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35221 the New Gay Economy -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >I have on my hard drive a few notes for a piece of research entitled "The > Pink Portfolio", documenting what happens to British companies such > as the Bank of Scotland and Stagecoach Holdings when senior figures > make homophobic statements in public. I have been told that it is > "the single least publishable article" that our esteemed Head of > Research has ever seen .... heh heh. Well, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 12 06:26:30 PDT 2000

35222 Stiglitz -- rank: 1000

[better late than never] Barron's - April 17, 2000 Sound the Alarm Economist James Stiglitz rips Washington's "market Bolsheviks" By JAMES NORTH When the Asian economic crisis started to bite deeply, during the second half of 1997, Joseph Stiglitz recalls that his children were studying the Holocaust. Each day, he went off to his job as chief economist and No. 3 man at the World Bank, where he and his colleagues had come up with a consensus of how to contain the spreading crisis. Each ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 12 06:21:22 PDT 2000

35223 Naomi Klein: "The Vision Thing" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Perhaps I'm not sure if comparing photography with politics is a >very good idea, though I like your reference to Cartier-Bresson's >"method of discovery." I think if I were journalists like Doug & >Naomi Klein, I'd be happier with Seattle, A16, etc. This new >ferment would then probably appear to me to be simply exciting. >Even a picture of "each intersection" having autonomy, sometimes >"defiantly guarding, well, noth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 12 06:23:17 PDT 2000

35224 the New Gay Economy -- rank: 1000

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2000 IntellectualCapital.com, a service mark of VoxCap.com and part of the VoxCap Network ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/issue389/item9923.asp Thursday, July 06, 2000 Different Worlds by Bill Bishop Want to know how complicated our politics have become? Consider the relationship between gays and the New Economy. Gary Gates, a doc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 21:44:14 PDT 2000

35225 Greenspan: hire today, fire tomorrow, keep workers guessing -- rank: 1000

From AG's speech to the National Governors' Assn today <http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/BoardDocs/Speeches/2000/20000711.htm>: >An intriguing aspect of the recent wave of productivity acceleration >is that U.S. businesses and workers appear to have benefited more >from the recent advances in information technology than their >counterparts in Europe or Japan. Those countries, of course, have >also participated in this wave of invention and innovation, but they >appear to have be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 21:36:40 PDT 2000

35226 The heart of a leftist -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >_Fortune_ came calling, offering more than three times the pay of >the _NYT_ for a once-a-month column. I wanted to do both. _NYT_ said >no: that _Fortune_ was a competitor of theirs. I said this was >absurd, and that they had already let Virginia Postrel do both >"Economic Scene" and a monthly column for _Forbes_. > >I thought the _NYT_ was bluffing. It wasn't... Hmm, interesting you should make the decision on such purely economic terms. Woul ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 21:20:24 PDT 2000

35227 Bloom: Harry Potter is stupid crap; NYT is "counterculture" -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >In the first paragraph of his attack on Harry Potter as cliched and >illiterate, Bloom uses a hackneyed quotation from Hamlet (mangled and >misunderstood, I'd say) and misuses the word "epiphenomenon." Hmmm. Standards are dropping daily! And Bloom is supposed to be the patrolman for the canon. The bourgeoisie just doens't know what to do with its cultural inheritance. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 20:51:36 PDT 2000

35228 Bloom: Harry Potter is stupid crap; NYT is "counterculture" -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 11, 2000 Can 35 Million Book Buyers Be Wrong? Yes. By Harold Bloom, a professor at Yale. His most recent book is "How to Read and Why" (Scribner, 2000). Taking arms against Harry Potter, at this moment, is to emulate Hamlet taking arms against a sea of troubles. By opposing the sea, you won't end it. The Harry Potter epiphenomenon will go on, doubtless for some time, as J.R.R. Tolkien did, and then wane. The official newspaper of our dominant counter-culture, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 13:39:05 PDT 2000

35229 Boushey's NYC wage numbers -- rank: 1000

[Apropos the thread of the other day, here's some of Heather Boushey's work on the NYC wage distribution. - Doug] Hourly wages by decile [since there are only 9, I'm guessing that these represent the 10th percentile, the 20th percentile, etc.] decile 1998/99 average wage change since 1988/89 1 $ 6.00 -13% 2 7.15 -20 3 8.75 -23 4 10.20 -20 5 12.25 ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 11 15:01:20 PDT 2000

35230 NYC: the next RNC organizing meeting -- rank: 1000

[bounced for several reasons] Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:31:31 -0400 (EDT) From: christine karatnytsky <christinekaratnytsky at juno.com> ***PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY**** On July 8th a coalition was formed in order to mobilize forces to protest against the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Over 200 groups have co-sponsored a demonstration called by "Unity 2000" on July 30, the day before the Republicans meet. Days of direct action will follow. From the barbaric, Texas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 14:36:16 PDT 2000

35231 Carnivore -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 11, 2000 FBI's System to Covertly Search E-Mail Raises Legal Issues, Privacy Concerns By NEIL KING JR. and TED BRIDIS Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is using a superfast system called Carnivore to covertly search e-mails for messages from criminal suspects. Essentially a personal computer stuffed with specialized software, Carnivore represents a new twist in the federal government's fight to sustain its ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 12:44:57 PDT 2000

35232 African life expectancies trending under 30? -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] AIDS TO CUT AFRICA LIFE EXPECTANCY TO UNDER 30. Life expectancies in some African countries will soon drop below age 30 because of the staggering number of AIDS deaths, experts said Monday at the 13th International AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa, the Los Angeles Times (p. A10) reports. And for perhaps the first time in their history, some nations in southern Africa will experience negative population growth as a result of AIDS, according to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 10:03:19 PDT 2000

35233 Fwd: [fc.network] FC Sporadic for Tuesday, July 11, 2000 -- rank: 1000

The FC Network - http://www.fuckedcompany.com Okay, Lots o' new fucks today so I'll get right to it. Here are some featured fucks. check the site for more. http://www.fuckedcompany.com Kozmo... again... As of today, sandwich shop CosĖ has stopped doing business with Kozmo.com and has switched to competitor UrbanFetch.com. This isn't really that big a deal except that it's fun to see our little Kozmo.com continue to make FC proud. I believe this is fuck #6 for them...? Company: kozmo.com Points ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 09:24:11 PDT 2000

35234 Heather Boushey on Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

Barry Rene DeCicco wrote: >Does anybody know how to place an advance order with B&N.com? Never touch the stuff. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 11 09:01:08 PDT 2000

35235 Measuring Productivity in a Service Economy -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >you numbers folks: how exactly *do* they measure productivity? Dollar value of output, adjusted for inflation, which is a mix of adjusting for pure price increases and for "quality" improvements. The latter can get very fudgy. > i mean, how do they account for, say, increased spending on >products/traffic which makes the staff you're operating with appear >more efficient. e.g., you have one waitress taking care of the >floor during slow season. same ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 10 13:19:38 PDT 2000