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39181 eyewitness -- rank: 1000

[from the new Counterpunch - not on their website <http://www.counterpunch.org>] Hitchens' Empty BOAST Amidst his rampages through the talk shows, justifying his snitching on Sidney Blumenthal, we were surprised to hear Christopher Hitchens claim that he had been present at the Arkansas execution of Ricky Ray Rector in early 1992, a black man of severely diminished capacity sacrificed on the altar of Clinton's ambitions. To CNN's Bernard Shaw on February 9, Hitchens cried - amid abuse of C ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 26 18:59:08 PST 1999

39182 Suck on Cockburn/Hitchens -- rank: 1000

Ingrid and/or Ed wrote: >For me, that sentence about CH's martini-fragrant mouth is one the main >reasons >(perhaps not a great one) why I continue to read and look forward to >Cockburn's >pieces, in spite of the fact that I often think he's full of crap, such as >when he >accedes to the right on the unconscionable brutality of "partial birth" >abortions, >when he's sure he knows better than the most scientists about such matters as >global warming Cockbur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 26 10:19:53 PST 1999

39183 Stratfor -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because of an address kink.] To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Message-ID: <C1256724.004B1150.00 at notes3.spiegel.de> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:28:52 +0100 Subject: stratfor "Global Intelligence" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Can anybody please explain, what this "stratfor" is about, who is behind, which interests do they defend? Thanks, Harald

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 26 09:54:50 PST 1999

39184 pensions & fantasy -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Your congressman is scheduled to be in Cleveland in mid-March for an Americans >for Democratic Action swankenda. I've been invited,but, I can't get real >excited about Congressman Nadler for obvious reasons. Not that I've got >anything against fat people. Some of my best friends are fat persons! And I >don't like to make fun of fat people because maybe they have some kind of >glandular problem. Besides I might get fat someday too. Currently I'm around & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 26 09:26:05 PST 1999

39185 Butler, Nussbaum, Paglia -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >pitting Marxists against various practicioners of continental >theory plays into the hands of the Right When to the right, and actually much of the American populist left, Marxism is just another continental theory, one of those odd Yurpean imports that has no relevance to the New World. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 26 09:20:19 PST 1999

39186 Gans -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because of an address kink.] Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:03:45 -0600 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: t-frank-3 at alumni.uchicago.edu (T. C. Frank) Subject: herbert gans Hey LBO-pals: Have any of you read very much of the works of sociologist Herbert Gans? (Is he on this list, maybe?) Having only read a few things by him, I'm wondering where he stands politically and pedagogically. Would it be fair or accurate to consider him one of the consensus generation of scholars? What is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 26 09:06:25 PST 1999

39187 Butler, Nussbaum, Paglia -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I think empty calls for unity such as Alex's are disgusting and >disunifying, besides being utterly out of touch with the actual >realities of trying to build unity in practice. You don't build unity in practice by denouncing people as sickening. You start on building unity in practice by trying to find common ground with people who are more or less on your side, instead of trying to find the mote in their eye. I'm sure the German Communists thought they were followin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 26 09:02:31 PST 1999

39188 stocks = gambling? -- rank: 1000

>"The Colombian Stock Market: 1930-1998" > > BY: IGNACIO VELEZ-PAREJA > Universidad Javeriana > Management Department > >Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: > http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=145411 > > Date: January 7, 1999 > > Contact: IGNACIO VELEZ-PAREJA > Email: Mailto:ignaciov at col1.telecom.com.co > Postal: Universidad Javeriana > Ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 26 08:52:10 PST 1999

39189 in the news -- rank: 1000

A couple of items from today's papers suggest that all those folks looking to a crash to revive the fortunes of the working class may be missing the charms of a strong economy. First, the SEIU has succeeded in organizing home health care workers in California, archetypes of the low-wage side of the "new economy." And second, Saturn workers have voted out the old cooperative leadership and replaced them with old-fashioned (as corporate journalists like to characterize them) confrontatio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 26 08:27:28 PST 1999

39190 pensions & fantasy -- rank: 1000

All you rationalists who believe fantasy has no place in politics: "'The AFL-CIO has had polling done, and they've convinced the unions and convinced me that the rightwing propaganda has been so successful, if you say there's no [forthcoming Social Security] crisis, people won't listen to you,' says Representative Jerry Nadler, a progressive Democrat from New York [from the neighborhood housing LBO world HQ, in fact], who supports the president's Social Security plan. Does that mean the Dem ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 21:04:19 PST 1999

39191 Butler, Nussbaum, Paglia -- rank: 1000

Tavia wrote: >This is more or less describes Butler's activism. She is notorious for >quibbling at conferences about being referred to as a woman or lesbian. >Perhaps it is self-mockery, but I would not rule out the possibility that >she actually sees this as politics. For example, at the Freud conference >here at Yale last year someone referred to "the three women" on the panel >and Butler grabbed the mike to report that, while the others may have >identified them ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 18:55:38 PST 1999

39192 job tenure -- rank: 1000

A press release from the Employee Benefit Research Institute.... >EBRI News Release > > >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 18, 1999 > >New EBRI Research: > >Male, Female Job Stability Still Moving in Opposite Directions > >WASHINGTON, DC-While overall job stability in the U.S. has not changed >dramatically in recent years, men appear to be continuing a 15-year trend of >shorter job tenure, while women generally have higher job tenure than 15 >years ago, accor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 18:13:36 PST 1999

39193 coming financial armageddon/new wager offer for Max -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >ok. if you're sure a crash is in store, >you should be willing to take 1100 as >the floor. $50. > >As someone noted, this is not all that >much of a drop. On the S&P? I should say not. 1100 on the Dow would be a total disaster. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 18:08:53 PST 1999

39194 Comment on Pereleman: -- rank: 1000

Prashanth Mundkur wrote: >On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Greg Nowell wrote: > >> improvements in productivity. He suggests ceteris >> paribus this means that there will be a secular effect > >>From the clueless: what does "ceteris paribus" mean? All other things being equal, abbreviated cet. par. As Joan Robinson famously said, cet. is rarely par. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 17:16:29 PST 1999

39195 Butler, Nussbaum, Paglia -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Come on, Alex. Name the principles of unity for us so we can all >unite tomorrow morning to storm the white house. > >You make me sick. Just because you disagree with someone doesn't make him a pathogen. How nice of you to perform the very divisiveness Alex was trying to get over. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 25 17:11:44 PST 1999