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39271 Judi Bari bombed by ex-hubbie? -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >Anyone got anything to say about the allegations in CounterPunch? I have no idea, but Jeff St Clair told me that the reaction has been pretty vicious, with hate mail/calls, quasi-death threats, etc. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 14 09:44:55 PST 1999

39272 In Defense of Today's Undergrads -- rank: 1000

JayHecht at aol.com wrote: >I'm teaching at a small liberal arts state college in NJ, and I must say that >the vast majority of students I'm teaching are serious and hard working. >Probably over 1/3 are the first in their family to go to college. I have >found that many lack confidence in themselves, and part of my job is to help >them realize that they can tackle finance and what passes for "financial >theory." For example, "agency costs' are discussed right ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 13 13:17:07 PST 1999

39273 Capitalist support for fascism.... -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Political idelogy aside, what made Hitler policy work? If I remember right, this was one of the founding controversies of this list: you can't separate the political ideology of Naziism from its practical side. You can't have a full employment economy under capitalism without the repression of labor. As Kalecki said: <quote> 4. We have considered the political reasons for the opposition to the policy of creating employment by government spending. But even if this ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 13 11:39:40 PST 1999

39274 NYC action -- rank: 1000

>END POLICE VIOLENCE AND BRUTALITY! > >A Day of Outrage and Mass Action >______________________________________ >Justice for AMADOU DIALLO! >______________________________________ > >Demand an End to the Murder of Our Children >by the Police! > >Let all New York's Citizens, across race, class, religion, >age, gender and sexual preference, join together to raise >our voices! > > MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1999, CITY HALL > 4:30 PM TO 6:30 PM > >We w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 13 10:50:59 PST 1999

39275 Capitalist support for fascism.... -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Do you, or any one else on the list, have any views on how Hitler managed >to turn >in 4 short years a war-torn economy that the Weimar's permissive and >capitalisti >policies left in a sorrowful state not much different than the Russian >economy of >today, into a full employment, full production economy that was the envy >of the >world. I thought it was a combination of government spending and fascist repression of labor. Fascism is a great infl ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 13 08:28:25 PST 1999

39276 students -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >Michael Hoover (who, for better or worse, took seriously Rudi >Dutschke's call for a 'long march through the institutions') And how'd it work for you? Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 13 08:14:14 PST 1999

39277 LBO archive? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Is there one yet? Not yet, sorry. Soon, I swear. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 12 16:48:45 PST 1999

39278 bright side -- rank: 1000

"Analysts say that with the impeachment trial over, Congress can turn to Social Security reform and tax cuts, which could provide more money for stocks." - CNBC correspondent Sharon Epperson, offering solace after today's selloff

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 12 15:06:18 PST 1999

39279 Fed not part of gov't -- rank: 1000

Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: > BTW, still haven't heard who owns the new ECB. >From reading the Maastricht Treaty, which I inexplicably did a few months ago, it looks like a creature of the Treaty, whose signatories are the heads of state of the member governments. Here's what Maastricht says about who runs the thing: > 11.2. In accordance with Article 109a(2)(b) of this Treaty, the > President, the Vice-President and the other Members of the Executive > Board s ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 12 13:25:30 PST 1999

39280 not guilty -- rank: 1000

So Clinton's not guilty. What's next? Privatizing Social Security as an act of bipartisan healing? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 12 10:13:44 PST 1999

39281 Slate goes free again -- rank: 1000

For some reason, I paid for a Slate subscription which I've almost never used. Just got an email announcing that they're going free again. An excerpt from the email shows Microsoft trying to be whimsical: >FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS > >Q: "New subscription policy" my Aunt Sally. Who are you trying to >kid? You're obviously backing down. >A: No, no, you see there's always been a mix of free and paid stuff >... we're just changing the mix .... OK, OK, sure: We're backin ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 12 08:59:11 PST 1999

39282 students -- rank: 1000

While we're discussing how much worse things have gotten, please indulge me a panglossian moment: the status of women has gotten lots better over the last generation. I went to a college that had started admitting women only a couple of years before I got there (and the few women who were there were occasionally called on in class to offer The Woman's perspective); now the place is around 50-50. While even I fall prey to nostalgia for the revolutionary moments of the late 60s/early 70s, women w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 12 08:53:28 PST 1999

39283 Students, Goddamn stupid kids, etc. -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Let me add a stronger defense. Those making it to college a generation or >two ago were overwhelmingly from elite groups. The "dumbing of America" is >largely a statistical artifact, since SAT comparisons and measures of >college students' knowledge between now and the past usually are comparing >much larger percentages of the population taking the SAT or being in college >to those in the past when few went to college. The college audiences I f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 12 08:37:59 PST 1999

39284 Greenspan on Greenspan -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >>"Most of the time I don't understand myself." - Alan Greenspan before the >>House Banking Committee, moments ago > > >In Time magazine's Feb. 15th PR/puff piece on the "Three Marketeers" - >Greenspan, Rubin, and Summers - at one point it reads "[Greenspan] is as >much an observer of people as of markets. Rubin, among others, says the joy >of working with Greenspan lies in both the power of his intellect and the >sw ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 12 07:52:26 PST 1999

39285 reading Time -- rank: 1000

There's an old saw in the markets that when something makes the cover of Time it's time to bet against it. Here's an observation from the chronically (and, for the last 15 years, wrongly) bearish James Grant: > Here's what you'll find in the newest > Grant's Interest Rate Observer (Vol. 17, No. 3/February 12, 1999): > >-> THE DOUBLE-TIME INDICATOR FLASHES TWICE >"As a rule, the cover of Time is good for directional trades only. As >there is usually on ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 12 07:49:14 PST 1999