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36646 Question about Il Pape -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Does anyone out there know where I might find a copy of the speech >the Pope gave in Cuba? I'm primarily interested in the section in >which he lambasts neoliberalism--you know, the part that never got >quoted in the US. Excerpts are at <http://www.vatican.va/jubilee_2000/magazine/documents/ju_mag_01101998_p-53_en.html>. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 14:57:46 PDT 2000

36647 campus news -- rank: 1000

[From Sam Smith's Progressive Review, today's edition of which is dominated by criticisms of the Elian raid...] ON CAMPUS BALTIMORE: This afternoon, Johns Hopkins No Sweat!, Johns Hopkins Student Labor Action Committee, the Goucher Rights Of Workers League and several students from local high schools rocked the Gap in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. We set up pickets, leafleting and a bed sheet outside their inner harbor stores, and set about stalling the security guard who told us the whole place was ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 14:48:54 PDT 2000

36648 NK -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Who is the author ? Who pays the author ? What are the motives >of the author ? Is the author/witness biased. Of course the author >could make things up, are you kidding ? Is the author contradicted >by other sources , for example the UN stats that Yoshie posted ? Ok, so you either didn't read the piece or don't know how to respond to it. Thanks for the clarification. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 14:43:25 PDT 2000

36649 workfare in NYC -- rank: 1000

CITY LIMITS WEEKLY April 24, 2000 Number 225 Kathleen McGowan, editor. Kim Nauer, executive director. City Limits Weekly is a free news and resource guide for New Yorkers. The fax and e-mail weekly is published every Monday by City Limits magazine. To be added to our distribution list or to subscribe to our monthly magazine ($25/year), call us at (212) 479-3349, fax us at (212) 344-6457, or e-mail us at mcgowan at citylimits.org. [...] WELFARE-TO-WRASSLE What's the most useful job skill that wel ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 11:49:56 PDT 2000

36650 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > But you , Doug, don't have much ability to influence North Korean >policy either, or the policy of 4-5 billion people's governments >anymore than you can change or control the U.S. government. I thought a fundamental principle of socialism was solidarity with the oppressed around the world. It's interesting that you & Carrol think that we should limit our critiques to our own country, which doesn't have much to do with international solidarity, does it? >S ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 11:25:25 PDT 2000

36651 Fwd: What Americans are Really concerned about! -- rank: 1000

[via Leila Salazar, Global Exchange] April 24, 2000 BW/Harris Poll: Globalization: What Americans Are Worried About Americans are deeply divided about globalization and free-trade pacts. In the abstract, they like both concepts; 64% of those polled think globalization benefits the U.S. economy, and 68% think U.S. consumers gain. But the public is split about whether the advancing global economy hurts the environment and jobs. And 69% believe that trade agreements with low-wage countries drive do ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 11:16:49 PDT 2000

36652 MSFT short its own puts -- rank: 1000

TheStreet.com - 4/24/00 11:01 AM ET Commentary : Wrong! Tactics and Strategies When It Rains on Microsoft, It Pours By James J. Cramer Why aren't we buying it right here yet? One of the more frightening things out there -- and one that you will begin to hear about in the next few days as all of the journalists from the print and TV outlets crib from me -- is the exploding share count of Mister Softee. Microsoft, like Intel (INTC:Nasdaq - news - boards), has always believed in its stock. Like Int ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 11:13:46 PDT 2000

36653 Leo & Bill -- rank: 1000

For those of you who care, the transcript (god knows how faithful it is) of Leonardo DiCaprio's Earth Day interview with Bill Clinton is up at <http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/2000/4/24/5.text.1>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 24 11:05:53 PDT 2000

36654 NK -- rank: 1000

Just curious if Carrol, Charles, Yoshie, or any of the others who've questioned images of NK as miserably poor & cultified - have you read the Liberation piece that Elisabeth cited <http://www.liberation.fr/quotidien/semaine/20000419mera.html>? I'm slogging through it with my rudimentary French, and it doesn't sound pretty. What's wrong with the picture it paints? Is the reporter making things up? Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 11:02:47 PDT 2000

36655 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: I really would like to know the Spivak/Derrida,/Foucault/ Lacan >term for this usage of "bizarre". It seems like some kind of >exoticizing the Other or Orientalism. Why is it that a Korean >personality cult is bizarre, but a British (royal family) or >American (Reagan a movie star as president) is not "bizarre" ? You're supplying that, not me. I think the Diana cult is bizarre. Scientology is bizarre. The Virgin Mary cult is bizarre. R ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 10:10:25 PDT 2000

36656 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >So, you can find absolutly nothing admirable about the >US system, even in the context of 18th-century >absolute monarchy? Beats absolute monarchy, sure. Has lots of shortcomings today - did then, too. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 10:11:35 PDT 2000

36657 MSFT to be split? -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - web update - April 24, 2000 Shares of Microsoft Tumble On New Reports, Weak Sales An INTERACTIVE JOURNAL News Roundup NEW YORK -- Shares of Microsoft tumbled 15% early Monday, leading the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index sharply lower. In early trading, shares of Microsoft were down 11 13/16 to 67 1/8 on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The Nasdaq composite was down 183.80 to 3460 and Morgan Stanley's high-tech 35 index fell 26.50 to 894.70. The losses followed Thursday's qu ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 09:06:32 PDT 2000

36658 RES: a trip to North Korea -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Doug, are you saying there some personality cults that are not >bizarre running some countries somewhere ? What would you call the >British monarchy ? A bizarre personality cult. An imperial contrivance perpetuated by the media. I'm sure one could make a longer list, but those would have to be high up on it. >A non-bizarre ( non-exotic ? foreign ? ) personality cult ? Or is >that adjective just a gratuitous exaggeration making North Korea >worse than ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 08:55:30 PDT 2000

36659 impereial philanthropy -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - April 24, 2000 4 Foundations Start $100-Million Effort to Help Higher Education in Africa By BURTON BOLLAG The presidents of four American foundations were scheduled to announce today a $100-million, five year program to support higher education in sub-Saharan Africa. The effort will be a loose collaboration among the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Rockefeller, Ford, and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundations. The four foundations wi ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 08:49:44 PDT 2000

36660 germ warfare -- rank: 1000

[bounced because of an attachment - here it is, stripped of the =20s in the original] Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 03:46:48 -0400 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> Brad refers Ken L. to Milton Leitenberg: >>Nonsense. It was U.S. scientists who documented the germ warfare >>conducted by "United Nations" forces, and who published their findings in = a >>U.S. journal (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, if memory serves), and ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 24 08:41:44 PDT 2000