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32671 Mossad, friend of Rich -- rank: 1000
Philadelphia Inquirer - February 16, 2001 Israel pushed pardon for Rich By Jodi Enda, Inquirer Washington Bureau Washington - President Bill Clinton granted his pardon to fugitive financier Marc Rich in part because the prime minister of Israel repeatedly pressed him to do it in reward for Rich's clandestine services to Israeli intelligence. Although the controversy surrounding the pardon has focused primarily on large financial donations to the Democratic Party and to Clinton's presidential lib ...
Document Size: 11440
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 16 14:12:01 PST 2001
32672 Volatitily as social flaring -- rank: 1000
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > No more of a tautology than most math approaches. >Stripping away the fancy math (that comes from Otto >Rossler, one of the godfathers of chaos theory), it is >basically a way of modeling bandwagon speculative >outbursts with heterogeneous agents. There will be >times when the agents will infect each other with their >overoptimism and will overdo it. The mathematics are >similar to that which can describe a solar flare shooting out. ...
Document Size: 5474
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 16 11:41:18 PST 2001
32673 kids v. economists -- rank: 1000
<http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0103/cover_clothes.html> Lingua Franca - March 2001 COVER STORY Clothes Encounters Activists and economists clash over sweatshops by Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood "ARE YOU A ZAPATISTA?" ASKED JAGDISH BHAGWATI, ONE OF THE WORLD'S preeminent trade economists, of a young protester wearing a mask. The sixty-six-year-old Columbia professor and free-trade advocate laughs as he recounts his adventures amid the steelworkers, topless lesbians, and p ...
Document Size: 6616
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 16 10:33:24 PST 2001
32674 Fidel offers poor US kids free MDs -- rank: 1000
Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - February 16, 2001 Castro Offers Free Medical Training for Low-Income, Minority Americans By KATHERINE S. MANGAN Fidel Castro has offered six years of free medical education and training in Cuba to hundreds of low-income minority students from the United States. The offer was welcomed by members of the Congressional Black Caucus who helped arrange the deal, but is being greeted more skeptically by some American medical educators. The Cuban leader extend ...
Document Size: 7482
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 16 07:22:31 PST 2001
32675 The Trouble with Democrats (cont'd) -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: >The bottom line is the Dems fealty to finanz kapital, >whether tactical or strategic, is a cancer on the >social-democratic prospect. It will take a populist >uprising to get them on some kind of positive track. >That's what I'm working on. Hmm, well, where's it going to come from? There's certainly no organization that's about to lead it, and I don't see that much evidence of mass desire for it - though maybe the Holland Tunnel traffic downstairs is drowning ...
Document Size: 5620
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 15 16:19:39 PST 2001
32676 Fwd: Fw: Payoffs for Layoffs -- rank: 1000
>>> "Greg LeRoy" <goodjobs at ctj.org> 02/15 1:37 PM >>> One of the most persistent criticisms of development subsidies is that they fail to ensure job creation or even job retention. Indeed, it was the plant closing movement's revealing that closing factories had been subsidized that triggered many of the pioneering reforms -- such as disclosure and clawbacks -- we see taking root in many places today. The Center for an Urban Future in New York City has just r ...
Document Size: 6351
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 15 13:07:44 PST 2001
32677 a little booze is good for your career -- rank: 1000
It doesn't cost anything to retrieve the paper. I pay for the abstracting service, but the downloads are free. But don't let me stop you from having a beer! Doug Peter Kosenko wrote: >The real question is whether or not I am going to PAY SSRN for a >copy of this paper or save my money and go get a beer at the bar >after work. A true question of "marginal utility." > >Peter Kosenko > >---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >From: Michael ...
Document Size: 6574
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 15 13:02:38 PST 2001
32678 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000
Michael Pugliese wrote: > -- too irony-deficient, for instance -- and is about as removed from >today's >world and sensibility as, say, Che Guevera. > >Carl > >Aw, but, Che is a great icon for the culture industry. True. There's a clip from Marie Claire up in the Verso office depicting a model in a Che t-shirt. Also, Swatch did a Che watch a few years ago. And, there's an entire website devoted to Che stuff: <http://www.thechestore.com>. There's a page on the Swatch: ...
Document Size: 5238
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 15 11:39:48 PST 2001
32679 a little booze is good for your career -- rank: 1000
"The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Occupational Attainment in England" BY: MICHAEL A. SHIELDS Public Sector Economics Research Centre ZIGGY MACDONALD University of Leicester Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=250109 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.iza.org/publications/discussion_paper/dp166 .pdf SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Elect ...
Document Size: 7183
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 15 11:07:02 PST 2001
32680 spineless pinko's update -- rank: 1000
Michael Pollak wrote: >The 1950s were a boomtime for >religion. And when, since the founding of the USA, has there been a bear market in piety? Doug
Document Size: 4556
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 15 07:00:45 PST 2001
32681 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000
Catherine Driscoll wrote: >are you trying to claim that the fashionability of a given formula >makes it less productive? No. I'm just trying to avoid being a cliche, though I'm not sure why. Doug
Document Size: 4512
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 14 16:25:32 PST 2001
32682 ACIT -- rank: 1000
The Nation has put up the annotation of the economists' letter against the anti-sweatshop movement (i.e., a pro-sweatshop letter) that Liza Featherstone & I did recently: <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010212&s=featherstone>. Doug
Document Size: 4581
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 14 16:20:24 PST 2001
32683 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000
Catherine Driscoll wrote: >>Not automatically, no. And as you know, I quite like Madonna. But >>the style of juxtaposing "high" and "low" has become a bit of a >>formula, hasn't it? >> >>Doug > >sure, but so has marxist structural analysis and that a) never stops >anyone and b) doesn't make everything done with it stupid Agreed on both a) and b). Though Marxist structural analysis is a bit less in fashion than cult stud eclecticism. Doug
Document Size: 4880
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 14 15:59:36 PST 2001
32684 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000
Seth Ackerman wrote: >Ok, I finally have to ask. When you say you like Madonna, you mean *early* >Madonna - when she was cool - right? Lucky Star, Material Girl, Like a >Virgin - not the mindless machine output of her latter years like "Music" or >whatever that song's called. All of it really. I just started up my MP3 of "Music" as background, in fact. Doug
Document Size: 4761
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 14 15:57:31 PST 2001
32685 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000
Catherine Driscoll wrote: >not baiting are you Doug? Well maybe jsut a little. >At 06:14 PM 14/02/2001 -0500, you wrote: >>kelley wrote: >> >>>isn't there some path between adornian (dennis r.. -- is that >>>right?) crankiness and the glorification of popculture? >> >>I sure hope so. That's the path I'm looking for, or sometimes >>delude myself into thinking I've even found. Of course, you run the >>risk of looking like some wacked out ...
Document Size: 5665
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 14 15:34:51 PST 2001
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