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37411 unions & enviros join hands -- rank: 1000

[Very interesting. Anyone know more about this?] Wall Street Journal - October 4, 1999 Unions, Environmentalists Unite To Pressure for Jobs, Resources By JIM CARLTON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL SAN FRANCISCO -- Labor unions and environmentalists are set Monday to announce an unusual alliance aimed at pressuring corporations whose practices they believe jeopardize U.S. jobs and threaten natural resources. The newly formed Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment consists of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 07:29:54 PDT 1999

37412 irony -- rank: 1000

Someone recently wrote on a list that dare not speak its name: "there is no new earnestness. earnestness never went away.... for every david letterman, there are a million moms. jed purdy, i know, likes to think irony is the reason we don't vote, but that's _apathy_, not irony. irony is actually a very deeply involved response to culture... in order to be ironic about something, you have to have cared about it _at some point_." Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 3 20:22:08 PDT 1999

37413 US Prospects (Jim O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

Barbara Laurence wrote: >Doug, could you or someone explain why retiring equity with debt at a rate >of 2 percent of GDP per year "implies" that the debt issue of households >and corporations equals 7 percent of GDP. Borrowing doesn't of necessity imply anything about equity. The point is that firms haven't been taking advantage of the high stock market by issuing new shares and retiring debt, as theory suggests they should. Instead, the market has been driven higher by firms' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 3 15:56:12 PDT 1999

37414 Of gods and vampires: an introduction to psychoanalysis -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address oddity] From: "christian a. gregory" <chrisgregory11 at email.msn.com> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 14:19:55 -0500 > In short: only psychoanalysis, thus far, grasps the paradox > of modern subjectivity as an absent centre. > > My point here isn't to lay down an authoritative groundwork Hunh? *Only* psychoanalysis does this, but this isn't a claim on an authoritative groundwork? That's only badly concealed authoritarianism (and, in that way, just like ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 3 12:30:45 PDT 1999

37415 conservadox -- rank: 1000

This afternoon I overheard someone described as a "conservadox" Jew. I can guess the etymology, but what does it mean? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 2 17:50:49 PDT 1999

37416 'Psychological' -- from Moll Flanders to Clarissa -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Yes, but Freud wrongly thought that he could use ancient poets to >illustrate the modern psychological space, as Carrol noted. We can appropriate ancient poets however we like, can't we? Who or what is stopping us? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 2 16:16:49 PDT 1999

37417 Lacan & That Glittering Sardine Can (was Re: Littleton: it's Adorno's fault) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Lacan's "point of light" emerges through the separation of the intellectual >and the working class, and it is this historical division of mental and >manual labor that Lacan's theory of the Real eternalizes Maybe he eternalizes it, but wouldn't a class-based psychology be appropriate to a class-based society? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 2 15:39:47 PDT 1999

37418 Meszaros, progress -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >Perhaps one could argue >that the clitoris is an adaptation making sexual activity moe >pleasurable resulting in higher procreation rates but I doubt it. Otherwise it's almost enough to make you believe in a benign & generous Creator. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 2 15:34:54 PDT 1999

37419 'Psychological' -- from Moll Flanders to Clarissa (was Re: Left-Hegelianism Today) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >To paraphrase Pfister, Freud doesn't, for instance, 'explain' psychological >novels (and other modern cultural and social artifacts); the latter >contributed to the making of Freud. "The poets were there before me." - Freud

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 2 15:27:49 PDT 1999

37420 Republicans conversion to free trade -- rank: 1000

"Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in Securing Policy Change: The Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization after Smoot-Hawley" BY: DOUGLAS A. IRWIN Dartmouth College Department of Economics National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) RANDALL S. KROSZNER University of Chicago National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=170354 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 2 15:04:53 PDT 1999

37421 Paglia in the WSJ -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Sokal's critique of the postmodern >rejection of science What critique? Has he actually written a critique? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 2 15:01:00 PDT 1999

37422 Fwd: 1999-09-30 Presidential Determination on Counter-Drug Assistance -- rank: 1000

[Default on your Brady bonds and you get military assistance! I met an Ecuadorean in Champaign-Urbana yesterday who said the U.S. is busily building bases there.] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release September 30, 1999 September 30, 1999 Presidential Determination No. 99-43 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE SECRETARY OF DEFE ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 2 14:43:27 PDT 1999

37423 Paglia in WSJ -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Is the original article available? Wall Street Journal - September 30, 1999 The Right Kind Of Multiculturalism By Camille Paglia, a professor of humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. The field of archaeology is under a political cloud because of its allegedly racist and exploitative history. American Indians have protested the "desecration" of tribal burial grounds by archaeological digs. A longstanding argument rages about the legal owners ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 2 14:39:01 PDT 1999

37424 Proclamation on Disability Employment Awareness Month 1999 -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release September 30, 1999 NATIONAL DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT AWARENESS MONTH, 1999 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION As Americans, we define ourselves in many ways -- not only by our families and communities, but also by our work; not only by who we are, but also by what we do for a living. M ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 2 14:40:39 PDT 1999

37425 Giuliani orders artist arrested -- rank: 1000

From: ARTISTpres at aol.com Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 16:53:59 EDT Giuliani Orders Artist Arrested Outside Brooklyn Museum 10/2/99 Robert Lederman, President of the First Amendment rights group A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists’ Response To Illegal State Tactics), was arrested at 10:35 AM today outside the Brooklyn Museum of Art only four minutes after his arrival. This is the 40th time the street artist/activist has been falsely arrested since Mayor Giuliani was sworn into office. He’s never been found guilty ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 2 14:18:04 PDT 1999