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36691 Cooper, Dolan on A16/A17 -- rank: 1000

Marc Cooper does A16: <http://www.laweekly.com/ink/00/22/news-cooper.shtml>. The rather disappointing conclusion: >It was in that precise context that I had a memorable discussion >with Mike Dolan, field director of the Citizens Trade Campaign. As >one of the chief organizers of the Battle in Seattle, Dolan >concentrated his efforts this week almost exclusively on A 12, the >day of labor-backed lobbying against the free-trade pact with China. >We chatted outside the Calva ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 10:43:21 PDT 2000

36692 Times flacks for Ikea -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >You'd think they'd pick up >*something* at Columbia J-school, if only by osmosis. J'ism school is institutionalized stupidity. I was on a panel at the Columbia J-school years ago, along with Katha Pollitt, on the "alternative press." The prof who organized the panel had distributed one of Katha's columns on the Baby M affair, an artificial insemination case whose details now escape me. It was political analysis of the sort that intelligent columnists ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 10:50:49 PDT 2000

36693 Fwd: World Frets About U.S. Speculative Bubble -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher, reformatted] Japan Press Daily Service Phone:+81-3-3423-2381 Fax:+81-3-3423-2383 FIRST TRANSMISSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2000 JPS 04-064 G-7 communique tries to save U.S. stock market at cost of Japan' economy TOKYO APR 18 JPS -- Akahata's editorial of April 18 says Group of Seven finance ministers and central bank governors is only interested in saving the U.S. stock market at the cost of Japan's economy. Excerpts of the editorial follow: The statement of G-7 finance min ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 10:46:56 PDT 2000

36694 Washington Post on A16 -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Is there space for a political platform that would quadruple the >IMF's resources and require it to worry about the maintenance of >near full employment during structural adjustment? I don't see it... Do you think the U.S. Treasury would ever stand for this? The IMF of your dreams would not survive a moment's exposure to Larry Summers (and leave Dick Armey out of this). To use some intemperate, old-fashioned language, how can you reconcile your IMF with the demands ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 09:51:07 PDT 2000

36695 WB's new line -- rank: 1000

[From the WB's daily clipping service. I love the use of "donor" as a euphemism for "creditor ultimately backed by the Pentagon." Speaking of which, Rob't McNamara even shows up here, along with Alex Cockburn.] NEW WORLD BANK MODEL FOR DEVELOPMENT MORE HOLISTIC. Dagens Nyheter (Sweden, pp.1, 11) notes that the World Bank has had to endure much criticism lately, notably on environment, debt an poverty issues-which is paradoxical given its current objective of halving the numbe ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 09:48:26 PDT 2000

36696 insurance problems -- rank: 1000

Leslilake1 at aol.com wrote: >Went to pay my car insurance bill today, and in the course of discussing why >my rates were increasing despite clean record, my agent told me that Allstate >would be "firing" all of its agents by next year - and nobody knows exactly >what's going to happen after that - their services to be replaced by the >Internet, possibly. He also said that he wasn't able to write policies for >80% of the business that walked in his door because of cr ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 09:32:24 PDT 2000

36697 Zizek: film reviewer -- rank: 1000

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca wrote: >Yeah, but I'll betcha a pint that he's read the Patricia Highsmith novel (he's >definitely read at least *some* of her work). Yup. He's read lots of it, or so he said. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 09:00:05 PDT 2000

36698 Times flacks for Ikea -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] From: "Matthew Taibbi" <matt_taibbi at hotmail.com> Subject: eXile press review [excerpt] Is This Thing On? Press Review By Matt Taibbi ....In many ways the [New York] Times provides the ultimate proof of why the intelligent and college-educated are more easily fooled than the poor and unsophisticated. People are much more easily distracted when they have conceits and prejudices that can be appealed to, and the readers of papers like the Times - who t ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 08:52:28 PDT 2000

36699 Washington Post on A16 -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >And the real puzzle is why the "left" is for the abolition >of--imperfect--institutions of collective self-management >responsible to democratically-elected governments The IMF is responsible mainly to the U.S. Treasury, and to a much lesser extent the EU and an even lesser extent Japan. That's what, 15-20% of the world's population? The other 80-85% are merely dictated to. And I won't even bring up the lack of accountability on the Treasury's part to the ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 08:55:11 PDT 2000

36700 Washington Post on A16 -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >red-brown alliances scare me There really aren't any. There were none on the ground in Seattle or DC, as even the WSJ's Gerald Seib had to admit. Even the sentimental localisms are fading into the background. So no need to be scared. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 08:44:05 PDT 2000

36701 Washington Post on A16 -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Hope so. But you can never tell in advance. I thought we were >stronger than Reagan, too... Who's "we"? And why did you think that? The U.S. elite was clearly moving rightwards from the mid-1970s onwards. Carter gave us a balanced budget, the mandated 3% real increase in yearly military spending, and Paul Volcker - but still that wasn't enough. The employing class was clearly sick of unions, and the warrior class were pushing Team B and the Committee on the P ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 20 08:42:23 PDT 2000

36702 Giving Shiva fits was Re: my report from DC -- rank: 1000

Ken Hanly wrote: >Does anyone have any knowledge of Shiva's relationship to the Chipko >movement? See <http://www2.mtnforum.org/mtnforum/archives/reportspubs/library/bandj99a.htm>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 08:36:35 PDT 2000

36703 Zizek: film reviewer -- rank: 1000

Peter K wrote: >Zizek on David Lynch's The Straight Story and The Talented Mr. Riply: Don't know if this is the one, but SZ told me he wrote a review of Mr Ripley without having seen the movie. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 08:18:03 PDT 2000

36704 I don't get it part 3 -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Tom Lehman wrote: > >> Anyone else seen these advertised offers for a 9.9% no fee, no hidden >> charges, not an introductory rate credit card. That's a pretty good >> rate for a personal loan---.9 over prime. > >Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. How can you make unsecured personal >consumption loans to people who (by definition) are spending more than >they earn and charge 10%? A few months ago, you could have called yoursel ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:40:27 PDT 2000

36705 Globalization as grantmaking cause du jour -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >The folks in the black block were pretty well prepared for our street >battles with the cops. Chuck, a number of people have complained to me that the black block has "no theory." I don't know if that's true, but how do you plead? What are you guys looking for? Do you see yourselves in the classic left-anarchist tradition or what? Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:32:53 PDT 2000