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31231 negotiating strategies of French unions -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 15, 2001 Business and Finance - Europe In French Trend, Laidoff Workers Threaten To Bomb Plant Unless Pay Demands Are Met By JOHN CARREYROU Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL CORMELLES-LE-ROYAL, France -- A sign etched in black marker at the entrance of household-appliance maker Moulinex SA's plant in this northeastern French town says it all: "Money or BOOM!" It's no idle threat. For the past three days, the plant's workers, who were laid off in S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 19 05:41:09 PST 2001

31232 Marxism at Yale (cont.) -- rank: 1000

"Value and Politics" BY: JOHN E. ROEMER Yale University University of California, Davis Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=285761 Paper ID: Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1327 Date: September 2001 Contact: JOHN E. ROEMER Email: Mailto:john.roemer at yale.edu Postal: Yale University Department of Political Science Box 208301 New Haven, CT 06520-8301 USA Phone: 203-432-5249 Fax: 203-432-6196 ABSTRA ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 18:25:48 PST 2001

31233 Marxism At Yale -- rank: 1000

"Egalitarianism Against the Veil of Ignorance" BY: JOHN E. ROEMER Yale University University of California, Davis Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=285762 Paper ID: Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1328 Date: September 2001 Contact: JOHN E. ROEMER Email: Mailto:john.roemer at yale.edu Postal: Yale University Department of Political Science Box 208301 New Haven, CT 06520-8301 USA Phone: 203-432-5249 ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 18:18:47 PST 2001

31234 macroeconomics of happiness -- rank: 1000

"The Macroeconomics Of Happiness" BY: RAFAEL DI TELLA Harvard Business School ROBERT MACCULLOCH London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) Department of Economics ANDREW J. OSWALD University of Warwick Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=285918 Paper ID: University of Bonn ZEI Working Paper No. B3 Date: September 17, 2001 Contact: ROBERT MACCULLOCH Email: Mailto:robertmac ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 18:17:47 PST 2001

31235 wheeee! -- rank: 1000

"The Progress of Computing" BY: WILLIAM D. NORDHAUS Yale University Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=285168 Paper ID: Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1324 Date: September 2001 Contact: WILLIAM D. NORDHAUS Email: Mailto:william.nordhaus at yale.edu Postal: Yale University Department of Economics New Haven, CT 06520 USA Paper Requests: Recent papers downloadable from SSRN and ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 18:13:41 PST 2001

31236 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Carl Remick wrote: > >>Excellent points all, Nathan. You're right, nostalgia's a >>deathtrap. But I still think human cultural potential would be >>better served by moving on from capitalism -- whatever its >>legitimate past achievements -- to some form of socialist society. >>I certainly hope that's true. > >I'm with you on this. But I think the evaluation of capitalism's >contribution over the centuries is relevant to the Jeff ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 17:15:31 PST 2001

31237 Osama, September 11, London, Illuminati -- rank: 1000

Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: >Anyone who believes that covert operations are not an integral part of >politics should be on a basket-weaving list. Uh, Hakki, I don't think Chip or anyone else here believes that covert operations don't happen. The question is how much prominence you give them in your analysis and conversation. You seem to see little else. It borders on the obsessional. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 17:17:37 PST 2001

31238 "Whiteness and the Historical Imagination" - 30 November - NY -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: > >I have this uncomfortable feeling that the natural trajectory of the >academic discourse on 'whiteness' is that someone will start to >argue that the white identity was not all bad, and that it ought to >be recuperated. White guilt, white persecution complex, white >megalomania ... it's just one long slippery slope. > >Better to insist upon the universalist goal of an all-embracing >humanism, I say. Do you object to the study of the emergence ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 17:06:22 PST 2001

31239 Hitchens as the love child of Safire -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Given the U.S. incarceration rate, it is safe to say that people in >the USA, in practice, enjoy civil liberties less than those in other >rich nations. > >***** The Justice Policy Institute reports that this year [2000], >the U.S. prison and jail population will top two million for the >first time. Using the most up-to-date Justice Department statistics >and trends, the Institute estimates that the U.S. now has the >world's largest incarcer ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 16:10:56 PST 2001

31240 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >That is because the USA is the latest (and hopefully last) empire, >having decisively displaced European & Japanese empires by the end >of the Second World War. The colonized go to study, work, & >sometimes settle in the land of the colonizers. As no other >government has built as extensive an empire as the US government >(which has incorporated former European and Japanese colonies into >its sphere of influence), it is no surprise to see t ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 15:31:30 PST 2001

31241 Atlanta conference -- rank: 1000

SAVE THE DATE Emergency Conference in Atlanta, December 15-16, 2001 Durban, 911, & the South The Connections, the Impact, & the Work What: A Southern meeting to discuss how we move forward in the face of increasing racism/white supremacy, a war, and a deepening recession. Who should attend: Folks from community groups who are looking for a place to develop an analysis of our current conditions and develop strategies for our individual and collective work. RSVP by phone or email to Proj ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 15:30:12 PST 2001

31242 I Don't Get It -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >If your point is that military interventions should be judged by their >merits and not by who is undertaking them, then your point is true and >should be obvious to everyone, including leftists. > >But you seem to assume this is also the attitude of the US government. Take >your example of the Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia. When you say "we" >cheered it, you surely don't include the Carter Administration. Here's >Chomsky on that episo ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 14:32:26 PST 2001

31243 PR after 9/11 -- rank: 1000

Reuters - November 17, 2001 USA: World PR chiefs ponder post-terror message. By Andrew Quinn SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - If ever a group needed some positive PR right now, it is the public relations industry. The leaders of the business that invented damage control and a million ways to look better, who are meeting here to sing the post-Sept. 11 blues, are facing a slumping economy that has cut communications spending by major clients. The Sept. 11 attacks on the United States left the wor ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 12:54:17 PST 2001

31244 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Excellent points all, Nathan. You're right, nostalgia's a >deathtrap. But I still think human cultural potential would be >better served by moving on from capitalism -- whatever its >legitimate past achievements -- to some form of socialist society. >I certainly hope that's true. I'm with you on this. But I think the evaluation of capitalism's contribution over the centuries is relevant to the Jeff Greenfieldish question, "Where do we go from here?" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 18 12:52:02 PST 2001

31245 Fwd: <nettime> Habermas on Faith, Knowledge and 9-11 -- rank: 1000

Faith and Knowledge -- An Opening Speech by Juergen Habermas accepting the Peace Price of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association Paulskirche, Frankfurt, 14 October 2001 Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 15 October 2001 <http://www.sueddeutsche.de/aktuell/sz/artikel86740.php> [translated from German by Kermit Snelson] When current events become so overwhelming that they rip the choice of topic out of our own hands, so to speak, the John Waynes among us intellectuals are of course greatly tem ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 12:45:54 PST 2001