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39226 To Yoshie, and anyone interested -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >Here's a question (if anyone thinks this is outrageously irrelevant to the >list I'll take it off list but in general I prefer not to do that, there's >always someone interested -- oh and Shoujo means something like schoolgirl >and kawaii means something like cute, but is rather more of an aesthetic >than an adjective). This isn't irrelevant. We're very, um, catholic here. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 08:22:07 PST 1999

39227 Savings and stocks -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >I have another dumb question. Why is putting your money in a 401(k) in >the stock market not considered "savings" when the national savings level >is considered? There has been much moaning of late that consumer savings >went to 0.5% for 1998 and negative for the last few months, and the >explanation is always the same, that people feel so chuffed from having >their stocks jump in value that they're spending like sailors. > >But I d ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 07:44:50 PST 1999

39228 Caravaggio vs. David Hockney? (was Re: Butler) -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because the attached JPEG of Caravaggio was too big. Anyone who wants the image, I'll be happy to forward it.] Yes I'd like it. Yoshie writes: >>with an invocation to compare Caravaggio and David Hockney. >>Chuck, I can't see why this comparison would prove or disprove the claim >>that Butler and Foucault have had effects on conceptions of sexuality. >>You want to claim they have had *less* effect than other >>things/ideas/people I think, but why? And ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 05:53:12 PST 1999

39229 link -- rank: 1000

Oh yeah, the NYT welfare article is at <http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/022199wisconsin-welfare.html>. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 21 15:55:38 PST 1999

39230 welfare reform -- rank: 1000

Interesting article in today's NYT on how welfare "reform" in Wisconsin, which has reduced the rolls by 80-90%, has put a tremendous burden on families, especially women, and more especially grandmothers, as they end up caring for the children of kicked-off mothers. Capitalism may not need the nuclear family, but in this case it needs the "extended" family. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 21 15:54:23 PST 1999

39231 Butler, Foucault, and Caravaggio -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >So with Warhol's shoes there is an actual celebration >of mass production and consumption. There is no sense of ironic detachment. There is if you look at it ironically. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 21 11:44:42 PST 1999

39232 subscribing -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >Tom Lehman writes: > >>I'll go you one better---limit the list to those who are subscribers to LBO. > >Why would this limitation be a good idea? It's not a good idea from my point of view. I'm trying to get folks who don't normally talk to each other to do so here, and an entrance fee might discourage that. Though I do encourage everyone to subscribe to LBO, early, often, and preferably at the highest rate. DOUG

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Date:	Sat Feb 20 20:12:10 PST 1999

39233 Nowell article -- rank: 1000

[for those of you who don't get Barron's, Greg Nowell's article] February 22, 1999 Post Mortem Impeachment appeared futile, but it was rooted in sound political strategy By Gregory P. Nowell The House Republicans pressed for impeachment in the face of hostile polls, midterm election losses and numerical insufficiency in the Senate. Pundits and partisans may argue for years about their motivation for such a futile act of statecraft. But there is another possibility: As part of the party's quest f ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 20 18:52:07 PST 1999

39234 LInux (Re: happy99.exe) -- rank: 1000

All you Linux geeks, what do you make of IBM shipping it with their Netfinity line of servers? Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 20 18:45:27 PST 1999

39235 Caravaggio vs. David Hockney? (was Re: Butler) -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because the attached JPEG of Caravaggio was too big. Anyone who wants the image, I'll be happy to forward it.] >Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 18:37:53 -0500 >To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> >Subject: Caravaggio vs. David Hockney? (was Re: Butler) > >--============_-1292568615==_============ >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Catherine Driscoll writes to Chuck Grimes: >>Chuck Gri ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 20 18:45:27 PST 1999

39236 subscribing -- rank: 1000

I've switched the subscription option to this list to closed, meaning that new subscribers have to be approved. A very disruptive and disturbed fellow named Robert Chavez has been trying to subscribe and he's not welcome here. Sorry for the inconvenience, but until Chavez goes away - this is his fourth attempt - it'll have to be that way. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 20 17:55:39 PST 1999

39237 Iraq sanctions -- rank: 1000

>Please sign on, distribute, post, announce: > >Available at http://www.endiraqsanctions.com > >Advisory Board > >Noam Chomsky >MIT > >Howard Zinn >Boston University > >Edward W. Said >Columbia University > >Robert Jensen >University of Texas at Austin > >William Keach >Brown University > >Ad Coordinator: >Sharon Smith > > >February 3, 1999 > >Dear Friend, > >A growing chorus of people, in this country and ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 20 14:44:31 PST 1999

39238 Happy99 worm -- rank: 1000

from the Symantec website, thanks to Lou Proyect: >Happy99.Worm > >Description: This is a worm program, NOT a virus. This program has >reportedly been received through email spamming and USENET newsgroup >posting. The file is usually named HAPPY99.EXE in the email or article >attachment. > >When being executed, the program also opens a window entitled "Happy New >Year 1999 !!" showing a firework display to disguise its other actions. The >program copies it ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 20 14:44:31 PST 1999

39239 Hayek -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >By underlining that the investment goods sectors is really the bulk of the >economy, Skousen and Hayek want to change the emphasis in a slump to the >revival of the capital goods sector. But Keynes also thought capital investment was the motor of the system, and believed that stimulating the animal spirits of entrepreneurs or having a state investment board take their place if they're too scared or gloomy to do the job was the whole point of economic policymaking ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 20 14:44:31 PST 1999

39240 Greenspan -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Marta Russell wrote: >>A while back there was discussion about Greenspan making some noise >>about the fact that the U.S. could not remain an "oasis" in the middle >>of the world economic mess. Does anyone have a source for that >>statement? I think he said it at a speech he gave in Berkeley last September that I went to, but I do not have the text handy... Brad DeLong Ah. Here it is: February 5, 1999 Wall Street Journal: And here's the ...

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