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39286 Students, Goddamn stupid kids, etc. -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >Doug could probably tell y'all better than I can about the careerism and >willful ignorance of most UVA undergrads. I only went to grad school there, so the only undergrads I got to know were the 60 or so I taught, but they were a deeply depressing crowd. It's what drove me out of academia in fact - I figured any place I was likely to get a job would have an even more depressing student body. Half of them couldn't write a decent sentence, three-quarters of them couldn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 12 07:47:27 PST 1999

39287 Fed not part of gov't -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >If it's private, then why does it pay 90%+ of its interest income back to >the Treasury? Talk about a divorce between ownership & control, then: the collector of all the dividends has no voting power, and management decides just how much it feels like turning over. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 11 20:23:08 PST 1999

39288 'Free Love,' Etc. -- rank: 1000

d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote: >Smoochey Smooch Paul, but I myself am feeling rather condescended to here, >as a woman and as one of the Xers. In fact, all you condescending old >coots keep it up <double maybe even triple! entendre most definitely >intended> we're gonna get together--me, Frances, Alex, Alec, Eric, Liza and >ALL the other Xers--and we're gonna secede from this divided union of >marxish leftish bliss. But as Catherine's student might say, the Xers need t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 11 16:34:52 PST 1999

39289 Over-limit warning from lbo-talk -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >Well then I guess this will *really* get me into trouble, but I have to ask >-- why is there a 3 post a day limit? Does it say so on the welcome >message? I can't find it. Are there other rules? Hi there Catherine, good to see you here. There's a 3-a-day limit because there are already about 80-100 posts a day. There are no other rules really. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 11 16:17:21 PST 1999

39290 the pedagogic problem & the facts of the biz. -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: > At my skool about 40% of the beginning >undergraduates never finish. This is comparable to >many other big public skools. A lot of flunking goes >on. How do 40% fail when Fs are intentionally so rare? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 11 16:01:26 PST 1999

39291 Press coverage of Doug Henwood's intellectual hero -- rank: 1000

Oh yes, when I want to find out about a political philosopher, the first place I turn is to a daily newspaper! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 11 13:10:31 PST 1999

39292 Fed not part of gov't -- rank: 1000

Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: > In fact, technically and officially, the Federal >Reserve System is owned by the "National Banks," which in >turn are privately owned. Actually I think it's just the regional branches that are owned by their member banks; the Board in Washington is supposed to be an agency of the U.S. government. Sort of. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 11 12:45:49 PST 1999

39293 Fed not part of gov't -- rank: 1000

There are many details that suggest that the Federal Reserve isn't really part of the U.S. government. There's the fact that the USG sold the land for the Fed's headquarters to the Fed back in the 1930s. Then there's the fact that the New York Fed is listed in the white pages, not the blue government pages, in the Manhattan phone book. Then there's the .org suffix the regional Fed banks use for their websites, rather than .gov. And now, in looking at the federal budget accounts, I'm seeing that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 11 12:05:22 PST 1999

39294 students -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >Clinton (or Wm. Riley) just said something about it yesterday after >the announcement of the national reading scores. Here in Texas, Gov. >Shrub made it a campaign promise that was just passed in the Leg. Molly Ivins may overdo the stupidity of the Texas Leg for us Yankees, but how many members of that august body could get promoted out of 8th grade? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 11 11:51:52 PST 1999

39295 Greenspan on Greenspan -- rank: 1000

"Most of the time I don't understand myself." - Alan Greenspan before the House Banking Committee, moments ago

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 11 09:31:40 PST 1999

39296 Fwd: -- rank: 1000

[The report will be at <http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/publist.html#PUB> any minute now.] >Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:13:46 -0500 (EST) >From: owner-press-release at Census.GOV >Subj: Census Bureau News >Sender: owner-press-release at Census.GOV >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: Press-Release-Owner at Census.GOV > > EMBARGOED UNTIL: 12:01 A.M. EST, FEBRUARY 11, 1999 (THURSDAY) > > Public Information Office CB99-26 > >301 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 11 09:21:20 PST 1999

39297 teaching. -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >Well, I must say that many colleagues are pretty stupid too. Perhaps >you are right, best not to think about it too much. And as Carrol said, >maybe retirement is the best bet. What I don't get is how there seems to be no "economic" impact from this pervasive indifference and ignorance. How does the most technologically advanced and organizationally complex economy in the world keep chugging along when staffed by these former undergrads? Is it that we n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 11 07:51:37 PST 1999

39298 Max & Doug & the budget -- rank: 1000

Max, since you actually understand Clinton's plan, could you speculate on why it's so damn complex? What's the fundamental point of political economy that the three-card-monte-ish scheme is meant to disguise? And, how does this proposed paydown differ from the post-WW II paydown, which coincided with a great boom? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 11 07:00:28 PST 1999

39299 Fwd: Global Solidarity/Cross-Border Organizing Website -- rank: 1000

>http://www.utexas.edu/ftp/student/subtex/.web/Groups/crossborder/global.html > >Welcome to the Global Solidarity Home Page > >This project is developing pages and resources to facilitate and >promote the concept of cross-border labor organizing across all >national boundaries. Some of the pages under construction are the >following: > > 1.The Mexican Diaspora > > 2.US Labor History > > 3.Mexican Labor History > > 4.The Maquiladoras > &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 10 20:57:26 PST 1999

39300 students -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >I have always tried not to an elitist academic. I seldom lose my temper >and I always treat students with respect. I am not telling you these >things as a joke or to make fun of students. But it seems to me that >capitalism has succeeded rather well in preparing young people to >believe just about anything and not to know how to analyze anything. When I talk to undergraduates I'm impressed by they don't seem to give a fuck about anything. They sit there, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 10 16:29:09 PST 1999