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33676 Statement by the President on National Debt Clock -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (New York, New York) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release September 7, 2000 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT Today, we reach a symbolic moment in the improvement of our nation's fiscal situation that few could have imagined eight years ago -- the retiring of the National Debt Clock in Times Square. Thanks to Seymour Durst and his family, the Debt Clock helped shine ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 7 15:43:08 PDT 2000

33677 Reich on vouchers -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 6, 2000 Commentary The Case for 'Progressive' Vouchers By Robert B. Reich. Mr. Reich, former secretary of labor, is professor of social and economic policy at Brandeis University. His next book, "The Future of Success," will be published in January by Alfred A. Knopf. Education tops the list of Americans' concerns. But there's no agreement on what to do about it. The biggest emerging battle is between people who advocate school choice and those who want ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 7 15:30:13 PDT 2000

33678 cops infiltrated protesters -- rank: 1000

[not much of a surprise, but...] Philadelphia Inquirer - September 7, 2000 State police infiltrated protest groups, documents show By Linda K. Harris,, Craig R. McCoy and Thomas Ginsberg INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS State police undercover agents posing as demonstrators infiltrated activist groups planning the protests at the Republican National Convention, search-warrant documents made public yesterday showed. The undercover operation was detailed in legal documents filed Aug. 1 by Philadelphia polic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 7 11:36:28 PDT 2000

33679 Fwd: Open Letter to Multinational Monitor on China Issue -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher] I sent the following letter to the news journal Multinational Monitor after they published in their May 2000 issue an article that I wrote for them at their request. I informed them at the time that I would also treat this as an "open letter". To my surprise, since they had not indicated that they would do so when they replied to me, they did print my letter in their July/August issue, with their answer. Though I consider their reply inadequate in addressing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 7 11:38:23 PDT 2000

33680 Fwd: Bush&Dole -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 12:04:37 -0400 From: jwanniski at polyconomics.com (Jude Wanniski) FYI.... This was our client letter, sent out Tuesday. As usual, a different perspective than you might see elsewhere. September 5, 2000 THE BUSH/DOLE CAMPAIGN With two months left before the elections, the momentum in the presidential race clearly has shifted to Vice President Al Gore. It will get worse before it gets better, we think, given the spectacular error Bush has made in attacking Gore in his telev ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 7 09:34:42 PDT 2000

33681 APA resolution on poverty & inequality -- rank: 1000

<http://www.apa.org/pi/urban/povres.html> Resolution on Poverty and Socioeconomic Status Adopted by the American Psychological Association, August 6, 2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHEREAS, the income gap between the poor and the rich has continued to increase, with the average income of the poorest fifth of the population down 6% and the average income of the top fifth up 30% over the past 20 years (Bernstein, McNichol, Mishel, & Zahradn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 7 09:01:17 PDT 2000

33682 IP + personal matters -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 9/6/00 6:55:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >dhenwood at panix.com writes: > ><< Unfortunately, Monica's book was deadly boring. And I felt some > sympathy for the poor maligned woman. But her observations were > mundane, and Andrew Morton's writing was horrible. >> > >You read it? There's man with too much time on his hands. I hope you didn't >buy it. I read about 50 pages before giving up. And yeah, I bought it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 7 08:34:46 PDT 2000

33683 "seminal" texts in feminist economics -- rank: 1000

Dace wrote: >Perhaps you've forgotten, Kelley... That earned its poster the boot. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 7 08:29:47 PDT 2000

33684 Postrel on good times -- rank: 1000

[Gosh, Virginia Postrel sorta agrees with me. Scary.] New York Times - September 7, 2000 ECONOMIC SCENE Good Times, Not Bad, Nurture Enemies of Free Market By VIRGINIA POSTREL In a recent speech to economists gathered in Jackson Hole, Wyo., the Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, warned that neither continued economic liberalization nor high economic growth was inevitable. Recent productivity gains have been above the norm, he said, driven by the "accelerating application of new insig ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 7 08:03:40 PDT 2000

33685 CP: forget Nader, vote Gore! -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 16:43:15 -0400 From: John Bachtell <jbachtell at cpusa.org> Nader, Greens should join fight against the ultraright (Reprinted from the People's Weekly World By Rick Nagin The presidential campaign of Ralph Nader is a reflection of the growing anti-corporate sentiment in the United States which erupted so dramatically in the Battle of Seattle. It is also a reflection of the growing desire among many voters for independence from the two major parties, which they see as ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 6 13:50:12 PDT 2000

33686 IP + personal matters -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >I heard it didn't sell well either. Did it even sell enough to >cover whatever fat advance they gave her? Speaking of books that didn't sell well, the best news I ever heard along those lines was that Katie Roiphe's heavily promoted first book, whose title I forget, sold a mere 10,000 copies. She's now writing a novel. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 6 16:16:56 PDT 2000

33687 IP + personal matters -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >If, however, I had oral sex with the president and then penned my memoirs, >I would have made a bundle. Fortunately, my real life is terribly boring >-- or it would be to anybody else. Unfortunately, Monica's book was deadly boring. And I felt some sympathy for the poor maligned woman. But her observations were mundane, and Andrew Morton's writing was horrible. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 6 15:51:29 PDT 2000

33688 FBI on Einstein -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Lucky, huh? Without Einstein there wouldn't have been any atomic >bomb. I'd say once every four or five centuries for a gift like >that is plenty. But if there hadn't been an atomic bomb, maybe WWW III would have happened already. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 6 14:52:47 PDT 2000

33689 Bundesbank mocks US IT book-cooking -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >[Here's the guess a letter writer to the FT came up with: a US real GDP >growth rate 1/3 less than that posted for the last two years] Dunno how Riechebacher - who, I might add, has been predicting disaster for the better part of 20 years, maybe longer - came up with this. Real GDP growth with computers was 5.7% from 99Q2 to 00Q2; it's 5.2% without. With the chained method, components of GDP don't add up to total GDP, so you can't just subtract out computer sales. Do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 6 13:29:11 PDT 2000

33690 Jesus Hates Smut -- rank: 1000

I think this is a joke... <http://members.christhost.com/jesushatessmut/nohomonomore.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 6 08:28:24 PDT 2000