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34831 IMF battle over -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] IMF RACE APPEARS OVER AFTER US ENDORSEMENT OF KÖHLER. The acrimonious struggle to find a new managing director for the IMF effectively ended Monday when the US promised to back Europe's new candidate for the high profile position, reports Reuters. Ending months of bickering between Washington and Europe, White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said US President Bill Clinton would support EBRD President Horst Köhler, the new European candidate to head th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 14 08:03:36 PST 2000

34832 Fwd: Another way for Kosovo? -- rank: 1000

Le Monde diplomatique ----------------------------------------------------- March 2000 LESSONS OF WAR Another way for Kosovo? _________________________________________________________________ On the night of 24-25 March 1999 Nato unleashed an air attack on Yugoslavia that lasted for 78 days. How should the operation be viewed one year on? The suffering of the Kosovar Albanians has ended and the refugees have returned to their homes - more often than not destroyed - but Kosovo's Serbs and Gypsies ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 14 07:13:10 PST 2000

34833 Fwd: Fw: Job Opening: Labor/Community Coalition -- rank: 1000

[anyone need a job?] ALLIANCE FOR A WORKING ECONOMY A NEW LABOR/COMMUNITY COALITION FOR PROGRESSIVE ECONOMIC POLICIES IN NYC POSITION AVAILABLE ORGANIZER The Alliance for a Working Economy is a new NYC labor/community coalition working for progressive economic development and economic justice in NYC. The Alliance includes major labor unions, successful community-based organizations and prominent policy advocacy groups seeking to further an agenda of progressive economic reform in NYC. We will b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 14 07:02:09 PST 2000

34834 Social Protectionism -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Maybe I've belaboured this too >much, but aside from Rakesh, Rakesh grew up in California. His father made a fair amount of money in the Silicon Valley. Does that make him "Third World"? > I'm not sensing that Doug has brought >into this e-list enough of his Third World-based fan club. I'd love to see 'em join. Any nominees? >Doug, when you go to 50-Years conferences and meet fantastic radical >social movement strategists from the South, are you ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 14 06:55:31 PST 2000

34835 Hopkins update -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] KATY GALL, JOHNS HOPKINS PROTEST: The occupation of Garland Hall continues, now about to enter the third week. Through the weekend we had lots of people, lots of new faces coming in for the first time, we played a lot of Scrabble and got the friendly security folks to dim the lights at bed-time (and at dinner time.) . . . Tomorrow we are expecting visits from Noam Chomsky and Norman Hill which will pack the hall and get week three started right. KATY GALL Ca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 14 06:38:30 PST 2000

34836 AFL-CIO & IP -- rank: 1000

Under Rakesh's prodding, I asked a source in organized labor what the AFL-CIO's position on intellectual property restrictions. The answer was that because they have members whose income depends on them - artists & writers - they can't take too radical a position. Ditto technology transfer, which would hurt machinists and autoworkers. The line they take instead is that worker rights should be defended as strongly as IP rights. The source says they are looking into longer-term ways of compens ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 14 06:16:01 PST 2000

34837 Pope loses control -- rank: 1000

Sunday Times (London) - March 12, 2000 AILING POPE LOSES CONTROL OF VATICAN Roland White THE Pope has lost control of the Vatican because he is too frail to manage its affairs, according to senior officials in the Catholic church. John Cornwell, an author and Cambridge academic, says the Pope, who will be 80 in May and suffers from Parkinson's disease, spends much of his day resting and is invariably in bed by 6pm. "He is not capable of having the sort of conversations he once had," sa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 22:20:51 PST 2000

34838 Brit rich get lots richer -- rank: 1000

Sunday Times (London) - March 12, 2000 THE RICH GET RICHER FASTER THAN EVER John Harlow and David Smith BRITAIN'S richest people have experienced the biggest-ever rise in their wealth, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. Driven by the "new economy" of internet and computer entrepreneurs, the wealth of those at the top of the financial tree has increased at an unprecedented rate. The 12th annual Rich List, to be published next Sunday, will show that the collective worth of the coun ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 22:17:06 PST 2000

34839 Crudele on SA -- rank: 1000

Just catching up after a lovely long weekend in lovely Toronto... Finally heard back from the BLS on John Crudele's claims on how "intervention analysis" - stripping out extraordinary movements in prices before computing seasonal adjustment factors - were a sinister attempt to maniuplate the CPI downwards. The BLS person in charge, Claire Gallagher, confirmed my interpretation - that the point of the adjustment is not to repress reports of big price movements but merely to prevent thei ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 20:42:47 PST 2000

34840 Lithuanian dissident -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >I'll start posting this in installments tomorrow--it should take a >while, as it is rather hefty (it's a small book). Please send large articles, esp those likely to be of somewhat specialized interest, to people offlist. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 12 21:17:50 PST 2000

34841 Frank queries -- rank: 1000

[Tom Frank tried to post this but it mysteriously didn't take.] Hey LBO-ers: I'm wondering if anybody knows the origin of the expression, "communism is liberalism in a hurry." And can it possibly be true that, as some conservatives charge, Karl Marx invented the term, "capitalism"? Thanks. Tom Frank

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 10 19:09:16 PST 2000

34842 Social Protectionism -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Yet >instead of organizing or even threatening strikes, Hoffa is spending his >time fighting for non application for China and the social clauses Actually that's not entirely true. Hoffa's doing more organizing than most people thought he would, or so I'm told. And the Overnite fight is pretty intense. No doubt it's only the TDU threat that keeps him on his toes, but he could be doing worse. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 10 18:17:58 PST 2000

34843 more student news -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] ON CAMPUS MACALESTER COLLEGE: Four days, baby!!! Things are looking good in Minnesota. The situation changes every hour, and to our advantage. Spirits are high and the excitement is escalating. On Monday, the students at Macalester College occupied the lobby, the boardroom, and office of the secretary of the dean of students and have held them with no problems. Early this morning they increased their power by taking the inner office of dean of students. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 10 18:17:58 PST 2000

34844 Fw: SNET: I was a teenage communist -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese quoted: >I was a teenage communist. Yeah, and I was a teenage reactionary. Thank god I got over it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 10 18:17:58 PST 2000

34845 RIP, JMK (cont.) -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release March 9, 2000 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT Today, we reached another historic landmark in our fiscal turnaround. For the first time in seventy years, the U.S. Treasury Department completed a "debt buyback." This buy-back of debt is a striking reminder of the extraordinary progress we have made in putting Americ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 10 18:17:58 PST 2000