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34966 religion, US vs UK -- rank: 1000

<http://www.mori.com/digest/c000623.htm> Market & Opinion Research International - poll digest - June 23, 2000 commentary column - Voting & the Influence of Religion It is reported in the press this week that Conservative leader William Hague's latest initiative to win votes from the government is a meeting with a leader of the American religious Right, exploring the possibility of making a religion-based appeal for votes at the next election. As is well known, religion can be a po ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 27 09:55:33 PDT 2000

34967 Nader -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >So Nader isn't perfect. Horrors! I could quibble with his position about >culture (he criticized children's cartoons for being too violent at one >point, a red herring in my book), but since I agree with 95% of his >politics, I'm willing to let minor points of contention remain just that. >The real issue is building a mass Left party in the US, in coalition with >the Labor Party folks; the Nader campaign is just a tool to do this, and >Ralph, to his ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 15:07:46 PDT 2000

34968 Gore, Soc Sec, & stox -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 26, 2000 The Outlook WASHINGTON Al Gore blasts George W. Bush for proposing to invest Social Security revenue in the stock market. But Mr. Gore's plan, if taken literally, probably depends more on the market than does Mr. Bush's. Why? The vice president would pay off the federal debt around the end of the decade, and continue running surpluses, so he could use them decades later to pay for the baby boom's retirement. The federal government must invest those trillions o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 26 14:35:27 PDT 2000

34969 Re tango instructors -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >A recent post had the phrase, "...description of him as having the manner >and appearance of a 1930s Argentine tango instructor." I fwd this to >a cyber-friend in Argentina and got the following response (copied in >part): [...] >In general, from what in the last year or so the tango in Argentina has >about the same role in their culture as does Jazz in U.S. culture, and >sneering references to it should be classified with similar references to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 26 14:23:01 PDT 2000

34970 Fwd: Contraception - Birth control for drug addicts -- rank: 1000

[from the icky Negative Population Growth folks - I think they approve of this] Washington Post - June 26, 2000 Group to Pay Addicts to Take Birth Control By Avram Goldstein Melanie Folstad agonized over whether to join the campaign, but each time she considered her son's nightmarish origins and his continuing health problems, the hesitation melted away. So this week, the Bethesda financial planner will help a national children's welfare group make a provocative offer to Washington's drug addict ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 26 11:42:09 PDT 2000

34971 the Irish miracle -- rank: 1000

I'm all for skepticism about the Celtic Tiger, but hasn't the human traffic reversed? Instead of losing population to net emigration, aren't former emigrants returning, and natives staying? That would suggest that it's not all hot air and statistical artifact. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 11:25:55 PDT 2000

34972 Pseudo.com rethink -- rank: 1000

AtNewYork.com daily - June 26, 2000 Pseudo Rewrites Business Plan and Pink-Slips 58 Employees Streaming video company Pseudo laid off 58 employees in an effort that a top executive said would streamline operations. Senior Vice President Jeanne Meyer said her company is creating a central production unit that will create an immersive interactive experience for users that is as addictive as a video game. To do so, the company is rolling up 12 channels into one called the "Pseudo Center," ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 26 10:55:49 PDT 2000

34973 Nader -- rank: 1000

Apologies for the US-o-centric content: Ok, so Ralph's really running for president. Support, oppose, neither? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 08:29:21 PDT 2000

34974 Univer$ity of Phoenix -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 26, 2000 Enrollment in Degree Programs at U. of Phoenix Grows by 22% By JEFFREY BRAINARD The University of Phoenix -- a national for-profit chain whose growth has been closely watched in higher education -- reported on Friday that enrollment in its degree programs rose by 22 percent over the past year, to 75,057 students. The university, which has locations in 15 states, Puerto Rico, and Canada, saw continued rapid growth in its online enrollment. ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 08:25:14 PDT 2000

34975 geek shortage? -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 23, 2000 Report Warns That Drop in Science Enrollments Poses Threat to U.S. Economy By RON SOUTHWICK Washington A new report from the National Science Board warns that a continuing admissions decline among graduate programs in science and engineering may lead to a shortage of skilled workers that could hurt the U.S. economy. The findings were detailed Monday in "Science and Engineering Indicators," a report issued every two years by the ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 26 08:20:56 PDT 2000

34976 Negri & Mary -- rank: 1000

[from another list...] Last year Antonio Negri hit the headlines of Italian newspapers as it was reported that he had started to write a column devoted to the comment of sacred texts in the magazine of the Servant Sisters of Mary. Negri, who at home is better known for his alleged role as the theorist of Autonomia than, say, his Paris lectures, was questioned on this issue by rather puzzled journalists and he replied that he had previously found himself praying to the Virgin Mary and to Our Fath ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 26 08:17:52 PDT 2000

34977 Dworkin's original -- rank: 1000

<http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4024585,00.html> Guardian (London) - June 2, 2000 I was in Europe. I was 52. It was 1999. I was in a garden in a hotel. I was reading a book. French Literary Fascism. I was drinking kir royale. I had two. The second one didn't taste right. I didn't finish it. Then I became sort of sickish or weakish or something, and all I could think about was getting to my bed and not making a fool of myself in public view. I prayed: "Let me ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 25 22:21:55 PDT 2000

34978 Bright on Dworkin -- rank: 1000

< http://www.susiebright.com/editorial.html> The Baffling Case of Andrea Dworkin by Susie Bright A couple of weeks ago, Andrea Dworkin published the most extraordinary story in The Guardian (UK) in which she says she was raped last year in a Parisian hotel. She gives a delirious account of the events that followed--- her devoted partner John Stoltenberg disbelieving her, her father dying, a hospital stay that cost the use of her legs, physical disfigurement, and more. Her description opens ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 25 22:21:18 PDT 2000

34979 amazing headlines -- rank: 1000

Amazing headlines of the week: "Sexy Wrestler's Boob Explodes" - The Globe "Mad Dog Racist Mayor and Kill-Crazy NYPD Enforce Racist Capitalist Rule" - he Internationalist (edited by Jan Norden, purged ex-editor of Workers Vanguard)

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 25 20:03:22 PDT 2000

34980 Fwd: Fishing with Fidel -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >But insofar as in actual u.s. capitalism the radical subordination of >black people *is* needed How do you know it's needed? It's an empirical fact, for sure, but how do you know it's necessary? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 25 18:54:09 PDT 2000