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 27 13:53:46 PST 2001

31152 terrorists everywhere -- rank: 1000

T R A D I T I O N A L V A L U E S C O A L I T I O N PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release November 27, 2001 For more information contact: James Lafferty (202) 547-8570 Homosexual Hit List Targets Leaders For Death MURDER TARGETS FILE HATE CRIME COMPLAINT Washington, DC – Rev. Louis P. Sheldon and several members of his family have filed a hate crime complaint with the U.S. Justice Department against a web site which targets him and others for "a horrible death soon." The usQueers.com ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 27 11:36:47 PST 2001

31153 Grameen troubles -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Ironically, the article makes clear that Grameen's troubles are due to the >success of its original idea, not its failure. For a less upbeat view (from 1996), see <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Micro.html>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 27 08:16:48 PST 2001

31154 economists watch TV -- rank: 1000

"Work and Television" BY: GIACOMO CORNEO Universitaet Osnabrueck CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=287317 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.iza.org/publications/dps/dp376.pdf SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the S ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 27 07:53:03 PST 2001

31155 Grameen troubles -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 27, 2001 Grameen Bank, Which Pioneered Loans For the Poor, Has Hit a Repayment Snag By DANIEL PEARL and MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Microcredit is a great idea with a problem: the bank that made it famous. Grameen Bank, launched in Bangladesh in 1976 by an economics professor named Muhammad Yunus, popularized the idea of giving poor people tiny loans to launch businesses. The bank has helped inspire an estimated 7,000 so-called mi ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 27 07:41:49 PST 2001