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31816 bankruptcy -- rank: 1000

Michael McIntyre wrote: >Do y'all remember Nathan's confident prediction that Senate >Democrats wouldn't roll over on the bankruptcy bill? Certainly no >veto-proof majority there, said he, intimating that a filibuster >might even be in the offing. So driving in this morning what do I >hear? The bill passes with 83 votes. Yup, two-thirds of the Senate >Dems cozied up to the FIRE. Just when I think that I'm nothing but a >cynical middle-aged commie, Nathan's pals show me that ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 16 08:09:38 PST 2001

31817 The Real Japan Inc -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 04:31:58 +0900 From: JC Helary <helary at eskimo.com> ----- Forwarded message from Clinton Fairbanks <kuricowboy at isop.ne.jp> ----- http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/ Japan's Dilemma Kondo Kanji does not want his hometown to die. As head of the local towel industry association, he represents the 220 towel makers in and around the quaint little city of Imabari on the island of Shikoku, Japan. Together, they produce nearly two-thirds of the towels made in the co ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 16 08:02:32 PST 2001

31818 defining "rich" -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 16, 2001 Survey Shows Americans Hold A Skewed Definition of 'Rich' By JUNE FLETCHER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Obie O'Bannon, a Washington, D.C., lobbyist, lives in a six-bedroom brick Colonial home. He drives a BMW, sends his two kids to private schools, and vacations in Europe. He's worth over $1 million. Is he rich? He doesn't think so. And neither do a surprising number of Americans, according to a new survey commissioned by Weekend Journal. What? A ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 16 07:53:17 PST 2001

31819 autisme-economie -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 04:09:37 +0900 From: JC Helary <helary at eskimo.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: economics autism Message-ID: <20010316040936.C677 at cerise.niji.or.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i did anybody hear about this ? although it seem to have started in france in june 2000, i only heard about them through a japanese newsletter that i got yesterday... http://autisme-economie.org/ang/indexang.htm jc h ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 16 07:28:42 PST 2001

31820 FW: Ha! Nader changed the locks! Remind you of anyone we know? -- rank: 1000

Stannard67 at aol.com wrote: >This is all old hat. Most of it has been refuted, and all of it is >irrelevant. I suggest that purveyors of this sort of argumentative strategy >look up the term "ad hominem" in their dictionary, if they have dictionaries. I have several. And I stand by the analysis. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 16 07:24:53 PST 2001

31821 FW: Ha! Nader changed the locks! Remind you of anyone we know? -- rank: 1000

Kenneth Mack wrote: >In 1996, former Monitor staffer Doug Henwood summed up Nader this way: >"Ralph Nader may look like a democrat, smell like a populist, and >sound like a socialist--but deep down he's a frightened, petit >bourgeois moralizer without a political compass, more concerned with >his image than the movement he claims to lead: in short, an >opportunist, a liberal hack. And a scab." That wasn't me. I've never had anything to do with the Monitor, except for ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 16 07:23:54 PST 2001

31822 prison labor -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 15, 2001 Marketplace Inmates' Labor, Expenditures Enhance Prisons' Bottom Line From the book 'Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation' by Joseph T. Hallinan. Copyright 2001 by Joseph T. Hallinan. To be published by Random House Trade Publishing, a division of Random House Inc. At the eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison in the famous mill town of Pendleton, inmates don't make license plates anymore. They make money. Pretty good mone ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 15 22:10:50 PST 2001

31823 Problems of Functionalism -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Thus: the proletariat, i.e., the blue collar industrial working >class, is not the majority in any modern industrialized society, so >Marx is washed up. Talking with Paul Mattick Jr - Katha Pollitt's Last Marxist - the other night, I learned that there were almost no workers in Vermont, because there's so little manufacturing there. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 15 12:21:44 PST 2001

31824 Neoclassical Logic -- rank: 1000

Michael McIntyre wrote: > Anyone hear Lori make an argument like that at the debate with >Bhagwati et al. in Seattle? Lori Wallach wasn't in that debate. It was Ralph Nader, John Cavanagh, and Vandana Shiva for the anti-WTO side. The anti side was not impressive. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 15 10:41:25 PST 2001

31825 Fwd: FC: Why does Silicon Valley vote against itself? by J.Glassman -- rank: 1000

[via Declan McCullagh} <http://www.spectator.org/archives/0103TAS/glassman0103.htm> The American Spectator -- March 2001 Smart Nerds, Foolish Choices Why Silicon Valley votes against its interests by James K. Glassman One of the deepest mysteries of this New Age is why Silicon Valley -- as a geographic metaphor for smart, productive high-technologists around the country--prefers Democrats to Republicans. In the presidential election, for example, voters in the two counties in the peninsula ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 15 10:27:28 PST 2001

31826 Japan -- rank: 1000

[another address bounce] Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:25:52 +0900 From: JC Helary <helary at eskimo.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com > Mori's Political Woes Pale Next to Japan's Systematic Trouble > > 09 March 2001 > > By George Friedman looks like mori's going to be off by the end of april, but they don't seem to have decided exactly when yet. there was a 'non confidence' (???) motion proposed in the parliment a few days ago but even komeito did not support it, they sai ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 15 09:27:13 PST 2001

31827 Zaps & freepers -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 07:06:04 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) From: David Jennings <djenning at arches.uga.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 Leslilake1 at aol.com wrote: > And now, another eyewitness report from a Free Republic poster who also was > supposedly at the zap rally...shades of Rashomon... <snip>vicious FR junk</snip> > > Eyewitness report from a Japanese friend on zap's arrival in mexic ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 15 09:16:56 PST 2001

31828 women in football -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 15, 2001 Judge Rules Against Duke U. in Female Football Player's Lawsuit By WELCH SUGGS Heather Sue Mercer, who once aspired to be a placekicker for Duke University, notched another courtroom win this week against the Blue Devils' football team. This week, U.S. District Judge James A. Beaty upheld a $2-million jury verdict in Ms. Mercer's lawsuit against Duke, in which she said the university discriminated against her because of her gender when s ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 15 09:13:58 PST 2001

31829 Americans "still bullish" -- rank: 1000

[This is not reassuring. And, on the basis of my reliable indicator - whether I get calls from mainstream reporters to comment on the financial carnage, which is usually a buy signal - we're nowhere near a bottom.] <http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010315.asp> March 15, 2001 After Stock Market Drops 317 Points, Americans Still More Bullish Than Bearish By 57% to 37%, say decline below the 10,000 mark is no big deal, but majority have less confidence in economy by David W. Moore GALLUP ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 15 09:07:15 PST 2001

31830 Paul Keating -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >The master of political >invective, IMO, was Paul Keating, lovingly archived at > >http://www.webcity.com.au/keating/ [...] >the man was a genius. And he, in his tough sadomonetarism, inspired the catchy poem by John Forbes that Meaghan Morris uses as the epigraph to "Ecstasy and Economics": Watching the Treasurer I want to believe the beautiful lies the past spreads out like a feast. Television is full of them & inside their beauty you can act: ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 15 09:04:42 PST 2001