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32071 the few, the proud was: political correctness etc -- rank: 1000
John Halle wrote: > > John Halle wrote: >> >> >Thanks for providing me with the opportunity to slit my wrists. Before I >> >do so, I thought I would ask whether this or any other evidence would be >> >sufficient for you to reconsider the high esteem in which you hold the >> >academic left. > >Doug: > >> >> I don't hold the "academic left" in particularly high or low esteem. >> I'm not even convinced the ...
Document Size: 6062
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jun 13 13:58:06 PDT 2001
32072 election humor -- rank: 1000
kwalker2 at gte.net wrote: >hey doug, you should frame the Welcome to Tennessee sign--a gift for Nathan. Ha. And if Gore had carried West Virginia... Doug ---- Wall Street Journal - June 13, 2001 A Coal-Fired Crusade Helped Bring Crucial Victory to Candidate Bush By TOM HAMBURGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BECKLEY, W.Va. -- William Raney opened the West Virginia Coal Association's annual meeting here last month by congratulating the group for helping George W. Bush win this tra ...
Document Size: 23972
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jun 13 12:48:50 PDT 2001
32073 net troubles -- rank: 1000
[Is this one of those innovation-inspiring aspects of The Market that Clare Spark was talking about?] CNET News.com - June 6, 2001 Net blackout marks Web's Achilles heel By John Borland Staff Writer, For much of the past week, two large stretches of the Internet turned invisible to each other. Unlike the electrical outages plaguing California, which no one wants, this intentional blackout suited the purposes of one side in the collapse of talks between two major Internet service providers, Cable ...
Document Size: 11143
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jun 13 12:17:49 PDT 2001
32074 the few, the proud was: political correctness etc. -- rank: 1000
John Halle wrote: >Thanks for providing me with the opportunity to slit my wrists. Before I >do so, I thought I would ask whether this or any other evidence would be >sufficient for you to reconsider the high esteem in which you hold the >academic left. I don't hold the "academic left" in particularly high or low esteem. I'm not even convinced there's such a thing as "the" academic left. There are tenured professors who profess some kind of radical politics and ...
Document Size: 6191
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jun 13 12:12:24 PDT 2001
32075 EU to boost R&D -- rank: 1000
Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 13, 2001 European Groups Sign Pact to Coordinate Their Support of Research By BURTON BOLLAG The European Union and the European Investment Bank last week signed an agreement to promote research and technical innovation. Under the pact, the two groups will join their substantial forces in hopes of increasing research financing and using their funds more effectively. "There is no doubt the science quality in Europe is on the same par as in the ...
Document Size: 6310
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jun 13 10:00:28 PDT 2001
32076 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4466 -- rank: 1000
John Halle wrote: >You didn't ask for more examples, but the subject of Yale came up and I >thought I'd add one from here to complement Wotjek's stories from JHU. As >most people know, the grad student union here has been attempting to >organize here for some years in the face of tremendous hostility from the >administration. Much of the hostility has been channeled through >department heads and faculty members some of whom have gone so far as to >threaten to withhold letter ...
Document Size: 5822
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jun 13 07:21:10 PDT 2001
32077 Hitchens article -- rank: 1000
Got an offlist request for the whole Hitchens article. Here it is. Doug ---- June 18, 2001 Vol. 157 No. 24 Rebel With a Cause Author, wit and scourge of sacred cows, Christopher Hitchens takes on global heavyweight Henry Kissinger BY JAMES LEDBETTER Printable Version : 'Is a Kissinger trial ever really going to happen?' On tour to promote his provocative new book The Trial of Henry Kissinger (Verso; 159 pages), Christopher Hitchens, 52, arrived at Britain's Hay-on-Wye literary festival the day ...
Document Size: 8869
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jun 12 15:57:24 PDT 2001
32078 Hitchens: no political allegiance -- rank: 1000
This excerpt from a Time (Europe) interview with Christopher Hitchens by James Ledbetter: >Yet he himself no longer avows much interest in the >ideological wars of his youth. "I'm not a figure for the left now," he >says. "I have no definable political allegiance." Hitchens does, >however, have an aversion to sacred cows. Among the subjects of his >previous literary attacks: Mother Teresa and Princess Diana. Doug
Document Size: 4952
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jun 12 15:18:28 PDT 2001
32079 Decline of KPFK -- rank: 1000
Michael Perelman wrote: >I always enjoyed hearing Earl Ofari Hutchison. I was surprised that he >supports Pacifica. Look, this stuff is really complicated. It's not just a matter of being for or against Pacifica. Some day I should write something that really lets it all out, but not yet. Doug
Document Size: 4629
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jun 12 14:41:06 PDT 2001
32080 Fwd: Welcome to the land of the politically correct -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >Why folks on this list are so adamant about the marginal importance of left >protest after Seattle et al, the mass rallies against police brutality, >increasing union militancy, and the campus anti-sweatshop mobilizations is >beyond me. We aren't at the revolution but we are also in far better >shape on left mobilization and unity than we were a decade ago. Yes yes yes. Why all the damned despair? Doug
Document Size: 5157
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jun 12 14:42:22 PDT 2001
32081 Fwd: Welcome to the land of the politically correct -- rank: 1000
John Halle wrote: >This one's a bit dated, but good enough: A few years back Columbia >students held a sit in at administration offices to demand increased >appointments of minority faculty and the establishment of an ethnic >studies curriculum. Several large and spirited demonstrations by >undergrads were organized in support of these "academic" objectives. > >At almost the exact same time, the union representing food service workers >staged a walk out protesti ...
Document Size: 6692
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jun 12 14:27:58 PDT 2001
32082 How to get rid of those forwarding carrots>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -- rank: 1000
Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://members.tripod.com/schin26/index.htm >eCleaner v2.01 is a freeware application that helps you clean the ">" marks >that accumulate after an e-mail message has been forwarded many times. It >should work for any version of Windows (95/98/Me/NT/2000). I don't have the >time to do a Mac version right now, but there's another program for the Mac >I've been told of called SpellTools which does the same thing (plus spell >checking.) Fo ...
Document Size: 6441
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jun 12 11:57:21 PDT 2001
32083 Malaysian K controls -- rank: 1000
"Did the Malaysian Capital Controls Work?" BY: ETHAN KAPLAN Harvard University Center for International Development DANI RODRIK Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=262173 Paper ID: KSG Working Paper No. 01-008 Date: February 2001 Contact: DANI RODRIK Email: Mailto:dani ...
Document Size: 7332
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jun 12 11:14:04 PDT 2001
32084 Decline of KPFK -- rank: 1000
Marta Russell wrote: >More on Pacifica, specifically the decline of KPFK in Los Angeles >which has turned into a station barely worth turning the the dial to. >I used to listen to the KPFK news regularly -- no more though it is so >awful, insulting compared to the previous incarnation. Mark Schubb >and Marc Cooper dominate KPFK now and it has badly deteriorated. We >now have ooga booga shows about spiritual healing, etc., little to no >original news reporting (Frank Stoltz ...
Document Size: 14568
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jun 12 09:57:10 PDT 2001
32085 Senate Dems to move bankruptcy bill -- rank: 1000
Michael Perelman wrote: >What are the anti-abortion provisions? As the NYT article I posted put it: >House leaders have also suggested they will remove a provision in >the Senate bill that would end the ability of anti-abortion >protesters to escape legal judgments resulting from clinic violence >by filing for bankruptcy. Doug
Document Size: 4906
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jun 12 10:00:20 PDT 2001
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