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40081 Littleton -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow quoted: >Freaks. Outcasts. Weirdos. These words are now casually thrown around by >Columbine High School students in reference to the two boys who opened >fire, killing 12 of their classmates and one of their teachers. One girl >dismissed all the taunting and name calling they endured as "just stupid >teenage stuff." How intense are these pressures to conform in countries other than the U.S.? The American self-image is one of rugged individualists marching to t ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 24 09:51:31 PDT 1999

40082 nuclear power & war -- rank: 1000

From: "Anti-war campaign" <ecodefense at glasnet.ru> Subject: Anti-war bulletin Nr 2 (Nuclear power and war in Yugoslavia) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 05:19:59 +0400 PRESS-RELEASE MOSCOW April 23, 1999 NUCLEAR THREAT AROUND YUGOSLAVIA GROW UP Russia must take an active part in peacekeeping around coflict zone Involvement of the country, where the most unsafe nuclear plany of Europe located, into the war stimulate nuclear threat to Europe, said Anti-war committee in Moscow on Friday. O ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 22:15:06 PDT 1999

40083 Fwd: 1999-04-23 Fact Sheet on Helping to Keep Our Schools Safe -- rank: 1000

[Stress management teams! More cops in schools!!] Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:46 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> Subject: 1999-04-23 Fact Sheet on Helping to Keep Our Schools Safe To: Public-Distribution@[198.137.240.100] Precedence: Bulk Document-ID: pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/4/23/15.text.1 URL: http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/4/23/15 .text.1 Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: White House Electronic Publications Key ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 16:06:43 PDT 1999

40084 Seattle: WTO-free zone -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >I need anti-WTO documents and reports and web sites information >for helping to build a case for anti-WTO forces in China. >Prefer hard data to ideological statements. Public Citizen (Nader) - <http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/gattwto/gatthome.html> Third World Network - <http://www.southside.org.sg/souths/twn/trade.htm> Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 14:49:02 PDT 1999

40085 Carl and Paul Henry on Ma(t)r(i)x -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Jonathan Sterne wrote: > >> No, but it does claim that movies contribute to making people stupid. >> That's straight outta Carl's quote. I think he's wrong, and I'd like to >> see that assertion backed up with something other than reassertion. > >I haven't read any previous posts on this thread -- but geez, this 2400 >year old argument (probably older) still being chewed over. Aristotle >made the complaint about Euripides. Jonson made it ab ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 14:34:59 PDT 1999

40086 TrenchCoat.org -- rank: 1000

from Sam Smith... >SITES RELATED TO COLORADO KILLINGS >Trench Coat Mafia Website Mirror http://www.toddzilla.com >Eric Harris' Web Page http://zeppelin.cnchost.com/trenchcoat.html >Original trench coat page?? http://zeppelin.cnchost.com/mafia.html

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 14:32:21 PDT 1999

40087 Fwd: M-TH: ope-l 1999 archives -- rank: 1000

Good news for scholars and revolutionaries everywhere - previously secret archives, now open to public, and updated! >Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:13:52 -0400 (EDT) >From: Gerald Levy <glevy at pratt.edu> >X-Sender: glevy at acnet >To: marxism-thaxis at buo319b.econ.utah.edu >Subject: M-TH: ope-l 1999 archives >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Sender: owner-marxism-thaxis at buo319b.econ.utah.edu >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: marxism-thaxis at buo319b.econ.utah.edu > >Just a ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 13:23:41 PDT 1999

40088 Proclamation on National Crime Victims Rights Week -- rank: 1000

["a public-private partnership entitled 'Dealing with Our Differences'"; "it is never too soon to teach our children that violence and hatred are wrong and have no place in our schools or in our society"] Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:04 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> Subject: 1999-04-22 Proclamation on National Crime Victims Rights Week To: Public-Distribution@[198.137.240.100] Precedence: Bulk Document-ID: pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1 ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 13:21:04 PDT 1999

40089 Fwd: 1999-04-23 Statement by the President on Social Security -- rank: 1000

[So the Reps, having read the polls, decide to give up on Social Security "reform," and Clinton complains about it! Triangulating bastard.] Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:12 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> Subject: 1999-04-23 Statement by the President on Social Security To: Public-Distribution@[198.137.240.100] Precedence: Bulk Document-ID: pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/4/23/11.text.1 URL: http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma. ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 13:09:10 PDT 1999

40090 Youth violence -- rank: 1000

Tavia wrote: >I'm also interested in what people think of Mike Males' writings on 'The >Scapegoat Generation' which argues that young people are an increasingly >demonized segment of society and are blamed for almost every social ill >(drugs, crime, welfare abuse) while at the same moment being one of the >most vulnerable and attacked segment in society. I think Males is absolutely right about the demonization of young people. But he's really nuts on the geezer issue - he returns ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 11:19:12 PDT 1999

40091 blowing up schools -- rank: 1000

So our dear mayor, Rudy Giuliani, said in his budget address yesterday that the NYC school system, along with CUNY, should be "blown up." Who's taking a cue from whom? Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 11:06:16 PDT 1999

40092 the blair doctrine -- rank: 1000

[this bounced for an address kink] From: "christian a. gregory" <driver at nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: the blair doctrine Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:04:22 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 chris wrote: >I guess Doug is still stuck in seeing the Third Way as some comptemptible >form of social democracy delivered in sou ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 09:48:12 PDT 1999

40093 history is like so over -- rank: 1000

Suck <http://www.suck.com> - April 23, 1999 Bit Rot Though it has been four months since his final bow, surprisingly few in the media have mourned Nicholas Negroponte's passing. This writer, for one, laments the fact that we don't have Tricky Nick to kick around anymore. In the December 1998 Wired, Negroponte - <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.11/nicholas.htmldirector> of MIT's Media Lab and sharp-dressed retailer of broader-bandwidth tomorrows to corporate America (and to the u ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 09:21:51 PDT 1999

40094 Seattle: WTO-free zone -- rank: 1000

Today's WSJ reports that Seattle is "bracing for protesters" at the World Trade Organization meeting this November. It says Seattle's city council has voted "to make the city a global-investment-treaty-free zone." Seattle is home to Boeing and Microsoft, two companies with massive global sales that thrive on the tightened intellectual property restrictions and pried-open trade regimes embodied in WTO/MAI-style treaties. Can any northwesterners on the list enlighten me on how ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 09:08:31 PDT 1999

40095 fwd query on productivity, stats, etc. -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >thanks for this. I'm afraid I haven't had the time to do any real research to >back up my current reflections. You would have thought that access to stats >would have been an ideal use for the web, but unfortunately I have yet to >find a decent world economic statistics site yet. All the commercial >economics publications charge (hardly surprising for a bunch of capitalists I >suppose). If you have any leads on on-line sources I love to hear of them. >I'm parti ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 08:56:56 PDT 1999