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34756 Class Ceiling--Ehrenreich -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >Doing it for Ourselves >BY BARBARA EHRENREICHr >Can feminism survive class polarization? >By Barbara Ehrenreich Ehrenreich has a very fine article in the current Harper's on housework and maids. I'm going to have her on the radio sometime in the next couple of weeks to talk about it. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 20 11:41:08 PST 2000

34757 Greenspan -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I used to be flabbergasted by the manifestly limited intellect of >corporate CEOs I've encountered over the years. The hard truth is, >capitalism doesn't simply tolerate mediocrity; it *insists* on it. Hey, the skills involved in maximizing profits and the stock price are pretty different from those that make for interesting conversation or serious thought or a subversive wit. What interesting person could spend 12-14 hours a day on a CEO's duties? The pursuit of mo ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 20 09:48:09 PST 2000

34758 Greenspan -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >For the record, I think that what "Bubbles" Greenspan is doing (try to >slowly rein in his Bubble by choking off the real economy) is idiotic. >People who think they are going to make 50% a year in the market will not >be deterred by 8, 9 or 13% interest rates. Productive businesses will. You're right that the real economy will suffer from higher rates, but a speculative market can't survive them for long either. Unless it really is different th ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 20 09:44:41 PST 2000

34759 Lederman's latest -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I'm not sure the A-G has anything to do w/demos. >It may be the Park Police, which are more an arm >of Congress than the DoJ. Details, details. >Rudy's atrocities will be on a higher level, no doubt. >Tho chances are Rudy and Bush will both win or both lose. Word in NY is that Rudy is shunning Bush, out of fear of a negative coattail effect. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 20 09:41:22 PST 2000

34760 Lederman's latest -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >. . . >Lederman and his leaflets were in a "no demonstration" zone that >extends around the Capitol and onto its adjacent sidewalks. U.S. >Capitol Police suggested he take his materials to a grassy area that >is far beyond the east side of the building. But Lederman said that >would defeat his purpose. . . . > >Pretty unfair. Members of Congress have demonstrations >there all the time. Right on the steps. Somebody call >Ross Perot. A ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 20 08:28:14 PST 2000

34761 GAO on PNTR/WTO for PRC -- rank: 1000

[just added to the GAO website] - World Trade Organization: China's Membership Status and Normal Trade Relations Issues. NSIAD-00-94. 21 pp. March 17, 2000. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/ns00094.pdf

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Date:	Mon Mar 20 08:21:45 PST 2000

34762 Gender & Free Speech (was Re: LM, Louis, and Free Speech) -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >i had no idea i was being ironic -- >do you think maybe it's habit-forming? Not only is it habit-forming, you don't even notice the habit when you're habituated. And as far as I know there's no cure; not even a prescribed round of self-criticism works, because the addict will only ironize the self-criticism. Sorry to have to tell you this, Catherine. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 20 06:11:43 PST 2000

34763 Summers on WB/IMF reform -- rank: 1000

US TREASURY URGES WORLD BANK, IMF REFORMS ; KÖHLER SEEKS DIALOGUE. Scrambling to keep ahead of hard-line US lawmakers who want to perform radical surgery on the World Bank and the IMF, US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers today will propose his own, more limited set of reforms for the Bank and its regional counterparts in Asia, Latin America and Africa, reports the Wall Street Journal (p.A36) and Wall Street Journal Europe (p.2). In a speech to be delivered at the Council on Foreign Relations ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 20 06:55:52 PST 2000

34764 Oil vey -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >The context was wages causing inflation, if I >remember correctly. Though it was almost three >days ago. Oil causing inflation is different >from wages causing inflation. Check Capital, >Volume II, around page 600 or so. Alan must be reading. A search for his buzzphrase "pool of available workers" and variants on it - it's getting very shallow, and he's worried - at the Fed website returns 29 hits. Most recently, Feb 17: "Imbalances in the ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 20 06:49:50 PST 2000

34765 Lederman's latest -- rank: 1000

[linking Rudy to the Pioneer fund is perhaps a bit excessive, but still...] From: ARTISTpres at aol.com Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 07:03:19 EST Washington Post 3/20/2000 [<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42755-2000 Mar20.html> for this article. For the complete text of the ruling see Lederman v. the U. S of America 99-3359 <http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/district-court.html>] [Note: Robert Lederman will be in front of the U.S. Capitol on 3/21 at 11 A.M. to hand out a leaflet ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 20 06:08:15 PST 2000

34766 Mandela a British agent? -- rank: 1000

[who knows if this is true, but it's making the rounds] Sunday Herald (Glasgow) -March 19, 2000 Mandela is named as MI6 agent By Neil Mackay Home Affairs Editor EXCLUSIVE NELSON Mandela is to be named as an MI6 agent who aided British intelligence officers with operations against Colonel Gadaffi's Libyan weapons programmes, supplied his handlers with details of arms shipments to Ulster terrorists and allowed UK spying operations to be based in South Africa. Allegations of Mandela's recruitment b ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 20 05:54:57 PST 2000

34767 The World Bank business -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >It's that last sentence that struck me. The FT doesn't seem to mean it as >a metaphor. They seem to be saying that the World Bank gets something >analogous to profit from providing loans; that it would take a hit if it >didn't get it; and that it is as naturally fond of its "biggest and best" >customers as any profit making firm. > >So my naive questions are: > >(1) what is this thing that is analogous to profit? I thought the >so ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 20 05:51:33 PST 2000

34768 Greenspan -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >During the fall in oil prices, I recall frequent references crediting oil >prices with prosperity at the time. Recently, I have seen articles >claiming it was irrelevant. Maybe I missed something important that >changed since 86. The IMF had a piece in a World Economic Outlook from some years back claiming that the fall in oil prices in '86 extended the '80s boom by several years, by reducing inflationary pressures and thereby staying the tightening hands o ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 19 22:43:45 PST 2000

34769 Women and Lists -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >My comment on Solidarity was confined to the last, very brief >paragraph, which indicated my appreciation of the group first. I >don't know why Doug wanted to focus on only that part. Because it seemed like a loose end. I've made it pretty clear that I'm eager to see discussions of gender on this list. If they don't happen, that's an issue worth investigating, but it's not because of my selective inattentions. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 19 21:37:59 PST 2000

34770 Women and Lists Re: Solidarity & "Humanitarian" Imperialism (was Re: Yoshie's dearth of female contributors) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I got serious replies from Nestor & Tahir that are squarely focused on >gender on Leninist-International; I appreciated Marta's response as well, >for I'm interested in linking struggles to abolish gender oppression with >struggles for disability rights. But other than those, the topic indeed >generated little interest & responses led to something else. Well, maybe >we can keep discussion going on Leninist-International. What do Leninists say ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 19 21:31:49 PST 2000