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32686 Fwd: 5094-The Nixon Center/WHAT IS TO BE UNDONE? A RUSSIA POLICY AGENDA FOR THE NEW ADMINISTRATION -- rank: 1000

[Nixon, Kissinger, Simes - god this just reeks. Full text at <http://www.nixoncenter.org/Russia%20Policy%20Paper%20All.pdf>. WHAT IS TO BE UNDONE? A RUSSIA POLICY AGENDA FOR THE NEW ADMINISTRATION The Nixon Center (www.nixoncenter.org) February 2001 Foreword America's relations with post-Communist Russia have posed a special intellectual challenge. Once the great ideological and moral contest with the Soviet Union was ended, and so successfully, many Americans tended to assume that Russia ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 14 15:22:39 PST 2001

32687 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000

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 cult stud, mixing Deleuze in one sentence with Madonna in the next.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 14 15:14:44 PST 2001

32688 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >i feel a rant coming on about reading comprehension levels among the >yuts of our cybersociety. after watching people consistently >misread newsarticels lately, and thinking back to spending so much >time teaching college SENIORS how to read first before i could even >get them to write cogently about a topic.... oh lord....somebody >HELP ME or i'm going to channel Carl or something next. Standards, dear, they're just going all to hell these days. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 14 14:42:51 PST 2001

32689 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000

A thread on my Feed daily on the Lenin conference has developed on Plastic; anyone who wants to jump in, see <http://www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/13/1725241&from=rdf>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 14 13:56:01 PST 2001

32690 words of wisdom -- rank: 1000

Words of wisdom from management guru Peter Koestenbaum: >*****KOESTENBAUM'S WEEKLY LEADERSHIP THOUGHT***** > > >People work today for marketability, mostly their own. An effective >organization, therefore, offers marketability to its workforce as the >ultimate inducement in an alienating economy. Marketability is a business >objective. It is stock-price sensitive and stock-price intensive. It works >both ways: for the individual and for the organization. It is rational an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 14 10:44:06 PST 2001

32691 creationism -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010214c.asp> POLL RELEASES February 14, 2001 Public Favorable to Creationism But prefers it be taught along with evolution GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Kansas Board of Education members are debating whether to reverse a two-year-old policy that places less emphasis on the teaching of evolution in school science classes. In 1999, by a 6-4 margin, the board voted to change the state's science education standards to place more emphasis on creatio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 14 09:46:46 PST 2001

32692 "kinder, gentler US" -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] 'KINDER, GENTLER' APPROACH TO GLOBAL ECONOMY: LINDSEY. While US President George W. Bush is spending this week stressing the importance of US military alliances, his chief economic adviser is signaling a similar approach to the global economy, reports the Financial Times (p.4). In the run-up to the administration's first international economic summit this weekend-the meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bank governors in Palermo, Sicily-Lawr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 14 09:34:04 PST 2001

32693 Tasteless site -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >bravo! scintillating conversation! enlightening. more more more! Speaking of which, I just got this reaction to my Feed daily for yesterday: >"Leftist Intellectuals" is an oxymoron. Leftist idealists is an accurate >categorization. Idealism being analogous to immaturity. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 14 07:28:49 PST 2001

32694 Connerly's next -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - February 14, 2001 Foe of Affirmative Action Seeks to Bar Colleges in California From Collecting Data on Race By JEFFREY SELINGO Ward Connerly, the University of California regent who successfully promoted ballot referendums in California and Washington State to end affirmative action in university admissions and hiring, is getting ready for another campaign. This time, his proposed ballot measure in California would prevent the state, including public ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 14 06:54:34 PST 2001

32695 today in history -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] TODAY IN HISTORY 1936: The first Social Security checks are mailed . . . 1945: The American and British begin the bombing by 1,800 planes of Dresden, which kills some 40,000 - 135,000 persons. The uncertainty is caused by the number of bodies burned to ash. Some 650,000 incendiary bombs are dropped on a city with few defenses and many refugees. 27,000 homes and 7,000 public buildings are destroyed. One of the survivors is an American prisoner by the name of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 13 15:37:30 PST 2001

32696 Slick Willie heads uptown -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > Hey, I'm teaching Urban Economics right now. >I am aware that Harlem has a long way to go in >terms of gentrification. But, I have no doubt that >Slick Willie will end up in one of the gentrifying >sections, if not already fully gentrified. Well, yeah, it's in the empowerment zone he helped create. Starbucks, Disney - and earlier, the Cuomo/Dinkins attempts to use the Apollo Theater as a gentry magnet. Word is that some adventurous white gay ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 13 12:18:33 PST 2001

32697 Slick Willie heads uptown -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: >Ah, but Harlem is a far cry from what it was in >1960. It is getting semi-gentrified these days, a >fancy slum, as it were. Barkley, if you ever tire of academia, you've got a future in real estate. There are pieces of Harlem that are getting gentrified, but it's got a long long way to go. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 13 11:17:08 PST 2001

32698 'The Layoff Binge' -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >The mass firings so beloved by the corporations have nothing to do >with recessions, falling demand or market downturns. They are all >about boosting profit margins and thereby increasing shareholder >value. Wall Street interprets mass layoffs as a sign that corporate >managers are serious about "trimming the fat." They therefore buy >into company stock and raise its value. An announcement of a huge >layoff invariably leads to a surge in the com ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 13 09:30:03 PST 2001

32699 American intellectual property -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >"American intellectual property is our greatest trade asset." > >said by one on the victors side of the Napster case > >Is that now true? > >Any figures? Depends on what you want to call American IP. If you're including Boeing aircraft, Intel processors, and Merck pharmaceuticals, then yes, it's a big trade asset. If you're talking Hollywood and pop music, they're central to the cultural dimensions of Empire, but economically rather minor. Dou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 13 08:48:35 PST 2001

32700 Murray on prole models -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Now, you might reckon indignation like that >expressed against MacMuck et al constitutes a conservative-elitist >rejection of the proletarian and her ways (I'm not sure this is exactly >what you reckon, Doug - haven't quite got your position fixed yet - but >this is what I currently think you're saying) My posish on the all-important McDonald's question is - I like the stuff, though not as a steady diet, and I wish the workers were well-paid and well-treated. Of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 13 08:36:01 PST 2001