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33271 Al v Bill -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] AMERICAN SPECTATOR: Former Vice President Al Gore was angered to learn that Columbia University's commencement speech will be made by Bill Clinton. In fact, Gore was so annoyed to learn that Clinton would be intruding on his new stomping grounds that when asked about it by students Gore told them they should do something if they disagreed with the school's selection of Clinton. He suggested they could write a letter to the school administration or perhaps e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 24 13:13:34 PDT 2001

33272 Walden Bello on Naomi Klein -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >Ian Murray posted the following book review by Walden Bello: > >>NO LOGO: A BRILLIANT BUT FLAWED PORTRAIT OF >>CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM > >I sez: > >_Great_ review. Thanks for posting it. Where did it originally >appear ? In essence what Bello is critiquing Klein for is Department >II (or is that Department I, I get them confused) fetishism. The >critics of the culture industry end up, in a way, mirroring its >ideology by ignoring the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 24 11:25:09 PDT 2001

33273 penny stock innovations -- rank: 1000

WSJ.com - April 24, 2001 Penny-Stock Promoters Adapt Pitches to Reflect Down Market By AARON ELSTEIN Penny-stock promoters are finding new ways to lure prospective customers amid Wall Street's sharp retreat and a cooling economy. Once-ubiquitous sales pitches for "the next Microsoft" or other hot Internet and technology stocks are being replaced with offers claiming to shelter investors from the plunging market. Take a recent mass e-mail with an address from Callyourbrokers.org. It dan ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 24 11:15:23 PDT 2001

33274 party & mood -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010423.asp> POLL RELEASES April 23, 2001 Americans' Satisfaction With U.S. Depends on President's Party Partisans more likely to be satisfied with the way things are going in the United State when the president is of own party by Deborah Jordan Brooks GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- For 22 years, Gallup has asked Americans "In general, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States at this time? "Th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 23 06:54:11 PDT 2001

33275 share of faculty part-timers stabilizes; tenure fades -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - April 23, 2001 Percentage of Part-Timers on College Faculties Holds Steady After Years of Big Gains By ROBIN WILSON The proportion of faculty members and instructors employed part time in higher education leveled off from 1992 to 1998, after increasing sharply during the late 1980's and early 90's, according to a study released Friday by the U.S. Education Department. Colleges and universities employed 1,074,000 faculty members and others involved in i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 23 07:02:14 PDT 2001

33276 kinda free at last -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Silvia Baraldini Long-time LBO subscriber, too. Her lawyer has sent periodic address change notices as Silvia was moved around the U.S. and then to Italy. Apparently they generously let her read when she was locked in the all-white deprivation room at the Marion federal prison. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 23 06:51:23 PDT 2001

33277 Nation on QC -- rank: 1000

At 4:19 PM -0500 4/22/01, The Nation Magazine wrote: >Dear EmailNation Subscriber, > >Today the leaders of the Western hemisphere met in Quebec City for the >third straight day to try to hammer out final negotiations over a free >trade agreement that would extend across Latin America, just hours after a >turbulent night of clashes between police and protesters lead to about 270 >arrests. > >Tens of thousands of people converged on Quebec from across the hemisphere > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 22 14:45:15 PDT 2001

33278 Fwd: ZNet Free Update -- Rebick's Second Quebec Report -- rank: 1000

[From ZNet.] QUEBEC CITY: POLICING THE PEOPLE By Judy Rebick This weekend, the face of Canadian politics has changed. It happened here in Quebec City, at a massive demonstration against globalization. Three things happened: The Peoples' Summit. The Confrontations. And the discovery that there was No Peace for the Peaceful. THE PEOPLES' SUMMIT This was a coalition of unions and non-governmental organizations from across the Americas. Saturday, the summit organized a diverse and colourful demonstr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 22 14:42:45 PDT 2001

33279 no commie pinko fags allowed -- rank: 1000

There's a weak filter that's supposed to block attachments, but it doesn't always work. So please don't send them. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 22 13:28:53 PDT 2001

33280 weird stuff -- rank: 1000

<http://users.swing.be/psychanalyse/psiUK.html>

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Date:	Sun Apr 22 12:39:41 PDT 2001

33281 B.A.M.N. -- rank: 1000

Christopher Rhoades D˙kema wrote: >Ah yes, and I recall in the seventies learning that PL had adopted a policy >of forbidding fellatio among its faithful. I saw some PL internal doc once that essentially said they'd wear a tolerant face for the world, but that in their heart of hearts they knew that homosex was really a symptom of bourgeois decadence. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 22 12:42:44 PDT 2001

33282 CLC = DA -- rank: 1000

Judy Rebeck reports to ZNet: >One of the most extraordinary developments on Friday was the >formation of a Canadian Labour Movement affinity group. Affiliates of >the Canadian Labour Congress formally decided to join the direct action. Wow. What's next, John Sweeney twinkling? Does anyone know anything more about this? And the CLC's relation to the movement in general? Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 21 09:50:58 PDT 2001

33283 B.A.M.N. -- rank: 1000

Christopher Rhoades D˙kema wrote: >On the appalling Ninfa, I believe she went towards Giuliani on sexual >politics issues, in the form of AIDS education, the Rainbow Curriculum, >and kindred matters. Supposedly she has regressed to Christianity -- if, >to be sure, an advance to PL could ever be called an advance from which >one could possibly regress. At a Marxist Literary Group meeting a few years ago, a PL guy went on about how he was raised as some kind of Xtreme Christian in t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 21 10:00:07 PDT 2001

33284 Student Loans & Bankruptcies (was Re: creative financing) -- rank: 1000

Catherine McDonald wrote: >Is everyone here like this? Am I in the wrong place? Like Carrol? No. What would the right place look like? Maybe that way we could tell what the wrong one would be like. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 21 09:39:30 PDT 2001

33285 the bull is back -- rank: 1000

Leslilake1 at aol.com wrote: >Thanks to everyone who responded to my post. And how about the last question >- what DOES Greenspan have in store for next month, hmm? Who knows? I don't think even AG does. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 21 09:31:58 PDT 2001