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38881 Calif prison guards win another -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - July 19, 1999 UNION CRUSHED BID TO LET STATE PROSECUTE GUARDS Justice: Organization's clout is apparent as brutality cases remain under the jurisdiction of county district attorneys. By MARK ARAX, Times Staff Writer A plan that would have allowed California's top cop to police the state's vast prison system died a quiet death last week in the state Capitol, leaving the attorney general frustrated about the power of the prison guards' union and his inability to crack down on ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 19 09:15:30 PDT 1999

38882 Pepsi U -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - July 19, 1999 QUESTIONS RAISED FOR A SECOND TIME ABOUT SOFT-DRINK BOTTLER'S EXCLUSIVE DEAL WITH A COLLEGE By KIT LIVELY A second public college in Illinois has given an exclusive contract to a large soft-drink bottling company in exchange for a $500,000 charitable donation, a Chicago newspaper has reported. John A. Logan College, a two-year institution, signed a 20-year contract last year with Harry L. Crisp II, president of Marion Pepsi-Cola Bottling ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 19 09:04:55 PDT 1999

38883 John-John, We Hardly Knew Ye -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Is there going to be national mourning in the US as big as that in the UK >with Diana? Will its meaning be the same? The People's Prince??? It can't be the same, if only because they're different sexes in different countries (and he was killed - and took two others with him - because of his own stupidity and arrogance, unlike Diana, who was done in either by a reckless driver or British intelligence), but yes, they're invoking the royalty business heavily here. One o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 19 08:38:09 PDT 1999

38884 Waco: Rules of Engagement -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because it had an attachment] From: Steve Perry <sperry at usinternet.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 18:46:02 -0500 Despite the hype, very few commercially released tapes (even the ones from blockbuster, yes) actually have copy-protection installed on them. That seems to have been a passing fad for the most part. Though of course the industry is now hoping that dvd's will replace tape, since there is as yet no such thing as a recordable dvd. ---------- From: paula Sent: Sunday, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 18 20:18:32 PDT 1999

38885 John-John, RIP -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because it had an attachment] From: Steve Perry <sperry at usinternet.com> To: "'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com'" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: RE: John-John: 88 IQ Points Lost to the World Forever Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:33:38 -0500 His private worth is for his family and friends to mourn, and I feel no more or less sympathy for them than for the families and friends of all the people in the obit columns today. His *public* worth... well, he was a han ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 18 07:20:02 PDT 1999

38886 soccer query -- rank: 1000

[this bounced for an address oddity] From: "Barbara Hamilton" <bhamilton at banet.net> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 10:14:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Quick question: Did Akers get punched in the face? Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason Zanon <jzanon at ncadp.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists1.panix.com> Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 11:25 AM Subject: Re: Women soccer goalie cheats > It's not as if I've reviewed the tapes of all 10 shots, so for all I > know the C ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 18 07:16:55 PDT 1999

38887 Waco: Rules of Engagement -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >Just watched the New Yorker Video release tonight. Smart, thorough, >devastating. Interesting footnote: In the year or so that I've had two >vcr's hooked together to dub tapes, this is the *first* one I've encountered >that actually has copy-protection. Isn't that an excellent film? It makes it irrefutably clear that the government wanted to fry those poor oddballs. Any New Yorker who voted for Schumer for Senate should watch it to see what a raving asshole he is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 18 07:15:07 PDT 1999

38888 Pacifica suit -- rank: 1000

The lawsuit against the Pacifica internal coup was filed yesterday. The text and accompanying material is at <http://www.radio4all.org/freepacifica/legal.htm>. They need litigation money. If you're so inclined, contributions can be sent to: Siegel and Yee Trust Account 499 14th Street - #220 Oakland, CA 94612 Write "Save Pacifica" in the memo area of your check. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 17 12:53:47 PDT 1999

38889 World Bank press briefing on Kosovo -- rank: 1000

[Excerpts from a WB press briefing on war reconstruction. The full text is at <http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/extme/005ts.htm>. I love the assertion that most residents of the Balkans lack the initiative to rebuild destroyed houses.] MR. POORTMAN: You're right about what you mentioned. The strategy that the Bank has now formulated internally, and which was presented, at least in an informal sense, to the Board, was one that is very much of an emergency nature and something that will g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 17 12:25:07 PDT 1999

38890 Kosovo: "creation of an environment in which private-sector activity can flourish" -- rank: 1000

[World Bank press release.] News Release No. 20000/006/ECA World Bank Contacts: Brussels Rachel Winter Jones (32-2) 552 00.52 Phillip Hay (32) 0476.619.859 Washington Gina Ciagne (202) 458 41 66 European Commission Contact: Brussels Patrick Child (32-2) 296.97.50 REBUILDING KOSOVO TAKES IMPORTANT STEP FORWARD BRUSSELS, July 13, 1999 - Rebuilding Kosovo and restoring peace and stability to the wider Southeast Europe region took a concrete step forward today when international policy makers at the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 17 12:12:35 PDT 1999

38891 KPFA -- rank: 1000

Eric Beck wrote: >These figures would apply to the main part of the dial, right? Isn't that >why, or at least partially why, WBAI's frequency (99.9) is worth so much? >Aren't the costs for left-of-dial frequencies much, much cheaper, or are >there no more slots left? Yeah, BAI has what's normally a commercial frequency, which is what makes the license very valuable. I doubt there are many slots left at any end of the dial in any major metro area. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 17 11:27:24 PDT 1999

38892 Lefty athletes and the baseball players union (was: Another Famous Black Goalie) -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >As for the toadies bit, I'd suggest DC is a bastion of folks >who see fit to push the system further away from laissez-faire. And towards subsidies and protections for capital? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 17 10:25:05 PDT 1999

38893 Baltics: NATO membership "inevitable" -- rank: 1000

[From Johnson's Russia list. The Russians wouldn't be feeling surrounded, would they?] US SAYS NATO MEMBERSHIP FOR BALTICS NEARLY INEVITABLE WASHINGTON, July 16 (AFP) - The entry of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia into NATO is a near inevitability despite Russia's strident opposition to enlarging the alliance, a senior US official said Friday. "I would stop just short of saying it's inevitable," Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott told reporters on the last day of the US-Baltic part ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 17 08:43:17 PDT 1999

38894 KPFA -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >On Friday, July 16, 1999 at 21:24:12 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes: > >mike wrote: > > > >>So let Berry, Chadwick and the other generals have their radio >station. KPFA > >>really consists of its listeners. Have a big fund drive called "Starting > >>Over" and buy another frequency and another transmitter and start over. > >>Maybe buy a couple of each. Leave the Pacifica board holding an empty bag. > > > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 17 08:37:30 PDT 1999

38895 Mr Softee's billions -- rank: 1000

Two items from today's Financial Times on Microsoft's record stock price. From Louise Kehoe's front-page story on how Microsoft (affectionately known as Mr Softee, after its ticker symbol, MSFT) was the first company to hit a market capitalization of $500 billion "At yesterday's closing price Microsoft was valued at more than 30 times the company's sales over the past year, compared with just 3.5 times for General Electric, the second most valuable company with a market capitalisation of ab ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 17 08:33:26 PDT 1999