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35176 unions endorse S26 -- rank: 1000

Endorse the September 26 Day of Action! On the occasion of the fifty-fifth annual meetings of the governing bodies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, we call for the immediate suspension of the policies and practices that have caused widespread poverty and suffering among the world's peoples and damage to the world's environment. We oppose those policies that have encouraged the suppression of basic human rights and freedoms, especially those specific to women, workers, and t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 19 10:39:11 PDT 2000

35177 unions shower Dems with $ -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - July 19, 2000 Unions shower Democrats with funds Soft money flows in as race for White House tightens By Ruth Marcus and Mike Allen July 18 - Labor unions have dramatically stepped up their political giving this year, showering the Democratic Party with record amounts of "soft money" donations from union treasuries, newly released disclosure reports show. REPORTS MADE available yesterday by the Federal Election Commission show that labor unions already have donated n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 19 10:34:02 PDT 2000

35178 black politics in the age of Clinton -- rank: 1000

New York Press- July 19, 2000 Black Politics in the Age of Clinton Norman Kelley Nothing better symbolizes calculating co-optation of blacks than Bill Clinton's Martha's Vineyard appearance two summers ago. Clinton seemed to have been on the ropes when he finally admitted to having an affair with the zaftig Lewinsky. The President, unquestionably America's greatest politician, in the narrowest sense of the word, was able to survive the impeachment imbroglio because of his mastery of divide-and-c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 19 10:43:42 PDT 2000

35179 GM for AA -- rank: 1000

[What does this do to the theory that racism is essential to US capitalism?] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - July 19, 2000 General Motors Files Court Brief Defending Affirmative Action at U. of Michigan By PETER SCHMIDT The University of Michigan has gained an unusual ally in its struggle to defend its affirmative-action policies against two separate lawsuits in federal court. The General Motors Corporation filed a brief Monday to defend the university's admissions policies as import ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 19 06:29:40 PDT 2000

35180 Gore: victims' bill of rights -- rank: 1000

Tuesday July 18 8:49 AM ET Gore Seeks Crime Victims' Bill of Rights By Thomas Ferraro MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore (news - web sites) on Tuesday called for a constitutional amendment to create a bill of rights for crime victims. Complaining states now provide a patchwork of inadequate protections and that there are no comprehensive federal safeguards, Gore proposed a new shield to help victims obtain justice, compensation and even a measure of peace o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 18 12:22:21 PDT 2000

35181 Fwd: [cultstud-l] Brittany Spears' bellybutton -- rank: 1000

[a bulletin from the Cult Stud front] From: RBrown at us.britannica.com To: "CULTSTUD-L: A listserv devoted to Cultural Studies" <cultstud-l at lists.acomp.usf.edu> Subject: [cultstud-l] Brittany Spears' bellybutton Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:05:20 -0500 I'm looking for someone who might be able to either write or help research an article that might be summarized (more or less) as The Semiotics of Brittany Spears' Navel. It would be something that looks at the changing cultural si ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 18 08:08:23 PDT 2000

35182 Wolfie's new line -- rank: 1000

[From the World Bank's daily clipping service. The post-A16 PR campaign continues.] WORLD BANK WARNS AGAINST 'BUSINESS AS USUAL' AT G8 SUMMIT. World Bank President James Wolfensohn yesterday urged leaders of the eight most powerful nations in the world to guard against a "business as usual" approach to fighting poverty and disease in developing countries, reports Agence France-Presse. "There is much to be done if we are to ensure that all countries are included in the world econom ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 18 08:06:40 PDT 2000

35183 Swedish broadband -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 17, 2000 The Outlook STOCKHOLM While most of Europe is trying to slash the public sector to adjust to the New Economy, Sweden aims to use today's technology boom to expand its already substantial welfare state. Its generous government plans to roll out a $2 billion national high-speed data network that will connect even the remotest Arctic villages to the Internet, bringing a degree of equal opportunity to the New Economy. To cut costs, it has enlisted Silicon Valley c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 17 08:21:12 PDT 2000

35184 German tax reform -- rank: 1000

Peter van Heusden wrote: >Does this mean the end of the German bank-borgs (at least in their current >form)? Is this the herald of 'shareholder power' in Germany? Is this the >start of the end of Europe as we know it? It's a milestone in the end of Europe as we know it. The creation of the euro was also a herald of shareholder power, continent-wide. But transforming German finance & corporate governance in a more Anglo-American fashion is obviously the cracking of a big nut. Note ho ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 17 07:31:43 PDT 2000

35185 Fwd: 2000-07-14 Proclamation on Captive Nations Week 2000 -- rank: 1000

[Old habits die hard. I love this: "defying intimidation and violence to vote in free elections in El Salvador and Nicaragua," as if the U.S. hadn't been the chief spopnsor of intimidation and violence.] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Camp David, Maryland) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release July 14, 2000 CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK, 2000 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 17 10:52:45 PDT 2000

35186 extreme outings from Silicon Alley -- rank: 1000

AtNew York daily - July 17, 2000 *Stock Price Underwater? Go Take A Jump! By Sam Rosales Back in May, Peter Shankman, the president of public relations firm The Geek Factory, and his staff were sitting around their shrine to cool -- a five foot-tall stuffed Polar Bear -- and noodling possible ideas for company outings this summer. Picnic? Too tame. Feeling a bit wacky, Shankman suggested skydiving. This Saturday, that idea will come to fruition along with a host of representatives from Silicon A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 17 11:54:06 PDT 2000

35187 fashionable gore -- rank: 1000

Inside.com's Daily Dope - July 17, 2000 Of bad taste, legendary fashion diva Diana Vreeland once said it's like ''a nice splash of paprika.'' But we're sure the late Vogue editor would never have signed off on the 18-page fashion spread in the August issue of the British men's magazine Arena, which features military-style clothing on a collection of blood-encrusted corpses. The photo series, entitled ''Fashion is Hell: This Season, Khaki is the Colour to Die For,'' starts off with dogtag-wearing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 17 15:03:05 PDT 2000

35188 culture markets -- rank: 1000

New York Times - July 17, 2000 When Less Is Not More By ROBERT H. FRANK ITHACA , N.Y. -- The artist Gary Larson published a "Far Side" cartoon a few years ago under the heading "Optimistic Parents." A boy with a glazed expression sits clutching the joystick as he plays a video game, his parents watching from the doorway. A thought-bubble above their heads depicts the newpaper want ads years later, with column after column seeking applicants for high-paying jobs requiring a mi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 17 08:16:21 PDT 2000

35189 psychoanalyzing the car buyer: womb vs tank -- rank: 1000

New York Times - July 17, 2000 Was Freud a Minivan or S.U.V. Kind of Guy? By KEITH BRADSHER DETROIT, July 16 -- Of all the mysteries facing automakers in recent years, few have been so engrossing as how families choose between minivans and sport utility vehicles. To look at them by median income, age, occupation, family size or where they live, people who buy minivans and people who buy sport utilities look fairly similar, the automakers' research has found. The typical minivan or sport utility ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 17 07:48:08 PDT 2000

35190 Fwd: [fc.network] FC Sporadic for Monday, July 17, 2000 -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 17 07:57:40 PDT 2000