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39406 loose canon -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >*Harold Bloom* did that to you? How are such things possible? Broke me out of a formalist torpor, and turned me onto the joys of intertextuality. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 30 15:44:52 PST 1999

39407 Howe baiting -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >Yes. But do you disagree? Can't comment on Howe's dermal viscosity in the literal sense, but I think Dissent is a boring magazine with largely awful politics. See <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Dissent.html> for one reason why. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 30 15:42:32 PST 1999

39408 Newitz on white trash studies -- rank: 1000

[Annalee Newitz responds to Yoshie...] Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:18:32 -0600 From: Annalee Newitz <annalee at gettingit.com> >Post-affirmative action racism has affected (very loosely defined) leftist >discourse as well, and conflicts emerged between leftists who criticize >post-affirmative action racism and those who end up collaborating with it: >"abolitionists" like Roediger versus proponents of "white trash studies" >like Annalee Newitz I'm constantly ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 30 12:28:05 PST 1999

39409 Must capitalism be racist? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Post-affirmative action racism has affected (very loosely defined) leftist >discourse as well, and conflicts emerged between leftists who criticize >post-affirmative action racism and those who end up collaborating with it: >"abolitionists" like Roediger versus proponents of "white trash studies" >like Annalee Newitz I don't see how Roediger and Newitz are necessarily in conflict, since they both involve the study of how the white race ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 30 11:21:17 PST 1999

39410 Must capitalism be racist? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Doug: > >Peace of mind, of a sort. As in, "I may have a crappy job and not a > >pot to piss in, but at least I'm not black!" > >This feeling of racial compensation may still remain, but post-affirmative >action racists argue, "You have a crappy job because you are not black, >because unqualified blacks got special rights that you don't have." Which is not unrelated to the other part of the racist formula, emphasized by Roe ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 30 10:24:17 PST 1999

39411 Must capitalism be racist? -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Psychic income, what can you buy with that? Peace of mind, of a sort. As in, "I may have a crappy job and not a pot to piss in, but at least I'm not black!" Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 30 09:50:16 PST 1999

39412 J2000: Guardian edit -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - December 30, 1999 IN JUBILEE'S DEBT It has given new hope to the third world Two years ago almost to the day, we first wrote in these columns of Jubilee 2000's "glorious bravado" in asserting "that human beings have the capacity to right huge structural economic injustice". We sponsored it as our millennium campaign. Yet we scarcely imagined the scale of its future achievements, which the Guardian will celebrate in its New Year's Eve edition tomorrow. Back ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 30 07:59:27 PST 1999

39413 Rudy vs. Street Art -- rank: 1000

[note offer for free Impeach Rudy stickers at end] From: ARTISTpres at aol.com Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:40:54 EST Giuliani's New Year's Gift To Street Artists The most notable trait of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is consistency. If you make it on to his enemies list you are there forever. That's why even in the midst of what he is promoting as the "largest celebration in human history", his apocalyptic gala for tourists and terrorists in Times Square ominously code-named Project Archangel, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 30 07:41:04 PST 1999

39414 Naderites Craft "Fix It or Nix It" Campaign -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But there are also legitimate arguments along with legitimate parts of the >movement that still see multinational organizations as a counterbalance to >private global financial entities. The IMF, World Bank and WTO may not be >functioning as those counterbalances, but a pure abolition position can >sound like an anti-government, libertarian, Buchanite economic position in >the United States. "National sovereignty" may sound progressive in >P ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 30 06:58:38 PST 1999

39415 loose canon -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >Speaking of Harold Bloom, he was on the CBC a few weeks ago, >hyperventilating about the "canon". Yeah, he does that, but what can I say? The Anxiety of Influence changed my life in 1972. Dropped out of the Party of the Right, repudiated an economics major, and became generally irresponsible. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 29 19:40:44 PST 1999

39416 Cockburn on Howe -- rank: 1000

The Nation's millennial issue has a selection of letters to the editors. Somehow this reminder of AC's greatness slipped in: >April 17, 1989 >COCKBURN REPLIES > >...About Irving Howe, maybe "slimier" was wrong. I thought about it >for a while. "Stoat-like," "squalid," "weasel-brained" were all >ascriptions jostling forward, but in the end I thought "slimy" >properly evoked his eel-like slipperiness.... > > Alexa ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 29 16:13:07 PST 1999

39417 Naderites Craft "Fix It or Nix It" Campaign -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >I remember Kevin Danaher of >Global Exchange advancing the WB Bond Boycott idea to a 50 >Years Meeting for the first time back in 1995, with his >multicoloured literature at that (but he wasn't even given a platform, >he raised the strategy/tactic from the floor in a packed workshop >session, to great enthusiasm). Indeed there was just no space on >the plenary -- organised by Inside-Beltwayers -- until around the >1998 50 Years parallel meeting of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 29 15:40:26 PST 1999

39418 Fwd: gwbush.com press release -- rank: 1000

From: "gwbush.com" <info at gwbush.com> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:59:14 -0500 In bruising duel with computer programmer, George W Bush goes back for more. Surprise twist: Paula Jones defender, The Rutherford Institute, enters the ring. Contact: Zack Exley 617-216-5688 mailto:info at gwbush.com George W Bush has escalated his war against Zack Exley, a 30 year-old Boston computer programmer and creator of the satirical Web site, gwbush.com. The Bush campaign is now claiming that g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 29 13:17:26 PST 1999

39419 extremes -- rank: 1000

Some talking head on CNBC just reported that the Nasdaq composite index is 4 standard deviations above its 200-day moving average. Said head claimed that no major market average anywhere has ever spiked this far above its trend - not the Dow in 1929, not the Nikkei in 1989. Not, of course, to draw any parallels, Jordan. Commenting on the chart that went with this, Paine Webber's director of NYSE floor operations, Art Cashin, said his colleagues are as nervous as a guy who drives a dynamite truck ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 29 12:09:36 PST 1999

39420 Naderites Craft "Fix It or Nix It" Campaign -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey St. Clair wrote: >[another example of how the beltway crowd "out-thinks" itself. they >admit WTO can't be fixed, but plot a campaign to do just that.--jsc] Hey, maybe they're inspired by that old Trot trick of making demands you know the system can't fulfill. Just a thought. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 29 11:27:11 PST 1999