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33916 "guilty" and "innocent" (was Re: debates) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >At 10:22 PM 10/12/00 -0400, Yosgie quoted our fearless leader saying: >>``If, as it now appears, this was an act of terrorism it was a >>despicable and cowardly act. We will find out who was responsible and >>hold them accountable,'' President Clinton said.... ***** >> > > >As opposed to firing cruise missiles at a pharamaceutical plant, bombing a >passanger train, downing a commercial airliner, slaughtering women and >childr ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 13 10:40:43 PDT 2000

33917 Yugo to rejoin IMF "within months" -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] US LIFTS SANCTIONS, IMF SAYS YUGOSLAVIA COULD REJOIN IN MONTHS. The US will take immediate steps to lift economic sanctions against Yugoslavia to support the new democratically elected government, Agence France-Presse reports US President Bill Clinton announced yesterday. In a statement, Clinton said he had directed the US State and Treasury departments to "take immediate steps to begin lifting the trade and financial sanctions against Serbia i ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 13 10:17:01 PDT 2000

33918 Fisk -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - October 13, 2000 Lies, hatred and the language of force Arab View By Robert Fisk, Middle East Correspondent This is a story about lies, bias, hatred and death. It's about our inability - after more than half a century - to understand the injustice of the Middle East. It's about a part of the world where it seems quite natural, after repeatedly watching on television the funeral of 11-year-old Sami Abu Jezar - who died two days after being shot through the forehead by Israe ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 13 08:44:13 PDT 2000

33919 everything's really ok -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >I think you'd have a point if the classical gold standard were >attainable. But I think we'd be much more likely to wind up with the >interwar international monetary system--the thing that facilitated >the Great Depression... And if you're a Latin American, that wouldn't be such a bad precedent, would it? LatAm did pretty well in the 1930s - and on into the 1960s even. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 13 08:38:12 PDT 2000

33920 don't FedEx your stash -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: > > Wall Street Journal - October 12, 2000 >> >> Privacy Becomes Issue for UPS, FedEx >> As Drug Seizures by U.S. Officials Surge >> >> By RICK BROOKS >> Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL >******* > >Any way to contact this fool? <mailto: rick.brooks at wsj.com> Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 13 08:32:23 PDT 2000

33921 debates -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Two debates done and I haven't heard Gore use any of the magic >words. Did I miss something or has "brother" Gore used the words, >union, labor union, no scabs, etc. etc. etc.in any of his debate >points or speeches. Hey, he's even stopped using "working families," which apparently focus-groups better than "workers," in favor of "middle-class families." As for all those nonfamily households, well, the hell with you. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 12 13:14:13 PDT 2000

33922 don't FedEx your stash -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - October 12, 2000 Privacy Becomes Issue for UPS, FedEx As Drug Seizures by U.S. Officials Surge By RICK BROOKS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL When the "Detroit Boys" absolutely, positively had to get drug money to their suppliers, they sent it via "X-Daddy" -- code for FedEx Corp., king of the overnight-delivery industry and the preferred service of the cocaine ring that ran at least 12 crack houses in Minneapolis. To pay drug suppliers, the de ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 12 12:39:59 PDT 2000

33923 NYT.com not to be -- rank: 1000

AtNewYork daily - October 12, 2000 == Gray Lady Tosses in Towel for Net Unit IPO == By Thor Olavsrud, Internetnews.com Citing unfavorable market conditions, The New York Times Company Thursday formally withdrew its proposed IPO of a tracking stock of New York Times Digital, its Internet business division. The offering had been postponed earlier this summer. The publishing concern, which includes NYTimes.com and Boston.com, originally expected to complete the $100-million offering in the third qu ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 12 12:21:15 PDT 2000

33924 Al Gore's 21 lies -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Nobody's seems to have notice Gore's repeated >promise "to make classrooms smaller," uttered >again last night. Evidently a divider, not >a uniter. Not much talk about last night's "debate." I didn't watch - was it a snooze? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 12 11:16:48 PDT 2000

33925 Mark Weisbrot responds -- rank: 1000

I forwarded the Seth-Brad exchange to Mark Weisbrot, who responds: >well of course this is bullshit; hey Brad, would you like to bet a >few thousand dollars on this? All we need to do is agree on a >neutral party to look at the video. > >CEPR could use the money. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 12 10:40:48 PDT 2000

33926 NYC abortion demo -- rank: 1000

YOU CAN HAVE AN ABORTION, BUT NOT IF... you don't want to tell your parents... you don't have the money...you expect Medicaid to pay for it... you don't wait and think about it for 24 hours after your counseling appointment... you wait too long and it's after 24 weeks... you are in one of the 86 percent of counties that don't have a provider.... you can't get time off from work to drive 400 miles to the nearest provider.... the clinic you're about to go to has just been bombed or your doctor has ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 12 10:16:42 PDT 2000

33927 Ashrawi on Albright -- rank: 1000

Jerusalem, October 9, 2000 A Tragic Reversal: Madeleine Albright's View of Reality [by H. Ashrawi] In her interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" (Sunday, Oct. 8, 2000), US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright represented the epitome of the willful blindness, moral vacuum, human insensitivity, political cynicism, and strategic ignorance that have characterized the US handling of the Arab-Israeli "peace process" and the Palestinian Question in particular. When asked about the US ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 12 09:45:58 PDT 2000

33928 Bear market? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >So if the rolodex indicator still works, that means we haven't hit bottom >yet, right? Right. The Dow is off 293.75 right now; that might provoke some investigation of the dustier Rolodex cards. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 12 09:11:42 PDT 2000

33929 debates -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >Listening to Gore and Bush talk about foreign affairs sent me right to >the remote to tune in the baseball game. What disgustingly blatant >imperialism. Christopher Hitchens wrote, in a rather odd love letter to the USA: >Currently, a version of the old argument between "isolationists" and >"internationalists" is under way again, providing much facile fodder >for editorialists and columnists. Actually, the United States has >never be ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 12 09:04:55 PDT 2000

33930 everything's really ok -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Actually, Meltzer doesn't want *more* conditions, he wants fewer >loans. Ask Allan, and he'll tell you that it would be much better to >have governments disciplined by a laissez-faire capital market than >disciplined by an IMF imposing conditions. Which may be better than the present regime. In the 19th century, the U.S. defaulted all the time on private loans - and came back to the market not all that much later. Private markets have short memories; state institu ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 12 08:41:47 PDT 2000