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31516 The post-literate society -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >The last living novelist I can recall being featured in an ad >campaign was Tama Janowitz. BTW, whatever became of her? A contributing writer for NY Press, where she does a food column. Or did, as recently as April. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 23 09:49:34 PDT 2001

31517 SUVs -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >It strikes me that if Barkley Rosser were subscribed at this precise >moment, he >would probably have some very smart mathematical things to say about herding >behaviour, and I'm not sure that he'd agree that anything beyond a tendency to >follow the flock is needed to explain the spontaneous emergence of flocks. Does that have something to do with "strange attractors"? What the hell is a strange attractor, anyway? Is it anything like sunspot equili ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 09:41:55 PDT 2001

31518 kids, sex, academia, and politics -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - May 23, 2001 Journal Backs Away From Article Critical of Congress and Psychology Association By JENNIFER K. RUARK The editor of American Psychologist, a leading psychology journal, has reneged on an agreement to publish an article critical of the journal's sponsor and of several members of Congress. The author, Scott O. Lilienfeld, an associate professor of psychology at Emory University, describes his article -- originally titled "The Bonfire of ...

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Date:	Wed May 23 06:49:38 PDT 2001

31519 parable of the talents -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Subject: Gospel of St. George Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:00:01 +0100 Matthew 25 28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. 29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. 30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. can any ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 16:06:11 PDT 2001

31520 Christianity and S/M -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >There are either as many character structures has there have been, are, >and will be human individuals _or_ EVERY group has sufficient numbers of >every conceivable character type to make the equation silly. How can we even talk about capitalism as a system? There are so many different national and regional structures, so much variation over time, so many different industries and sectors, so many different roles and actors, so many motives aside from profit - it reall ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 16:01:07 PDT 2001

31521 repulsive communitarian Etzioni defends racial profiling -- rank: 1000

USA Today - May 21, 2001 Another side of racial profiling By Amitai Etzioni I can just imagine the conversation in George W. Bush's inner circle: We must make inroads into the Democratic Party's major bases, especially African-Americans, who voted against us 9-1 in the presidential elections. Let's find a hot-button issue that agitates African-Americans and play to it. It would not be surprising if out of such a meeting came Bush's condemnation of racial profiling - the law-enforcement practice ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 15:35:37 PDT 2001

31522 Christianity and S/M -- rank: 1000

Guerino Calemine wrote: >Someone please explain this alleged "sado-masochistic character >structure" of Christianity. (Or as CB might put it, the Christian >nature of sadomasochism.) I'm highly skeptical of this notion >(suspect it comes from a perversion/stereotype of Christianity - or >Christendom - and not based on "actual" Christianity, especially as >enunciated by St. Paul), but I'm willing to hear you out. So go >ahead. Hmm, well, let's start wit ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 15:07:23 PDT 2001

31523 fun with W -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Tue May 22 12:49:33 PDT 2001

31524 NarcoNews -- rank: 1000

[please post from the address you're subscribed under, please] Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 19:22:23 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: David Jennings <djenning at arches.uga.edu> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Alexandre Fenelon wrote: > > -What are those narconews guys? Anyone has information? > > Alexandre > It's mostly Al Giordano, a former lefty-journalist for the Boston Phoenix (a lefty paper, I guess), now in self-imposed exile somewhere in Mexico. Alot of the site consists of tran ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 05:52:15 PDT 2001

31525 "Dirty Money" Foundation of U.S. Growth and Empire -- rank: 1000

Gregory Geboski wrote: >Once it's on the books in a "legitimate" institution, or invested in >a "legitimate" enterprise, is there any reason to expect "dirty" >money (talk about your relative terms under capitalism) to have any >special characteristics that would allow it to be distinguished from >"legitimate" capital? Why would "dirty" money have to be balanced by >"dirty" money? Didn't say it had to. But the demand f ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 05:51:09 PDT 2001

31526 "Dirty Money" Foundation of U.S. Growth and Empire -- rank: 1000

DMJ wrote: >This is originally from La Jornada (http://www.jornada.unam.mx/), and >translated in narconews (http://www.narconews.com). The claim here seems >to be pretty sweeping -- any of you economists care to comment? > >-d > >------------------- >"Dirty Money" Foundation of U.S. Growth and Empire > >>From La Jornada, May 19, 2001 >By James Petras > >Size and Scope of Dirty Money >Laundering by Big U.S. Banks > >There is a consensu ...

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Date:	Mon May 21 14:17:40 PDT 2001

31527 Yale for Sale -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Acknowledging >the widespread opposition to him, he noted that it appeared that the >requirement for a person to speak at commencement (almost never done at >Yale) is not only to have graduated from Yale and be President, but to lose >the Yale college vote to Ralph Nader. If I'm remembering right, the only person allowed to speak at a Yale graduation other than the president of Yale is the president of the U.S. >But it was encouraging to see what a large p ...

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Date:	Mon May 21 13:35:06 PDT 2001

31528 OBX: mystery solved -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 15:14:20 -0400 From: Raphael Allen <rcda at duke.edu> At 02:51 PM 5/21/01 -0400, you wrote: >I noticed an increasing number of sport-utility cars (SUCs) displaying a >black-and white oval sign (similar to that showing country names in Europe) >with the letters OBX. Any clues what it means? "Obnoxious" perhaps? > >wojtek Outer Banks (N. Carolina) -ra

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Date:	Mon May 21 12:22:14 PDT 2001

31529 Yale for Sale -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Yet another proof that the only qualifications to receive an Ivy league >degree is a lots of mullah and "aristocratic" pedigree. Hey, I have the first, but not the second or third. Where's my payoff? Doug

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Date:	Mon May 21 08:52:21 PDT 2001

31530 More on the PE of Coffee -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >I understand why rare forms of coffee >are expensive, but we're talking about the commodified crap >purveyed by Maxwell House and Folgers. In theory, competition >should drive down the price. For what it's worth, according to the CPI, coffee prices have been falling over the last year, lagged overall inflation in the 1960s and 1980s, and exceeded it by a hair in the 1990s and a lot during the 1970s. Doug ---- AVERAGE ANNUAL INFLATION overall CPI & coffee cof ...

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Date:	Mon May 21 07:26:40 PDT 2001