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32146 junior achievement -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 20:09:57 -0500 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: "t. c. frank" <t-frank-3 at alumni.uchicago.edu> Subject: junior achievement Hey LBOers: A while back I heard a story about some kid who, either for a junior achievement project or all on his own, had something manufactured in China, which he then proceeded to sell here in the US. Has anybody else heard such a tale? Where could I find it in print? Thanks, Tom Frank

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Date:	Tue Jun 5 08:22:02 PDT 2001

32147 Kristol: conservative era waning -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >If you treat working class forces as actually having agency and not just >being victims, you can reverse this formulation and note that progressive >working class forces have achieved some degree of power and concessions from >capital by exploiting tensions and competition between different business >sectors. Where? How? Which? When? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 5 08:18:33 PDT 2001

32148 Bush book -- rank: 1000

New York Post - June 4, 2001 PAGE SIX By RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON Second wind for Bush-basher CALL it the book that won't die. "Fortunate Son," which alleges that George W. Bush was arrested in the early '70s for cocaine possession, will finally be published next month. The book - which the White House says "has been widely dismissed as science-fiction" - originally was slated to be released in late 1999 by St. Martin's Press. But the house backed ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 4 14:42:23 PDT 2001

32149 Kristol: conservative era waning -- rank: 1000

David Hearne wrote: >I need to read the whole article, but what exactly does Kristol mean >by the 'end of this period?' It seems as if the things pushed most >forcibly by conservatives -- deregulation, faith in the marketplace, >the dismantling of the welfare state, tax cuts -- are still popular >with the general public. If they're not popular with the public, then >they surely have strong support among powerful forces within the >government. Or am I mistaken? The latter is ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 4 12:55:35 PDT 2001

32150 Max's techno queries -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] >From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) >To: "Lbo-Talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >Subject: Web Hosting >Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:58:57 +0100 > >I'm looking for suitable outfits to >host a political website and would >appreciate recommendations, off- >or on-list, as you prefer. > >I am also curious about providers of >DSL service that permit customers to >run their own servers. > >mbs

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Date:	Mon Jun 4 12:40:33 PDT 2001

32151 Empire, nationalism, etc. -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond, you around? I saw you saying elsewhere that Hardt & Negri underestimate the progressive potential of the nation-state. Has the rather bad experience of the ANC in South Africa caused you to rethink this position? I see at least two specific problems of broader theoretical/strategic interest: 1) a poor, lightly industrialized country doesn't have much scope to act on its own, leaving it extremely vulnerable to external pressure, and the temptations of World Bank loans; and 2) th ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 4 12:29:34 PDT 2001

32152 more Sullivan -- rank: 1000

<http://www.poynter.org/medianews/letters.htm>

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Date:	Mon Jun 4 12:18:27 PDT 2001

32153 imaginging nonwhites -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010604b.asp> POLL RELEASES June 4, 2001 Public Overestimates U.S. Black and Hispanic Populations Perceptions of the percentage of Hispanics in America have grown significantly since 1990, while perceptions of the percentage of blacks have remained steady by Joseph Carroll GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- The latest U.S. Census findings on the increasing diversity of America have received considerable attention this year. Americans seem to realize ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 4 12:13:16 PDT 2001

32154 Kristol: conservative era waning -- rank: 1000

This is the conclusion of an article in the Saturday Washington Post. Kristol is William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard: >The conservative era that began with Richard Nixon is waning. "It >feels like we're at the end of this period in American politics," >Kristol said. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 4 12:07:34 PDT 2001

32155 Fwd: [PEN-L:12629] Linksys: Made in a Taiwan Labor Camp -- rank: 1000

[this is coming to you through a Linksys ethernet workgroup hub...] http://192.192.148.27/news/2001/05/30/letter.htm Linksys Hubs Hubbubs A latest model Made in a Taiwan Labor Camp called Runtop Hi there! You guys surfing on the net are definitely no strangers to the Linksys Group, isnt it? One thing about the Linksys, however, I bet you don!|t quite have a clue yet. Ready? There is a big labor camp called Runtop tightly linked with the Linksys on the island that we call Taiwan! And believe it o ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 4 11:19:21 PDT 2001

32156 L.A. Dems Race-Bait Each Other -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >What I say? That white-dominated Green politics should not throw stones. >When the Green legislator in Oakland was elected to the state legislature, >the white Green candidate succeeded partly by gaining the support of white >Oaklanders opposed to her black opponent. And there was some pretty racist >undertones to the comments about that opponent noting his providing fried >chicken to his supporters. Wall Street Journal - June 4, 2001 Los Angeles Mayoral ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 4 10:36:44 PDT 2001

32157 union jobs -- rank: 1000

The AFL-CIO writes: >"Be a part of the new labor movement! Apply for dozens of new job >openings for UNION CAMPAIGN RESEARCHERS with a variety of unions in >locations across the country, including Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, >Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Madison, Miami, Minneapolis, New >York City/New Jersey, Orlando, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, >and Washington, DC. We are looking for new and seasoned >activist-researchers: people with backgrounds in organ ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 1 09:33:31 PDT 2001

32158 Sullivan, Moralism and Morality -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And as a few folks have pointed out, pointing out the "hypocrisy" probably >does more to reinforce the moralism that folks say Sullivan is guilty of. Not necessarily. It can also show that the moralism is untenable, if the critique is made in that spirit. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 1 07:16:00 PDT 2001

32159 Fwd: Re: Katha Pollitt on Andrew Sullivan -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:33:19 -0700 From: Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com> >> >> katha: >>> Andrew has made himself a public figure, and has made his presumed >>> sexual behavior part of that public persona and part of his >>> arguments in favor of various stands. Sometimes, indeed, his >>> self-report is just about the ONLY evidence he puts forward: he >>> takes testosterone and uses his one-man sample to make all s ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 1 07:08:22 PDT 2001

32160 toodle-loo -- rank: 1000

Well, comrades, I'm off to Australia for 2 weeks, and likely to be in only sporadic email contact. I've deputized a listmember to keep an eye out for any trouble that develops - not, of course, that any departure from elvevated and elevating standards of discourse is likely. Anyone who's in Adelaide at noon on the 28th, please stop by. For more info on the globalisation conference, see <http://arts.adelaide.edu.au/ARCHSS/global.htm>. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 16 05:36:50 PDT 2001