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32836 [SLDRTY-L]: Fwd: Latest Poll Results: 97% Oppose Bush's War -- rank: 1000
michael pugliese wrote: > In my messy room, I'll see if I can find the 5 pg. or so memo >from the Field Poll, that compares the projection they made in >each Governors race and Presidential election since 1948. Right >every time, and within a tenth or two of a percent in all the >races, even '92 when Perot got 19%.And from asking about a thousand >folks that reflected the demographic totality. Sample sizes in serious polls are large enough to be representative, so that criti ...
Document Size: 5750
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 22 07:14:45 PST 2001
32837 efficiency in marriage -- rank: 1000
[gotta love these economists! wonder if this is a spousal team] "Efficiency in Marriage" BY: SHELLY J. LUNDBERG University of Washington Department of Economics ROBERT A. POLLAK Washington University, St. Louis National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=294081 Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. W8642 Date: December 2001 Contact: SHELLY J. LUNDBERG Email: Mailto:lundberg at u ...
Document Size: 7011
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Dec 20 08:54:03 PST 2001
32838 Global Capital, Empire and Argentina -- rank: 1000
Bradford DeLong wrote: >It's not the IMF or the World Bank that has raised Argentina's >government debt/GDP ratio from 30% in 1994 to 54% today. It's not >the IMF that continues to announce, daily, that Argentina must >maintain its currency board and maintain its parity with the dollar, >thus overvaluing its currency and strangling its own exports. > >I have yet to find anyone who can explain to me just how Argentina's >situation would be improved if the IMF and the World ...
Document Size: 6795
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 22 07:48:08 PST 2001
32839 Global Capital, Empire and Argentina -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >Also -- is Argentina really that small of a country? Its GDP is about 3% of the US's, and less than 1% of the world's, which puts it on a par with Belgium. Brazil is three times larger; China more than three. It has 0.6% of the world's population. I'd say that's small. Speaking of population, while figuring out those numbers, I reacquainted myself with the World Bank's numbers on the percent of populations that are female. Women aren't the majority of the world's population ...
Document Size: 17334
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 22 11:27:57 PST 2001
32840 Fwd: OUTLAW WOMAN -- rank: 1000
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 09:52:41 -0800 From: rdunbaro at pacbell.net PLEASE FORWARD TO FRIENDS OUTLAW WOMAN: A MEMOIR OF THE WAR YEARS, 1960-1975 by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Available from City Lights Books, February 2002 ISBN: 0-87286-390-5 Trade paperback original, 340pp $17.95 Pre-order directly from City Lights Books at <http://www.citylights.com/CLorder.html>http://www.citylights.com/CLorder.html or at your favorite independent bookstore. FROM THE PUBLISHER, CITY LIGHTS BOOKS, SAN FRANCISC ...
Document Size: 12712
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 22 11:41:14 PST 2001
32841 NEA news -- rank: 1000
Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - December 20, 2001 Arts Endowment Blocks Grant to College in Maine for Controversial Exhibit By RICHARD MORGAN The National Endowment for the Arts announced Tuesday that it would block a $42,000 grant to the Maine College of Art for an exhibition by William Pope.L, a Bates College lecturer. The exhibit was to include a wall drawing made of peanut butter and a seven-foot-tall mound of flour topped with a barking mechanical dog. At the same time, the NEA ...
Document Size: 8657
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Dec 20 06:34:49 PST 2001
32842 Clinton tried to kill ObL -- rank: 1000
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62725-2001Dec18.html> The Covert Hunt for bin Laden Broad Effort Launched After '98 Attacks By Barton Gellman Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 19, 2001; Page A01 [...] Unfolding in the last two years of his presidency, long before the events of Sept. 11, Clinton's war was marked by caution against an enemy that the president and his advisers knew to be ruthless and bold. Reluctant to risk lives, failure or the wrath of brittle ...
Document Size: 7631
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 19 16:46:35 PST 2001
32843 GS on ENE -- rank: 1000
[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review - there's that chic use of "space" again - it must be said that GS's economic analysis is vastly better than this] GOLDMAN SACHS, October 9, 2001 - Recommended List Large-Cap Growth Price: US$33.45 Target price: US$48 S&P 500: 1051 United States Enron Corp. (ENE) Gas & Power Convergence Still the best of the best. With perceptions far below reality, we see major catalysts in third-quarter results and increased disclosure in coming months. We ...
