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33301 no left left -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >The line was supposed to be "The age of big government is over, but >the age of every man for himself must never begin": it was supposed >to be a tactical concession followed by a slam at Gingrich... So what happened? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 19 13:17:42 PDT 2001

33302 creative financing -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >I'm an attorney. Yes, we know. And we sympathize with your plight, really. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 19 08:05:56 PDT 2001

33303 Fwd: Harvard living wage sit-in -- rank: 1000

4/18/01 40 members of the Harvard Living Wage Campaign have just entered a Harvard administrative building to demand a living wage of at least $10.25/hr plus benefits for all Harvard employees. After more than two years of the Harvard administration ignoring or inadequately addressing our very simple request, the Living Wage Campaign has been forced to escalate pressure on the University with a peaceful sit-in. NOW: All the maintenance unions are turning out workers right now. Please join us IMM ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 19 08:05:05 PDT 2001

33304 Fwd: Doug, please forward Rally Slideshow (fwd) -- rank: 1000

X-From_: philion at hawaii.edu Wed Apr 18 15:17:16 2001 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:17:03 -1000 (HST) From: Stephen E Philion <philion at hawaii.edu> Subject: Doug, please forward Rally Slideshow (fwd) X-X-Sender: <philion at uhunix4> To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Authentication-warning: uhunix4.its.hawaii.edu: philion owned process doing -bs Doug, The professors won their strike in Hawaii!! Now the entire state's public school teachers remain on s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 14:06:48 PDT 2001

33305 creative financing -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:09:21 -0500 From: Maureen Anderson <manders at uchicago.edu> >U.S. Student loans are not dischargeable through bankruptcy, default, attack >by space aliens, meteors hitting the planet, or anything else. They -will- >track you down. Okay, but speaking _purely hypothetically_, and not in the _least_ soliciting professional advice, what's to keep someone with huge student loan debt from paying it off with the even huger credit limit on her or his credit ca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 14:00:36 PDT 2001

33306 Marx/Weber on community violence? -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:46:45 -0500 From: Maureen Anderson <manders at uchicago.edu> A stab in the dark, but does anyone know offhand of passages in Marx or Weber that discuss states/communities and violence, enforcement, or crime? That is, not about the state and its monopoly of violence, or the violence of capitalist laws, but on the actual policing of populations. For KM, 18th Brumaire seems promising, and maybe parts of Capital, but otherwise I'm surprised that nothing in either of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 13:50:00 PDT 2001

33307 Horowitz in OSU Lantern -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:45:06 -0500 From: Maureen Anderson <manders at uchicago.edu> Yoshie wrote: >I'll be speaking at the teach-in tomorrow, mentioned by my friend Hope it gets a good showing tomorrow. These kinds of events can hopefully turn Horowitz's screed into a useful educating moment. (BTW, did you know the first teach-in was the brainchild of Marshall Sahlins, at Michigan in 1965? He's giving the commencement address there in a couple weeks, entitled something like "H ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 13:49:16 PDT 2001

33308 Hentoff, Horowitz, etc. -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] From: rcallen at stanfordalumni.org Date: 18 Apr 2001 10:22:19 -0700 Justin wrote: Hentoff is cranky about lots of things, but I like his First Amendment absolutism. Not that the Horowitz debate implicates the 1A.--jks me: I agree with Justin that the Horowitz debate doesn't necly implicate the 1A. More, I thought the First Amendment was the real bait, from Horowitz. It's what turns this nasty ad campaign into a forest/ trees thing (Forest=Horowitz's larger c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 13:43:47 PDT 2001

33309 FOMC release -- rank: 1000

[Greenspan, FROP theorist.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/BoardDocs/Press/General/2001/20010418/default.htm> Release Date: April 18, 2001 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to lower its target for the federal funds rate by 50 basis points to 4-1/2 percent. In a related action, the Board of Governors approved a 50 basis point reduction in the discount rate to 4 percent. The FOMC has reviewed prospects for the economy in light of the information that has b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 12:45:23 PDT 2001

33310 Fwd: stuck at the border -- rank: 1000

Canadian Border Crackdown May Keep Bush from Trade Summit Jennifer C. Berkshire Global Press Service Quebec City, Canada QUEBEC CITY -- Tough new enforcement of immigration laws at the Canadian border has prompted concern that President George W. Bush may have trouble entering the country for the Summit of the Americas, scheduled to begin on Friday. In preparation for the Summit, authorities have implemented unprecedented security precautions at the border, including checking the arrest records ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 07:03:45 PDT 2001

33311 > Scaife 'n' Snitch (and the Hitch) -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >Perhaps it is unkind of me or even heretical of me to say it, but I >think there's something to the claim (usually voiced by neo-liberal >apologists, or paleo-Marxist Prometheans like Heartfield on this >list) that a certain (liberal upper middle-class) segment of the >anti-globalization movement opposes the further incorporation of >Third World land and labor into circuits of capital accumulation b/c >they want the Third World to be preserved in some kin ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 18 06:43:29 PDT 2001

33312 > Scaife 'n' Snitch (and the Hitch) -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Narpat Bhandari wrote: >I don't look at things the way someone like he does. Moreover, I >think elite support for a free trade is largely a sham--look at the >free trade act with Africa. Did the US open up its markets? Are you seriously arguing the U.S. isn't open enough to trade? How do all those computers, shirts, cars, and winter strawberries get here then? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 06:36:51 PDT 2001

33313 class -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >And not, surely, "What class do people think they are in?" but "What >class would (say) 20% of the working class think they were in after five >years of growing mass activity around a given set of issues?" You keep saying stuff like this, but where does all this mass agitation come from in the first place? Does it just drop from the sky? Doesn't the way people think of themselves and their possibilities determine whether the "mass activity&quo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 06:31:41 PDT 2001

33314 Lenny Kaye on Joey R -- rank: 1000

A Ramone Leaves Home Joey 1951-2001 by Lenny Kaye The light has gone out of New York rock and roll. Joey Ramone passed away on Easter Sunday, at 2:40 p.m., in the endgame of a long battle with lymphoma. Diagnosed in 1995 and given, at that time, three to six months to live, he managed to maintain his health and good spirits until a fall in the snow at the end of last year. He broke his hip, and after a painful replacement found that his body was unable to continue fighting on two fronts. The new ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 18 06:21:37 PDT 2001

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Rakesh Narpat Bhandari wrote: >Doug forwarded: > >>The Philadelphia Inquirer - April 16, 2001 >> >>Joe Lieberman, who big party contributors believe is eyeing his own >>run for the White House in 2004, is attacking Bush's tax cut for >>diverting resources from the military buildup America needs. > >Well yes but the point remains that Star Wars was not actively >pursued for eight years under the Democrats, no? Maybe Gore and >Lieberman would have u ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 18 06:15:53 PDT 2001