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32611 Supreme Court rules suspects can be barred from home -- rank: 1000

Matt Cramer wrote: >McArthur was charged with possessing >less than 2.5 grams of marijuana My god, isn't that a terrible terrible crime! 8-1. I hope Stevens eats a healthy diet, exercises regularly, has few bad habits. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 13:00:34 PST 2001

32612 States (the Kiwi one in particular) -- rank: 1000

Bill Cochrane wrote: >All is proceeding relatively splendidly - growth looks like averaging >about 3% pa, unemployment is at 5.6% (lowest in 12 years), rural NZ is >booming (nz $ is at about 43cents US) and while the Labour/Alliance >government isnt going to establish a socialist utopia real soon they >aren't doing to bad. We also have probably the funniest finance minister >in the OECD - Cullen is a hoot >I can dig out facts and figures should anyone care Well I care, since ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 12:55:17 PST 2001

32613 Fwd: Positions at The Nation -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:01:25 -0600 From: The Nation Magazine <emailnation at thenation.com> Dear EmailNation Subscriber, The Nation presently has two staff positions open effective immediately we wanted to let you know about: WEB EDITOR: The Nation seeks a part-time web editor/producer (17 ñ 20 hours a week) to work with associate publisher and Nation editors on online content and outreach projects. Competent copy-editing skills, internet literacy and ability to write clearly and on dea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 12:10:02 PST 2001

32614 marxism on wgn-fm -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >"Crypto-libertarian"? Anarchist, please, Doug. > >I defended what I think is defensible in Cuba. There's a lot there I find >indefensible, even within the context of "national security." But I do find >Cuba's health care system, and its policy of sending doctors throughout the >developing world, admirable. Me too. And I was just teasing you with the "crypto-libertarian" label. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 11:50:23 PST 2001

32615 IMF's gloom -- rank: 1000

[From a report on the World Econmic Forum, Davos, in the Feb 19 issue of the IMF Survey, the Fund's biweekly PR sheet, which sadly isn't on their website yet.] Security, both inside and outside the Congress Center, was exceptionally tight, but this only added to the uncertainty of the participants. If euphoria was the defining feature of the 2000 Davos meetings, which took place against a backdrop of an unprecedented surge in technology stocks, this years meeting was characterized by a sense of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 11:36:26 PST 2001

32616 vacation -- rank: 1000

[Also from the front of the WSJ] WHO NEEDS IT? About 18% of 632 workers surveyed on behalf of Oxford Health Plans Inc., Trumbull, Conn., say they don't use all their vacation days because they are too busy at work.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 10:14:03 PST 2001

32617 "unions are cool" -- rank: 1000

[from the front page of today's Wall Street Journal] YOUTH ORGANIZING: Are younger workers more open to unions? In a poll by Peter D. Hart Research Associates Inc. for the AFL-CIO, 51% of 462 potential union members said they definitely or probably would vote against a union if an election was held tomorrow. But of workers under 35 years old, 53% would vote for a union. The result matches a similar poll from two years ago. But why? Potential reasons vary, from a lack of loyalty for employers to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 10:11:17 PST 2001

32618 Reed on post-defeatism -- rank: 1000

[Scanned, so apologies for any textual oddities; not on the Progressive's website.] The Progressive - February 2001 GET OFF THE DEFEATIST CYCLE by Adolph Reed Well, the Republicans blatantly stole the White House. Nader didn't get the magic 5 percent, and we on the left are as weak as ever. So where do we go from here? How can we avoid finding ourselves in the same position again in another four years: facing undesirable electoral alternatives, with no solid foundation for opposition, and primed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 09:34:14 PST 2001

32619 advances in economics (cont.) -- rank: 1000

"A Hotelling-Faustmann Explanation of the Structure of Christmas Tree Pricing" BY: TOM VUKINA North Carolina State University College of Agriculture & Life Sciences CHRISTIANA E. HILMER Brigham Young University Department of Economics DEAN LUECK Montana State University Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=252312 Date: November 29, 2000 Contact: DEAN LUECK Email: Mailto:lueck at montana.edu Postal: Montana ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 09:09:51 PST 2001

32620 UNITE -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Not all Lords are reactionary No, but my point was that the British state doesn't make someone a Lord who is an enemy of metropolitan capital. On Tony Benn, here's what Britannica.com has to say: "Though a fierce critic of the British class system, Benn came from a moneyed and privileged family himself. Both of his grandfathers had been members of Parliament, and his father, William Wedgwood Benn (1877-1960), had been a Liberal and then a Labour MP who in 1942 ent ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 08:49:17 PST 2001

32621 marxism on wgn-fm -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >I like him . He makes you all sound like me, defending Marxism, >Cuba, denouncing the world historic murderousness of capitalism. A >dash of gross anti-communism is the way to unite the left. Hey, lots of us, me included, would "defend" Marxism and Cuba (even the crypto-libertarian Dennis Perrin defended Cuba!), and denounce the murderousness of capitalism, and it doesn't take a standard-issue hack like George Thomas to do it. Thomas unsub'd a little wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 20 08:43:44 PST 2001

32622 preaching, waiting -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >Most of the Labor Party supporters I know have grown disgusted with the LP's >abstention from politics. Sure, it's great to organize around issues, but >that's not the point of a PARTY, is it? If "objective conditions" aren't >ripe to be running people for office (and I'm not sure when they will be, if >not now...), then why form a political party? The whole line of thinking is >a tangled rag of incoherence. I don't agree. For a tiny, young party t ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 08:35:23 PST 2001

32623 States (the Kiwi one in particular) -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >One hears the whisper from across the Tasman that Deputy Primeminister Jim >Anderton is in the process of establishing a government-funded people's >bank (only 12 years after BNZ was privatised) - as an arm of the Post >Office (already with outlets across the country) - and as a reaction to >'the colonisation of the NZ finance sector'. How is NZ doing these days? Last time I looked, which was a few years ago, it was not doing well. Still? Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 08:30:37 PST 2001

32624 Desai on globalization -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >But I'm really posting to point out that Bhagwati >doesn't agree that the WTO is necessarily good for the >poor, and indeed in this letter to the FT seems to be >expressing pretty severe misgivings about the process >of globalisation: > >http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010220001132&query=bhagwati > >I've got a lot of sympathy for his position (rather >like Rakesh's own, I think), of having started out as >an una ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 08:20:57 PST 2001

32625 Score one for our side: U.S Navy beats a retreat -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Ok, this is the third try - what's the problem? Attached HTML code pushed the length to over 50k; anything over 30k bounces. Please don't forward anything with HTML code - convert to plain text. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 08:03:08 PST 2001