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36301 teens don't like death -- rank: 1000

Gallup Poll News Service LIFESTYLE NewsAlert __________________________________________________________________ Here is your requested Youth update from the Gallup Poll News Service. 12/6/00 - Teen and Adult Opinions Differ Dramatically on Death Penalty Link to story: http://www.gallup.alerts.com/alerts/ClickThrough?Address=dhenwood@panix.com&SiteName=galluppoll&CriteriaID=1233&Destination=http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr001206d.asp

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 6 07:09:32 PST 2000

36302 Rice -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Rice Takes the Stage as Bush Foreign Policy Adviser Washington, Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush's foreign policy adviser, emerged in October as one of the stars of ``Deutschlandspiel,'' a German dramatized documentary. Centered on the political struggle behind the fall of the Berlin Wall, the movie depicts Rice as a hard-liner in the U.S. government arguing for full German reunification and against compromise with the Soviet Union. Her views wo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 6 06:45:32 PST 2000

36303 The Color of Money -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I don't understand why you ask such a silly question. To provide an opportunity for you to wax righteous, of course. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 5 13:47:59 PST 2000

36304 The Color of Money -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > > What's going to happen when Colin Powell is Secretary of State and >> Condoleeza Rice is national security advisor? >> Doug >********** > >My impression is that these two are moderates re: >interventionism. CP followed orders once the decision >was made, but the scuttlebutt was that he was more >reluctant to intervene. If he is Secy of State, >it is hard to imagine little Georgie running over >him to invade some far-off land. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 5 13:41:14 PST 2000

36305 Standardized Tests & Minorities, was Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #3698 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >As far as predicting success in college composition, the >number of bathrooms or tvs in the home make equally good >predictors. Way behind, just catching up, but... The number of TVs and/or bathrooms is probably highly correlated with income. So are you saying that parental income is a good predictor of educational outcome? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 5 12:35:00 PST 2000

36306 The Color of Money -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Well stated. Nothing short of the USA losing a world war or >undergoing socialist transformation would abolish the white race -- >since it took the defeat of the Nazis in World War 2 to abolish the >Aryan race. What's going to happen when Colin Powell is Secretary of State and Condoleeza Rice is national security advisor? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 5 11:52:46 PST 2000

36307 query -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >Also, is the U.S. Bureau of Justice the best place for stats on violent >crime? Yes (for the U.S., of course). James Heartfield already mentioned this with the British stats, but avoid the 'reported to police' stuff and stick with the National Criminal Victimization Survey. Except for murder, the police stats are very unreliable - you've got all kinds of reporting, coverage, and classification problems. The NCVS is pretty consistent over time. There's a very useful hist ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 5 05:55:24 PST 2000

36308 Fwd: Pacifica's Bessie Wash to Appear on WBAI -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 10:22:38 -0500 From: Eileen Sutton <efsutton at earthlink.net> Pacifica's Executive Director Bessie Wash is expected to be on WBAI's Wake-Up Call Tuesday morning, taking questions from listeners. The show runs from 6-9 a.m., and Wash will be on from 7-9 a.m. The station's call numbers are 99.5 F.M. in the tri-state area, and WBAI can also be streamed from two locations: www.porus.com and www.wbai.org. Wash paid a visit to WBAI this past Tuesday and attempted to fir ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 4 08:09:29 PST 2000

36309 Clinton screws federal workers -- rank: 1000

From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman at yale.edu> Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:19:17 -0500 Just to feed the opposition argument on why Clinton-DLC folks are in fact scum, here in the name of equal time is a recent article on Clinton screwing federal workers on pay. -- NN ====================================== Federal Employees Get Raise By DEB RIECHMANN .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - About 1.8 million of the federal government's civilian workers will get a 3.7 percent pa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 3 15:16:13 PST 2000

36310 Frank queries on Singapore -- rank: 1000

[bounced for mysterious reasons] Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 16:35:21 -0600 From: "t. c. frank" <t-frank-3 at alumni.uchicago.edu> Hey LBO-ers: I'm looking for journalistic, economic, or political enthusings about Singapore from the last decade. Written by ex-marxists, new-economy enthusiasts, neo-liberals, paleo-cons, whoever. Why do they think Singapore rocks? Does Singapore rock? Tom Frank

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 3 15:14:56 PST 2000

36311 [FAIR-L] Media Advisory: Pacifica Mgmt. Moves to Undermine WBAI's Independence -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 19:38:34 -0500 From: FAIR-L <FAIR-L at FAIR.ORG> FAIR-L Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Media analysis, critiques and news reports MEDIA ADVISORY: PACIFICA MANAGEMENT MOVES TO UNDERMINE WBAI'S INDEPENDENCE Free speech may be issue in firing of long-time New York station manager December 1, 2000 In a move reminiscent of last year's attack on Pacifica station KPFA in Berkeley, the Pacifica Foundation told WBAI-New York's long-time general manager Valerie Va ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 1 19:25:15 PST 2000

36312 Self-Employment on the Decline -- rank: 1000

Finally. The wackos from Fast Company have gone wildly unchecked. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 1 18:53:57 PST 2000

36313 CBO worries on debt -- rank: 1000

Hey Max, what's with this CBO report I just opened - it's dated October, but I'm way behind - arguing that federal spending is going to zoom in the long term, and unless we 'save' the surplus over the next couple of decades, debt will start spinning out of control around 2020 (debt/GDP breaking 100%, twice the 1990s average, in 2030, pushing 200% in 2040....? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 1 18:03:08 PST 2000

36314 no sense of humor in the Alley -- rank: 1000

TheStandard.com - December 1, 2000 Reporter's Fake Job Irks Real Dot-Com A New Yorker piece by an Internet impostor is the talk of Silicon Alley, but Luminant isn't laughing. By Richard Martin New York's Silicon Alley was in a tizzy last week after the New Yorker ran a hilarious piece called "My Fake Job," in which former Letterman writer Rodney Rothman recounted his days of masquerading as an employee at an unnamed Manhattan dot-com consultancy. After walking into the company's office ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 1 15:27:08 PST 2000

36315 FW: Racial Blind Spot Continues to Afflict Greens -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Doug, not that I mind being known as a good propagandist, but in this case >you are running away from your own comments and frankly suppressing my clear >discussion of the racist attacks on voting rights, not just the ballot >messup. Damn, did I say that? That's fucked up. Those statements are now inoperative. Can't imagine what I was thinking. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 1 14:53:11 PST 2000