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33961 the Cheney rumor -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Many of the speakers said this was the most important presidential election in >their lifetime because of who would get to appoint Supreme Court Justices, >especially on the issue of abortion. It was clear that they thought the >Bush/Cheney ticket would do everything possible to restrict and then ban >abortion. So, Chip, who you voting for? Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 6 13:11:07 PDT 2000

33962 Kornai evaluates self -- rank: 1000

"Ten Years After 'The Road to a Free Economy': The Author's Self-Evaluation" BY: JANOS KORNAI Harvard University Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=235875 Contact: JANOS KORNAI Email: Mailto:jkornai at harvard.edu Postal: Harvard University Department of Economics Littauer 222 Littauer Center Cambridge, MA 02138-3001 USA Phone: 617-495-1236 Fax: 617-495-7730 ABSTRACT: The book discu ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 6 13:10:04 PDT 2000

33963 indulging a fetish -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >So what the f*** is their definition of a likely voter? I know, I >know, I know it's "proprietary." The details are, but not the principles. I asked the AAPOR folks, who responded: >Preelection survey methodology: details from eight polling organizations, 1988 >and 1992. D. Stephen Voss; Andrew Gelman; Gary King. > >Public Opinion Quarterly, Spring 1995 v59 n1 p98(35) >I also point you to Rob Daves' recent chapter, "Who Will Vote? Ascertai ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 6 13:30:05 PDT 2000

33964 Yugoslavia: what the media is hiding (The Guardian) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I'm afraid the Yugoslav model of market socialism & federalism, *in >the course of devolution*, themselves laid the material and >ideological grounds for the dissolution of Yugoslavia And what about the Soviet model of centralization without democracy? Didn't that lay the material and ideological grounds for the dissolution of the USSR - or, more precisely, the nomenklatura's decision to do in the USSR? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 9 11:18:16 PDT 2000

33965 Chris Burford's Comments -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Indeed I keep on trying to figure out how I got sucked >into this kind of exchange. Confess it, Leo, you love it. It gives you the opportunity to feel superior to all the ideologues. I was away for the weekend and am just catching up on this little flamefest. It's not pretty. But speaking of confession, I'll confess that I've found Leo's schtick over the years to be kind of tiring - an "I'm so sensitive and flexible and everyone else is so brutal and rigid& ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 9 11:38:20 PDT 2000

33966 Prague: a view from the inside -- rank: 1000

From: Soren <Soren at afgj.org> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:43:18 -0400 MANILA, PHILIPPINES | Monday, October 9, 2000 A World Bank economist's odyssey in Kafka's Prague By ANTONIO ANDRADE (Columnist Walden Bello met an old contact from the World Bank during the World Bank-IMF joint annual meetings in Prague, Czech Republic, on Sept. 26 to 28. The following is his account of the events that unfolded around him during that fateful conference. Antonio Andrade is not his real name.) Coming into P ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 9 12:19:36 PDT 2000

33967 Chris Burford's Comments -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Did Doug tell you to say this ? Nope. I've been away, and until a few minutes ago haven't asked anyone to say, or not say, anything. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 9 12:24:29 PDT 2000

33968 Fwd: London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 22:07:56 +0100 From: London Socialist Historians Group <lshg at ch.u-net.com> The Autumn 2000 issue of the London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter has been published and is now available for downloading from the LSHG web site at http://www.ch.u-net.com/lshg/ This issue contains articles by Glyn Powell on Black History Month, by Alan Woodward on the latest issue of Fragments, the oral labour history project being run by Haringey Trades Council, and by Keith Flett ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 9 14:19:01 PDT 2000

33969 Kostunica on US/NATO violence -- rank: 1000

[quoted by Sam Smith in his Progressive Review] It is my duty to say one more thing. There is another sort of violence that befell our misfortunate people - external violence spearheaded by power-wielders in Washington and Brussels. The forms of the external violence are the long-standing sanctions, last year's bombs and support to Albanian terrorists in Kosovo. Whatever the source, violence is always violence, despite occasional attempts at presenting it as humane. It is hard to believe that pe ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 9 14:20:08 PDT 2000

33970 Wildmon frustrated by Cheney -- rank: 1000

American Family Association Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President Tim Wildmon, Vice President P.O. Drawer 2440 Tupelo, Mississippi 38803 Telephone (662) 844-5036 Fax (662) 842-7798 URL's <http://www.afa.net> <http://www.afr.net> <http://www.afajournal.org> <http://www.afo.net> AFA Action Alert 10/06/2000 GOP Veep Candidate Fudges On Social Issues In Debate America Family Association today expressed its deep disappointment in the performance of Republican vice presidential ca ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 9 15:45:58 PDT 2000

33971 *QPol*: What If Gore Wins? -- rank: 1000

PlanetOut - October 5, 2000 <http://www.planetout.com> OPINION | OutRight What If Gore Wins? by Dale Carpenter On November 8, the country will wake up to a new President-elect and a new Congress. If Gore wins, as national gay groups urge, he will either be accompanied by a Democratic Congress (Scenario #1) or a Congress still at least partly controlled by Republicans (Scenario #2). What do these Gore-as-President scenarios offer gays? Scenario #1: Under this potential outcome, Al Gore is e ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 9 16:39:28 PDT 2000

33972 Ralph on race -- rank: 1000

[the guy just can't speak inspiringly about justice, can he?] Ralph Nader Responds to ColorLines On August 17, 2000, ColorLines published an article by Vanessa Daniel criticizing presidential candidate Ralph Nader for downplaying issues of race and racism in his campaign, and calling on him to make these crucial issues central to his campaign and the public debate surrounding the election. That article can be accessed at <http://colorlines.com.> Today we received the following response fro ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 5 16:26:03 PDT 2000

33973 Nader Wins the Debate -- rank: 1000

Marco Anglesio wrote: >On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Nathan Newman wrote: > >> According to the Zogby-Reuters poll, the candidate apparently receiving the >> biggest boost from the debate was Nader, who registered 7% in the most > >I wouldn't give too much credence to an individual poll. Zogby-Reuters Oct >2-4 has Nader at 7%, while Gallup Oct 1-3 has Nader at 2%. A candidate >scoring low is apt to appear to fluctuate more strongly, but that's merely >because they're sco ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 5 10:35:51 PDT 2000

33974 Rwandan Genocide -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Leo Casey >United Federation of Teachers Is the UFT still run by unreconstructed cold warriors? Back during the Dinkins years, Sandra Feldman refused to appear at an anti-austerity rally because there'd be "avowed Communists" on the platform. And wasn't the UFT dreaming some dream of displacing the "leftwinger" Sweeney from the AFL-CIO? Or am I misremembering? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 5 09:43:48 PDT 2000

33975 Greider on debt reduction -- rank: 1000

Forstater, Mathew wrote: >Have people seen this? It is worth reading. I can fwd whole article, or maybe >someone can post the website? Also, have lbo'ers seen the post-autistic >economics newsletter? Mat Please do post it. Where is it? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 5 09:15:48 PDT 2000