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31771 Libs hurting Reps -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] NATIONAL REVIEW: Chuck Muth of the Republican Liberty Caucus is in Washington, D.C., to meet with GOP operatives on what may be the most underreported political phenomenon of the last two election cycles: Libertarian Party candidates are seriously hurting Republicans . . . In both 1998 and 2000, a Republican candidate for Senate lost to a Democrat by a margin much less than the Libertarian's total vote. The most recent victim was Slade Gorton of Washington. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 21 14:40:05 PST 2001

31772 Jonah Goldberg -- rank: 1000

Turns out that the author of that National Review piece on sweatshop chic, Jonah Goldberg, is the son of Lucianne Goldberg, Linda Tripp's dear friend (and my neighbor, too). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 21 14:33:34 PST 2001

31773 The know-nothings find a cause -- rank: 1000

[You never know where your work will end up...in an article that finds an upside to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire!] National Review - April 2, 2001 Sweatshop Chic: The know-nothings find a cause By Jonah Goldberg The lefty ideal used to be "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need." But with the end of the Cold War, pragmatism has conquered, and the goal is now slightly less ambitious: to make labor "sweat-free." Work's okay, but sweaty work-forget it. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 21 14:18:34 PST 2001

31774 Hollywood blackout! agents forced to work from home!! -- rank: 1000

[This California power thing is getting serious!] Inside.com - March 21, 2001 BLACKOUTS HIT HOLLYWOOD OFFICES, BUT THE CAMERAS KEEP ROLLING As if the U.S. economy's nosedive and the looming industry-wide work stoppage weren't bad enough, Hollywood is facing another crisis -- a lack of juice. Included in the nearly one million customers affected by Monday's "controlled," rotating outages that swept through Northern and Southern California, were a number of major film studios and at lea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 21 13:40:52 PST 2001

31775 SC- Death of Employee Rights - Employers Can Force Arbitration on Employees -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >You mean the courts, or the Supremes? I think they are rapidly >stripping themselves of their own prestige. As for their power, it >can be legislatively restricted by depriving them of jurisdiction of >various kinds of cases. But that isn't likely to happen in any way >that we would like. That's the beauty of the American system: nothing can ever change, because nothing can ever change (except maybe for the worse). So I guess it's best to let nine unaccount ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 21 13:38:27 PST 2001

31776 parting ways? -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Question: Now where did all that Nikkei money come from? You don't need a lot of money to push a stock market higher. Animal spirits can do much of the work. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 21 11:58:35 PST 2001

31777 The Imminent Crisis of Private Property -- rank: 1000

Joshua Howard wrote: >I was wondering if you had any thoughts about Zizek's talk the other >night. Particularly interesting was the discussion around the >future (crisis) of private property and it's implications for a >growing wave of hierarchical micro-racisms (a stimulating addition >to his theory on multiculturalism), which much of the room seemed to >accept on some level or another. I've been thinking about property >in relation to Napster and digital reproduction, pa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 21 11:54:25 PST 2001

31778 Argentina -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] CAVALLO RETURNS TO HOT SEAT, PROMISES SWEEPING CUTS IN ARGENTINA. Domingo Cavallo, who won an international reputation for defeating hyperinflation in the early 1990s, yesterday returned to government in the midst of political crisis in Argentina and fears of a debt default, reports the Financial Times (p.1). The new economy minister promised sweeping spending cuts to allow the country to meet fiscal targets agreed in December as part of an IMF-le ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 21 11:39:58 PST 2001

31779 SC- Death of Employee Rights - Employers Can Force Arbitration on Employees -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Progressive activists must make it a priority to amend the FAA to block such >mandatory arbitration and restore workplace legal rights. ...and while we're at it, can we do something to strip these creatures of their power and prestige? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 21 11:38:18 PST 2001

31780 adjunct pay whine -- rank: 1000

Dennis Breslin wrote: >Whine? Teaching is work. Work and fun only go together in say a >sentence like, "Golly its fun watching them work." Slavoj Zizek the other night: "In Essen where I work...no, where they pay me and I do what I want..." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 21 11:32:35 PST 2001

31781 Fwd: Re: More about the French elections -- rank: 1000

[sent to listowner rather than list - it'd be nice to hear more about how the events of 1995 have continued to influence French political life] Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:21:19 -0500 From: Elisabeth Vincentelli <teppaz at panix.com> A small correction: When I was talking about "the Communists," I was indeed referring only to the PCF, the French Communist Party. In my experience, that's who the French mainstream media refers to when they talk about *the Communists." But the re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 21 09:54:26 PST 2001

31782 Triangle Fire 90th Anniversary -- rank: 1000

Patrizia Sione March 18, 2001 Triangle Fire Site http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ Press Release 1) Several events are scheduled to mark the 90th anniversary of the Triangle Fire, an industrial disaster that killed 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, in a Lower East Side garment sweatshop in NYC on March 25, 1911. 2) The anniversary coincides with the Cornell University Press re-issue of "The Triangle Fire," a classic history of the event by Leon Stein, with a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 21 09:47:05 PST 2001

31783 parting ways? -- rank: 1000

[Interesting that the Nikkei responded lustily to the BoJ's loosening, while the U.S. market responded limply to the Fed's easing. Early signs of a role switch?] Wednesday March 21, 4:24 am Eastern Time Tokyo's Nikkei ends up 7 pct as market cheers BOJ (UPDATE: Recasts, adds details on autos, Aoki) By Nathan Layne TOKYO, March 21 (Reuters) - Tokyo stocks leapt more than seven percent on Wednesday, their biggest one-day gain in three years, as investors brushed off a plunge in U.S. stocks amid ho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 21 06:08:58 PST 2001

31784 Brown students trash Horowitz -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >5. Once again we see the easy assumption of white radicals that their >political judgment is automatically superior to any black political >judgment. Once again we see the easy assumption of a white radical that a group of people unknown by name, ethnicity, or number - self-identifying only as "persons of color" - become "black political judgment." Somehow, though, all those black Gore voters just don't count as "black political judgment," ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 20 14:12:13 PST 2001

31785 couples -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] WASHINGTON BLADE: A 12-year research study comparing gay and straight couples has found that . . . at the end of the study, which lasted from 1987 to 1999, 20 percent of the gay couples had broken up, while nearly 40 percent of the straight relationships dissolved. The study was conducted by two psychologists John Gottman of the University of Washington and Robert Levenson of the University of California at Berkeley who compared 40 gay couples with 40 str ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 20 13:03:47 PST 2001