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36541 Amazon: terrible -- rank: 1000

TheStandard.com - August 7, 2000 Bezos: From Person of the Year to a "Chuckling Maniac" Last winter must seem like a long time ago for Jeff Bezos. Back then, Time magazine crowned him "Person of the Year" and the rest of the press followed suit, shining its light on the anointed one. Now he must wonder who stuck the "kick me" sign on his back. Red Herring branded Amazon.com its Loser of the Week after its stock dropped 25 percent to close at $30, "a price it ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 7 11:43:02 PDT 2000

36542 sentencing -- rank: 1000

[from the NBER's period summary of recent "interesting" working papers] (4) SENTENCING FOR HOMICIDES IN THE U.S. "Victims' race, age, and criminal record all determine sentence length, even in vehicular homicides. Drivers who kill black victims get substantially shorter sentences, but drivers who kill women receive significantly longer sentences." Why do murderers receive different sentence lengths for the same crime? In "The Determinants of Punishment: Deterrence, Incap ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 7 11:37:50 PDT 2000

36543 Jude on the black vote: realignment? -- rank: 1000

Polyconomics' Daily Memo on the Margin (commentary taken from <http://www.polyconomics.com>) August 7, 2000 Going After the Black Vote Memo To: Dick Cheney From: Jude Wanniski Re: Party Realignment George W's acceptance speech in Philadelphia said a lot of different things to different people, but to me it said he is serious about going after the black vote, which if successful will not only win the presidential election, but also give the GOP the Congress. This would be the first unified ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 7 11:06:43 PDT 2000

36544 Working Assets Long Distance: Anti-union? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > I was just reading an FT >article on the looming strike against Verizon which referred to >MCI-Worldcom and Sprint as "resolutely anti-union." Is this true? Yes. Several years ago, Sprint famously shut down a Spanish-language operation that was either unionizing or had unionized. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 7 10:30:25 PDT 2000

36545 Evangelical Zeal in Politics -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >. . . >> In short: how does one provide a critique of religion >without being dogmatic or >> pendantic while working through political issues at the >same time. > > >Contrast the positive aspects of religion with the negative >implications >of the religious right, in terms of policy. Force the >discussion to relate >religious abstractions to their real consequences. > >mbs Yes, and what about turning the other cheek, judging ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 7 09:51:44 PDT 2000

36546 Verizon strike -- rank: 1000

TheStandard.com - August 07, 2000 Workers of the New World Unite A labor dispute at Verizon heralds increased labor tensions brought on by technological change. By Mark Boslet The truce between labor and the new economy may be ending. Last week, 85,000 union members were on the verge of striking at Verizon Communications (the company born from last month's Bell Atlantic - GTE merger). Their demands: greater access to jobs in the company's high-growth wireless, Internet services and broadband DSL ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 7 08:53:14 PDT 2000

36547 Discovery Institute Accuses Rioters of Rights Violations -- rank: 1000

B. Deutsch wrote: >It's nice to know that when the chips are down, some folks on the left >will still find the time to attack feminism. > >I agree that the RICO decision was a bad decision (and for that matter >the entire RICO law is a bad law), and the position NOW and PP took >was short-sighted at best. I don't know the legal story here, but I'd have to object to equating NOW with feminism; it's like calling Al Gore "the left." NOW represents a rather timid, bourgeo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 7 08:32:38 PDT 2000

36548 Discovery Institute Accuses Rioters of Rights Violations -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >When someone sues all these groups under RICO, we will be able to thank >NOW for having established the precedent that non-economic motives still >qualifies a group as engaging in "racketeering activities." Essentially, >the NOW attack on anti-choice activists revived conspiracy as a legal >attack on civil disobediance and established the bankrupting of political >opponents through RICO suits as a new tool. > >It is a sad fact that for the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 7 08:28:08 PDT 2000

36549 Clinton body count -- rank: 1000

You can buy tapes of her talks with Bill, too. <http://www.genniferflowers.com/bodycount.htm>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 6 20:41:46 PDT 2000

36550 theorizing gangbangs -- rank: 1000

The Stranger (Seattle) - Jul 27 - Aug 2 2000 A NICE, MIDDLE-CLASS GANGBANGER The Stranger Interview with Annabel Chong by Jamie Hook IN 1995, Annabel Chong, née Grace Quek, a young porn actress from Singapore with endearingly bad teeth and an accent with equal parts King's English, Malaysian Chinese, and Valley Girl, took to a tinsel-strewn stage and proceeded to sexually engage a record 251 men in a single eight-hour session. The World's Biggest Gang Bang I ignited a craze for gangbangs, and he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 6 20:29:50 PDT 2000

36551 mighty NWU defends writers! -- rank: 1000

New York Times - August 3, 2000 Online Agreement Near for Writers' Group By FELICITY BARRINGER A group representing freelance writers, which is seeking to establish the legitimacy of a central clearinghouse through which writers can be paid for the resale of old articles -- the same way musicians are paid for the resale of old songs -- is close to signing an agreement that would give new stature and visibility to the clearinghouse. Jonathan Tasini, president of the National Writers' Union, and S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 3 22:08:51 PDT 2000

36552 Cisco -- rank: 1000

Hey, it wasn't just the crank Parish, it's the New York Times! And sources don't get any more respectable than that!! Doug ---- New York Times - June 13, 2000 The Consequences of Corporate America's Growing Addiction to Stock Options By GRETCHEN MORGENSON Microsoft and Cisco Systems, two of the nation's most profitable companies, are well on their way to owing nothing in federal income taxes on the money they have made so far this year. How can powerful companies like these, reporting billions i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 3 10:10:48 PDT 2000

36553 NY Times v. Nader -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Not sure where you got this, but Cisco, like most of the tech >powerhouses, pays a TON of federal income tax. Their last 10-Q >says that their most recent provision for income tax was $395M for >the quarter. > >$1.6B/year isn't "little or no" tax in my book. It came from Bill Parish, the guy who is convinced Microsoft is insolvent, thanks to stock options. In a recent missive, he said Cisco was going to pay little or no tax this year. Parish may ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 3 10:04:39 PDT 2000

36554 scab movie -- rank: 1000

from another list... >NEW MOVIE GLORIFIES SCABS > >This just in ... from the Metropolitan Washington (D.C. Labor)Council, >AFL-CIO. > >If lines form at a new movie, they won't be of moviegoers. > >'The Replacements' opens nationwide August 11 and will probably premiere >in Washington, thanks to its focus on the scabs who replaced the >Washington Redskins players during the 1987 football strike. > >"I urge you to spread the word that all union members shou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 3 10:08:04 PDT 2000

36555 NY Times v. Nader -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick quoted Cynthia Cotts: >Invoking Nader's recently disclosed $4 million in assets, Including $1.2 million in Cisco stock, a company that pays little or no federal income tax. Imagine if, say, Gore or Bush were found to have such a holding! > most of which is spent on advocacy, Krugman described an imaginary >personality disorder that afflicts people who do not spend their >wealth to make themselves comfortable. "Those who renounce small >pleasures," he wrote, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 3 07:53:53 PDT 2000