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33706 Questions on Writer in Bourgeois Society -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, John K. Taber wrote: > >> isn't needed. Sartre says that there is nevertheless a bourgeois blessed >> use for writers (and poets). What would that be today? Journalist, like > >The culture-industry calls the individuals it blesses or otherwise accords >symbolic capital to "stars", really a cosmological category transformed >into a cultural one. Bourdieu talks endlessly about this process, that >capital take ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 4 10:35:03 PDT 2000

33707 Labor Day cheer -- rank: 1000

[Happy Labor Day, the holiday the U.S. celebrates instead of May Day, which we're rebranded as Loyalty and Law Days.] Financial Times - September 4, 2000 Booming US economy sees return of job security By Robert Taylor, Employment Editor The full-time permanent job is back again in the booming US labour market with a decline in the proportion of flexible workers in temporary or part-time jobs - thanks to the return of full employment since the mid 1990s which has strengthened workers' bargaining ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 4 10:15:02 PDT 2000

33708 Fwd: Labor Day Report on Fed Governors' Financial Disclosures -- rank: 1000

From: "tom schlesinger" <fmcenter at mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 15:12:08 -0400 Speaking at the Federal Reserve's annual Jackson Hole conference on August 25, Chairman Alan Greenspan noted "considerable unease" among some citizens "about the way markets distribute wealth." Nevertheless, Greenspan and his colleagues have been served very well by these distributional mechanisms. According to the attached Financial Markets Center analysis of recently r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 3 13:27:33 PDT 2000

33709 FBI on Einstein -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address quirk] Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 00:38:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Benton John McCune <jmc164 at casbah.acns.nwu.edu> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: FBI tabs on WW II German emigres? In-Reply-To: <200009030506.BAA23638 at dont.panix.com> Message-ID: <Pine.HPX.4.10.10009030030350.12081-100000 at casbah.acns.nwu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII For Einstein at least, you can get the entire [except for deletions, of cours ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 3 13:13:21 PDT 2000

33710 death tax -- rank: 1000

Looks like the Reps may have the votes to override Clinton's veto of estate tax repeal. 60 Dems voted for it in the House. Here's a talking points sheet being circultated by United for a Fair Economy. Doug ---- DON'T REPEAL THE ESTATE TAX! Talking Points and Rebuttals (Substantial sections are excerpted with permission from the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities and Citizens for Tax Justice) THE ESTATE TAX IS ONE OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE, FAIR TAXES WE HAVE - The estate tax is the federal g ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 1 14:35:22 PDT 2000

33711 IMF bares all -- rank: 1000

[This info is on the IMF site at <http://www.imf.org/external/NP/TRE/ftp/2000/eng/053100.htm>.] Financial Times - September 1, 2000 IMF reveals its financial secrets By Stephen Fidler in Washington The International Monetary Fund on Thursday further opened its books to public scrutiny, detailing for the first time which governments provide it with resources. The fund has been gradually becoming more open about its finances in response to criticism from the US Congress and others that it ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 1 10:17:15 PDT 2000

33712 Martin Mayer -- rank: 1000

Speaking of all the money I've not made, I've been paying about $200 a month to cover this list. I'll soon be shifting it to Jordan's Infothecary server, saving many $$, but in the interim, if anyone feels moved to defray the cost of this list, checks or even small bills would be deeply welcome at the address below. -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer Village Station - PO Box 953 New York NY 10014-0704 USA +1-212-741-9852 voice +1-212-807-9152 fax email: <mailto:dhenwood at panix.com> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 1 10:13:37 PDT 2000

33713 Martin Mayer -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >All of this is a neat dodge. I noticed that Doug seemed strangely >silent and didn't comment on the thread on the new economy, >intellectual property, and cyberspace, from last week. So I can only >assume those compose some of the main ground of Doug's new book. > >So, Doug, when is it coming out, what's in it, and isn't it finished >yet? There's not too much on IP. A fair amount on the productivity debate, income/wealth distribution, the nature of " ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 1 10:07:13 PDT 2000

33714 Fwd: News Alert from NYTimes.com -- rank: 1000

[In his youth, Alan Greenspan wrote a piece for Ayn Rand's Objectivist newsletter arguing that consumer protection laws were unnecessary because firms want to protect their good brand names.] NEWS ALERT The New York Times on the Web Friday, Sept. 1, 2000 -- 1:20 P.M. E.S.T. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.8 Million More Faulty Tires May Be On Road, Officials Say Federal regulators will issue a warning today that an additional 1.8 million Firestone tires may ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 1 12:11:04 PDT 2000

33715 Beers on Cheney etc. -- rank: 1000

[I guess "Beers" has finished basic training; wonder where he's been posted. Today's Suck.com daily.] Chickenhawk Down In his book It Doesn't Take a Hero, retired U.S. Army Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf describes the evolution of the plans he and his staff made following Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. As his mission to defend Saudi Arabia quickly grew into an offensive plan to drive Iraqi troops out of everyone's favorite oppressive rococo emirate, Schwarzkopf developed a four-step course o ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 1 11:40:13 PDT 2000

33716 Fwd: The Working Uninsured -- rank: 1000

[EBRI = Employee Benefits Research Institute] EBRI Issue Brief No. 224 Executive Summary The Working Uninsured: Who They Are, How They Have Changed, and the Consequences of Being Uninsured August 2000 * This Issue Brief presents data on workers who do not have health insurance. It offers a description of this population, discusses how this population has changed over time, and reviews the consequences of being uninsured. Also included is a description of the 2000 presidential candidates' proposa ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 1 11:48:37 PDT 2000

33717 Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >A few weeks ago you were supposed to be on KPFT's Progressive >Forum. Wally James said there was some sort of screwup and he >had Tim Shorrock (who was quite good)on instead. He said you'd >be rescheduled. Have you been? Not yet. Been unable to work things out with Bob Buzzanco so far. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 1 11:42:20 PDT 2000

33718 IP (was Re: Martin Mayer) -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >It's not at clear to me how capitalists can win those fights Why? To quote Warren Zevon, they've got lawyers, guns, and money. Scarcity under capitalism is in large part - though not entirely (because I think human desire is potentially boundless, a point of some controversy on this list a while back) - socially constructed and enforced. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 1 11:26:46 PDT 2000

33719 NZ experiment -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >His "Foundations of Corporate Success" is >the only management textbook I would ever recommend >anybody to read, ever, for any reason, and it's the >only one that can't be summed up on the back of a >matchbook. Could you do the matchbook summary? Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 1 10:35:40 PDT 2000

33720 Klein on election -- rank: 1000

A shorter version of this article appears in The Globe and Mail on Wednesday November 1, 2000 Nader Couldn't Deliver These Voters If He Wanted To by Naomi Klein The United States is supposed to be a culture driven by the worship of success. And yet is seems that there is one man for whom success is universally unacceptable: Ralph Nader. On Larry King Live, Mr. Nader is scolded for his popularity among voters, his shameless desire for -- get this! -- votes. Doesn't he care that his success might ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 31 15:25:49 PST 2000