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32056 academic economics -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >The pay gap is widening in all respects. Bus/Science vs. the Humanities. >Star professors vs. ordinary grunts. I was just at the University of Illinois-Chicago. The estimable Stanley Fish was recruited at the price of $250k/yr to hire some stars. Walter Benn Michaels has been brought it at somewhat lower expense, partly paid out of an affirmative action fund. The trustees, and apparently ultimately the legislature, has decided it wants to put UIC on the academic m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 19 12:47:47 PDT 2001

32057 ex-cons -- rank: 1000

SLATE POLITICS - June 18, 2001 Ex-Con Nation: We locked 'em up. They're getting out. What do we do now? By David Plotz Every year, the United States sets two prison records - one we talk about, and one we don't. Our mania for incarceration is common knowledge: The number of state and federal prisoners has quadrupled to 1.3 million in the past 25 years. But Americans have paid no attention at all to the backdoor of the prison. Inmates are arriving at an unprecedented rate, but they are also leavi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 19 12:28:23 PDT 2001

32058 academic economics -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 18, 2001 A Growing Number of Professors Are Off the Tenure Track, Report Says By ANA MARIE COX The gaps between the average salaries of professors at public and at private institutions, and between tenured and nontenured faculty members, continue to widen -- even as the percentage of professors who are tenured or on the tenure track decreases, says a report released last week by the National Education Association. The report, based on 1998-99 dat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 19 12:21:47 PDT 2001

32059 Fwd: Re: political coordinates -- rank: 1000

[I asked Christopher Hitchens whether there was any truth to rumors he no longer found himself on the left, and that he'd become a Republican (or was that a republican?). His reply.] Dear Doug, The republican bit has always been true, whether for Ireland or for Britain. What I said to Time mag, who didn't garble it all that badly, is that I think of myself as having some convictions and even principles, but no longer as having any allegiances. It's been falling away for years and I recently real ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 19 11:54:44 PDT 2001

32060 hiding the union label -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:29:26 -0700 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: James McCarthy <jpm23 at psu.edu> Subject: Fwd: I'm usually a passive consumer of lbo wisdom -- much appreciated -- but I had to pass this along. This claiming of public space is exceptionally brazen even these days; Shea's response is perfect. James McCarthy >Here's an article from today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, >self-proclaimed as "One of America's Great Newspapers." > >It sticks out in v ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 19 09:52:39 PDT 2001

32061 Fwd: Redevelopment in Senegal -- rank: 1000

Le Monde diplomatique - June 2001 THE SOUTH HELPS THE SOUTH Redevelopment in Senegal _________________________________________________________________ Cuts in development aid from governments in the last two years have not as yet been offset by private sector investments. The EU has abandoned voluntarism by ending the system created as part of the Lomé convention, and is now focusing exclusively on opening up new markets. As a result, countries in the South are now embracing various bilateral ve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 16 06:44:18 PDT 2001

32062 Gore in '04? -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] JUST POLITICS In a poll conducted by Zogby International and E Vote, less than half of the voters that supported Al Gore in 2000 have a favorable opinion of a Gore run in 2004. The showed that only 48% of Gore voters would support Al Gore in 2004. Interestingly, only among voters under 25, however, does Gore get high marks: 56% have a favorable opinion, which drops to under 30% for every other age group. Gore also does far better with those who have less tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 16 05:31:46 PDT 2001

32063 opening up economics -- rank: 1000

27 PhD-students at Cambridge University support the following open letter: Opening Up Economics: A Proposal By Cambridge Students As students at Cambridge University, we wish to encourage a debate on contemporary economics. We set out below what we take to be characteristic of today's economics, what we feel needs to be debated and why: As defined by its teaching and research practices, we believe that economics is monopolised by a single approach to the explanation and analysis of economic phen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 16 05:36:24 PDT 2001

32064 Bronski on Sullivan -- rank: 1000

[Apologies to those who are sick of this.] The Boston Phoenix 6/12/01 Sex, Scandal and Andrew Sullivan Michael Bronski Unprotected sex. Big, hairy thighs. Right-wing hypocrisy. What more could a sex scandal need? The news that Andrew Sullivan -- the openly gay and HIV-positive, Tory conservative, devoutly Catholic former editor of the New Republic (where he is still a contributing editor) and frequent columnist for the New York Times Magazine -- had admitted to cruising gay Web sites for sex was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 14 11:26:38 PDT 2001

32065 Overposting -- rank: 1000

brettk at unicacorp.com wrote: >Right. Let's get rid of the warnings altogether. Like I said two or three times before, the warnings don't go out anymore because the script that generated them disappeared when Panix shut down an old Sun. I didn't retrieve the text in time, so no more automated tribunals. So please restrain yourselves. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 14 10:15:17 PDT 2001

32066 rabid antiglobalization activists pay to learn organized anarchy -- rank: 1000

New York Post - June 13, 2001 SABOTAGE BUST AT PREZ'S SWEDEN STOP By KATE SHEEHY June 13, 2001 -- Five militant activists have been busted for plotting "serious" sabotage in the Swedish city where President Bush is headed later this week. Authorities called the plot "very, very serious" and possibly linked to the European Union summit that Bush is expected to attend in Gothenburg. Swedish officials believe the saboteurs had an "anti-globalization" agenda like Seattl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 14 07:22:02 PDT 2001

32067 economists endorse capital punishment -- rank: 1000

"Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect? New Evidence from Post-moratorium Panel Data" BY: HASHEM DEZHBAKHSH Emory University Department of Economics PAUL H. RUBIN Emory University JOANNA MEHLHOP SHEPHERD Emory University Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=259538 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~cozden/dezhbakhsh_01 _01_cover.html SSRN only of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 14 06:37:12 PDT 2001

32068 Fwd: (50 Years) Demands of IMF & World Bank - 2001 -- rank: 1000

From: Soren <Soren at afgj.org> To: "'stop-wb-imf at 50years.org'" <stop-wb-imf at 50years.org> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:33:00 -0400 The following demands are being circulated for endorsement in advance of the mobilization at the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Washington, DC in September/October 2001. These demands have been formulated by the 50 Years Is Enough Network, a U.S.-based coalition of over 200 organizations committed to the fundamental transformation of the I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 13 15:11:30 PDT 2001

32069 "diversity" & hi-tech -- rank: 1000

<http://www.brookings.edu/es/urban/floridaexsum.htm> Technology and Tolerance: The Importance of Diversity to High-Technology Growth By Richard Florida and Gary Gates June, 2001 This survey finds that diversity - measured by the proportion of gay couples, artists, and foreign-born residents - is a very strong indicator of a metropolitan area's strength in high-technology businesses. A large gay or otherwise diverse population does not directly cause high-tech success in a particular place. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 13 14:16:19 PDT 2001

32070 Fwd: Media miss Paul O'Neill's extreme proposals -- rank: 1000

FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) For Immediate Release, June 13, 2001 Contact: Rachel Coen, (212) 633-6700 x318 MEDIA ADVISORY "Political Dynamite" Fails To Explode: Extreme proposals by Treasury's O'Neill mostly unreported When a high-level government official calls for drastic changes in U.S. law, it ought to be big news. But in an interview reported by the Financial Times' Amity Shlaes (5/19/01 & 5/22/01), treasury secretary Paul O'Neill called for sweeping changes in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 13 14:13:12 PDT 2001