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35806 IMF contest widens -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >I don't understand why Africa would want Fischer. Any comments. Hey, he was born in Africa. Doesn't that count? Wouldn't surprise me if the U.S. put the Africans up to it. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 09:40:06 PST 2000

35807 WFP & HRC -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >I've been away from NYC for a few years (thank god...), but something in >this whole Hillary Bubble escapes me: why do otherwise rational politicos >seem to think she has a chance in hell of winning? Has someone repealed the >iron laws of New York State politics? Isn't the equation still >upstate=republican, NYC=democrat? > >If Hillary gets a single upstate county, it'll be a miracle, and Herr >Guliani still has enough juice in the City to dilute any ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 09:30:28 PST 2000

35808 Russian wages -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Earnings in Russia Are Impermissibly Low, Kasyanov Says. MOSCOW, February 24 (Itar-Tass) - The average monthly earnings in Russia, amounting to 1,520 roubles or approximately sixty-two U.S. dollars, are impermissibly low, First Vice-Premier Mikhail Kasyanov told the Thursday meeting of the Russian government, which is discussing the state policy in this field. Kasyanov, who is chairing the meeting in the absence of Acting President and Premier Vladimir Putin, stresse ...

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35809 CoD (was Re: Zizek = the Third Way (was Re: Zizek on Haider)) -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>BTW, why do you like _Three Kings_? The movie is an argument for a >>"humanitarian intervention"! Is Carl Remick the only LBO-Talker who didn't >>like the film? >> >>Yoshie > >Er, having an opinion on things I have no knowledge of is one of my >most winning traits, but, for the record, I have not voiced any >views on _Three Kings_. However, if the film is indeed a promo for >"humanitarian intervention" Penta ...

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35810 WFP & HRC -- rank: 1000

[Pointless nastiness about H's physical contours - though reminiscent of Gennifer Flowers' naming of the twin tragedies of the Clinton family, Hillary's fat ankles and Bill's small penis - but dead on about the politics. The WFP, a horrid local replicant of the New Party, smells like a front for the Democratic party designed to keep pwogwessives voting for hacks.] New York Press - February 23, 2000 HILLARY MEETS THE WFP "This party is not about cynicism," the guy from the Working Famil ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 08:05:37 PST 2000

35811 IMF/WB overhaul? -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - February 24, 2000 [by Stephen Fidler in Washington - credited in print edition, not in web] CALL FOR OVERHAUL OF IMF AND WORLD BANK EXPECTED A special US congressional commission is expected next month to recommend a radical reduction in the roles of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. It is likely to propose that the IMF focuses on short-term finance to resolve crises in emerging economies, and that the World Bank shifts towards providing poor countries with gr ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 08:00:26 PST 2000

35812 NEJM admits to fishiness -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - Feburary 24, 2000 Top Medical Journal Admits 19 Lapses of Ethics Policy By TERENCE MONMANEY, Times Medical Writer The world's most influential medical journal has admitted to an extraordinary betrayal of its own ethics, saying that nearly half of the drug reviews published since 1997 were written by researchers with undisclosed financial support from companies marketing the drugs. The New England Journal of Medicine, in an unusual internal probe published in today's edition, ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 06:33:12 PST 2000

35813 IMF contest widens -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - February 24, 2000 IMF contest widens By Stephen Fidler in Washington and Gillian Tett in Tokyo The contest to find a new managing director for the International Monetary Fund was thrown open on Wednesday as two non-Europeans were nominated to head the organisation. The nominations were viewed as a sign of growing frustration among other IMF member governments at the delays surrounding European efforts to find a successor to Michel Camdessus, who stepped down from the fund earli ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 06:24:10 PST 2000

35814 Allen Ginsberg, "America" (was Re: Patriotism) -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >One time when I was speaking against the coming Gulf War at OSU >in the fall of 90 to a pretty decent sized audience, I had a young ROTC type >attack my patriotism. I said, if I didn't care about my country, why would I >be doing this? Why your country? Why not solidarity with the people your country was attacking? Why do some geographical borders and a nation-state define a special kind of feeling for you? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 20:29:47 PST 2000

35815 Fwd: {FP} Pacifica Poised to Add Controversial DC Businessman to Board -- rank: 1000

ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE RADIO www.freewpfw.org News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 23, 2000 Leigh Hauter (703) 732-7239 (mobile); (703) 703-754-4005 Andrea Buffa (415) 546-6334 x309 Pacifica Foundation Poised to Add Controversial DC Businessman Bertram Lee Sr. to its Board of Directors Board of embattled radio network to meet this weekend near DC; Free-speech advocates, including fired Pacifica journalists, will hold teach-in on Pacifica censorship scandals. Washington, DC-- Pacifica Radio ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 20:12:31 PST 2000

35816 Hopkins action -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] ON CAMPUS A group of students have erected and occupied a wooden shanty in front of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University's Homewood Campus. The students are calling on Hopkins' administration to take responsibility for the abuse of workers who provide services to its institutions and facilities. The occupation has been organized in cooperation with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees. SHANTY CELLPHONE: 202-904 ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 17:50:07 PST 2000

35817 antiwar conference -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Michael Pugliese for forwarding this. Alex Cockburn is keeping some strange company these days.] From: Antiwar.com <egarris at antiwar.com> To: Antiwar Daily <antiwar-list at free-market.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 11:45 AM Subject: Antiwar-List: Antiwar.com Conference Dear Antiwar.com supporter: Pat Buchanan, Alexander Cockburn, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Lenora Fulani -- at the same conference? "How did you arrange that, Justin," a friend asked. We ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 17:42:03 PST 2000

35818 Fwd: response to NYT editorial -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:50:31 -0800 To: Recipient List Suppressed: ; From: David Bacon <dbacon at igc.org> Subject: response to NYT editorial Dear editor, The New York Times editorial criticising the recent change in position by the AFL-CIO on immigration is factually wrong on a number of counts, and in its conclusion, would perpetuate the discrimination and second-class status suffered by millions of people. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that over 80 million people tod ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 12:16:02 PST 2000

35819 biz econs worried abt bubble -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - February 23, 2000 Strong Fundamentals Are Expected To Continue, Two Reports Signal By YOCHI J. DREAZEN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Reports by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the National Association for Business Economics suggest a continuation of the same strong fundamentals that have kept the economy booming for the past nine years. Nevertheless, a growing number of analysts have begun questioning the Federal Reserve's stewardship ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 23 09:55:44 PST 2000

35820 conventional wisdom -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >It's too late. Interest rate increases today won't affect the flow >of spending until November. If that. We had several tightenings last year that seem not to have affected the flow of spending yet. A few quarter point snugs on the funds rate can't stop the mighty juggernaut. > (On the other hand, they will affect the stock market today.) That was what was at issue, I thought. I wonder what a 15% market decline would do to electoral politics. Doug

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