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37741 Retrofitting "Henwood before Butler" (was Re: Force &Truth...) -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >The first time I ever encountered the term postmodern was in a mid-1970's >discription of the buildings designed by Michael Graves. I have >also seen some >of the later designs of Robert Venturi and Philip Johnson described as >postmodern. Yes, I was poisoned by these influences as a tender undergraduate in 1974-5. My modern architecture prof, Vincent Scully, had us read Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, and his, Denise Scott Brown, and St ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 4 13:07:09 PST 1999

37742 AFL-CIO on WTO etc. -- rank: 1000

[Just for the record, this is the AFL-CIO's official line, passed at their recent conference, on globalization/trade issues. Thea Lea, their assistant director of public policy, just sent me this, along with Sweeney's statement that was posted here the other day, to emphasize that "nothing in the AFL-CIO position changed with the ACTPN letter.... We are anxious to stem the misinformation" in reports that their position has.] NEW RULES FOR THE GLOBAL ECONOMY As the 20th century draws to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 4 11:21:16 PST 1999

37743 Retrofitting "Henwood before Butler" (was Re: Force & Truth...) -- rank: 1000

So many things to clarify here. I've never been retrofitted before; it's a dizzying experience. Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >from Brad to Doug: > >>That too, implying that there's a nature that exists apart from our > >>perceptions of nature. > >>Doug > > > >It seems a reasonable hypothesis, doesn't it? Yes, and it's one I share. >Lately I've been wondering what happened to Doug. Is this a fad or an >Althusserian 'epistemological break'??? I woul ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 4 11:32:21 PST 1999

37744 Russell on private health care -- rank: 1000

[Marta's too modest to forward her own work, so I'll do it for her. Look for her piece in the forthcoming LBO #92, too.] Here is today's ZNet Commentary Delivery from Marta Russell. If you pass this comment along to others, please include an explanation that Commentaries are a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet and that to learn more about the project folks can consult ZNet (<http://www.zmag.org>) and specifically the Sustainer Pages (<http://www.zmag.org/Commentaries/donorform. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 4 09:46:25 PST 1999

37745 BoJ minutes -- rank: 1000

Nikkei Net - Tuesday, November 2, 1999 BOJ Minutes Spotlight Fears Of Direct Bond Underwriring TOKYO (Nikkei)--The minutes of the Bank of Japan's Sept. 21 monetary policy meeting, released Monday, underscore the fear inside the BOJ's policy-setting board that a shift to a quantitative monetary easing would lead to direct underwriting of government bonds by the central bank. The minutes provide key insights into the nine-member board's thinking when the central bank was under mounting political p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 3 20:48:10 PST 1999

37746 Japanese consumer finance update -- rank: 1000

[Presumably there are fewer kidneys to spare among this demographic.] Thursday, November 4, 1999 Tochigi Bank Offers Unsecured Loans For Elderly TOKYO (Nikkei)--Tochigi Bank (8550) has started dealing in a new type of loan that will enable the elderly to borrow up to 2 million yen without collateral. The loans are targeted toward those aged 55-65 and can be taken out for up to 10 years. Borrowers can choose from a fixed rate of 6% or a variable interest rate, now at 5%. Only interest payments ne ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 3 20:44:54 PST 1999

37747 who said it -- rank: 1000

Ok, the author of this little snippet: >...in the sense a mathematical truth holds good even when we are >asleep and even if it does not exist in nature is Gilles Deleuze, from his book Coldness and Cruelty. And yes, Sokal & Bricmont not only make fun of him, they devote a whole chapter (consisting mainly of long quotations followed by variants on "meaningless nonsense") to him & his sidekick Felix Guattari. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 3 16:06:50 PST 1999

37748 Chechnya: Russia's Kosovo -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >I remain unconvinced that socialism can be built by a nation that oppresses >another. Who is so convinced, and what nation(s) are we talking about? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 3 15:49:08 PST 1999

37749 cell phones give you cancer -- rank: 1000

From: Robert Weissman <rob at essential.org> To: Multiple recipients of list CORP-FOCUS <corp-focus at essential.org> CELL PHONE NIGHTMARE By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Ready for a real scary Halloween story? Remember the Larry King Live show in 1993 on cell phones? David Reynard was the guest. He had filed a lawsuit against NEC, a cell phone operator, and other companies, alleging that his late wife's brain tumor was caused in part by her use of a cell phone. The Reynard's ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 14:39:17 PST 1999

37750 Force & Truth (was Re: litcritter bashing...) -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: > >It seems a reasonable hypothesis, doesn't it? I am prepared to admit >that you *probably* exist even when I have no current perceptions of >your actions or effects. > >Although who knows, maybe you will claim that you exist only at >those moments that I happen to perceive you... > >Maybe you will claim that none of us existed until 3:15 PM EST on >November 3, 1999, and that we were created with the memories of our >previous existence... I'm ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 3 12:29:16 PST 1999

37751 Force & Truth (was Re: litcritter bashing...) -- rank: 1000

David Jennings [MSAI] wrote: >On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Doug Henwood wrote: > > >>On Wednesday, November 3, 1999 at 10:24:08 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes: > >> >All you postie-bashers out there, who wrote this: "...in the sense a > >> >mathematical truth holds good even when we are asleep and even if it > >> >does not exist in nature"? > >> >[snip] > > > >Nope, not Russell. For me, the point of interest in th ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 11:43:37 PST 1999

37752 Force & Truth (was Re: litcritter bashing...) -- rank: 1000

Contest closes at 7 PM NYC time; if there's no correct answer by then, I'll supply it. Unfortunately, there's no prize on offer other than the warm satisfaction that comes with getting something right. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 11:44:56 PST 1999

37753 Well-Regulated Militias, and More -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >No, ANY provision of the Constitution may be changed by the >Amendment provision. The Senate could be changed to one Senator from >every state, or 8 from every state. The Senate could be abolished. > >Originally, the Senators were elected by the state legislatures and >not elected by the population. Um, here's what Article V of the sacred text says: "The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 11:06:23 PST 1999

37754 Force & Truth (was Re: litcritter bashing...) -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >On Wednesday, November 3, 1999 at 10:24:08 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes: > >All you postie-bashers out there, who wrote this: "...in the sense a > >mathematical truth holds good even when we are asleep and even if it > >does not exist in nature"? > >Hmm, not Russell? This is essentially the line that Milton Freidman >adopts toward theory construction for economics. Nope, not Russell. For me, the point of interest in the quote is ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 10:35:54 PST 1999

37755 Patrick Cockburn on Chechnya -- rank: 1000

[From Johnson's Russia List.] The Independent (London) - November 3, 1999 These desperate, dispossessed people on the edge of Europe are victims of a dirty war the West chooses to ignore By Patrick Cockburn in Ingushetia (cockburn at netvision.net.il) The shrapnel from a Russian rocket that hit Megamed Makh-mayev when he went to buy bread for his family in Grozny, the Chechen capital, had made the flesh of his right leg look like a half-eaten joint of raw meat. In a hospital just across the bord ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 08:08:42 PST 1999