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39781 Gentrification -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I'm not much concerned about 11 week old fetuses. I've said a bunch >of times it's approximately weeks T-4 and forward to birth that are >most >troublesome, in thinking about abortion. No the concept of birth does >not mean much more, in this context, than the concept of becoming >two years old. It's a more spectacular milestone, but part of a >larger >process. T-4? Who ever spoke about abortions that late, except a bunch of fundamentalists tryin ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 21 09:59:49 PDT 1999

39782 Fwd: NATO's splits over Kossovo -- rank: 1000

[from Mai-Not] Agence France Presse NATO faced deep splits over Kosovo conflict: report LONDON, Aug 20 (AFP) - NATO's commander in the Kosovo war, Wesley Clark, waged an internal battle against member states which tried to limit air raids during the conflict, according to a BBC programme to be screened Friday. The US general effectively "sidelined" wavering nations like Germany and Greece, the BBC investigation says. Appearing to back the claims, Clark told the programme: "I didn' ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 21 09:47:26 PDT 1999

39783 Gentrification -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Minorities overwhelmingly favor capital punishment. Well, not exactly, as these excerpted tables from the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics show. I suspect the difference between the responses on the first and second can be attributed to the phrase "for persons convicted of murder." The first is more an abstract philosophical question. But even on the second, "minorities" are much less in favor of the DP than are whites. Doug ================ ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 21 09:44:46 PDT 1999

39784 Gentrification -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >An abortion is an appendectomy, >but execution of a vicious murderer is an act of barbarism. Max, does the concept of birth mean anything to you? The beginning of life and all that? Implying that there's a difference between a 11-week-old fetus and a 30-year-old human, even a "vicious murderer"? Or is this just some pedantic distinction? Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 21 09:26:38 PDT 1999

39785 Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

Brett Knowlton wrote: >Doug, > > >>Finally, there is this insistence on calling these kinds of blueprints > >>"utopian." > > > >>>>Because they seem invented largely out of thin air, in a "Wouldn't it >be nice?" mode, rather than saying how the present set of >institutions and associated forms of consciousnessness can be engaged >and transformed. <<<< > >I have to respectfully disagree. Hey, respect isn't ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 21 09:17:31 PDT 1999

39786 IPOs = negative returns -- rank: 1000

"The Equity Share in New Issues and Aggregate Stock Returns" BY: MALCOLM P. BAKER Harvard University JEFFREY WURGLER Yale School of Management Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=172548 Date: July 28, 1999 Contact: JEFFREY WURGLER Email: Mailto:jeffrey.wurgler at yale.edu Postal: Yale School of Management Box 208200 New Haven, CT 06520 USA Phone: (203)432-6309 Co-Auth: MALCOLM P. BAKER Email: Mailto:mbake ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 21 09:20:34 PDT 1999

39787 replies to Rakesh, Wojtek, Charles, Chris Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >So if you take out the last two exceptional years, real wages in the US >have been stagnant since Keynesianism collapsed in the mid 70s. I think it's an open question whether the last two years of real wage gains in the U.S. are exceptional or not. We'll have a better idea in the next recession, if we ever have one of those! You doubt the profitability upswing, underway since 1982 or so? Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 21 08:55:37 PDT 1999

39788 [PEN-L:10216] Re: [stormingheaven] ebonics? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >What will >that accomplish politically, other than scoring a point in culture wars for >campus liberals? Hey Wojtek, you're at an elite U.S. university. How prominent are the "liberals" in the adminsitration or even on the faculty? Outside of a few tenured radicals in English departments here & there, most U.S. academics are Clintonish centrists at the leftmost. Just who are these campus liberals that haunt your fantasies? Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 21 08:39:46 PDT 1999

39789 Where is Henry Liu? Depression in China -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Seth Ackerman wrote: > > > So while Korea is restored to its ruddy pre-crisis economic health, China > > sinks into depression. Doesn't this cast some doubt on the notion that > > capital controls do anything more than delay the inevitable? > >Well, China has a lot more than capital controls. Malaysia would be >better comparison, and there is still room to argue that they were >effective in cushioning the blow witho ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 21 08:29:01 PDT 1999

39790 Fwd: "Shutting down Seattle" -- rank: 1000

[from TradeWatch <http://lists.essential.org>] [Seattle Weekly, 8/19/99] Shutting down Seattle BY GEOV PARRISH The World Trade Organization's talks are scheduled to be held in free trade-friendly Seattle this fall. So is "the Protest of the Century," as WTO opponents gather to give the ruling class a kick in the groin. On a cool but soon to be warm, sunny, and perfectly serviceable midsummer Saturday morning, when you'd think otherwise rational people would have something midsumm ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 16:39:56 PDT 1999

39791 Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

[another address oddity] From: "Eric Beck" <rayrena at mail.accesshub.net> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 99 13:11:54 -0400 Charles wrote: >Of course, I seriously think the Chinese >and Mao Tse-tung have made a much >more important contributions to >bringing real socialism into the world >than the Marxist-Humanists and >Dunayevskaya, or the utopians we have >been discussing on this thread. You got a turd in your pocket, Charles? Seems to me that it's been primarily you wh ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 10:28:26 PDT 1999

39792 SK GDP almost 10% -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Where will the capital go in the case of a mad rush out of the US >stock market?!? Could go into thin air. It doesn't take much actual money to move prices up or down. That's why they call it fictitious. Returning to one of your older points, the current Fortune has an article claiming the U.S. budget surplus is almost entirely a creature of the bull market. (It's not on their website, unfortunately.) Citing research by Saul Hymans, director of economic forecasting ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 10:19:58 PDT 1999

39793 Putin, not a Yeltsin tool? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak, quoting Stratfor: > This action, coming only a week after the appointment of Vladmir Putin > as Prime Minister of Russia, is significant. While there is no direct > evidence linking Putin to the action, we believe he is the force > behind it. There are less than a handful of people in the Russian > government for whom the Swiss would freeze Berezovsky's accounts. One > is Russian President Boris Yeltsin, but inasmuch as Berezovsky is > Yeltsin's ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 09:44:48 PDT 1999

39794 SK GDP almost 10% -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >why? as the south korean economy is export dependent, why should the >stimulus from consumption on the basis of a wealth effect ("lower interest >rates... boosted the stock market and made people feel wealthier") augur >stable growth in the long run? Plus, like deficit spending in Japan, this >may be a one-shot simulus, and the economy won't be rebounding off a low >base again. Some cyclical upturn had to be expected due to the depth of the &g ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 09:37:58 PDT 1999

39795 WB poverty info -- rank: 1000

The World Bank has a new poverty page on its website, <http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/data/povmon.htm>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 20 09:02:50 PDT 1999