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32731 circled A -- rank: 1000

berlin at socrates.berkeley.edu wrote: >Look at what the anti defamation league has posted. Hey, the ADL loves cops! Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 10 09:14:37 PST 2001

32732 circled A -- rank: 1000

berlin at socrates.berkeley.edu wrote: >Look at what the anti defamation league has posted. Hey, the ADL loves cops! Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 10 09:14:37 PST 2001

32733 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Chief executives from leading US companies will warn the Bush administration >on Friday that US trade is falling behind while the European Union, Mexico >and even Japan forge ahead with new free trade agreements that could be >hostile to US interests. "Free trade" is always in crisis, it seems. Alarming signs of trade wars, breakdowns into regional blocs, wavering commitments, worrying backlashes. And yet the agenda goes from strength to strength. The ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 10 09:11:40 PST 2001

32734 ultimate cuisine -- rank: 1000

<http://tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/finalmeals.htm>

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 13:03:46 PST 2001

32735 money from Napster -- rank: 1000

At 1:26 PM -0700 2/9/01, TheStandard.com wrote: >Let Others Sue: Marketer Licks Chops Over Rich Napster Data >By Charles C. Mann and Warren Cohen - Inside.com >By trolling through users' MP3 collections, BigChampagne hopes to find >people who will be grateful to receive a sales pitch. Even Aimee Mann >benefits from her sworn enemy. >http://tm0.com/thestandard/sbct.cgi?s=64392849&i=302073&d=1009932

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 12:33:44 PST 2001

32736 Young Germans see 'good side' to Nazis -- rank: 1000

While I was in Essen, I talked to a journalist for Die Tagezeitung, who spent some time in eastern Germany talking to skinhead/neo-Nazi youth. She said there are lots of them, and they're scarily full of hate (for Jews and foreigners, mainly). And it's not just a pose - they beat people up. She also thought that about 1/3 of the western German population harbored some degree of sympathy for the Nazis. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 11:08:59 PST 2001

32737 The Vicissitudes of Proletarian Internationalism -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >It would be interesting to hear Doug's reactions to the substance of the >various papers at Zizek's Leninist shindig -- for my part, if only to see how >much they conformed to my hermeneutic prejudice about Zizekian politics in >general. That is, my suspicion is that "Lenin" is for Zizek not so much the >leading representative of a certain tradition of politic practice, that one >can analyze, critique and then either adopt or reject, on par ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 11:05:06 PST 2001

32738 tasteless site -- rank: 1000

Not for the squeamish (and thanks to Declan MacCullagh): <http://bonsaikitten.com>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 10:44:17 PST 2001

32739 Zoe Heller on Arianna Stassinopoulos (Huffington) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I completely agree. But people who are both economically and socially >libertarian end up roughly in the center on today's spectrum, no? Not >avatars, but not beyond the pale, if they were hosting a popular event and >gave you a forum. Which is to say, not to be lumped together under a >common rubric with John Birchers and Pat Buchanan. I agree with the last; libertarians aren't crypto-nazis. What's a bit beyond the pale, as far as the mainstream goes, is ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 10:19:44 PST 2001

32740 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I think *you're* out of sync with current reality here, Doug. Off >the top of my head, I can cite Xerox, Lucent, Cendant, Rite Aid, and >Cisco as examples of major companies that have had either huge >accounting scandals of late -- long undiscovered by supposedly crack >auditors -- or grave suspicions concerning their bookkeeping. This >vaunted "transparency" is just so much, ah, PR puffery. That these were scandals which eventually came to light ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 10:16:04 PST 2001

32741 arsonist as firefighter -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - February 8, 2001 Mr. O'Neill's Misfire THE NEW Treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill, comes to his job with an impressive track record, both at the Office of Management and Budget and later in the private sector. His likely choices for the department's two key undersecretary posts are promising too: For domestic policy, Mr. O'Neill is said to be leaning toward Peter Fisher, a respected official at the New York Fed; for international policy he seems keen on John Taylor, a celebrated ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 09:53:12 PST 2001

32742 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000

Does it mean anything to be a Leninist in 2001? Doug Henwood (for the conference Towards a Politics of Truth: The Retrieval of Lenin, Essen, Germany, Feburary 4, 2001) Please forgive me for reading my contribution this way [from the screen of a PowerBook]. It's not, I swear, a symptom of American techno-fetishism; it's a symptom of having written this at the last minute, having applied the last keystroke at precisely 9:34 this morning, with no printer to transform electronic text into the physic ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 08:45:39 PST 2001

32743 Fidel: hacker -- rank: 1000

[via Declan McCullagh] <http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41700,00.html> Feds Say Fidel Is Hacker Threat by Declan McCullagh (declan at wired.com) 2:00 a.m. Feb. 9, 2001 PST WASHINGTON -- These must be jittery times for anyone in the military who uses the Internet. Not only do they have to guard against Love Bug worms and security holes in Microsoft Outlook -- now they've got to worry about Fidel Castro hacking into their computers. Admiral Tom Wilson, head of the Defense Intellige ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 07:32:59 PST 2001

32744 Zoe Heller on Arianna Stassinopoulos (Huffington) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I thought for a classical right wing populist in your sense, one needed a >combination of anti-elitism, ethnic scapegoating and conspiracy theory. >Are you saying that Arianna has elements 2 and 3? Or that all you need is >element 1, plus not being a leftist, to be beyond the pale? Arianna seems like a pretty consistent libertarian to me. The stuff on her website <http://www.overthrowthegov.com> - with all its stuff about voluntarism - looks like she has ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 07:30:52 PST 2001

32745 African universities to charge tuition -- rank: 1000

[I see the World Bank identified as a participant, but I'm guessing it was the prime mover. Patrick, anyone else - know more about this? Is this part of the whole WB user fee campaign?] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - February 9, 2001 Association of African Universities Calls for the Introduction of Tuition By BURTON BOLLAG Nairobi, Kenya Universities from across Africa are expected to support a growing movement to introduce tuition in countries where higher education is traditional ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 07:14:32 PST 2001