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34996 social security -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I still think the two best cribs Thank you. > are LBO #67 ("Reforming Pensions, >Revisted" -- the little box on page 5 would make a nice graphic) <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Pensions.html> > and LBO >#87 "Antisocial Insecuirty" (where updated version of the same graphic >appears on page 1). <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/AntisocInsec.html>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 23 12:25:06 PDT 2000

34997 Naomi Klein: DC, Seattle, organizational culture -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio quoted Naomi Klein: >In an attempt to build a stable political structure to advance the movement >between protests, Danaher has begun to fundraise for a "permanent >convergence center" in Washington. The International Forum on Globalization, >meanwhile, has been meeting since March in hopes of producing a 200-page >policy paper by the end of the year. According to IFG director Jerry Mander, >it won't be a manifesto but a set of principles and priorities, ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 23 12:05:17 PDT 2000

34998 UniBiz daily -- rank: 1000

>Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 16:49:46 -0400 >From: Thurston A. Domina <tdomina at MAIL.WESLEYAN.EDU> >Subject: University Business Daily > >At the risk of abusing the list, I wanted to tell folks about the new >website I am running. University Business Daily (http://www.ubdaily.com) >is a daily news site covering politics and business in higher education. > >Please take a look and pass the url on. > >Thanks, > >Thad Domina >Associate Editor > >Uni ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 23 11:48:10 PDT 2000

34999 BC & AA -- rank: 1000

An excerpt from a review of Ward Connerly's Creating Equal by Philip Klinkner in the July 3 issue of The Nation: "Connerly's account of the campaign for Prop 209 [the California ballot initiative that abolished state-sponsored affirmative action] does contain one important revelation: he confirms an allegation made in Nicholas Lemann's recent book The Big Test that the passage of Prop 209 resulted from a compromise between opponents of affirmative action and the Clinton administration. Fear ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 22 16:41:08 PDT 2000

35000 drug cookies -- rank: 1000

[Hmm, entering "grow pot" at AltaVista stimulated an ad from theantidrug.com, which warned that your kids may be asked to try marijuana after soccer practice.] TheStandard.com - June 21, 2000, 6:04 PM PDT U.S. Antidrug Site Dealing Cookies The government says DoubleClick has been using the trackers to keep tabs on visitors to the Freevibe site. By Keith Perine WASHINGTON - The White House announced Wednesday that the Office of National Drug Control Policy's online antidrug message has ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 22 15:51:44 PDT 2000

35001 One-Half Cheer for the Old Guard! -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Larry Kudlow replaces Roger Ferguson as Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Aside from the fact that it'd be hilarious to have Kudlow in such high office - I love Michael Thomas' description of him as having the manner and appearance of a 1930s Argentine tango instructor - what would the practical difference be? Kudlow would probably be arguing for a neutral-to-easy Fed policy; he's no fan of tight money just because growth is strong and unemployment is low. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 22 12:47:28 PDT 2000

35002 CNN on Graham -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >But that does not contradict my point that death penalty is a sacrificial >ritual that symbolically re-establishes social order disrupted by crime. Or you could say that it perpetuates the cycle of violence. The southern states, where they love to execute people, are also among the most homicidal. I suppose you could argue that the more murders you have, the more you need your healing rituals of execution, but isn't that just a tad ghoulish? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 22 11:58:10 PDT 2000

35003 social security -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Charts and graphs are nice. The only problem is that they should be >explained in understandable detail. One of the U.S. Department of Education's periodic reports on literacy claimed that only something like 10% of adults could read a bar chart. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 22 11:15:46 PDT 2000

35004 WHO HEALTH REPORT Japan health systems ranked best (???) -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Blacks were considered three fifths of a person. That's a hideous statistic, but wasn't the effect of this to reduce Southern representation in Congress? I thought the masters wanted to count their slaves, but not let them vote. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 22 11:17:50 PDT 2000

35005 Nike.com hack -- rank: 1000

[from TheStandard.com] Nike Gets Swooshed Civil disobedience, vandalism, hijacking. Post-championship L.A.? No, the Nike Web site, which hackers yesterday turned into their private romping ground. Only rather than exultant NBA fans turning over cars, here were sober-minded activists deflecting traffic to a site run by the Australian group S-11. Among other demands, S-11's site urges a boycott of the World Economic Forum, a meeting about Asian growth scheduled for Melbourne just days before the O ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 22 10:54:48 PDT 2000

35006 the Irish miracle -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 11:03:14 -0500 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: "t. c. frank" <t-frank-3 at alumni.uchicago.edu> Subject: Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #3081 Hey LBO-ers: Anybody know of some good, critical accounts of the Irish industrial miracle? Thanks, Tom Frank

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35007 who knows? who cares? -- rank: 1000

What the U.S. public knows about the stands of Bush & Gore on various issues: <http://www.vanishingvoter.org/data/cand-knowledge.shtml>. Don't know is the winner. The liberal thing to do would be to denounce this as evidence of appalling disengagement, but maybe the radical thing is to say that the public doesn't know because it doesn't matter - these wankers will do whatever they want to, and what the public thinks counts for nothing. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 22 09:03:35 PDT 2000

35008 CNN on Graham -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >In fact, Amerika is a crime-ridden society, much more so than any other >developed nation, so that threat is not completely irrational. Not exactly true. U.S. murder rates are high by world standards, but property crimes are in line with most other First World countries. So the focus should be on violence rather than "crime" - and capital punishment is as much part of the pervasive violence as is homicide. Ditto our huge and busy military, whose violence ...

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35009 [helary at eskimo.com: Re: WHO's ranking of health systems] -- rank: 1000

JC Helary wrote: >shows Japan first place in : > >in the 'attainment of goals' category >-Health Level (Dale) -don't ask me what it means DALE = Disability Adjusted Life Expectancy, which adjusts the raw life expectancy to come up with an internationally comparable figure expressing how many healthy years one can expect to have. Marta, anyone - any problems with this concept? Seems to demean the lives of those with disabilities. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 22 07:42:23 PDT 2000

35010 hacked site -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment - not sure what site was hacked...] Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:22:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Guilherme Roschke <gr at luminousvoid.net> http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2000/06/21/www.nike.com/mirror.html attrition.org, amongst other things, hosts mirrors of hacked sites. -gr ************************************************* Guilherme Roschke * Programmer/SysAdmin/Researcher * Dept. of Anesthesia * University of Pennsylvania Medical School * gr at luminousv ...

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