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39256 Nasty California Imports -- rank: 1000

frances bolton wrote: >El Jefe writes: >> >>It's interesting that Connerly is retreating from Florida. Is this another >>sign, along with the impeachment failure, that the right-wing culture >>warriors are on the ropes? In a world starved for good news, is this some? > >No, I don't think it is. He said he would probably move onto Maine, Arizona, >or Nebraska. Those states are a bit of a come-down from Florida though. And the anti-AA proposition lost in Houston ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 17 08:43:33 PST 1999

39257 Weyrich retreats -- rank: 1000

[More on the culture war retreat.] Wednesday February 17 3:24 AM ET Conservative Sees U.S. Cultural War By RON FOURNIER AP Political Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - One of the political right's intellectual firebrands is questioning whether conservatives should ``drop out'' of American culture and essentially declare decades of moral struggle unwinnable. ``I no longer believe that there is a moral majority,'' Paul Weyrich wrote in a letter to several hundred fellow conservative leaders. ``I do not beli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 17 08:16:05 PST 1999

39258 Nasty California Imports -- rank: 1000

frances bolton wrote: > As soon as we here in Florida elected a Republican gov (Jeb!) to go with >our Republican leg., Ward Connerly came down to talk to the powers-that-be >about ending affirmative action. > >I read in today's paper: > >"Ward Connerly is having second thoughts about leading a campaign against >racial preferences in Florida." To quote Connerly,"If I were to make the >decision today, it would probably be no. It has nothing to do with whet ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 17 07:45:14 PST 1999

39259 Russia arming Iraq? -- rank: 1000

[Right-wing paranoia? Lobbying by arms contractors?] SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ISSUE 1360 Sunday 14 February 1999 Revealed: Russia's secret deal to re-arm Saddam By Con Coughlin, Foreign Editor RUSSIA has signed arms deals worth more than £100 million with Saddam Hussein to reinforce Iraq's air defences. The move will pose a serious threat to British and American planes enforcing Iraq's no-fly zone. In a blatant breach of the UN arms embargo, the Russians have agreed to upgrade and overhaul Iraq's ageing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 17 07:27:29 PST 1999

39260 option "c" -- cyberspace -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >Computers are beneficial to those of us who lead relatively privileged >lives here in the belly of the beast of Imperialism, but it's of no use >to peasant farmers in some Third World hellhole, at least not presently. Well, Harry Cleaver's big on the net's use to the Zapatistas, but he's given to great revolutionary enthusiasms. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 16 16:53:56 PST 1999

39261 Professors earn 'stock' at Pitt business school -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >How are the towers subsidized? Bigtime tax breaks. I haven't looked in a while, but last time I did, NYC had extended something like $1.5 billion in tax breaks to real estate developers. The whole Times Sq redevelopment scheme was driven by favorable zoning, eminent domain, and tax breaks. Overbuilding during the 1980s in the Wall Street neighborhood led to tax-subsidized conversion of offices to residential buildings. For decades, the city's development strategy has b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 16 07:43:52 PST 1999

39262 Fwd: THE NEW LEFT TAKES OVER AMERICAN UNIONS -- rank: 1000

[Ravings from former leftist turned high-tech booster Joel Kotkin.] THE NEW LEFT TAKES OVER AMERICAN UNIONS By Joel Kotkin, The American Enterprise magazine - Jan.(?), 99 Tom Hayden, an old friend, is wandering around the circle, looking for my house in the Hollywood hills. The street is blocked by a Los Angeles city sanitation truck--a union sticker slapped on its side--performing its appointed rounds. A young Latino sanitation worker comes leaping off the vehicle and approaches the graying '60 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 16 06:21:59 PST 1999

39263 vignettes of overconsumption -- rank: 1000

A couple of vignettes from the upper west side of Manhattan, home to Lucianne Goldberg, Thomas Pynchon, Michael Moore, and about 40,000 investment bankers and 20,000 lawyers: * Yesterday afternoon, the neighborhood was so thick with holiday shoppers that the lines at the Chase (6 machines) and Citibank (12 machines) ATMs went out the door and onto the sidewalk. Last night, the Chase was empty of cash, and this morning the Citibank was. * One of the local booze merchants told me the other night t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 16 06:17:40 PST 1999

39264 trust -- rank: 1000

[However they define trust....] "Trust and Growth" BY: PAUL J. ZAK Claremont Graduate University STEPHEN KNACK American University Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=136961 Date: September 18, 1998 Contact: PAUL J. ZAK Email: Mailto:paul.zak at cgu.edu Postal: Claremont Graduate University Claremont, CA 91711-6165 USA Phone: (909)621-8788 Co-Auth: STEPHEN KNACK Email: Mailto:knack at american.edu Postal: ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 15 18:13:59 PST 1999

39265 Hitch in WT -- rank: 1000

Anyone know anything about an interview Snitchens gave to the Washington Times, in which he supposedly said the Nation was trying to paint him as an anti-Semite, and in which he praised Lindsey Graham? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 15 15:33:37 PST 1999

39266 Professors earn 'stock' at Pitt business school -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >It's already here. The Oregon university system, which formerly subsidized >the smaller, weaker schools via transfers from the rich, is now turning >into a set of profit centers. Pataki's doing the same with SUNY - establishing a "market-based" tuition system. Campuses with "good" records will attract students willing to pay high tuitions, and those that can't will sink. "Willing to pay" is of course one of those nice conceptions fr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 15 13:58:49 PST 1999

39267 the other Butler -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because of an address kink] Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 13:21:21 -0500 From: jeff sommers <jsommers at lynx.dac.neu.edu> Organization: World HIstory Center X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #988 References: <199902151245.HAA15464 at dont.panix.com> What's helpful about the Smedley Butler remarks is it reveals the lie that US interventions, especially during the Cold War, were caused by ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 15 10:29:23 PST 1999

39268 Guiliani time -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >I'm blissfully ignorant of the gun culture--what's a "dum-dum" >or hollow point bullet? I'm assuming it's nastier than a >regular bullet. The hollow point means that the bullet flattens once it enters a body, causing great internal damage. Ordinary bullets can just pass right through, leaving a clean hole rather instead of ripping organs to bloody shreds. Cops defend their use by saying that they can't exit a perp's body and hit an innocent bystander. Do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 15 09:10:51 PST 1999

39269 Professors earn 'stock' at Pitt business school -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Critical thought? Aesthetic feeling? Come on! It's an MBA school! They >teach you to bullshit on powerpoint presentations and to exaggerate. It's happening everywhere, not just biz schools. This is the direction all universities are going in - Pitt's biz school is just pushing it a bit further than most. Universities are increasingly trying to claim intellectual property rights over "their" professors' work; the academic labor market is one of the mos ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 15 08:33:12 PST 1999

39270 Professors earn 'stock' at Pitt business school -- rank: 1000

How revolting. Gawd, this makes me feel like an old grump, but is there anything in American society these days that isn't governed by money? Is there no end to this? Will the Clinton-Gore years bring us history's first society in which *all* impulses of critical thought and aesthetic feeling are rendered extinct? My normally reliable sense of irony is eluding me for the moment.... Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 15 08:08:23 PST 1999