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37141 Cybill! -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >By now most of you must have heard of Matt Drudge's latest >scoop: that Cybill Shepherd is "seriously considering" a >run for the White House. > >I say, more power to her. I am heartily behind any gesture >that exposes "the process" for the tawdry burlesque that it >is. Still, this has got to chap Candice Bergen's ass >something fierce. Damn it, when's Sandra Bernhard going to announce? Or Julie Christie. She's a Marxist of some sor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 20:28:50 PDT 1999

37142 growth: De Long view -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Note that that is an arithmetic average, not a geometric average... Brad, you mention the Nordhaus critique. But really. What does it mean that world product was $35 billion in 1700? People lived on pork fat and alcohol and lived on farms. There's no meaningful sense in which a 1999 dollar can be expressed as a 1700 dollar, and vice versa. What were you trying to do with this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 14:40:51 PDT 1999

37143 Fwd: Lies and more damned lies -- rank: 1000

Le Monde diplomatique ----------------------------------------------------- August 1999 HOW TO MANIPULATE HEARTS AND MINDS Lies and more damned lies _________________________________________________________________ The discovery of 14 Serb corpses at Gracko on 23 July was confirmation that a counter-ethnic cleansing might be taking place in Kosovo. Some of the Albanians who were victims of Belgrade's troops are taking revenge on the Serbian minority and the gypsies. As the Kosovar refugees retur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 12:51:25 PDT 1999

37144 Madrick on new economy -- rank: 1000

I've got a copy of Jeff Madrick's skeptical New York Review of Books piece on The New Economy (which includes comments on Robert Brenner's turbulence essay). It's on the NYRB website, but irritatingly broken, as is their practice, into 20 separate pieces. I've welded it into a single, 41k file, and I'll be happy to email it to anyone who's interested. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 8 11:41:00 PDT 1999

37145 WB on Indo -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] WORLD BANK DEMANDS INDONESIA RESTORE ORDER IN EAST TIMOR. The World Bank yesterday demanded that Indonesia restore order in East Timor and permit its transition to an independent nation, saying it was "deeply concerned" by the violent situation there, Agence France-Presse reports. "We are deeply concerned by the violence which has ensued since the results" of last week's referendum in which 78.5 percent of voters favored indepen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 10:37:54 PDT 1999

37146 Roll over Karl. A racist capitalist bigot will save theworking man. -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Doug, as retired Steelworker and Democratic "activist" :o) Nick always >tells me, "Hitler worlds greatest economist!" Yeah. Full employment, with labor-management cooperation guaranteed by the Gestapo. Death camps thrown in free! Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 8 10:31:03 PDT 1999

37147 buying professors -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Actually, Posner in his textbook ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LAW (the bible of the >conservative law and econ types) argues: > >"The eocnomic arguements for criminalization of the drug trade are rather >unimpressive. Similar arguments could, after all, be made for outlawing >alcoholic beverages (whose third-party effects, via accidents, are greater >than those of illegal drugs) and even cigarettes (cigarettes are much less >likely to be implicated in a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 10:23:59 PDT 1999

37148 Fwd: {FP} KPFA Press Release 9/7/99 -- rank: 1000

NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: September 7, 1999 Andrea Buffa 415-546-6334 x309 PACIFICA FOUNDATION TURNS OVER FIGURES TO CALIFORNIA LEGISLATORS Foundation admits spending $500,000 to shut down KPFA as censorship campaign escalates at KPFK, Pacifica's Los Angeles station. Under threat of subpoena the Pacifica Foundation today handed over financial records to the California Joint Legislative Audit Committee, chaired by Scott Wildman, D-Glendale. The co ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 8 09:43:45 PDT 1999

37149 Japanese GDP: not too scientific! -- rank: 1000

TheStreet.com - September 8, 1999 ASIA/PACIFIC Japan's GDP Report Gains Currency but Is Still Hard to Figure By Kaya Laterman Japan Correspondent 9/8/99 8:58 AM ET TOKYO -- In Japan, GDP might as well stand for "giant deceptive pain." The report, the year's second installment of which is to be revealed on Thursday, is notoriously volatile, the critics complain. Monthly and quarterly data don't jibe. Huge chunks of the report aren't made public, leaving the final version open to skepti ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 8 09:01:40 PDT 1999

37150 [Fwd: [BRC-NEWS] Race-ing Justice: The Prison-Industrial Complex] -- rank: 1000

[bounced for a taboo word] Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 09:59:08 -0500 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> From: Manning Marable <mm247 at columbia.edu> Subject: [BRC-NEWS] Race-ing Justice: The Prison-Industrial Complex X-WWW-Site: http://www.blackradicalcongress.org/ Along The Color Line September 1999 Race-ing Justice: The Prison-Industrial Complex By Dr. Manning Marable <mm247 at columbia.edu> Several months ago, 650 people attended the "Race-ing Justice" Conference i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 8 08:46:07 PDT 1999

37151 growth: De Long view -- rank: 1000

From Martin Wolf's column in today's Financial Times: "In a heroic paper, Bradford De Long of the University of California at Berkeley has estimated the population, total income and real income per head of humanity over the past million years.* A thousand years ago, he says, the world's population was some 270m; in 1700, at the dawn of the industrial revolution, it was 600m; today it is 6.3bn. A thousand years ago, world gross product (in dollars with a constant 1990 purchasing power) was $ ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 8 07:36:16 PDT 1999

37152 buying professors -- rank: 1000

By coincidence, I just a deeply moving press release just rolled in on the fax machine from Jeff Rosenberg, who does PR for a lot of the right wing "identity" groups - the Independent Women's Forum, The National Fatherhood Initiative, black conservatives, etc. This one is promoting a new group, the Foundation for Academic Standards & Tradition (FAST, ha ha ha), and their book, The Diversity Hoax: Law Students Report From Berkeley. Apparently right-wing students feel persecuted at B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 7 21:23:51 PDT 1999

37153 buying professors -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Shouldn't your heading have been buying judges? Ooops. Yes, you're right. Is there any countervailing left "law & economics" analysis? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 7 20:14:01 PDT 1999

37154 Roll over Karl. A racist capitalist bigot will save the working man. -- rank: 1000

Nurev Ind Research wrote: >For the first time since the Vietnam war, I will vote in a major >election. I will vote for a racist, sexist, Jew hating, capitalist >bigot who is the only one that can stop the Global Capitalists. > >The enemy of my enemy is my friend. "Thus, the task of the state toward capital was comparatively simple and clear; it only had to make certain that capital remain the handmaiden of the state and not fancy itself the mistress of the nation. This point ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 20:07:38 PDT 1999

37155 buying professors -- rank: 1000

[missed this the first time around - original article, followed by letters] Wall Street Journal - August 9, 1999 HOW KOCH INDUSTRIES TRIES TO INFLUENCE JUDICIAL SYSTEM By John J. Fialka Staff Reporter Of The Wall Street Journal In September 1997, Judge Michael Corrigan left his courtroom in Kansas's State District Court in Wichita to join a small group of hand-picked state judges for a special seminar at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Then, last December, he attended the second phase of t ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 18:24:10 PDT 1999