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37426 new economy & market gains -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Clinton and co want to prevent the collapse of the >“new economy” which has delivered large, I believe >historic?, returns from stock market investments. What's historic about the U.S. bull market that began in August 1982 is its longevity; there hasn't been a deep, sustained bear market since 1973-5. Gains in the 1840s, 1920s, and the 1950s were bigger than the 1980s, and the 1840s and 1920s beat the 1990s. >We know money is being consolidated in the hands > ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 2 14:15:05 PDT 1999

37427 Meszaros, progress -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >why has evolution designed us Who is this evolution entity with all this design skill? Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 1 22:11:11 PDT 1999

37428 Seattle, of course -- rank: 1000

I just got back from the labor rally & march. I'm going to hack something together to put up on the LBO website, and then run over to the RadioNation studio. The show - which I'm co-hosting with proprietor Marc Cooper and co-co-host John Nichols - goes out live to somewhere over 20 stations at 4 PM Pacific time. There should be some stuff up on the LBO website <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html> by 3 Pacific time. Follow the Live From Seattle! link. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 30 14:25:08 PST 1999

37429 Lori Berenson -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] >Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 15:11:01 -0500 >From: Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com> > >It would mean a lot if you would take a minute to contact the pres on >behalf of Lori Berenson. The enclosed tells you how. > >Best, >Katha >Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:54:42 -0500 >To: Recipient List Suppressed:; >From: Daniel Radosh <radosh at interport.net> >Subject: Free Lori Berenson > >Dear all, > >Four years ago ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 29 13:37:03 PST 1999

37430 article of interest -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >The current issue of Lingua Franca has an interesting article titled,"Is >Bad Writing Necessary." On one side naturally is the bete noir of many >on these lists, Judith Butler. On the other is our dear friend and >list contributor, Katha Pollitt. Sometimes I think there's no excuse for bad writing, but on the other hand, it's not easy to write well, and very few people do. Katha's a poet and a fine prose stylist, but how many people can you say that ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 29 13:31:24 PST 1999

37431 Observer on Chinese embassy bombing -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Enough skeletons have come to light about NATO's war for the west to be >more prudent next time. The west? What in god's name do you mean? Since when are imperialist warriors prudent? Closeted skeletons are their stock in trade. Do you really mean that people like you should be more prudent next time? Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 16:40:46 PST 1999

37432 Anarchy In The U.K./Phil Ochs/TNR on Fulani -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Gloria Steinem of once working for a CIA See <http://www.pir.org/steinem.html> for more. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 12:02:22 PST 1999

37433 Keeping My End Up / Re: Sexism Redux -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Chip: >. . . >So when women on this list argue that there should be a modest baseline of >knowledge about feminist ideas before a man posts some argument that was >axed into kindling 20 years ago--that seems quite reasonable to me. . . . > > >Really? That's quite a burden, isn't it? To >partake of a conversation, one must know the >intellectual history of feminism, including >ideas and their refutations of 20 years ago? Max, no one's asking ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 11:56:12 PST 1999

37434 Fwd: lutzenburger/summers -- rank: 1000

[A lurker writes...] I was wondering whether you or possibly the frighteningly well informed participants on the LBO list (on which I am a frequent lurker) might be able to help me out. I am trying to track down the complete text of former Brazilian environmental minister Jose Lutzenburger's letter in response to Lawrence Summers notorious world bank memo of 1991 where Summers waxes poetic on the subject of dumping toxic waste in the LDCs. Web and Nexis searches have so far yielded nothing.

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 10:53:40 PST 1999

37435 fulani-wise -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >Is this a percentage of registered voters? Wasn't Ronald Reagan's >percentage very low also? > >What are the figures when you look at eligible voters? 20% maybe? Here are the numbers for presidential elections since 1948. The first column is the winner's share of the total vote; the second, the winner's votes as a percentage of the voting-age population.* % of vote % of VAP 1948 49.6% 25.3% 1952 55.1% 34.0% 1956 57.4% ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 10:43:35 PST 1999

37436 Observer on Chinese embassy bombing -- rank: 1000

Observer (London) - November 28, 1999 The Chinese embassy bombing Truth behind America's raid on Belgrade The US claimed it was a tragic blunder. But the pinpoint accuracy of the attack was in fact a deadly signal to Milosevic: seek outside help in Kosovo at your peril On May 7 this year the B2 - at $44 billion the world's most expensive plane - took off from Whiteman air force base in Missouri, its sleek black belly loaded with missiles, destined for Belgrade. It flew high across the Atlantic a ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 10:34:13 PST 1999

37437 eXile on Simes on Russia -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] the eXile - November 18-December 2, 1999 Sovietology Without Soviets By John Dolan After the Collapse: Russia Seeks Its Place as A Great Power Dmitri K. Simes Simon & Schuster 1999 $25.00 What's a poor astrologer to do when the stars go out? In other words: what's a Sovietologist supposed to do once there's no Soviet Union? If the Sovietologist in question is Dmitri K. Simes, he lands a cushy job at the Nixon Center, "a prominent foreign-policy think tank in ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 10:13:55 PST 1999

37438 Butler at Left.Con -- rank: 1000

Left Conservatism, II 2:2 | © 1998 Judith Butler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. I'm pleased to be here, I had no idea this was a conference, I thought we were coming to a workshop--a small "cozy" workshop--to talk about things. So what I have with me is a paper that I gave at the Rethinking Marxism conference in December, 1992 and which is presently being published by Social Text (52-53) and New Left Review. I'm going to try to talk from it ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 09:55:57 PST 1999

37439 Only one sex? -- rank: 1000

[Bounced bec of an address oddity. By the way, the papers from the Left Conservatism conference that Raphael cites used to be free, but now you have to be dialing in from a subscribing university. I snagged them when they were free. I may post them later today.] Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:17:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Raphael C. Allen" <rcda at duke.edu> Sure, Yoshie, Sokal's certainly not against all social studies of science, nor against all critiques of science. And I agree with y ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 09:46:57 PST 1999

37440 Anarchy In The U.K. -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >I've never seen the lyrics, but I've sung 'em often enough (I find lyrics >come to me only after the eigth pint, so I may about to talk crap). >Anyway, I was always singing about a council *tenancy*? I always thought that too. Isn't "council housing" Britspeak for a public housing project, and a "council tenancy" would be the state of living there? Though Dennis' reading is ingenious. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 08:34:01 PST 1999