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38041 TSC's list, part 2 -- rank: 1000

[counting down the top 100] Welcome to Part 2 of Countdown: A Century of U.S. Business, featuring entries 80 through 61. TheStreet.com is counting down the top 100 U.S. business events of the 20th century, from least to beast (or something like that). For more about the weeklong series, see our introduction. Disagree with an entry? Shoot us an email using the form below. Or take it up with two of the authors, Senior Writers Alex Berenson and Jesse Eisinger, in a chat on Yahoo! at 3 p.m. EDT Frid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 10:46:50 PDT 1999

38042 apologies -- rank: 1000

Apologies to all for inflicting a second dose of the Friedman toxin; I hadn't noticed that Carl Remick had fowarded a copy already. I'm hoping that Friedman's awful book, and the extravagantly awful recent columns that have accompanied it, will mark a top in the bullshit market, the ideological corollary of the bull market in financial assets. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 10:21:43 PDT 1999

38043 MASSACRE IN MEJA : murder by Serbs in Kosovo -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Ah! Now I understand! Weapons should be used only in self-defense... unless >you think is right to use them to change people's minds... Brad, Germany was an expansionist imperial power that had invaded, occupied, and/or bombed many other European countries. And its ally, Japan, bombed the U.S. after having invaded several of its Asian neighbors. Both were major industrial powers too. I don't see any relevance of WW II parallels to the present situation, which even warr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 09:36:18 PDT 1999

38044 depleted uranium -- rank: 1000

Observer (London) - May 9, 1999 DEPLETED URANIUM - DEADLY WEAPON, DEADLY LEGACY? By Nick Cohen In 1991, I had my first and, alas, only taste of journalism as it is seen in the movies. I was called in the middle of the night to the home of a frightened source. After much fretting and several bottles of whisky, my appalling use of moral blackmail, which included appealing to his love for his children, succeeded and he agreed to hand over a secret document he had spotted at the offices of the Atomi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 09:03:08 PDT 1999

38045 progress in economics -- rank: 1000

"Is Sound Just Noise?" BY: JOSHUA D. COVAL University of Michigan Business School Department of Finance and Real Estate TYLER G. SHUMWAY University of Michigan Business School Department of Finance and Real Estate Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=160173 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://eres.bus.umich.edu/docs/workpap/wp98024.pdf SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN E ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 09:00:45 PDT 1999

38046 NATO bombs Chinese embassy -- rank: 1000

[Thomas Friedman really outdid himself today, with one of the most repellently smug things I've read this month. For those of you deprived of the New York Times, here's a copy.] New York Times - May 11, 1999 FOREIGN AFFAIRS / By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Steady as She Goes Is everybody done now? Jesse Jackson, are you done making a fool of yourself, praying together with the demented Serbian leader and mucking up American policy by flying into Belgrade to get out three U.S. P.O.W.'s -- as if they shoul ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 08:53:16 PDT 1999

38047 Cuba conference -- rank: 1000

It is our pleasure to announce the forthcoming conference "Marxism Today: A Renewed Left View" to be held February 17-19th, 2000 in Havana, Cuba. As you know, the study and development of Marxism have consistently called for continuing critical and interdisciplinary orientations toward diverse societal issues. Therefore, our objectives are: to promote the necessity of critical reflection relevant to Marx at the beginning of the new century; to encourage the development of approaches th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 08:21:51 PDT 1999

38048 TheStreet.com: the business century -- rank: 1000

[Running this week on TheStreet.com. No doubt it's coincidental that this is the week of their IPO. #97 shows they've been reading The Baffler! - Doug] The American Century has become the Business Century. Two World Wars reduced politics to rubble, giving rise to government-by-focus-group. Art and culture have ground to a halt. Religion and science are locked in a futile struggle. Capitalism "won." Our colleagues are our families, and we increasingly find meaning in work. Like David Ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 08:05:54 PDT 1999

38049 A5/1 cracked -- rank: 1000

Margaret wrote: >>I never assumed there was. There's no thing as privacy, is there? No less >>than Sun CEO Scott McNally says so. > >Well, McNeely was speaking about a different level of >aggregation, I'm sure. I've not seen the quote. I >wish I knew whether he's happy or - as he should be! - >outraged by the problem. But then, for the wealthy, >any problem is always smaller :-( Ooops, I misspelled his name. McNealy's exact words were: "Get over it. You have ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 11 06:24:43 PDT 1999

38050 NATO bombs Chinese embassy -- rank: 1000

D.L. wrote: >It's disturbing to live in a country whose administration uses feels >free to commit acts of war in the pursuit of its political ends. The Wall Street Journal had a piece the other week showing that the U.S. has been at war virtually the entire time since the end of the Cold War. We're zapping Iraq constantly and hardly anyone (except Iraqis) notices. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 10 20:48:57 PDT 1999

38051 A5/1 cracked -- rank: 1000

Margaret wrote: >Net result: if you get a phonecall, there's (now) no >way to verify that it's from the phone it claims to be, >and there's no way to keep the conversation from being >snooped. I never assumed there was. There's no thing as privacy, is there? No less than Sun CEO Scott McNally says so. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 10 20:14:56 PDT 1999

38052 A5/1 cracked -- rank: 1000

[From Nettime. Can someone explain what this is all about? - Doug] "A Pedagogical Implementation of A5/1," by Marc Briceno, Ian Goldberg, and David Wagner. http://jya.com/a51-pi.htm "With COMP128 broken and A5/1 published below, we will now turn our attention to A5/2. The latter has been acknowledged by the GSM community to have been specifically designed by intelligence agencies for lack of security."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 10 09:32:34 PDT 1999

38053 Zizek on Kosovo -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >workers are not >qualitatively worse off because of internationalisation; they are worse off >because this internationalisation of capital has proceeded without an >internationalisation of labour. There's been some. The EU is legally a single labor market, though European workers still aren't all that mobile. But there's been tremendous immigration to North America (and Australia too, right?) The working classes of New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto are very multination ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 10 09:30:32 PDT 1999

38054 The Map Isn't the Territory -- rank: 1000

CounterPunch wrote: >Given the attempt to unload the >bombing fiasco on the CIA, this should make from some interesting leaks in >the coming days. Don't you agree? This gets into wilderness of mirrors territory, but it's not impossible the CIA or somesuch did it to embarrass Clinton, is it? Ok, maybe the agency that has a statue of that failure Nathan Hale in their front yard can screw up now & then, but not even they could be this stupid, could they? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 10 09:20:22 PDT 1999

38055 KLA & heroin -- rank: 1000

[Gosh, another one of those odd coincidences...] San Francisco Chronicle - May 5, 1999 KLA Linked To Enormous Heroin Trade Police suspect drugs helped finance revolt Frank Viviano, Chronicle Staff Writer Officers of the Kosovo Liberation Army and their backers, according to law enforcement authorities in Western Europe and the United States, are a major force in international organized crime, moving staggering amounts of narcotics through an underworld network that reaches into the heart of Euro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 10 08:09:20 PDT 1999