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34306 Sarah Jessica Parker pressed into service -- rank: 1000

[Wonder what Gore & Lieberman think of Sex in the City? From the Kaiser Family Foundation's daily reproductive health update.] #1 NARAL TRIPLES ANTI-NADER AD BUY; ENLISTS SARAH JESSICA PARKER TO WARN AGAINST BUSH: Concerned that growing support for independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader could take votes away from Vice President Al Gore, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League has increased spending on anti-Nader advertising from $500,000 to $1.5 million. The ad ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 1 10:19:22 PST 2000

34307 suing a med journal -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 1, 2000 Pharmaceutical Company Challenges Researchers' Finding That Drug Doesn't Counter HIV By KATHERINE S. MANGAN A drug manufacturer is demanding up to $10-million from an AIDS researcher and the University of California at San Francisco over a study published in today's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association that concluded that the company's drug is ineffective against H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. The company, Immu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 1 10:05:20 PST 2000

34308 Fwd: THE FINAL LAP IN A LONG RACE -- rank: 1000

From: DavidMcR at aol.com Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:08:57 EST First, if you agree with what follows, please send it to friends or other lists. Time is short - this should have been done a week ago. People often don't read their mail until the weekend and I'd hope many to whom you might send it would resend it to their own friends after getting it from you. Second, Mary Cal Hollis and I are on the ballot in seven states - Washington, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 1 09:49:33 PST 2000

34309 Iraq to get oil payment in euros -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 1, 2000 UN agrees Iraq payment in euros By Carola Hoyos, United Nations Correspondent, in New York and Ruth Sullivan in London The United Nations Security Council on Monday agreed to allow buyers of Iraqi crude oil to pay in euros rather than dollars, ensuring that Baghdad does not interrupt its exports. Baghdad had threatened to stop selling its oil if the conversion was not made by November 1, unsettling jumpy global oil markets. Although diplomats saw even a short i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 1 09:51:32 PST 2000

34310 Fwd: <nettime> An Open Letter to Gore from Moore -- rank: 1000

October 31, 2000 Dear Vice-President Gore: Hi! How are you! It's been awhile since we've talked. Everything OK? Sorry. Enough teasing. I've been getting a lot of calls from your friends and supporters. Man, are they freaked out! They actually think you are going to lose. Talk about no faith in the quarterback! Hasn't anyone told them that Bush didn't even win his OWN Republican primary in Michigan? "Swing state?" Ha! According to your people, all Ralph or I have to do is wave a magic w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 1 09:37:44 PST 2000

34311 Gallup on China -- rank: 1000

[The China as devil thing doesn't play too well in Peoria. From Gallup's weekly update.] * China Trade Bill Moves To Senate The China trade bill, which gives the world's largest country permanent normal trading relations with the U.S., has been passed by the House in one of the most closely watched votes in years, and now moves to the Senate. The U.S. public ended up favoring the bill in a Gallup poll conducted the weekend before the vote, by almost a 20-point margin, 56% to 37%. That doesn't m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 30 05:03:09 PDT 2000

34312 fun! -- rank: 1000

[from the Tulipmania conference planning list] "For the first nine months of its existence, the company was run on the economic rule of the three C's - champagne, caviar and the Concorde. It's not often you get to spend $130 million. It was the best fun." A Boo.com systems analyst, commenting on the brief history of Boo.com in the London Telegraph.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 30 05:00:25 PDT 2000

34313 No Megalomania in Capitalism (was Re: seth & defusing korea tensions) -- rank: 1000

Reese wrote: >At 11:14 AM 29/05/00 -0400, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>Last but not the least, images of plain & stocky middle-aged Asian >>men are fashion crimes of immense proportions. > >Just imagine the plain & stocky middle-aged Asian women! >Here's a hint - you should go spend some time in the orient, in Japan >maybe? And actually look around, talk to some people while you are there. What an odd comment to make to someone from Japan. Maybe you knew tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 30 04:56:19 PDT 2000

34314 Black Radical Congress forum -- rank: 1000

jmage at panix.com wrote: >is the standard we should urge (for those people who believe that the death >penalty is in some cases appropriate) that it's OK provided there is a >doubt as to innocence? isn't that exactly the standard used in executing >Diallo and Dorismund, AND in exonerating their killers? I'm against the death penalty, even for people who've shot cops. The Free Mumia movement mostly claims he's innocent and should be freed. Maybe the cop deserved to die, but that's a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 30 04:42:41 PDT 2000

34315 No Megalomania in Capitalism (was Re: seth & defusing korea tensions) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Besides, love of Bigness for the sake of Bigness does not run in the >capitalist families. The art of capitalism dictates that you must >know when you need to Downsize: firing workers, discontinuing >product lines, closing factories, bankrupting companies & countries. Except that you downsize to maximize profits and elevate the stock price. Smallness in the service of greater bigness. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 30 04:35:08 PDT 2000

34316 Fwd: [Tulip-org] Summaries of Debates Tulipomania -- rank: 1000

From: Eric Kluitenberg <epk at xs4all.nl> Tulipomania DotCom - A Critique of the New Economy An International Conference @ De Balie, Amsterdam, June 2 & 3, 2000 & @ Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, June 4, 2000 --------------------------- General Information: --------------------------- Program updates and the list of speakers can be found at the conference web site: http://www.balie.nl/tulipomania ----------------------- How to Register: ----------------------- De Balie ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 29 07:31:44 PDT 2000

34317 Black Radical Congress forum -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> CIf you don't agreee with Carrol, you're depraved and guilty. > > > >And Doug operates from the same premise as the Brezhnev regime: >If you don't agree with Doug you have psychological problems. It >saves him the trouble of arguing his positions. You're right; simplifies life immensely. Good thing I'm in Amsterdam right now; I can slip off to one of those funny coffee houses and forget about my psychological problems. D ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 29 07:29:26 PDT 2000

34318 Black Radical Congress forum -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Carrol Cox wrote: >> >> Michael Yates wrote: >> >> > 9. I am more disgusted than ever with those who downplay the importance >> > of the Mumia case. >> >> Ultra-leftism or anarchism is the price paid by the working class for its >> crimes of opportunism. One can translate this that the leading presence >> of sectarians in the movement to defend Mumia is the price white leftists >> pay for their relative ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 29 06:26:14 PDT 2000

34319 Black Radical Congress forum -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >That white leftists who don't like the RCP should get off their >butts and build support for Mumia -- and if they build enough >solid and unqualified support for Mumia and other black victims >of the police the RCP won't dominate. And if they think they >have better things to do, then they should stop whining about >the RCP. Suppose you don't think Mumia is either identical to or representative of "other black victims of the police"? There's no doub ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 29 06:29:32 PDT 2000

34320 BDL on EH -- rank: 1000

[Rob Schaap writes from a non-sub'd address] G'day Brad, Quoth you: >I have to confess that the _Age of Extremes_ *annoyed* me. It annoyed >me because Hobsbawm broke temporal sequence: he moved the discussion >of Stalin far away from his narrative of interwar Europe. He did this >because he did not focus on Stalin until sometime after 1956. Thus in >terms of Hobsbawm's personal experiential timeline, the nature of >Stalin's rule falls after successful social-democratic reconstr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 27 09:13:37 PDT 2000