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38146 Fwd: Web sites of major presidential candidates -- rank: 1000

[From the American Association for Public Opinion Research list.] Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 22:39:18 -0400 Reply-To: aapornet at usc.edu Sender: owner-aapornet at usc.edu Precedence: bulk From: dick halpern <rshalpern at mindspring.com> To: aapornet at usc.edu Subject: Web sites of major presidential candidates Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: rshalpern at mail.mindspring.com For those interested in the web sites of major presidential candidates (as of right now) Steve Forbes: <http://www.forbe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 3 08:56:26 PDT 1999

38147 Milosevic's legacy -- rank: 1000

[Here's one that supports Angela's view of the war.] Financial Times - May 3, 1999 THE MILOSEVIC LEGACY Dominique Moisi The Serbian president cannot win the war against an alliance of Nato and Hollywood. And in defeat he may become a reluctant founding father of a reconstructed Europe "The world must be made safe for democracy . . . the right is more precious than peace." President Woodrow Wilson's words to the US Congress in April 1917 sound more modern than ever. A month into the mil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 3 07:41:30 PDT 1999

38148 US pressing Asian Devel Bank -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 3, 1999 US TRIES TO INCREASE CONTROL OF ASIA BANK By Tony Tassell and Peter Montagnon in Manila The US is stirring up controversy among its Asian partners with an attempt to exert greater control over the policies of the Asian Development Bank. Edwin Truman, a senior US treasury official, shocked many delegates at the ADB annual meeting at the weekend with a blunt public demand for the bank to "accept a common set of norms and standards" in development policy. His ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 3 07:40:18 PDT 1999

38149 Pinter on NATO "bandits" -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >At least when I look at east central and east Europe, I see that those >countries that have reformed the most (the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary) >are best off, those that have reformed partly (Slovakia, Russia) are at >least semi-stable, and those that have reformed least (Ukraine, Belarus) >are doing worst of all. A classification scheme that suggests that the capacity for "reform" isn't an exogenous variable. Those countries that have "refo ...

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Date:	Mon May 3 07:09:24 PDT 1999

38150 Dems -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Complaints about the Democratic Party--the only true hope for human >progress over the next quarter century--I will be glad to receive and deal >with appropriately. Brad, could you expand on this? Just how is the Democratic Party the "only true hope for human progress over the next quarter century"? How does that Democratic Party exist separately from this actually existing Democratic Party: >Complaints about the Clinton Administration... It's not *my* ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 2 20:44:16 PDT 1999

38151 more evidence of invasion prep -- rank: 1000

Times (London) - May 3, 1999 BALKANS WAR: DIPLOMATIC FRONT Albania ready for frontline role, writes Michael Evans in Tirana Invasion force assembles near the border THE sense of unreality about the war between Nato and President Milosevic is no more dramatically in evidence than at Tirana airport, which used to be a small-town airfield capable of taking eight flights a day but which in a few weeks will become an international base for America's biggest military transport aircraft. Despite the de ...

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Date:	Sun May 2 20:40:13 PDT 1999

38152 When Western Television Silences the "Other Serbia" -- rank: 1000

[from nettime] When Western Television Silences the "Other Serbia" Nafsika Papanikolatos Greek Helsinki Monitor and Minority Rights Group - Greece (30/4/1999, AIM Athens) In the weeks since the beginning of NATO strikes an overview of major Western media sources leaves one quite uncomfortable by the almost complete or superficial information concerning the consequences of the strikes on Serbia. In contrast, there is an overflow of information on the undoubtedly tragic and unacceptable ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 2 20:07:49 PDT 1999

38153 Pinter on NATO "bandits" -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >Today's Boston Sunday Globe has a column by David Warsh on >him. Brad De Long is quoted as commenting on Schleifer's >social skills. It's at <http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/122/business/The_last_Chicagoan+.shtml> for those interested. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 2 13:17:12 PDT 1999

38154 Pinter on NATO "bandits" -- rank: 1000

sitka at teleport.com wrote: >Have you written (or seen anything) of that crook Andrei Schleifer getting >the Bates Medal for economics? There was passing mention of the scandal in a couple of news stories, but the issue was raised mainly to dismiss it. The best stuff I've seen on the Harvard boys in Russia is Anne Williamson's unpublished chapter, which is too long to post here, but which I'll happily forward to anyone who asks for it. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 2 11:58:44 PDT 1999

38155 the Spectator on KLA -- rank: 1000

[More evidence of the weird political alliances of this glorious war.] The Spectator -April 3, 1999 WHAT THE KLA REALLY IS by Mark Almond Just being against Milosevic does not make people decent, warns Mark Almond. 'Know thy enemy' is the best advice for any general. Nato's military leaders have been extensively briefed about the crimes of Slobodan Milosevic over the last eight years, but if the Serbs are our enemies, should we embrace the Serbs' foes on the ground in Kosovo as our natural allie ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 2 10:10:48 PDT 1999

38156 interesting links -- rank: 1000

[From Blast of Hot Air, the monthly newsletter of WFMU <http://www.wfmu.org>.] RECOMMENDED WEB SITES WFMU is your spiritual guide on the air and on the Web. Here are some important sites to prepare you for the New Millennium : http://www.chick.com/catalog/TractList.asp - Chick Cartoon Tracts (in English). Spellbinding comic-book stories that answer important questions like "Are Roman Catholics Christians?" and "Is He the Creator or a Liar?" http://www.BME.FreeQ.com/peo ...

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Date:	Sun May 2 09:38:48 PDT 1999

38157 US/NATO motives -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >It might >be impossible in the thinness of cyberspace, however. The war seems to have exposed people's nerve endings too, with offense being given and taken at an alarming rate. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 2 09:14:30 PDT 1999

38158 A.N. Wilson on war -- rank: 1000

Independent on Sunday (London) - May 2, 1999 A N Wilson - They probably thought Bulgaria was part of Serbia A recent survey by Gallup suggests that public support for the war grows and grows, each bloody, bungling week that it continues . Apparently, our arguments, the anti-war arguments, have counted for absolutely nothing: namely that bombing could only make life infinitely worse for the people it was supposed to help. The hundreds of thousands of refugees pouring into Macedonia (the next thea ...

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Date:	Sun May 2 08:57:24 PDT 1999

38159 deny Russia Caspian oil! -- rank: 1000

[From Johnson's Russia List. Can't have those Russkis making money off Caspian oil!] US News and World Report - May 10, 1999 The big game gets bigger BY MORTIMER B. ZUCKERMAN / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Russia will gain wealth and influence if it controls Caspian Sea oil Russia was never as strong as it once looked, but it is not as weak as it now seems. It is unable to challenge NATO in the west or China in the east. Its economic malaise has constrained the Kremlin's response to NATO's bombing in Serbia. ...

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Date:	Sun May 2 08:03:24 PDT 1999

38160 Pinter on NATO "bandits" -- rank: 1000

Sunday Telegraph (London) - May 2, 1999 WE ARE BANDITS GUILTY OF MURDER By Harold Pinter THE Nato war is a bandit action, committed with no serious consideration of the consequences, confused, ill thought, miscalculated, an act of deplorable machismo. Yet, according to opinion polls most British people support this war, believing we may have a moral duty to intervene and the moral authority to do so. What is moral authority? Where does it come from? How do you achieve it? Who bestows it upon you ...

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Date:	Sun May 2 07:57:51 PDT 1999