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38236 Penn downgrade -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - daily update - March 25, 1999 Moody's Downgrades Penn's Credit Rating Because of Losses by Its Health-Care Arm By MARTIN VAN DER WERF Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the credit rating of the University of Pennsylvania, citing continuing financial losses by its hospitals and School of Medicine. The academic performance of the university is exceptional, the credit agency said, but "severe managed-care pressures" have forced the health-care arm to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 25 07:34:16 PST 1999

38237 George's Senate Finance Testimony -- rank: 1000

[address bounce] Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:09:16 +0100 From: Harald Schumann <HSchumann at spiegel.de> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [de] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: George's Senate Finance Testimony References: <199903251225.HAA29026 at dont.panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > "D.L." wrote: > It makes me uncomfortable to see a labor leader acting as a frontman for > dome ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 25 06:42:23 PST 1999

38238 sex 'n' the flag 'n' stuff (Hegel, Kant, what have you) -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >First, >she does not exist, because she is an airbrushed >super-made-up bulimic, so that even she does not live >up to the standard of beauty of which she is the >ostensible purveyor. In one of the early issues of Spy magazine, a long-time Vogue art director was quoted as saying that they airbrush *everything*, because "even the best models have a little tummy fat." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 24 18:50:21 PST 1999

38239 Kazan/HUAC -- rank: 1000

Brett Knowlton wrote: >Sometimes I'm completely baffled at your persistence in clinging to the >standard Cold War rationale for the often brutal and inexcusable crimes of >the West. I think it's a psychological coping strategy for liberals and social democrats. Confronted with the violence of capitalism, they cling to a worser evil as their defense. Since there's no candidate for worser evil around now, and since the United States has no plausible military or imperial rival in the world ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 24 12:33:16 PST 1999

38240 Karpoff responds -- rank: 1000

Karpoff responds to the thread on his paper, thanks to Wojtek's cc'ing him: >Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:39:17 -0800 (PST) >From: Jonathan Karpoff <karpoff at u.washington.edu> >To: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> >cc: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >Subject: Re: progress in economics >In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990324104829.007fe6d0 at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu> >Message-ID: ><Pine.A41.4.05.9903241033170.183526-100000 at homer30.u.washington.edu> >MIME- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 24 10:52:38 PST 1999

38241 birthdays -- rank: 1000

Here's a living refutation of astrology, if one were ever needed: Lewis Lapham and Elvis Presley were born on the same day - January 8, 1935. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 24 10:28:56 PST 1999

38242 A Bad Writer Bites Back -- rank: 1000

Tavia Nyong'O wrote: >Since, as Noam Chomsky >among others have noted, only a very select group of people have access to >the NYT Op-Ed page, wouldn't it be more politically useful for Butler to >use this privilege to publically intervene in these debates rather than >expend her capital revenging herself on her conservative detractors? I doubt very much the NYT would have given her op-ed space except to respond to this specific attack. Here's a taste of how the NYT op-ed process w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 24 09:09:31 PST 1999

38243 Kazan/HUAC -- rank: 1000

Choice quotes from Churchill on fascism... >I could not help being charmed, like so many other people have been, by >Signor Mussolini's gentle and simple bearing and by his calm, detached >poise in spite of so many burdens and dangers. Secondly, anyone could see >that he thought of nothing but the lasting good, as he understood it, of >the Italian people, and that no lesser interest was of the slightest >consequence to him. If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 24 08:57:04 PST 1999

38244 Kazan/HUAC -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >I think that the only three groups of people deserve credit for being the >"main force against fascism" Who inflicted 75% of the Nazis' casualties? What are 20 million dead Soviets? Chopped liver? This is like Ronald Reagan writing this contribution out of history. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 24 07:46:59 PST 1999

38245 yoshie's loss not ours -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >why else would claims to 'getting it' have to be public? Which reminds me of a joke I heard the other day. Q: How many hipsters does it take to change a light bulb? A: What! You don't know? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 21:17:40 PST 1999

38246 progress in economics -- rank: 1000

>"Public Versus Private Initiative in Arctic Exploration: The > Effects of Incentives and Organizational Form" > > BY: JONATHAN M. KARPOFF > University of Washington > >Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: > http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=145609 > > Date: February 26, 1999 > > Contact: JONATHAN M. KARPOFF > Email: Mailto:karpoff at u.washington.edu > Postal: Univers ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 18:30:41 PST 1999

38247 Russian loans -- rank: 1000

Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, March 23, 1999; Page A11 RUSSIAN IMF LOANS ROUTED THROUGH OFFSHORE COMPANY ISSUE COULD CLOUD PRIMAKOV'S U.S. VISIT By David Hoffman MOSCOW, March 22 - Former Central Bank director Sergei Dubinin said today that a secret offshore firm now under investigation was used to manage some of the funds the International Monetary Fund lent to Russia in 1993. Dubinin claimed that no laws had been broken, but his explanation differed from a previous one and raised ne ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 16:35:39 PST 1999

38248 Samori Marksman dead -- rank: 1000

JayHecht at aol.com wrote: >Correct me if I'm wrong Doug, >but I believe these "interrogations" led to you getting a permanent spot on >BAI. No? Yes. This has kept feeling worse all day. Samori was the first person who ever had me on the radio. I was scared to death at first, but after about 2 minutes he'd made me feel comfortable, and after about 5 I was in love with the microphone. He'd have me as a guest on the show, then I did those 10-minute commentaries, and then he gav ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 16:31:49 PST 1999

38249 "pecker would" terrorists -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Dear Doug and the LBOers, >You can copy the above logo at the website listed below. Tom and others, please don't send all this html-encoded stuff. Maybe it looks fine with some browsers, but it looks awful in my Eudora Pro, and looks even worse in pure text-based readers. Quote, or send a link, or convert to plain text before sending please. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 15:13:59 PST 1999

38250 Samori Marksman dead -- rank: 1000

Apologies for the local content... Samori Marksman, program director of WBAI, the Pacifica outlet in NYC, died in his sleep last night. This is a serious loss in several ways. He was a fine person - smart, knowledgeable, witty, with a serious devotion to radical politics. He was a major bulwark against the NPR-ization of WBAI, which is something the Pacifica national board has been pushing for years. I suspect that that fight contributed to his early death. Without him, the future of serious pol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 10:57:46 PST 1999