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31501 patriarchy redux? -- rank: 1000

Business Week- June 4, 2001 Shotgun Weddings by Uncle Sam? Bush would use federal funds to promote two-parent homes It came as no surprise when U.S. Census data released on May 14 showed the nuclear family in decline. Still, the striking numbers--married couples with children make up less than one-fourth of households--set off alarms among conservatives who ascribe a host of societal ills to the demise of the two-parent family. President Bush, however, is already on the case. In a little-noticed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 29 11:53:41 PDT 2001

31502 "Happy Memorial Day, Mr. Kissinger" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The main trouble with giving Reagan billing is that he seemed mostly to >be dotting Carter's i's and crossing Carter's t's. I tend to think of >1977-88 as the Carter Administration. C'mon, Carrol, Carter was bad, but Reagan was a lot worse. PATCO. Star Wars. Libyan hit squads. Central America. The Uruguay round. Supply side lunacy. Carter did/would have done milder versions of these things, or not at all. As political figures, Carter was a joke, and Reagan did a lot t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 29 08:06:21 PDT 2001

31503 Worldwide spying network is revealed -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >source: www.euobserver.com, 16.5.01 > >ECHELON COMMITTEE SUSPICIONS GROW > >The Echelon committee delegation set up by the European Parliament >travelled to Washington last week with the objective of allowing the >US to respond to the numerous allegations made about the Echelon >system. It's nice to have this confirmed and all, but is this fundamentally news? Did anyone ever doubt that the U.S. and its allies - and any other government with the technica ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 28 09:40:25 PDT 2001

31504 interesting and apparently ignored econ conference -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Larouche. > >On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 03:44:43PM -0000, Terry Tapp wrote: >> Did anyone else hear anything about this conference? There were some >> interesting points brought up, especially regarding teh federal reserves use >> of the Y2K bogeyman to pump cash into the economic without arousing >> suspicion. >> http://www.copvcia.com/us_econ_threat.html >> > > Terry Hmm, that's not good. And from a hotmail account. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 27 13:34:52 PDT 2001

31505 new Rage Against the Machine vocalist -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >Will Rage become the Van Halen of the 00's? I'm tempted to say, they should be so good, but that would be glib and less than totally accurate. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 27 13:10:12 PDT 2001

31506 does Andrew Sullivan bareback? -- rank: 1000

[I have the full text of this, which I can't find on the LGNY website <http://www.lgny.com>. I'll email it to anyone who'd like it - ask me offlist, please.] LGNY, May 26, 2001 New York's Lesbian and Gay Newspaper Virtually Reckless The Contradictory Faces of Andrew Sullivan By Michelangelo Signorile [...] Given everything I've witnessed about the rise of barebacking in the past several years, I could not help but be taken aback by a story I became privy to that has lit up the Internet ove ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 27 12:53:57 PDT 2001

31507 contingent workers -- rank: 1000

<ftp://146.142.4.23/pub/news.release/conemp.txt> For release: 10:00 A.M. EDT Media contact: 691-5902 Thursday, May 24, 2001 CONTINGENT AND ALTERNATIVE EMPLOYMENT ARRANGEMENTS, FEBRUARY 2001 From February 1999 to February 2001, the proportion of U.S. workers holding contingent jobs edged down, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Contingent workers are persons who do not expect their jobs to last or who report that their jo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 27 11:33:57 PDT 2001

31508 Russia: Opium -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >PLEASE be highly sceptical about any Western (esp. anglophone) reporting on >Russia. What in English is good on Russia? And what's your take on the eXile boys? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 27 11:27:36 PDT 2001

31509 Russia: Opium, the new religion -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Who'd need drugs? Me. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 27 11:17:15 PDT 2001

31510 GM foods at the White House -- rank: 1000

On p. 7 of the new issue of The Nation, under the head "News of the Weak in Review," there appears this item: "Jennifer Berkshire reports on Alternet that genetically altered foods will be featured on White House menus. The inaugral GM meal will be dished up at a banquet for French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and will include genetically altered super salmon and Star Link corn pudding. (Does M. Jospin approve of this culinary experiment?) It's nice of Bush to give Frankenfoods th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 26 12:03:05 PDT 2001

31511 fightin' Dems -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/25/politics/25OLSO.html> New York Times - May 25, 2001 In Setting Priorities, Democrats Give Up Confirmation Battle By NEIL A. LEWIS WASHINGTON, May 24 - The Senate voted today to confirm Theodore B. Olson as solicitor general by a narrow margin after Democrats, contemplating their imminent majority status, decided they did not want to defeat the nomination as the first exercise of their new power. The defection this morning of Senator James M. Jeffords of V ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 25 06:59:27 PDT 2001

31512 HRW: Taliban ID Policy Creates Second-Class Citizens -- rank: 1000

[more on GWB's new friends] From: Human Rights Watch <hrwatchnyc at igc.org> Date: Thu, 24-May-2001 16:50:40 GMT Afghanistan: Taliban ID Policy Creates Second-Class Citizens (New York, May 24, 2001) Human Rights Watch today condemned the decision by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban requiring Hindu citizens to wear distinguishing identification. Human Rights Watch urged countries with diplomatic or informal relations with the Taliban to advise its leaders against issuing and enforcing such an e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 24 10:30:40 PDT 2001

31513 rebates? -- rank: 1000

[Max, any thoughts on this?] Goldman Sachs writes: >Tax Rebates Stage a Comeback, May Bolster 2H01 Demand Outlook > >To our surprise, it now appears that there will be a strong >effort from the Bush Administration to get a tax rebate scheme >included in the final tax-cut legislation when it emerges from a >House-Senate conference committee, perhaps by Thursday or Friday >this week. Previously a rebate seemed very unlikely because >neither the House nor the Senate include ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 24 09:40:36 PDT 2001

31514 low turnout = health -- rank: 1000

Gallup explains why low voter turnout is good: an end to class conflict and a convergence of the parties: <http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010523b.asp>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 23 15:29:14 PDT 2001

31515 Fashion choices (was SUV's) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Again, I think you are giving the brats too much credit. Most what they do >fits one of the follwoing two categories: > >1. trying to be popular among peers >2. trying to piss off everyone else, especially parents & teachers. Did you have a miserable youth? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 23 10:38:51 PDT 2001