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34276 Cesareans -- rank: 1000

[from Kaiser's daily reproductive health update] #6 MALE DOCTORS 40% MORE LIKELY TO PERFORM CESAREAN SECTIONS THAN FEMALE DOCTORS Male doctors are overall 40% more likely to perform a cesarean section than female doctors, Reuters Health reports. In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, researchers found that the results varied by practicing location -- male doctors in university hospitals are almost three times as likely as women to perform cesarean sections, while male p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 3 09:33:02 PST 2000

34277 Nader: Unsafe At Any Speed (1) -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" >Content-Language: en If you must forward anti-Nader screeds, please convert them to plain text format. There's a majordomo filter that's supposed to bounce encoded text, but it's not perfect. Thankfully this one came in tiny Times type that was almost unreadable on my screen. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 3 09:34:33 PST 2000

34278 Fwd: Two pieces offering enthusiastic but critical support for Ralph Nader -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 00:11:18 -0500 From: Joanne Landy <jlandy at igc.org> Here are two pieces which offer enthusiastic but nonetheless critical support for Ralph Nader: (I hope no one is getting this twice--my apologies if you did.--Joanne) Jesse Lemisch, "Strategic Voting Will Sink the Nader Campaign: Why the Democratic Party, Now in a Wild-Eyed Frenzy, Should be Left for Dead," on TomPaine.Com: http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2000/11/01/8.html and Jesse Lemisch/Joanne Landy, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 3 08:43:47 PST 2000

34279 Survivor! -- rank: 1000

<kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca> wrote: >What are you talking about? Neither the theorists of the FS or the Slovene >Lacanian School offer much in the way of consolation, and both reject clinical >consolation explicitly. But as Zizek once said, psychoanalysis can prevent suicide. "I can't kill myself - I have my analyst's appointment on Monday at 3, and I can't miss that!" Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 16:06:15 PST 2000

34280 anti-Ralph petition -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >A little. It seems totally unlikely that conditions >on the ground, so to speak, have caused the future profits >that one could legitimately anticipate to fluctuate in the >same way as share prices. Ergo the latter are not premised >on the former, ergo managerial behavior premised on maximizing >share value is not premised on profit maximization. Checkmate. Not so quick, Grandmaster Flash. Over the long term, share prices magnify movements in underlying p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 16:04:29 PST 2000

34281 anti-Ralph petition [reply to Doug & Max & RO...and CB too] -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >Being anti-corporate is a way of >talking that allows others to come at the problem of capital in a way >that's non-threatening as a first step. Yup, as long as it's a first step. But lots of anti-corporate types seem not to take the second step. (I'm mystified by what they would hold up as an alternative to the corporate form.) We village atheists have to push them a bit to take the second step. Liza Featherstone ended her student activism piece in the Na ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 15:56:30 PST 2000

34282 Quoting Lenin -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: > The article should >have stuck to the criticism of the sectarian "no friends on the left" >approach of Nader. Huh? Gore's on the "left"? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 15:47:54 PST 2000

34283 source for lerner? -- rank: 1000

Stannard67 at aol.com wrote: >What's the source on the lesser-evilism article? It arrived in my mailbox with Lerner's return address and "recipient list suppressed." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 15:46:10 PST 2000

34284 GORE OPS TARGET NADER'S SEX LIFE; MOVE CALLED 'DESPERA TE' -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >Is this satire? Why? Is the idea that Nader has a sex life ludicrous on its face? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 15:40:57 PST 2000

34285 anti-Ralph petition -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Max Sawicky wrote: > >>But profit maximization and shareholder value are not >>the same thing. Seems to me the disconnect between >>motivations and profit maximization is as strong as >>ever, albeit in different forms. > >Maximum s/h value = maximum profit growth over the short to medium >term. What other motivations are there? >Doug > >seems a little imprecise. and what about >animal spirits? Animal spirits can add to valu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 15:34:36 PST 2000

34286 anti-Ralph petition -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >But profit maximization and shareholder value are not >the same thing. Seems to me the disconnect between >motivations and profit maximization is as strong as >ever, albeit in different forms. Maximum s/h value = maximum profit growth over the short to medium term. What other motivations are there? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 13:18:26 PST 2000

34287 anti-Ralph petition -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >'Corporations' are about sociology and the practical >economics of industrial organization. Capital is >more abstract. Not exactly opposing concepts. Agreed; corporations are the institutions through which the social relation that is capital operates. But what I object to about the anticorporate rhetoric is that it effaces that social relation - it doesn't see the class relations behind the institutional/legal form. It reifies the corp. >I might also note -- in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 11:20:17 PST 2000

34288 anti-Ralph petition -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >Now this is depressing. Barber wrote in Strong Democracy: > >"The corporation is incompatible with freedom and equality, whether these >are construed individually or socially. Like the night in which all cows are >black, it obliterates the distinction between private and public...it sees >the common talk and common action...of the strong democrat as a grave peril >to its orderly world of clients, profits and planning. It is the enemy of > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 10:45:09 PST 2000

34289 the rabbinical view of LesserEvilism -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:39:37 -0800 From: Michael Lerner <RabbiLerner at tikkun.org> This might help you understand the thinking of some who have not rallied round Gore. The Immorality of Lesser Evilism By Rabbi Michael Lerner Even in the final days of the presidential election, a substantial part of the population expresses dismay at the major candidates, feels closer to Nader in terms of the issues he raises, but fears that a vote for him might increase the chances for a Bush presidency ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 10:07:23 PST 2000

34290 Fw:Not quite the worst sort of leftist -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 07:49:36 -0600 > From: "T.E. Wilder" <contramundum at wavefront.com> >Subject: Not quite the worst sort of leftist > >On my way to work this morning I noticed that the far left had taped up >posters (of an article from Doug Henwood's Left Business Observer >http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html ) denouncing Nader as a >petit bourgeois moralizer. So the Green Party left can't quite ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 09:57:39 PST 2000