Document Size: 6641
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 19 14:19:15 PST 2001
32844 Cockburn on "crackpot realism" -- rank: 1000
Marta Russell wrote: >Besides Katrina vanden Heuvel, that weak tea liberal Jonathan Schell >(sp?) also from the Nation was on one of the cable talking head >shows last night. He fit it just fine. "I never understood the relationship between politics and economics." - Jonathan Schell, to a New School class
Document Size: 4820
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 19 10:52:19 PST 2001
32845 call to save Women's Bureau! -- rank: 1000
National Partnership Agency Watch Alert Friday, December 14, 2001 ********************************* BUSH ADMINISTRATION PLANS TO CLOSE ALL REGIONAL OFFICES OF THE WOMEN'S BUREAU AT LABOR DEPARTMENT As part of our Agency Watch efforts, the National Partnership for Women & Families has learned that the Department of Labor's 2003 budget - currently being finalized - calls for the elimination of all the Regional Offices of the Women's Bureau. This follows on the heels of the elimination of the W ...
Document Size: 7105
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 19 08:17:42 PST 2001
32846 permissiveness: the cause of terrorism -- rank: 1000
Carl Remick wrote: >>Why when I read about Bloomberg, am I reminded of John >>Lindsay? >> >>Jim F. > >Not unless your memory is foggy. Lindsay was no billionaire. But he had oodles of charisma, which Bloomberg lacks. A few years after he left office, I saw Lindsay on a beach in the uh, um, Hamptons, playing touch football and clad only in a bathing suit. He cut a fairly gorgeous figure, and was extremely friendly when my pals & I introduced ourselves. Bloomberg ...
Document Size: 5263
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 19 06:49:02 PST 2001
32847 Afghan reconstruction -- rank: 1000
[from the WB's daily clipping service] U.S. PONDERS RELIEF FOR DEVASTATED AFGHANISTAN. After bearing the multibillion-dollar cost of the war in Afghanistan, the Bush administration is now questioning how much it will contribute to the UN reconstruction effort in that country, the New York Times (p. B5) reports. Officials said the administration was considering paying less than the United States has customarily contributed to postwar reconstruction costs in other countries, but members of Congres ...
Document Size: 12128
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Dec 18 12:44:48 PST 2001
32848 Chomsky on "theory" from Barsamian interview,was "no social science theories" -- rank: 1000
Carl Remick wrote: >What interests me is that you can find essentially the same view >(absent the vitriol and scorn, of course) in Emerson. Emerson was >sympathetic to the goals of Charles Fourier, with his often >ingenious schemes for utopian socialism, but he thought he was way >too rigid and uncomprehending of psychology. It's certainly >arguable that the growth and spread of the transcendental awareness >that Emerson advocated would produce more socialistic thinking an ...
Document Size: 5962
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 14 15:54:05 PST 2001
32849 Sara Pursley on "Unveiling the Bushes" -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Sara Pursley, "Unveiling the Bushes," _LGNY (Lesbian & Gay New >York)_ No. 173 (7-20 December 2001), at ><http://www.lgny.com/0173web/Pursley173.html>. The same article, >under the title "Unveiling Afghanistan: The Bush Administration >Cares about Women's Rights (as Long as There Aren't Any Pesky Women >Around)," is also available at ><http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=12507>. An excerpt: >Not ...
Document Size: 7446
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 14 11:08:11 PST 2001
32850 permissiveness -- rank: 1000
[bounced bec of spurious attached material, a winmail.dat file] Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:43:28 -0600 From: "Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM at umkc.edu> >Anyone who raises the issue of racism is a racist. Rhonda Williams mentioned that she heard a variant of this on talk radio as well ("the first person in the room who mentions 'race' is a racist"), but I've never understood what the argument is exactly. Max, can you give a summary of the 'justification' for this cla ...
Document Size: 5047
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 14 05:24:05 PST 2001
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