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36841 WSJ on A16 -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >What's the pallor of the World Bank directors these days? My impression is that while the WB/IMF senior management is very pale, the professional staff is quite diverse ethnically, though still fairly male. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 6 11:02:19 PDT 2000

36842 WSJ on A16 -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >The Wall Street Journal has a sly, snide front-age piece, "Wanted: >Persons of Color to Battle Evil World System," Hmm, they changed the title on the website. Doug ---- Wall Street Journal - April 6, 2000 Movement Fighting for Oppressed Struggles to Recruit Some of Them By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The self-flagellation begins like this: "Dear Sisters and Brothers of European origin." With that e-mail ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 6 10:55:37 PDT 2000

36843 WB on its enemies, again -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service - from the headline, I thought somebody'd hacked into the Bank's server!] SPRING MEETINGS: PERSONS OF COLOR WANTED TO BATTLE EVIL WORLD SYSTEM. There's not much time left before the folks who turned last year's Seattle trade talks into an uprising against economic injustice face their next challenge - demonstrations aimed at shutting down the World Bank/IMF spring meetings on April 16 and 17, report the Wall Street Journal Europe and the Wall Street ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 6 10:48:56 PDT 2000

36844 A16 victory already -- rank: 1000

My World Bank source just pointed out that it's already a victory that the normal operations of the Bank & the IMF will be suspended on Monday, April 17, and that attendance at the spring meetings will be sharply restricted over the weekend. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 6 10:40:37 PDT 2000

36845 Fwd: [a16-dc-planning] IMF comments on the protest -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >What on Earth is a "moral hazard"? Sounds like a euphemism to me. C. Doss The risk that insuring something will encourage risky behavior. In this case, the knowledge that the IMF may well bail out foreign investors if a country has a financial crisis will encourage them to invest more (and more riskily) than they would otherwise. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 6 10:25:06 PDT 2000

36846 Council of Canadians -- rank: 1000

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca wrote: >Just to note one, there is an organization >in Toronto concerned about monetary reform - basically - they're arguing that >instead of borrowing $$$ from private institutions, like the Bank of Montreal, >the government should borrow $$$ from the Bank of Canada (which is >legal). Any >interest paid on the loan would then be going back into public coffers - and >the Bank of Canada could set whatever loan rates they wanted. There are ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 6 10:19:02 PDT 2000

36847 "civil society" manifesto -- rank: 1000

[distribution is never an implied endorsement] Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 12:33:42 -0400 From: "Alesha Daughtrey" <alesha at citizen.org> - please distribute widely. Apologies for crosspostings - After civil society and activists from around the world scored the fantastic victory in Seattle against the World Trade Organization (WTO) last year, the question we have all been asked is "where do we go from here?" How do we continue to build on and expand the momentum that we en ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 5 17:27:03 PDT 2000

36848 Klein & Adbusters -- rank: 1000

[Barlow & the Council of Canadians are part of the creepy International Forum on Globalization crowd, no?] Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 19:16:09 -0400 (EDT) From: jesse hirsh <jesse at tao.ca> just so we don't confuse the two, check out the anti-adbusters site that we've initially setup at http://adbusters.tao.ca to quote from it: "this page is meant to be a resource countering the perception that adbusters magazine is 'left', 'progressive', or worth supporting in any political, economic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 5 16:32:53 PDT 2000

36849 dis' Comfort -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - April 5, 2000 'Joy of Sex'? Real Intimacy Was Too Close for Comfort. By DAVID FRUM. "The day may come when we regard chastity as no more a virtue than malnutrition."-- ALEX COMFORT Alex Comfort, who died last week at the age of 80, was the sort of man of whom it is said that he was ahead of his time. In this case, the tribute is not a compliment. Demographically, Comfort belonged to the World War II generation; he was born in England in February 1920. Spiritually, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 5 16:09:05 PDT 2000

36850 Bill does Bill -- rank: 1000

[This revolting hagiography is from the White House press release for their New Economy conference. The full text is at <http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/2000/4/5/13.text.1>. It's probably just recycled from MSFT's PR department, but still...] William H. Gates William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, a leading provider of software for the personal computer worldwide. Microsoft had revenues of $19.75 billion ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 5 14:57:14 PDT 2000

36851 Greenspan sounds the all-clear? -- rank: 1000

U.S. MARKET NEWS from The Wall Street Journal at WSJ.com. April 5, 2000 Nasdaq Rises as Greenspan Eases Jitters By David Runk Interactive Journal Stocks traded mixed late Wednesday afternoon as the Nasdaq Composite Index extended its recovery in the wake of encouraging remarks from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. After opening lower and wavering throughout the morning session, the Nasdaq Composite Index rose 122.70 to 4271.60 in late afternoon trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 5 15:00:21 PDT 2000

36852 campus update -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] ON CAMPUS KIRK SCIRTO, UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: 3 weeks of activism, 2 weeks of nightly vigils, 1 week of fasting. 20 of us covered our mouths and bound our hands with red tape outside the administrative building . . . We're camping out on the academic quad tomorrow night, and we're building a model sweatshop shanty town and sewing a shirt for our president. GRETCHEN LAKATOS, YALE: 30-40 people slept out last night and are sleeping out again tonight. We hav ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 5 14:53:24 PDT 2000

36853 NYT's wedding announcements -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 00-04-05 13:15:35 EDT, you write: > ><< Yes, the NYT's social section is sillier than ever, but that's too trivial >a > subject to broach here. >> > >You are joking, right? Actually those wedding announcements are important social documents, aren't they? When they started including pix of men along with women, it was a marker that bourgeois marriage was evolving beyond the woman-as-property model. Who gets an announc ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 5 14:22:04 PDT 2000

36854 WB staff memo -- rank: 1000

[the latest memo to World Bank staff concerning A16 security prep] This is to advise you on further details concerning the security planning for next week's Spring Meetings. Local law enforcement officials will announce this week their plans for a police security perimeter to be put in place around Bank and Fund headquarters buildings beginning April 11. Staff should note that this may cause delays in automobile access to the Bank and Fund garages, as vehicles will be subject to search, and onl ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 5 14:10:47 PDT 2000

36855 NASDAQ tremors -- rank: 1000

Industry Standard - April 5, 2000 Market Motion Sickness If self-replicating e-commerce baby tycoons get on your nerves, it's schadenfreude time. It's true that the Nasdaq rebounded after its staggering loss Tuesday. Nonetheless, what AP described as "the most volatile day ever for U.S. stocks" left a distinctly bearish aftertaste. Analysts declared that the bubble was deflating, if not bursting, while jaundiced pundits tried to keep the glee out of their voices as they contemplated th ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 5 14:05:00 PDT 2000