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34081 Walker undone -- rank: 1000

WSJ.com - November 22, 2000 Walker Digital Lays Off Most of Headquarters Staff By STEPHANIE MILES WSJ.COM Walker Digital Inc. has laid off most of its headquarters staff in a drastic restructuring, the latest setback for Jay Walker, the founder of Priceline.com Inc. Walker Digital was conceived in 1995 by Mr. Walker as an intellectual property laboratory and Internet business incubator, and is responsible for developing the name-your-price technology that Priceline.com uses. On Tuesday, the clos ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 22 12:39:20 PST 2000

34082 Who will make a sexier First Lady? Cast your vote today. -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:08:46 -0500 To: dhenwood at panix.com From: "Xpress Press(tm) News Service" <MichaelKoenig at XpressPress.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CANDIDATES NEGOTIATE POWERSHARING AGREEMENT! Both to share White House - one as First Lady, one as President. Voters must choose new First Lady at www.firstlady2000.com Seattle, WA -- Nov. 22, 2000 -- /Xpress Press/ -- MeMail.com, a Seattle-based online publisher and direct marketing firm, has launched firstlady2000.com, a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 22 12:19:47 PST 2000

34083 The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Artists don't need government money. I say >this as a former artist. Government money goes to fund some of the most >worthless crap. I don't agree with this entirely; I think the big arts institutions should get public money to keep the bourgeois canon going. What is weird and disturbing is going to some putatively avant garde event and seeing AT&T and JP Morgan thanked for their generosity. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 22 11:14:34 PST 2000

34084 sanctions -- rank: 1000

[apologies for the length, but this isn't available on the web, and it's important: "economic sanctions may well have been a necessary cause of the deaths of more people in Iraq than have been slain by all so-called weapons of mass destruction throughout history"] Foreign Affairs - May/June 1999 Sanctions of mass destruction John Mueller; Karl Mueller THREAT ASSESSMENT WITH THE demise of the Cold War, virtually all the major problems that afflicted great power relations over the last h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 22 11:01:26 PST 2000

34085 Seligman on intelligence -- rank: 1000

[A Daniel Seligman sampler...] Fortune - July 18, 1988 IT ALL ADDS UP Commentary on The Mathematics Report Card, the latest quadrennial report of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, has been uniformly pessimistic. The gloom is unsurprising since (a) we are now conditioned to be downbeat about the educational attainments of America's kids, and (b) the report card itself repeatedly characterizes the findings as grim. They are certainly that. The enormous nationwide effort to improve m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 22 10:50:14 PST 2000

34086 A mocking look at the social sciences -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >From today's (11/22/00) online Chronicle of Higher Education > >MAGAZINES & JOURNALS >A glance at the November 27 issue of "Forbes": >A mocking look at the social sciences > >Dan Seligman ...a real asshole. He used to have a column in Fortune, but I guess he proved too reactionary for the heirs of Luce. A favorite theme was racial patterns in inherited intelligence - Asians smartest, Jews next, etc. I think he was the guy who claimed that the ora ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 22 10:32:27 PST 2000

34087 academic temps -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 22, 2000 Report Details Colleges' Heavy Reliance on Part-Time Instructors By ANA MARIE COX A report aimed at injecting hard data into the long-simmering debate over the use of part-time professors in academe has mostly confirmed the conventional wisdom: that nontenure-track instructors make up almost half of the teaching staff in many humanities and social-science disciplines. The survey also found that the nontenure-track professors receive f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 22 10:13:04 PST 2000

34088 Addiction, Advertising, & Easy Virtue (was Re: How far do we go?) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I am in favor of eliminating cigarette advertising (as well as all >idiotic corporate advertising, though it's impossible to do so under >capitalism). However, it is not clear whether the absence of >corporate advertising will make a huge dent in consumption of >addictive goods & production of addiction. The former Communist countries have some of the highest smoking rates in the world - and did when they were still Communist. The U.S., where cigarett ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 22 09:57:27 PST 2000

34089 renouncing whiteness -- rank: 1000

How does the white race go about abolishing itself? I heard a story once about Ted Allen getting into a cab and having the driver address him in a conspiratorial, racist fashion as a fellow white person. Allen denied he is white. But whiteness isn't a matter of self-identification alone, is it? It's how you're treated throughout your life. What is to be done? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 22 09:48:36 PST 2000

34090 The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

Leo Casey wrote: >Since the defeat of Gore and the Democrats was an >important political goal for you, No. My goal is building indpendent left political movements. The Democrats, and loyalty to the Democrats, are obstacles to this. > which Bush policy do >you look forward the most to see implemented: > >1. A constitutional amendment banning abortions? Will never happen. >2. An end to affirmative action? It's mostly over, no? >3. 15 minute reviews before sending convicted ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 22 09:41:56 PST 2000

34091 Fwd: Vanishing Voter Update -- November 21, 2000 (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:26:30 -0500 From: Vanishing Voter <vanishingvoter at ksg.harvard.edu> INTERESTED BUT DISCOURAGED: AMERICANS' VIEW OF THE ELECTION DRAMA November 21, 2000 from the Vanishing Voter Project http://www.vanishingvoter.org =============================== The unfolding election drama in Florida has captured Americans' attention in a way that the 2000 presidential campaign itself never did. But Americans are also more discouraged about the election than they previously we ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 21 13:05:35 PST 2000

34092 [back off, Democratic avengers] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Why read the front page for any >other reason than self-flagellation? 1) To get a hint of what's going on in the world. 2) To get a sense of what the bourgeoisie thinks is important. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 21 13:03:57 PST 2000

34093 Humanitarian Demining -- rank: 1000

["left over from various conflicts..."] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Vietnam) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release November 18, 2000 FACT SHEET U.S. Humanitarian Demining in Vietnam Vietnam is among the countries most severely affected by landmines and unexploded ordnance. There are an estimated 3.5 million landmines left over from various conflicts ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 21 12:22:29 PST 2000

34094 another reason Marx was wrong -- rank: 1000

"Das Human Kapital" BY: ODED GALOR Brown University Department of Economics OMER MOAV Hebrew University Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=246295 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://econ.pstc.brown.edu/faculty/galor/index.html SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection location. When URLs wrap, you must copy and paste them int ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 21 12:14:18 PST 2000

34095 Fwd: [BRC-ANN] Prison Moratorium Project Co-Director (fwd) -- rank: 1000

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT PRISON MORATORIUM PROJECT SEEKS CO-DIRECTOR Prison Moratorium Project seeks a Co-Director who will work in partnership with PMP's current Program Director to manage all aspects of the day-to-day work of the organization, including fundraising, finances, program development, staff supervision, training and public education. Prison Moratorium Project, based in New York City, is a youth-led grassroots organization dedicated to ending overincarceration and promoting effective altern ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 21 11:50:01 PST 2000