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33466 Blair, Labour sinking like stones -- rank: 1000

[No boy band info here, sorry. From MORI's weekly update] * Political * 1. Times Poll September 2000 37% say they would vote Labour if there were a general election tomorrow, with 35% saying they would vote Conservative and 21% for the Liberal Democrats. Labour's rating is down 14 points from last month whilst both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are up 6 points. The NHS (as it has been for the past year) is still thought to be the most important issue facing Britain today, with 46% ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 11:19:20 PDT 2000

33467 post S26 -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >I contacted our old friend Rakesh [who's busy working on his dissertation] >on what he thought of IMF/WB closing shop early and here's his response. > >>Hey Rakesh, >> >>Now that the IMF/WB have tucked their tails between their legs, what's >next? > >Ian, I am not getting your meaning here. What have the IMF/WB surrendered >on? >Are they going to forgive loans, not make the South Korean population >cover private loans gon ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 11:16:24 PDT 2000

33468 Latest from the Poll Station -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >Which is your favorite 'boy band?' >Back Street Boys 40% >'N Sync 32% >Hanson 13% >98 Degrees 12% > >BSBs have clearly benefitted in recent weeks from their Burger King >promotional tie-in... Michael Hoover > >ps: no indication about remaining 3%... Nothing about Girl Bands? How disappointing! Wonder how Le Tigre would stack up. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 11:12:47 PDT 2000

33469 Fwd: [BRC-ANN] Interview of Herbert Aptheker -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 09:01:33 -0400 From: Art McGee <amcgee at igc.org> Reply-To: kelley at is2.nyu.edu Subject: [BRC-ANN] Interview of Herbert Aptheker The Journal of American History June 2000 (Vol. 87, No. 1) Interview of Herbert Aptheker (Interview) By Robin D. G. Kelley <kelley at is2.nyu.edu> Inspired by Herbert Aptheker's "An Autobiographical Note," the editors of the Journal of American History asked Robin D. G. Kelley to interview Aptheker. The interview took pla ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 10:27:51 PDT 2000

33470 Ehrenreich on Nader -- rank: 1000

[I think someone was asking for this the other day. This week's Nation has a massive Eric Alterman piece arguing, as the teaser puts it, "Despite Al Gore's countless flaws, the differences between the two primary presidential candidates remain as substantial as those in any close election in modern American history." Interested parties can visit <http://www.thenation.com> for more.] August 21/28, 2000 VOTE FOR NADER by BARBARA EHRENREICH It must be some playful new postmodernist ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 10:15:40 PDT 2000

33471 McReynolds/Hollis lead Gore, Bush, Nader in non-partisan poll -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:49:43 -0400 From: McReynolds for President <info at votesocialist.org> One might title this "If only the Socialist Party had the money for a media campaign". In a survey published on September 24 on its non-partisan "SpeakOut.Com" list of candidate ratings, out of 208,941 people who had taken the survey of candidates on SelectSmart.com the following ranking suggests what might happen if the Socialist Party campaign were being run on anything li ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 10:07:14 PDT 2000

33472 Nathan defends SUVs -- rank: 1000

[nonsub'd address] From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman at yale.edu> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:34:42 -0400 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Fitch" <gcf at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >The SUV is an expression of fear; it is generally a response >to a perceived deterioration of environment. In this case >the behavioral sink is the ever more crowded road and highway >system on which people are required to drive to get to ...

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33473 Priceline U -- rank: 1000

For Immediate Release: September 28, 2000 Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, Yale to Invest $12 Million in Distance Learning Venture Herbert Allison to Head Effort Oxford, Princeton, Stanford and Yale universities announced today that they would each provide $3 million to launch their "distance learning" venture to provide on-line courses in the arts and sciences to their combined 500,000 alumni. Herbert M. Allison Jr., former president of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., will serve as preside ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 08:01:21 PDT 2000

33474 does multinationalization help capital? -- rank: 1000

"Does Multinationality Matter? Evidence of Value Destruction in U.S. Multinational Corporations" BY: REID W. CLICK George Washington University Department of International Business PAUL HARRISON Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Brandeis University Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=233162 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/pubs/feds/ SSRN only offers technical support f ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 07:58:26 PDT 2000

33475 Malaysian morality -- rank: 1000

TIME Magazine, September 26, 2000 http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/time/features/interviews/2000/09/26/int.malay.gay2. html WEB-ONLY EXCLUSIVE 'Homosexuality is a Crime Worse Than Murder' Interview with Malaysia's morality police By MAGESWARY RAMAKRISHNAN Abdul Kadir Che Kob describes homosexuals as "shameless people" and homosexuality as a "sin worse than murder." Abdul Kadir is head of education and research at Malaysia's Islamic Affairs Department, which operates as the moralit ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 07:32:32 PDT 2000

33476 Prague -- rank: 1000

Joanna Sheldon wrote: >I wonder how many >hours of besuited meetings have been devoted around the world to the >question of what to call the uncivilised masses who dare to call the >current system into question. An uncharacterically intemperate edit from today's FT: Financial Times - September 28, 2000 Protesters for poverty A small number of protesters against global capitalism have, as expected, graced the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Prague ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 17:06:22 PDT 2000

33477 Fwd: Jesus Dress Up! -- rank: 1000

not for the easily offended.... >http://www.normalbobsmith.com/jesusdressup.html

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 17:08:56 PDT 2000

33478 Fwd: Focus on Women -- rank: 1000

New York Times - September 28, 2000 IN AMERICA Focus on Women By BOB HERBERT The most extensive analysis of women's views in this campaign season has shown that as the economy has improved, American women have been taking a much closer look at the quality of their lives, and not liking a great deal that they see. The new economy has bolstered the incomes of millions of families, but it has also exacerbated the sense of estrangement between the haves and have-nots, and has left many women with th ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 16:50:17 PDT 2000

33479 Prague -- rank: 1000

Joe R. Golowka quoted: >"I have never read Marx. Well, I read a few pages then decided he was a >bore. Karl didn't invent the class struggle, he merely wrote about it in a >way that impressed some people, using lots of big words. While it can >certainly be useful to know about the history of the working class, you >don't need to have studied Marxist theory to know that being bossed around >is degrading" - Dave Coull Who's this proudly illiterate paragon of authenticit ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 16:47:54 PDT 2000

33480 Spreading rumors -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >Is that right? I'd heard that ... rumor ... but no specifics. A while back, I saw a piece of mine in the AVA that had been reprinted from The Lumpen Times, the (now defunct?) Chicago mag. Apparently Lumpen had reprinted it from LBO without asking. I really don't mind if mags like Lumpen or AVA want to reprint my stuff, but I wish they'd ask. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 16:32:44 PDT 2000