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38731 Fwd: Polling ends war? -- rank: 1000

[From the American Association for Public Opinion Research list.] Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:32:03 -0400 Reply-To: aapornet at usc.edu Sender: owner-aapornet at usc.edu Precedence: bulk From: Mark Richards <Mark at bisconti.com> To: "'AAPORNET'" <aapornet at usc.edu> Subject: Polling ends war? MIME-Version: 1.0 Donald Lambro (chief political correspondent of The Washington Times, syndicated columnist) in "Direction signals powered by polls" writes today that White H ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 09:57:46 PDT 1999

38732 Life in prison for stealing food -- rank: 1000

annia wrote: >There's some citizens or lawyers group in colorado trying to pass a >three-strikes law for corporations: break three state laws, and you >can't do business there any more. I think it's a way of highlighting the >double standard: i.e., we crack down on people for three offenses, but >violate three environmental or labor laws and you'll *still* get a huge >tax break, etc. Does anybody know anything about this? Like the name of >the group, for example? I read abou ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 09:55:01 PDT 1999

38733 Life in prison for stealing food -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >a guy I knew who was popped last month for marijuana hung himself in >jail rather than face trial under Florida's 'three strikes' law...his >2 previous felony convictions on similar charges would have meant a >mandatory 25 years to life sentence...this is sick, vile shit... No kidding. Thanks to longer sentences, mandatory prison time for formerly non-prison offenses, and three strikes laws, the U.S. prison population continues to rise - despite falling crime r ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 09:39:52 PDT 1999

38734 RTS Party @ CREAM! -- rank: 1000

Odd to see these downtown folks come way uptown.... >This is a special invitation to the Reclaim the Streets Benefit Party >happening Saturday June 5th at Club Cream. Please forward this message >to 5, 10 or 214 of your friends and get them all to come out and >celebrate with us. Everyone is welcome, even if you are not into the >party scene a good time will be had. Just remember to mention Reclaim >the Streets at the door. Flyers are also available at Blackout Books at > ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 09:25:26 PDT 1999

38735 Solzhy denounces NATO -- rank: 1000

[Strange bedfellows cast expands further. From Johnson's Russia List.] Solzhenitsyn says NATO ``like Hitler'' in Yugoslavia MOSCOW (Reuters) - Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn Wednesday compared NATO to German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler over its bombing campaign in Yugoslavia. ``I see no difference in the behavior of NATO and Hitler. It is the same,'' Interfax news agency quoted Solzhenitsyn as saying. ``I don't know the way to resolve the Yugoslav problem but I see that ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 08:35:56 PDT 1999

38736 Euro on the slide -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >>The class content of this process has of course been controlled by the >>ruling class, finance capitalism, > >is that really the case? wasn't the italian govt's inability to impose the >conditions a factor in the fall of the euro? Yeah, and the bad reputation continental Europe has on Wall Street and the City of London is the inability of governments to make more than marginal cuts in their welfare states. No doubt the creation of the euro was an attempt to g ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 08:18:52 PDT 1999

38737 yank hubris -- rank: 1000

T. C. Frank wrote: >I'm trying to recollect all the greatest expressions of U. S. economic >self-confidence from over the last,say, seven years. I'm thinking mainly >of pronouncements by public officials--there was some business with >Clinton giving a lesson to the G7 last year--but books and magazine >articles are also welcomed. One of my all-time favorites. Doug ---- Financial Times - June 23, 1997 News: Denver Summit: US model fails to win admirers US President Bill Clinton cle ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 08:12:50 PDT 1999

38738 World Bank Marshall Plan? -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >dig world bank web page header... [...] >> THE WORLD BANK GROUP A World Free of Poverty Yeah, I noticed they added that new tagline sometime in the last few months. Recalls the days of Bob McNamara, WB president in the 1970s, talking about targeting the poor like he was still at the Pentagon, planning bombing runs and counting bodies. Every few years it seems they've got a new resolve to tackle the poverty problem. A new twist is that they're discreetly blaming ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 3 08:05:07 PDT 1999

38739 peace maneuvers -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - June 3, 199 War in The Balkans - Milosevic to seize his chance in rift By Robert Fisk in Belgrade On the banner of Serbia, it is written: Only Unity Saves the Serbs. And President Slobodan Milosevic will be quick to take advantage of the disunity of the outside world as his visitors present him with a peace plan whose authors were denying some of its contents the moment the envoys set off for Belgrade. The disunity was as preposterous as it was potentially tragic. Even as ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 22:06:34 PDT 1999

38740 Jim Westrich says.... -- rank: 1000

[This bounced to me because he was made a taboo header during the spam crisis.] Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 17:44:40 -0400 From: Jim Westrich <westrich at miser.umass.edu> Subject: I didn't do it In-reply-to: <3.0.3.32.19990602091236.006c7cc4 at postoffice.worldnet.att.n et> X-Sender: westrich at mailsrv-unix.oit.umass.edu To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Message-id: <0FCP004ESZ6CX7 at pobox1.oit.umass.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Content-t ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 14:52:26 PDT 1999

38741 relief -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >Perhaps list members ought to be advised as a matter of courtesy >to please make sure they have unsubscribed from their mailing lists >before >they close out their mail accounts. These box full/account closed things happen all the time, but they usually bounce to me. Some idiot at UMass configured it so that the addressee's name appears in the From: field of the bounce notice instead of the postmaster's address. Apparently said idiot also thought that this hea ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 11:19:13 PDT 1999

38742 expunged -- rank: 1000

Thanks to human intervention by a Panix staffer, the queue of messages from Westrich has been emptied. She can't figure out why messages timestamped at 8:30 were still lining up to be sent, but she's taken action to prevent a repeat. Another thousand apologies from a dismayed moderator, Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 10:44:44 PDT 1999

38743 la frontera and Re: Life under Empire by Michael Hardt -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >as Doug says, there are flaws in the Marxian argument that with the >progression of global capital there arises a global civilisation - a flaw >that arises from the progressivist attachments of various marxisms to be >sure. but I wouldn't particularly pattern it as core and periphery, nor >would I argue there is an inability to push deterritorialisation further [1]. >there are ways of territorialising a low-wage 'periphery' at the heart of the >cosmopolitan ' ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 10:40:10 PDT 1999

38744 corporatization of research -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - June 4, 1999 Medical Professors See Threat in Corporate Influence on Research At an AAUP conference, they talk of academic freedom and conflicts of interest By KATHERINE S. MANGAN Boston - When Kate Bronfenbrenner spoke publicly about alleged labor-law violations at a chain of nursing homes, she had no idea of the price she would pay. The company that owned the nursing homes, Beverly Enterprises, sued the Cornell University researcher for defamation, ordered her t ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 09:37:24 PDT 1999

38745 Harcort U -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - June 4, 1999 Moving Beyond Textbook Sales, Harcourt Plans to Open a For-Profit University By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK The company that owns Harcourt Brace and Bergdorf Goodman will soon be marketing a new product -- college degrees. It is creating an independent university that plans to offer all of its courses via distance-education technologies. A number of academic publishers now offer not just textbooks but also interactive software, World-Wide Web sites, and other c ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 2 09:36:46 PDT 1999