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34096 Election Crisis and Electoral Reform -- rank: 1000

Kevin Quinn wrote: >Please stop this nonsense: these children are dying because Hussein won't >import the medicines they need. So you're taking a position to the right of the Council on Foreign Relations, which published this article in the May/June 1999 issue of Foreign Affairs? >SANCTIONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION John Mueller and Karl Mueller > >As Cold War threats have diminished, so-called weapons of mass >destruction -- nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and >ballisti ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 11:54:50 PST 2000

34097 big bucks running colleges -- rank: 1000

[According to the Chronicle's database, Yale had revenues of $1.6 billion in 1998-99, and expenses of $1.2 billion; Harvard, $2.9b and $1.8b. Of course, these are "nonprofit" institutions.] Chronicle of Higher Education - November 24, 2000 74 Private-College Presidents Earned More Than $300,000 in 1998-99 Salaries and benefits continue to rise; Williams tops survey with $878,222 for departing chief By JULIE L. NICKLIN The 1990's closed on a lucrative note for the presidents of many pri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 21 11:05:44 PST 2000

34098 The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

Leo Casey wrote: >In short, you are noble and virtuous, we are base and >reprehensible (oh, and don't forget, self-righteous, >too -- despite the fact that all nobility and virtue >is yours). Progress, progress. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 10:18:55 PST 2000

34099 Inner workings of Bush/Gore (Jim O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

Eric Beck wrote: >Jim, that would actually be noon-12:50pm. Noon-12:45 on the east side of Manhattan. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 10:13:05 PST 2000

34100 [back off, Democratic avengers] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I seldom read the front page of the paper Don't you find this (non-)practice makes it hard to keep up with the news? Or are the news decisions of bourgeois editors of no compelling interest to a serious revolutionary? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 10:07:51 PST 2000

34101 Shorrock on Ralph in Feed -- rank: 1000

Feed - November 3, 2000 <http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es417_master.html?alert> WAR OF INDEPENDENCE by Tim Shorrock RALPH NADER has convinced many leftists that he is a champion of workers' rights who, if elected, would push to end "union-obstructing labor laws" and strengthen trade unions. Progressives who think his campaign could elect Bush, he says, are "frightened liberals" who can't see that Bush and Gore are cut from the same right-wing corporate cloth. As someone ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 09:57:21 PST 2000

34102 University.com (cont.) -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 21, 2000 ARGOSY EXPANDS ITS REACH, BUYING WESTERN STATE U. COLLEGE OF LAW Argosy Education Group has announced its agreement to purchase Western State University College of Law, as the country's largest commercial provider of graduate education continues its push to build itself into a national university. Argosy's businesses now include the University of Sarasota, 10 psychology graduate schools, a medical-technology college in Minnesota, and ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 07:04:00 PST 2000

34103 bye-bye Beaver -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 21, 2000 Beaver College to Change Name to Arcadia University By SCOTT STREET Beaver College announced Monday that it will change its name to Arcadia University, a move that the institution's officials hope will reverse the trend of declining enrollment they attributed to the old name. "We're no longer an undergraduate liberal-arts college," said President Bette E. Landman, emphasizing that the college's old name didn't reflect its gr ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 07:05:43 PST 2000

34104 Landau on democracy -- rank: 1000

[Here's a comment from Saul Landau on a call for democracy at Pacifica. I guess he's a member of the "let's get all the smart people together on the Vineyard" crowd too.] From: Saul Landau [SMTP:slandau at csupomona.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 11:53 AM To: Dittmann, Roger Subject: RE: FW: [alliance] Saul Landau responds to Marc Sapir re Amy Goodman ROGER, HOW CAN YOU HAVE DEMOCRACY BY LISTENERS. IF THE MAJORITY WERE TO RULE, WHAT WOULD PREVENT JERRY FALWELL AND CO. FROM MOB ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 18 11:25:18 PST 2000

34105 Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

Leo Casey wrote: >Even if Nader and the >Nader campaign had not said a word in this vein -- and >it really borders on the surreal to suggest that they >did not continually attack Gore, the Democratic Party >and Gore supporters for having betrayed the causes of >the left -- your own words, and no one else's >attributed to you -- employed this language of >betrayal. Leo, comrade, I'm on the road, so I don't have a lot of time to pound the keyboard, but I'm curious - do welf ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 18 10:01:10 PST 2000

34106 The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

Leo Casey wrote: >Look out: Dr. Jekyl, JD [or is it LLD?], is out again, >throwing shit. I suppose someone has to throw that >shit back for Mr. Hyde to reappear, whining about the >unfairness of being the target of a shit thrower. Is >this a clinical case of paranoid-schizophrenia, or is >it just plain self-righteous hypocrisy? > >What is really embarrassing, from my point of view, is >the inability to have a debate about differences of >political strategy without i ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 18 10:02:41 PST 2000

34107 The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >At a more sophisticated level, you have Yoshie attacking the NAACP and NOW >as the "Talented Tenth" as if working class blacks through a whole range of >organizations have not supported Gore. What organizations you have in mind? Most working class blacks don't vote. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 16 15:51:13 PST 2000

34108 U.S. electoral system "worse than Haiti" -- rank: 1000

[Cuomo's comment is a lovely example of liberal judicial cretinism.] New York Times - November 15, 2000 THE SYSTEM From Partisan Ranks, Electoral Referees By KEVIN SACK MIAMI, Nov. 14 - As a former official with the Atlanta-based Carter Center, Robert A. Pastor has monitored plenty of elections, mostly in developing countries where democracy is taking its first steps. But Mr. Pastor said he had never seen anything like what unfolded this week right here at home, where both Democratic and Republi ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 15 04:17:31 PST 2000

34109 plea -- rank: 1000

Because of expanding subscribership, pre-election volume, and countless quoted screens, the monthly cost of this list has crept well above $200. When I get a day to devote to switching this to Jordan's server, I will, but in the meanwhile, anyone who feels moved to make a contribution to offset some of that cost, well, I'd be deeply grateful. Thanks to those of you who responded to the last plea. -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer Village Station - PO Box 953 New York NY 10014-0704 USA +1-21 ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 15 03:39:21 PST 2000

34110 Fwd: Alabama -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:03:46 -0500 From: Philip Klinkner <pklinkne at hamilton.edu> One little reported aspect of the recent elections was Alabama's decision to remove the ban on interracial marriages in its state constitution. The vote to remove the ban was 60 to 40 percent. According to exit polls, the Alabama electorate was 73 percent white and 25 percent black. Assuming that blacks gave 90 percent support to the resolution (about the same level of support for Gore), then whites spli ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 14 18:04:30 PST 2000