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33946 Kanbur -- rank: 1000

Aaron Pacitti wrote: >Does anyone know if Ravi Kanbur's 'unrevised' draft of the World Development >Reoprt is floating around anywhere? I saw his outline, but not much else. It looks to be still up on the WB website, at <http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/wdrpoverty/draft100.htm>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 10 13:34:13 PDT 2000

33947 the colonial inheritance -- rank: 1000

"The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation" BY: DARON ACEMOGLU Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Economics National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) SIMON JOHNSON Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management JAMES A. ROBINSON University of California at Berkeley Department of Political Science Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 10 13:21:04 PDT 2000

33948 Bear market? -- rank: 1000

brettk at unicacorp.com wrote: >I'm a bit curious as to why there hasn't been any discussion of the recent >NASDAQ sell-off. Perhaps it has taken a back seat to the news out of >Serbia and Israel. But I want to know if anyone think this is the start of >a sustained bear market. Can't remember the exact date, but I said - much to Jordan's amusement - that I thought the great bull market was on its last legs about a year ago. I have no idea if this is the beginning of a sustained bea ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 10 13:06:03 PDT 2000

33949 Belgrade student demo -- rank: 1000

[the beauty of the U.S. system is that the loyalty oaths are all implicit, not explicit...] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - October 10, 2000 Yugoslav Students March to Demand Repeal of Repressive Higher-Education Law By THERESA AGOVINO Belgrade, Yugoslavia Emboldened by the election of a new president, about a thousand students protested on Monday in downtown Belgrade, demanding the repeal of a repressive Yugoslav law covering higher education and the dismissal of the minister of hig ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 10 08:09:21 PDT 2000

33950 Fwd: [fc.network] FC Sporadic for Tuesday, October 10, 2000 -- rank: 1000

[a charming communication from Pud] The FC Network - <http://www.fuckedcompany.com> Hey, Hope everyone had a good fuckin' whatever-the-fuck you had this weekend/monday. I just ordered a George Foreman grill. Kozmo.com delivers raw steak. Don't expect to see me outside for at least a few weeks. I'm guess I'm gonna be on Good Morning America this Wednesday morning sometime between 7:00 and 7:30 EST making the usual ass of myself. FC's featured sites-o-the-day (really I just like the URLs): ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 10 08:01:20 PDT 2000

33951 Cisco's taxes -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >What is deductible to the firm is taxable to the worker. At the same tax rate? >It can't be taxable to both. Who pays corporate income taxes? Capital or labor? Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 10 07:42:40 PDT 2000

33952 Fwd: Protest Against Face Recognition Software -- rank: 1000

> Protest Against Face Recognition Software > >For immediate release >5 October 2000 > >At 1 p.m. on Sunday, 15 October 2000, the Surveillance Camera >Players (SCP) will protest against the manufacture and distribution >of face recognition software by Visionics, a company that has an >office in New Jersey. The protest -- which will take the form of a >series of performances by the SCP -- will take place across from >Visionics' office at 1 Excha ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 9 16:08:04 PDT 2000

33953 Cisco's taxes -- rank: 1000

San Francisco Chronicle - October 9, 2000 Giant Cisco Didn't Pay Any Federal Income Tax Businesses get break on employee stock options Kathleen Pender, Chronicle Staff Writer SAN JOSE -- Cisco Systems, the second-most valuable company in America, paid no federal income taxes for its latest fiscal year thanks to a little-known corporate tax break on employee stock options. Microsoft, which ranks No. 4 in market value, did not pay any federal taxes either, it seems. Like many high-tech firms, Cisc ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 9 13:20:10 PDT 2000

33954 the IMF in action -- rank: 1000

From: Soren <Soren at afgj.org> To: "'stop-wb-imf at 50years.org'" <stop-wb-imf at 50years.org> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 15:29:58 -0400 Observer (London) October 8, 2000 by Greg Palast An internal IMF study reveals the price 'rescued' nations pay: dearer essentials, worse poverty and shorter lives So call me a liar. I was standing in front of the New York Hilton Hotel when the limousine carrying International Monetary Fund director Horst Kohler zoomed by, hitting a bump. Out f ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 9 12:46:35 PDT 2000

33955 A Last Word (Hopefully) On Rwandan Genocide -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >And, in any case, once we start throwing about terms like >"anti-communist" and "unreconstructed cold warrior," it is clear that debate >has ended, and name calling has begun. Depends. Sometimes a label can be clarifying, especially if it's accurate. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 9 12:36:22 PDT 2000

33956 the Cheney rumor -- rank: 1000

[apologies to Chip for perpetuation via citing - from Slate] Chain-Chain-Cheney of Fools By Chris Suellentrop Monday, Oct. 2, 2000, at 5:08 p.m. PT If you haven't received the "Dick Cheney is going to resign" e-mail from a friend, near-acquaintance, or total stranger yet, sit tight. It's only a matter of time. The e-mail, which alleges that Cheney is about to leave the Republican ticket because of a "trumped-up heart problem," is spreading across the Net like a prairie fire. ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 6 11:16:59 PDT 2000

33957 Mahathir: US frustrating Asian unity -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - October 6, 2000 Mahathir attacks US pressure By Peter Montagnon, Asia Editor, in London The US is quietly putting pressure on Asian countries to limit the scope of their efforts at co-operation in the economic and monetary sphere, according to Mahathir Mohamad, the Malaysian prime minister. Over the past year, the 10-member Association of South-east Asian Nations, Japan, China and South Korea have moved towards closer collaboration to help rebuild their economies in the wake of ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 6 08:44:32 PDT 2000

33958 nader and pollit -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Does anyone >know what Clinton's sport was? Lying. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 6 08:31:16 PDT 2000

33959 indulging a fetish -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: > > [warning: fetish object appended] >> dhenwood > >right on cue... Michael Hoover Ok, here's why I like polls. Several reasons. One, I like watching how ideology is constructed, and polls are a fascinating way of defining the parameters of thought in the act of measuring them. Two, they do offer insights, on occasion, into how the masses think. Three, there's enough Mencken in me to view U.S. politics as entertainment, and polls are part of the show ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 6 08:55:29 PDT 2000

33960 indulging a fetish -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >How does this breakdown in electoral votes ? Gore's ahead by about 50. Sam Smith keeps a daily running total of all this stuff, enough to drive Michael Hoover around the bend, at <http://prorev.com/amline>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 6 11:30:03 PDT 2000