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40006 "frontier justice" -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - August 2 1999 FRONTIER JUSTICE HIGHLIGHTS SAFETY DIVIDE by Patti Waldmeir In the sun-stroked lands separated by the Rio Grande, the river divides more than the US and Mexico. The border determines the most basic aspects of life: the level of wages, the bounty of the local shops, even the availability of indoor plumbing. But there is a more basic truth about the border now being tested in a town on the Texas side of the river: the fact that, in a court of law, the price of a hum ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 2 07:46:32 PDT 1999

40007 Kosovo kill rate -- rank: 1000

[30 murders a week is on a par with 1998's kill rate, which was deemed a "humanitarian catastrophe" by the intervention party.] Financial Times - August 2, 1999 NATO FAILS TO CONTAIN VIOLENCE By Kevin Done in Pristina Bernard Kouchner, the United Nations administrator for Kosovo, yesterday condemned the bombing of a Serbian Orthodox cathedral in Pristina, the latest sign that international troops are failing to contain violence in the province. The explosion, early yesterday morning, c ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 2 07:39:12 PDT 1999

40008 Heresy: why I support school vouchers -- rank: 1000

Rkmickey at aol.com wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > > >I assume that means he approves of union busting but is too shy to say it. > >I don't know what Jose Perez would reply to this point. For my part, I >think public employee unions often need to be opposed when they identify >their interests with those of the state rather than with those of the people. > Does anyone automatically support say, prison guard unions? Given the >compulsory nature of education, it is s ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 2 07:30:48 PDT 1999

40009 Heresy: why I support school vouchers -- rank: 1000

Rkmickey at aol.com wrote: >The schools are not lacking in resources. Yes they are. The Trinity School in Manhattan, which educates the likes of George Soros' kids, spends something like $23,000 per student. It shows. The average NYC school spends something like a quarter that. It shows, too. Of course, any school will likely do better with a kid who grew up in the Soros household than one who grew up poorly nourished and surrounded by rats. But money matters. We hear a lot about how wonderfu ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 2 05:39:42 PDT 1999

40010 Fwd: Fw: N30 An Int'l Day Of Solidarity Against WTO & Global Third Worldization -- rank: 1000

[forwarded by Angela - lots of XXX's in the contact info, and the website isn't working yet] FIGHT THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM WITH SOLIDARITY FROM THE BOTTOM UP! November 30 1999 An International Day of Action Against the World Trade Organization and Global Third Worldization An international day of action, resistance, and carnival against the global capitalist system will take place on NOVEMBER 30th this year. This day coincides with the 3rd ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (W ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 1 16:43:03 PDT 1999

40011 LTCM - Hubris (or, moral hazard) -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Peter, >thank you for this helpful download. >Angela raised sometime ago a question about the transition from commodity >to fiat money. What about the transition to electronic money? I know Joel >Kurtzman wrote an interesting, fact filled book about this a few years >ago; and there is a new book by Robt Solomon I believe on the topic. Aside >from electronic transactions per se, it sure does not seem that the kind >of arbitrage LTCM attempted would ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 1 15:53:29 PDT 1999

40012 70s English Youth Culture and the Labour Party and the Unions -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >On Sun, 1 Aug 1999 13:16:42 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >writes: > > >Yeah, though mainly from the anarchist left. What about the Mekons > >and the Au Pairs? > >Never listened to either (Au Pairs stuff is damned hard to find on CD, >and I don't have a turntable). Both bands were from the Leeds University >scene that spawned Gang of Four though, and GOF even gives a shout out to >the Mekons in the liner notes to Enter ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 1 11:52:41 PDT 1999

40013 on the map & sennett -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >so names of two major contemporary US parties have been around >since late 1820s (Dems) Doesn't this make the Dems one of the oldest political parties in the world? I seem to remember something about only the British Tories being older. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 1 10:56:46 PDT 1999

40014 The New Constellation and the French Revolution -- rank: 1000

ken wrote: >Even the local Toronto Star >religious ethics reporter summed it up this way: "Religious >faith is beyond all questioning. It is simply a matter of >choice." Nuts. Just nuts. Hey, speaking of standards of criticism, I was told, in the midst of a vigorous dispute on the feminist economics list, that there's a very simple rule governing discourse between the sexes: "Please try to apply a single standard. Please remember that it's not ever okay to be hostil ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 1 10:52:19 PDT 1999

40015 70s English Youth Culture and the Labour Party and the Unions -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 21:58:49 +0100 Jim heartfield ><jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk> writes: > >(Cultural critics: that's what punk rock was all about. Listen to the > >first Jam LP and ask yourself who Paul Weller voted for in 1979 - > >Margaret Thatcher - or listen to Chelsea's great song The Right to Work, > >and remind yourself that the lead singer wrote it as a protest *against* > >trade unions. The Clash were something of a thro ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 1 10:16:42 PDT 1999

40016 AC on Littleton & Belgrade -- rank: 1000

Jeff St Clair tells me he just put up a copy of Alex Cockburn's piece on Littleton & Belgrade up on the Counterpunch website <http://www.counterpunch.com/>. AC gets pissed if one posts full texts - otherwise I'd forward it. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 30 14:58:58 PDT 1999

40017 Question for Max -- rank: 1000

Brett Knowlton wrote: >I got my aunt to admit (and my uncle didn't protest her position) that it >was OK for the US to intervene in foreign societies if they were >oppressive. In other words, its OK to put a stop, forcefully if necessary, >to various forms of repression around the globe. Well, I did something today I haven't in ages, picked up a copy of Foreign Affairs. The lead piece is by Michael Glennon of the UC-Davis law school, a former counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 30 13:49:44 PDT 1999

40018 Off List -- rank: 1000

Enough! No more exchanges over who's a racist!! The world is ugly enough without us attacking each other like this!!! Stop!!!! Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 30 11:52:03 PDT 1999

40019 Matrix -- rank: 1000

[another bounce] From: "Mark Rickling" <mrickling at hotmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: Matrix Redux Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:18:44 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman at yale.edu> But overall, I did think the politics of the film was pretty good, from the multiracialism to the undercurrent of self-satisfied workers-consumers living each day wit ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 30 11:28:19 PDT 1999

40020 more teen portraits -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because it was posted from a non-sub'd address] From: "Mark Rickling" <mrickling at hotmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: COVERING UP RACISM Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:21:01 EDT I thought that the article below created an interesting juxtopostion in yesterday's WP with the article Doug has already posted. I'll cite the relevant section from first article also. Sorry that this message is going to bounce as this is not my normal account. mark Portra ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 30 10:45:28 PDT 1999