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31606 Hitch & the New School -- rank: 1000

Rakesh's claim to the contrary, Hitchens is not apologizing for Kerry's war crimes. One of his colleagues at the New School just told me that Hitch sent around a blistering email to fellow faculty members, berating them for not protesting the university's wishy-washy line. And we're still waiting for those UNITE checks too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 9 15:16:11 PDT 2001

31607 Lou Reed Dead/Albright -- rank: 1000

Jim Westrich wrote: >I did not know you were such a techno/eurohouse club kid. I have >always been more breaks/leftfield/big beat/downbeat myself. > >1. zero 7 - likufanele (this song produces what psychologists call >"peak experience") >2. Three Amigos-25 Miles/Louie,Louie (yes too classics redone as big beat) >3. Krafty Kuts- Ill Type Sound >4. Old MacDonald's Farm-Save Me >5. Shantel - Crystal >6. Kings of Tomorrow--Tear It Up (Lenny Fontana remix) ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 9 12:59:13 PDT 2001

31608 Hitchens on Kerry -- rank: 1000

christian11 at mindspring.com wrote: >The bizarre symbiosis of aging left queen and young white >supremacist probably, in one way, betrays both Vidal and Mc Veigh's >utter cynicism. Some years ago, neo-Nazi Tom Meltzer was offering a Vidal tape for sale on his weekly White Aryan Resistance phone update. I think Meltzer liked his anti-finance, anti-globalization line. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 9 12:22:05 PDT 2001

31609 Lou Reed Dead/Albright -- rank: 1000

j.f. noonan wrote: >_New York_ was/is a very good album, but maybe a fan of Madonna ><insert vomit emoticon here> and a basher of Springsteen >wouldn't agree. _New York_ is ok. It's no White Light White Heat, though. Off to check out the new top 10 list at <http://www.blankandjones.de/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 9 12:10:46 PDT 2001

31610 RES: mea culpa -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: > The quote from the evil Albright should have been the tipoff... > >-Are you talking about what he said about the sanctions effect >-on Iraq people? Was this quote wrong? No! The quote about Lou Reed. The sanctions quote is one of many reasons why she's such an evil war criminal. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 8 15:55:56 PDT 2001

31611 Lou Reed Dead/Albright -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: > According to a couple "hits" I found on google, Reed and >Laurie Anderson and Madelaine Albright have been seen at clubs >in NYC >like the Knitting Factory. It's good Lou isn't dead after all, because now I can flame him. His taste for a "sententious faker" like Havel (Alexander Cockburn's great epithet) is bad enough - but for a war criminal like Albright, well, there's just no excuse. Has Reed done anything interesting in the last 20 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 8 15:54:30 PDT 2001

31612 headlines -- rank: 1000

Hmm, the top four headlines on Yahoo! Finance are manna for gloomsters: >Top Business News as of 5:36pm ET > >Cisco Profits Fall Drastically >New Economy powerhouse Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday posted a $2.69 >billion net loss after charges, and said its quarterly operating >profits fell drastically as it grappled with the slowing global >economy and flagging spending on telecommunication equipment. > >Blue Chips Drop on Productivity Data >Blue-chip stocks ended lo ...

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Date:	Tue May 8 14:38:41 PDT 2001

31613 stox & consumption -- rank: 1000

<http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2001/200121/200121abs.html> Disentangling the Wealth Effect: A Cohort Analysis of Household Saving in the 1990s Dean M. Maki and Michael G. Palumbo 2001-21 Abstract: In the U.S., household net worth rose substantially in the latter half of the 1990s and the personal saving rate dropped sharply. Researchers do not agree about just what behavior links these two events, or how to interpret the negative correlation between wealth and the saving rate ove ...

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Date:	Tue May 8 13:37:15 PDT 2001

31614 famous economist defends exploitation (bit long) -- rank: 1000

Gregory Geboski wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > ><< But what a waste of goddam time they are. >> > >Except for the "rentiers and hired hands" in whose interests they >are written. Or do they not care, really? Some Wall Street types take theoretical finance seriously; some think it's just wankery. Every corporate planner uses discounted cash flow analysis, but most of that isn't terribly sophisticated. As for the stuff in econ journals, I don't know - an awfu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 8 09:10:49 PDT 2001

31615 Politics, Moralism, & the "individual" -- rank: 1000

Archer.Todd at ic.gc.ca wrote: >Does that sort of thing, people acknowledging signing off the list for >getting into heated arguments, happen alot here? No it doesn't. It's pretty rare, in fact. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 8 08:57:28 PDT 2001

31616 Militia movement diminished by McVeigh -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >At 09:02 AM 5/8/01 -0400, Charles wrote: > >>Militias on the wane >> The number of self-described patriot organizations operating in the >United States has plummeted in recent years. > > >It may not be such a good thing. Bubbas who populated these groups have >not disappeared from the face of the Earth - in all likelihood they went >back to the Republican Party where they are far more dangerous than in the >woods. Not to be a v ...

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Date:	Tue May 8 08:54:37 PDT 2001

31617 Lou Reed dead -- rank: 1000

[Right after Joey, this is really too much.] NEW YORK, New York (Reuters) -- A city still mourning the death of punk rock innovator Joey Ramone has endured another tragedy as Velvet Underground leader Lou Reed was found dead in his apartment last night, apparently from an overdose of the painkiller demerol. His body was discovered at approximately 10:45 PM last night in the Chelsea apartment he was sharing with his wife, avant-garde pop musician Laurie Anderson. Paramedics responding to a 911 ca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 8 08:44:09 PDT 2001

31618 mea culpa -- rank: 1000

Damn, you should read things all the way through before forwarding them. The quote from the evil Albright should have been the tipoff...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 8 08:48:03 PDT 2001

31619 Reed alive? -- rank: 1000

Hmm, subsequent reports say Lou Reed is alive and in Amsterdam. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 8 08:46:15 PDT 2001

31620 test--please ignore -- rank: 1000

ppillai at sprint.ca wrote: > test Please don't do this. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 8 08:35:52 PDT 2001