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37111 teaching -- rank: 1000

michael perelman wrote: >Unlike Michael Yates, I enjoy teaching. Don't all those students who don't want to read anything longer than a (short) magazine article ever get you down? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 12 15:11:47 PDT 1999

37112 LBO web updates -- rank: 1000

I've just added some stuff to the LBO website: Two Kosovo-war-related articles from LBO #90 * a short postwar polemic <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/AfterWar.html>, and * a report of a hideously bellicose editorial meeting at Dissent magazine led by guest of honor Field Marshall David Rieff. Dissent editorial board member Jo-Ann Mort pronounced this article "disgusting" <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Dissent.html>, making it especially satisfying to share with a wider aud ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 12 13:42:35 PDT 1999

37113 Graying Professoriate (from the Chronicle of Higher Ed) -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I'm sorry; when I saw supposedly leftwing faculty discussing why they should >kick all non-sociology majors out of their classes as a budget-cutting move, >then add that they should allow business school majors in to keep alumni >money support in the future, my respect for the ivory tower as an >intellectual refuge dimmed considerably. And to make it dim further, check out <http://universitybusiness.com/>, published by the same people who bring you Ling ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 12 12:11:09 PDT 1999

37114 the New Sincerity -- rank: 1000

Mark Rickling wrote: >Alterman didn't get all of his facts straight. It's a Living Wage Campaign >at UVa, not Justice for Janitors. Sorry, it was my memory that was wrong. Here's the passage: "But here's the twist. [Nelson] Lichtenstein is part of a perfectly Rortyite reformist Campaign for a Living Wage at the University of Virginia. This campaign is not about ending sexism, racism, or homophobia, but about getting janitorial staff a few extra bucks an hour. Who are its volunteers? P ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 11 21:34:17 PDT 1999

37115 UAW planning for a nonunion future??? -- rank: 1000

Mark Rickling wrote: > >I'm guessing you mean to say it won't take many decently paid UAW workers to >put such a car together. Kim Moody has a great article on the contract >negotiations and modularization in the August Labor Notes -- I wanted to >send it along with the Wash Post article but it wasn't at their web site. >Moody faults the UAW leadership for not having a strategy to combat this >massive planned reorganization of the auto industry, preferring to leave the >p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 11 18:59:11 PDT 1999

37116 archive of left pubs for sale -- rank: 1000

An LBO subscriber writes: >Perhaps you can help a long-time subscriber. I have a large collection >of magazines of the Left, long runs often going back to the first >issue. For example: RETHINKING MARXISM; SOCIALIST REVOLUTION/REVIEW; >TELOS; NEW GERMAN CRITIQUE; Z; NEW LEFT REVIEW; PRAXIS INTERNATIONAL. I >am getting up in years and would like to find a market for this kind of >stuff; by this time, what I haven't read will never be. Anyone interested, please email me offlis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 11 14:45:52 PDT 1999

37117 labor links -- rank: 1000

[from Michael Eisenscher] Suzanne Cohen & Deborah Joseph, two reference librarians at the Catherwood Library, have produced a significant, new accomplishment in Internet service. With extensive links to topics of interest to Labor Unions, this site is an invaluable and instructive tool for all union members, officers, and staff. Labor Unions and the Internet http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/reference/Guides/LUI.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 11 14:26:40 PDT 1999

37118 the New Sincerity -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > > > Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > > > > >the alternative to leftish symbolpolitik is getting involved in > > >realpolitik, but i do not think that the idealistically oriented left is > > >ready for such a drastic move. > > > > Just who are you talking about here? Who are these symbolic > > politicians? Most of the left academics I've met are active, > > sometimes very active. Who are these ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 11 10:08:58 PDT 1999

37119 Plastic U -- rank: 1000

Business Week - September 20, 1999 FINANCE: Big Cards on Campus Affinity-card issuers are stepping in with megabucks You might say that Joseph E. Johnson, president emeritus of the University of Tennessee, thinks like any savvy chief executive officer. When the university hit what he called ''a point of crisis'' last year because of inadequate state fiscal support, Johnson forged one of the most lucrative corporate sponsor deals ever. In a $16 million arrangement with First USA, the credit-card ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 11 09:40:21 PDT 1999

37120 Fwd: Malathion Man: Giuliani poisons NY to look decisive -- rank: 1000

[Another dispatch from the energized Lederman...] From: ARTISTpres at aol.com Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 07:56:05 EDT Subject: Malathion Man: Giuliani poisons NY to look decisive Malathion Man: Giuliani Poisons Eight Million New Yorkers in Order to Look Decisive A passive public, a compromised media and a useless City Council are allowing a health disaster to be criminally perpetrated by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in order to enhance his political image. The Mayor and his Emergency Management team are l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 11 09:34:26 PDT 1999

37121 Ecuador -- rank: 1000

[A list lurker who works for the UN and wishes to remain anonymous writes...] Actually I think Ecuador is a small example of a different possible trend I see emerging in the IMF. After a decade or two of largely unchallenged power they are slipping from being a rather tight group of technocrats deeply committed to their ideological principles to becoming a group of power brokers directly dishing out the goodies based on rewards and punishments. Admittedly this is only a nuanced difference - bu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 11 08:51:00 PDT 1999

37122 Gramsci on education -- rank: 1000

Today's New York TImes has a debate between Howard Gardner and E. Don Hirsch <http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/091199debate-intro-edu.html>, the "progressivist" vs. the "traditionalist," respectively Hirsch argues that there's no connection between progressive politics and progressive education - quite the contrary, in fact, and he summons Gramsci to prove his case. Hirsch writes: <quote> There have been recent signs that the politics of education is belate ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 11 08:47:10 PDT 1999

37123 tropical diseases spread north -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - September 11, 1999 TROPICAL DISEASES SPREADING NORTH Warning as mayor orders spraying of New York Paul Brown, Environment Correspondent Saturday September 11, 1999 Leading experts on climate change warned last night that global warming is making cities in the northern hemisphere more vulnerable to outbreaks of potentially lethal strains of tropical diseases. The warning came as the mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani ordered the spraying of the entire city with insecticide fr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 10 20:52:38 PDT 1999

37124 Fwd: ETISC: The Total Annihilation of the East Timorese -- rank: 1000

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 10:43:53 +0900 From: "John M. Miller" <fbp at igc.apc.org> Subject: ETISC: The Total Annihilation of the East Timorese East Timor International Support Center PO Box 651, Nightcliff Darwin NT 0814 Australia Tel: 61-8-8948 4458 Fax: 61-8-8948 4498 Info at easttimor.com http://www.easttimor.com The Total Annihilation of East Timorese Society, Culture and Property Is Taking Place WHAT DOES ANNIHILATION MEAN? Since earlier this year the Indonesian military hav ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 10 20:21:05 PDT 1999

37125 Felix -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Hmm, did Felix Rohatyn furnish that "one voice" ... or did his role >as head of the Municipal Assistance Corporation mean that he >functioned as the "ears"? He was a lot more than ears. If capital ever has a lead voice, he was probably it. > Have always had a tough time figuring out Felix the Fixer's exact >role, in all his incarnations. From a book on Wall Street: <quote> One of [the liberals'] favorite voices of outrage was a Wall St ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 10 14:42:49 PDT 1999