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32581 kids v. economists -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >I blame Foucault meself Hey why not? He's 1) French, 2) a pervert, and 3) dead. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 24 12:22:31 PST 2001

32582 Frank in Singapore -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 00:38:18 -0600 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: "t. c. frank" <t-frank-3 at alumni.uchicago.edu> Subject: singapore Hey LBO-folks: Somebody wondered what the URL was for the story of my vacation in Singapore. This is it: http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no6/frank.html Tom Frank

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 24 07:57:04 PST 2001

32583 worlds collide -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - February 24, 2001 Worlds set to collide By John Lloyd The World Economic Forum at Davos was not created for controversy: it was created to bring capitalists into contact with politicians, media people, non- governmental people and intellectuals, and to spark debate and action on some of the world's problems. It was a serious, heuristic exercise. It succeeded - beyond the dreams of Klaus Schwab, its founder - in attracting the leaders of business, politics, media and academe. Bu ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 24 07:35:32 PST 2001

32584 DLC for privatizing Social Security??? -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >In _A Better Third Way_, Kahlenberg and Teixeira >http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010305&s=kahlenberg > >say without references that "Current DLC documents call for >privatizing Social Security." > >What's the truth of that assertion? Here's what DLC poobah Will Marshall said a couple of years ago <http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?cp=2&kaid=125&subid=165&contentid=1307> Elements of the "Grand Bargain" Desp ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 23 14:34:25 PST 2001

32585 Break the cycle of dependency - Just Say No -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >That's the problem with the purism of third party politics. It starts with >trying to find pure candidates and parties rather than concentrating on the >real issue - more power and organization among progressives. You're right about this, which is one reason I'm persuaded by the Labor Party strategy (in theory, even if practice isn't dazzling yet). But I don't see how supporting Dems contributes to "power and organization among progressives." Seems to me ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 23 14:26:22 PST 2001

32586 Fwd: FC: Accused spy Robert Hanssen also posts to USENET -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:44:39 -0500 To: politech at politechbot.com From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com> *********** Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:18:52 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Meehan <duketor at yahoo.ca> Subject: Accused spy Robert Hanssen also posts to USENET To: declan at well.com --- Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com> wrote: > He's also allegedly a geek. And a sometime poster, under hanssen at orion.clark.net, to comp.sys.laptops, comp.sys.palmtops.pilot, and ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 23 14:24:35 PST 2001

32587 kids v. economists -- rank: 1000

Vikash Yadav wrote: >You seem to foreclose the possibility that a group of leftist thinkers could >do the same. What is the basis for believing this? I don't think the profession of economics is likely to change as a result of developments within economics; better arguments are not going to persuade members of a profession whose fundamental task is concocting apologias for bourgeois society. It's much more likely that changes in the larger society might bring more radicals into studying e ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 23 13:57:12 PST 2001

32588 ADA suits against states struck down- what's next? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The Supreme Court, however, can block whole ranges of legislation from being >enacted even if progressives gain legislative wins. Progressives pass the >Burma law in Massachusetts only to see it overturned. New Jersey >progressives pass a ban on discrimination against gays, only to see the >Supreme Court strike it down as applied to the boy scouts. Progressives >pass local land use laws only to see the Supreme Court strike them down as >unconstitutio ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 23 13:43:26 PST 2001

32589 Bushism -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - President Bush at Townsend TN Elementary School

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Date:	Fri Feb 23 12:33:30 PST 2001

32590 (no subject) -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >I'm here, I'm queer; get used to it. You're welcome here, Leo, but why not get queerer? Give up the whole Dem thing - it's almost heteronomative! Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 23 11:50:21 PST 2001

32591 good news!: Tony Blair - Still Fighting for the Third Way -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:31:34 -0500 From: ndol_admin at dlcppi.org (New Democrats Online) ================================== NEW DEMOCRATS ONLINE -- NEW DEM DAILY -- Pithy news and commentary from the DLC. ================================== [ http://www.ndol.org ] 22-FEB-2001 Tony Blair: Still Fighting for the Third Way [,,,] Related Material: "Third Way, Phase Two," by Tony Blair, Prospect, March 2001, (excerpt): http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=128&subid=187&contentid= ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 23 08:10:21 PST 2001

32592 kids v. economists -- rank: 1000

Vikash Yadav wrote: >There seems to be a consensus that the discipline of economics is rigid and >averse to radical thought. I am not sure that is correct. It seems to me >that the discipline is quite prone to radical lurches in one direction or >another. The paradigm shift from Keynes to Friedman seems pretty radical >and sudden to me. If universities were really so conservative, how do we >explain this paradigm shift? You're mixing meanings of the word conservative here. ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 23 07:26:05 PST 2001

32593 M&M -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >Sometimes Counterpunch nails it, and sometimes they don't. The screed on >Eminem <http://www.counterpunch.org/eminem.html> is 100% airball. Great >shot, perfect arc -- only it landed in the front row, not the net. I could >quote you spine-chilling lyrics from the Geto Boys which make M&M look >like a cub scout. Homeboy teamed up with Dr. Dre to do some slams, >musically his stuff is pretty good. Not breakthrough level, like Cypress >Hi ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 22 18:47:14 PST 2001

32594 Pat Robertson worries about Bush plan -- rank: 1000

Pat Robertson expresses concerns with Bush religion plan By Laura Meckler, Associated Press, 2/21/2001 17:03 WASHINGTON (AP) Christian conservative Pat Robertson, one of President Bush's backers during the presidential campaign, said he has significant concerns with Bush's plan to let religious groups compete for federal grants. Robertson said Tuesday that he worries about government funding religious groups that are outside the mainstream, such as the Church of Scientology, Hare Krishnas or the ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 21 14:56:48 PST 2001

32595 kids v. economists -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: >game theory To quote the guy on Sprockets, are you trying to make me scream? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 21 13:41:12 PST 2001