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38746 relief -- rank: 1000

Ok, these Westrich things have finally started bouncing to me and not to the list, though there still seem to be some in the pipeline. I've put a curse on the UMass postmaster. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 2 09:28:45 PDT 1999

38747 continued apologies -- rank: 1000

I unsub'd Westrich but the flow continues. Sorry, this shouldn't be happening. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 2 08:54:25 PDT 1999

38748 Arundhati Roy article on Narmada Struggle -- rank: 1000

[From the excellent folks at the International Rivers Network.] X-Sender: patrick at pop.lmi.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 20:06:01 -0800 To: patrick at irn.org From: patrick at irn.org (Patrick McCully) Subject: FYI: Excellent Arundhati Roy article on Narmada Struggle PRESS ADVISORY 1 JUNE, 1999 Arundhati Roy, author of the Booker Prize-winning 'God of Small Things', has written a superb essay on the Narmada struggle. It has been published in the national Indian magazines Outlook ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 2 08:08:11 PDT 1999

38749 apologies -- rank: 1000

A thousand apologies for this Westrich account closed eruption. Usually these things go to me and not to the list. I don't know what's responsible for this flooding, but I've unsub'd him and it should stop now. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 2 07:43:32 PDT 1999

38750 NATO denies bombing sanitorium; omits regrets -- rank: 1000

Telegraph (London) - June 1, 1999 ALLIES DENY KILLING 20 IN ATTACK ON SANATORIUM By Christopher Lockwood, Diplomatic Editor BELGRADE claimed that at least 20 patients in a sanatorium were killed early yesterday in a Nato air raid on Surdulica, 180 miles south of Belgrade. But Nato angrily denied the charge that it had committed yet another military blunder. Reports by Serb media said that the people, including some refugees, were killed when the sanatorium and a pensioners' home in the same comp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 17:31:04 PDT 1999

38751 inflation scare; McDonough sounds hawkish -- rank: 1000

[from TheStreet.com] NAPM, Fed Officials Bludgeon Bond Market By David A. Gaffen Staff Reporter 6/1/99 4:42 PM ET Bonds fell into a burning ring of fire today, and with each key economic release or speech from a Fed official, the flames rose even higher. By the time the carnage ended, the 30-year Treasury bond's yield had spiked by 10 basis points while the two-year note rose by 13 basis points. If, before today, the market needed any convincing that the Fed is going to hike interest rates come ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 15:57:00 PDT 1999

38752 refugee camps: Africa vs Europe -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - May 22, 1999 REFUGEE CAMPS IN AFRICA AND EUROPE ARE A WORLD APART By T. Christian Miller and Ann M. Simmons SKOPJE, Macedonia When veteran refugee worker Lynne Miller arrived here from Africa earlier this month, she stepped into a different world. After three years monitoring food supplies at a remote refugee camp in Somalia, one of her first crises in Macedonia was an urgent request from a medical team. A diabetic refugee had just crossed the border. Could she provide a spe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 15:42:51 PDT 1999

38753 Soros, the Pentagon, & the Caspian -- rank: 1000

[From Johnson's Russia List. Open Society Institute = Soros, of course.] From: Katya Nadirova <KNadirova at sorosny.org> Subject: "The Emergence of US-Caspian Military Cooperation: PFP, CentrAzBat and Beyond" Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 09:27:26 -0400 The Open Society Institute's Central Eurasia Project invites you to attend Central Asia Open Forum "The Emergence of US-Caspian Military Cooperation: PFP, CentrAzBat and Beyond" Dr. Jeffrey M. Starr Deputy Assistant Secretary of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 15:35:28 PDT 1999

38754 Army celebrates Earth Day -- rank: 1000

[thanks to a Suck.com link] Watch the U.S. Army, via Soldiers magazine, celebrate Earth Day. Automatic weaponry meets recycling. <http://www.dtic.mil/soldiers/apr1999/features/earth.html> Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 15:22:06 PDT 1999

38755 Yeltsin clearing death row -- rank: 1000

Yeltsin to commute Russia's last death sentences By Peter Graff MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Boris Yeltsin plans to commute hundreds of death sentences in the next few days, emptying death row and in effect eliminating capital punishment, an official said Monday. Robert Tsivilev, head of the presidential Pardons Commission, told Reuters he expected the president to sign four decrees this week which would commute all Russia's remaining death sentences to lengthy prison terms. ``I hope tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 15:08:25 PDT 1999

38756 the efficiency of contingency -- rank: 1000

"Optimal Staffing Strategies: Use of Temporary Workers, Contract Workers and Internal Pools of Contingent Labor" BY: JOSEPH M. MILNER Washington University EDIEAL J. PINKER University of Rochester Paper ID: University of Rochester Simon School WP CIS 97-07 Date: 1997 Contact: EDIEAL J. PINKER Email: Mailto:pinker at ssb.rochester.edu Postal: University of Rochester Simon School of Business Carol Simon Hall Rochester, NY 14627 USA Phone: (716)275-2131 Fax: (716)273-1140 Co-Auth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 15:04:03 PDT 1999

38757 World Bank conf on devel econ -- rank: 1000

Papers from the World Bank Conference on Develoment Economics are at <http://www.worldbank.org/research/abcde/papers.html>. Stiglitz has a long keynote speech, with this abstract. I love the closing point. Doug ---- Whither Reform? Ten Years of the Transition Joseph E. Stiglitz Abstract Ten years after the beginning of the transition, what are the lessons to be learned? Broadly speaking, most observers would conclude that China's path to the transition has been a success so far, while Russ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 14:36:55 PDT 1999

38758 Let me in. We-oo. -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >Henwood in fact when he was an undergrad at Yale joined Party >of the Right which the young Bill Buckley had founded back >in the early 1950s. Fortunately though Doug came to his >senses and turned leftwards. It was just a brief aberration, I swear. My act of contrition for this deed is at <http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/bs/36/henwood.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 31 20:39:15 PDT 1999

38759 Henwood National Campaign -- rank: 1000

paula wrote: >Is Doug thinking of running for office? Heavens no. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 31 19:41:36 PDT 1999

38760 Three pre-occupation theses on Kosovo- evaulating the results -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >The Atlantic is a big ocean on these questions. We have different >perspectives and different background cultures to reference. I do not know >Rieff at all Rieff is the author of an essay on liberal imperialism - which he's for, like his mother, Susan Sontag. (Back in the 1980s, Edmund White described a duo much like David & Susan as entering a room, "all self-love & fabulousness.") I posted the conclusion to that essay here a while back. The list ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 31 16:41:40 PDT 1999