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37351 Spivak sez... -- rank: 1000

I heard a fine talk tonight by Gayatri Spivak at the Brecht Forum in NYC, but I've got neither the time nor skill to report on it. But I thought all you partisans of clarity might enjoy her statement: "I wish I could write clearer prose.... I've tried...." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 18:42:00 PDT 1999

37352 EU fails to come up with common strategy -- rank: 1000

Agence France Presse EU fails to agree on common WTO strategy LUXEMBOURG, Oct 11 (AFP) - The European Union failed Monday to agree on a common approach to upcoming multilateral trade talks under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) mostly because of differences over film and television productions. EU trade and foreign ministers asked their ambassadors in Brussels to continue work on the common strategy and to find a compromise solution ahead of the WTO conference in the US city of Seattle next mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 18:36:14 PDT 1999

37353 internet stalking -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: > > why don't you just ignore it > > >in some instances i agree. but the idiot harasses people off the list as >well. he calls people's employers and tries to get them fired. he calls >doug at home and calls him names. he phone harassed me. he *may* have >called my employer as well, but we coudln't know for certain. he also mail >bombed me. > >ignoring that kind of behavior is condoning it. Chavez is seriously and scarily creepy. I say this n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 13:49:35 PDT 1999

37354 capital punishment -- rank: 1000

[this was addressed to the listowner rather than the list] From: DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:07:53 +0100 >> 4) It leaves no room for appeal and thus denies due process >this contradicts your (2). There seems to me to be quite a bit of scope for >appeal, in light of the time between conviction and sentence, tho this has >contracted in the past ten years, more in some states than others. not true. (2) was about appeals between conviction and execution, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 11:15:24 PDT 1999

37355 MSFT vs PFN -- rank: 1000

For all you Microsoft haters out there: <http://www.bmug.org/news/articles/MSvsPF.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 11:30:54 PDT 1999

37356 Alice down under in Wonder -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >There is a false premise here. I do not speak condescendingly to >Angela. Secondly , I do not speak more respectfully to Doug than I >do to Angela. Kelley is slandering me. Ok, now it's your turn, Charles. Cool it. Flame the bourgeoisie, not each other. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 11:17:35 PDT 1999

37357 [fla-left] Bloody execution photos draw gamut of responses (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > > What a pity his fucking head didn't explode. > > > > Nothing like a little revenge, eh Max? > > Capital punishment is barbaric. Grow up. > > /jordan > >I thank you, and Gov. Dukakis thanks you. Max, I'm guessing you find some things to admire in the social democratic/welfare state tradition of Western Europe. None of these countries execute people. Do you think there's any connection between the violence of capital punishment and the vi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 10:11:30 PDT 1999

37358 [fla-left] Bloody execution photos draw gamut of responses(fwd) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >But I was much more disturbed by the crime, >something I'm sure would be unbearable to >watch. You sure you're not looking to indulge a lust for violence through the approved mechanism of capital punishment rather than the proscribed mechanism of crime? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 10:12:16 PDT 1999

37359 attitudes towards unions -- rank: 1000

There's some interesting poll data on U.S. public attitudes towards unions at <http://www.aflcio.org/labor99/am_attitude.htm>. Big news: fewer people with negative attitudes, with a shift towards neutral and even positive. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 09:58:08 PDT 1999

37360 oppression -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >since i've been censored on lbo and since doug, yoshie and charles are >subbed here i shall take the liberty of doing a yoshie. i do not intend to >address this issue further, but i am incensed to have been censored, >particularly since this post is not in any way whatsoever inflammatory. to >think that it is is to promulgate sexism by thinking that it's simply wrong >to talk about it. as i say below, i may be wrong in my claims about what i >perceive as se ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 09:30:01 PDT 1999

37361 Planning Systems -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >I need to buy an American Made-Union Made Planning system for a union >educational program The Franklin-Covey system is now importing all of >their binders that wholesale for under 40-50 dollars from Mexico. Yep, >that's right the binder alone and nothing else included! Also I can't >get a straight story from Franklin-Covey on if the guts of the planner >are being printed in a union shop. > >Anyone seen anything? Yeah, Dana Frank's book, Buy American, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 09:15:51 PDT 1999

37362 WTO dust-up; anxious freetraders -- rank: 1000

[Family quarrel among the global bourgeoisie! And "Fears are growing that mass demonstrations at the organisation's ministerial meeting in Seattle next month will overshadow - and may even derail - plans to launch a new trade round."] Financial Times - October 11 1999 US accused of trying to rig WTO agenda By Guy de Jonquières in Berlin The European Union, Japan and other countries have accused the US of trying to rig the agenda for a new world trade round to suit its own interests. Di ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 07:40:45 PDT 1999

37363 Clinton apologizes -- rank: 1000

[It looks like he was referring to this, delivered about 10 AM: "I spent an enormous amount of time trying to help the people in the land of my forbears in Northern Ireland get over 600 years of religious fights. And every time they make an agreement to do it, they're like a couple of drunks walking out of the bar for the last time -- when they get to the swinging door they turn around and go back in and say, I just can't quite there."] The White House Office of the Press Secretary (Mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 8 18:25:18 PDT 1999

37364 Alice down under in Wonder -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >thanks for proving what a big huge dick you have, charles. hope it's not >like john holmes's C'mon, that's not fair. Charles does not act like a big swinging dick. This is a bit over the top. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 8 18:17:28 PDT 1999

37365 the ironic steely dan -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Yeah, too bad Steely Dan is already part of the Right. > > >From The Washington Post >Friday, May 21, 1999 > > Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, a guitar legend from his days with the >Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan Baxter is not part of the Bard-educated ironic core of SD, Becker & Fagan. But they could be conservative too, for all I know. Pound was a fascist, but he still wrote good poetry. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 8 16:50:55 PDT 1999