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40111 Bill & Al chase bucks -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - April 22, 1999 Bill Bradley Makes Fund-Raising Inroads Among Rich in Silicon Valley, Wall Street By GLENN R. SIMPSON and ANN GRIMES Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Last May, Vice President Al Gore sent videotaped remarks to a computer-industry bash sponsored by the Mayfield Fund, a California venture-capital firm that he lavishly praised for supporting innovative technologies. It was one more installment in Mr. Gore's long romance of Silicon Valley. Then, in Janu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 22 07:22:43 PDT 1999

40112 Croat cleansing -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - April 22, 1999 Few Serbs Chased From Croatia In 1995 Have Made It Back Home By DANIEL PEARL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL KNIN, Croatia -- Dusan Dujic has a seemingly modest ambition: to die in his own house. Mr. Dujic hasn't set foot in the small two-story home in this railroad town since he and thousands of other ethnic Serbs fled a Croatian army onslaught called "Operation Storm" in 1995. A city document confirms that he owns the building, but the e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 22 07:19:05 PDT 1999

40113 The Divisions in NATO -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Blair has just made >sure he has been photographed running up the steps to get into the plane to >tell Clinton what to do. You really eat that stuff up, eh? "Don't go all wobbly now, George" rewritten for the 90s? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 21 22:45:13 PDT 1999

40114 Wage gap figures question?? -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Looking over the CPS census data I found that women ($24,973) are paid >less than men ($33,674). > >But when I looked for numbers by race, I could choose between per capita >and household comparisions. Per capita for blacks ($12,351 ), Asian >($18,226) and Hispanics ($10,773) were less than whites ($20,425). The >Household figures placed Asians way above whites which must have to do >with numbers of earners in the household? > >The immediate qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 21 14:00:23 PDT 1999

40115 not towards a new architecture -- rank: 1000

[meet the new architecture...] Text as Prepared for Delivery April 21, 1999 RR-3093 TREASURY SECRETARY ROBERT E. RUBIN REMARKS ON REFORM OF THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE TO THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES I am here today to discuss the United States' agenda for the future global financial architecture: the actions we have taken already and are in the process of taking, and our proposals for further change. In the past two years, the international community has mobilized en ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 21 13:43:34 PDT 1999

40116 ecological consquences of bombing -- rank: 1000

Environmental News Network <http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/1999/04/042199/natobomb_2782.asp> Environment a casualty of NATO bombing Wednesday, April 21, 1999 By Stephen Schowengerdt NATO aerial photograph captures destruction at Pristina fuel depot.It will take Mother Earth a long time to heal herself in the Balkans, in some cases thousands of years after the NATO bombs stop falling, according to reports filtering out of the war-torn area. The environment has always been a casualty of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 21 13:10:03 PDT 1999

40117 The Bourgeois Right to Bear Arms -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Or would this just be another liberal wank, Doug? What do you think, Chris? Personally I don't like guns, and I don't like the survivalist aspects of American culture associated with guns. But I've never been a big fan of liberal gun control mania either. You want the state to have a monopoly over arms? As perverse as it is, I always kind of enjoyed the Workers Vanguard analysis of the Waco massacre - that it was liberal gun mania run amok. Rather than contrive suits aga ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 21 05:23:43 PDT 1999

40118 neither/nor -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >i do not know what the >demos in the US or Europe are like What's going on exactly, protest-wise? I don't see or hear of much activity in New York, though maybe I'm out of touch. Any reports from elsewhere? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 21 05:16:45 PDT 1999

40119 The Reader on Ma(t)r(i)x -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > From boddhisatva at mindspring.com Tue Apr 20 20:34:42 1999 > > I say "assault-type" to compensate for the loose nature of the > definition. > >You mean that you say 'assault-type' loosely to compensate for some >evil image you wanted to conjure? > > What does MSFT have to do with high-school massacres ... > >Nothing, but they beat their numbers, so my prediction is the stock >will rise. I love America. 25 kids dead in a suburba ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 21 05:13:43 PDT 1999

40120 US dismantles Russian arms -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe - April 20, 1999 Disarming of Russia continues By David Filipov SERGIYEV POSAD, Russia - Relations between the United States and Russia may have reached their lowest point since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but remarkably, that has not stopped a US-funded program to dismantle the decaying, but still deadly, nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union. At a secret defense factory in this industrial town north of Moscow, Russian submarine-launched ballistic missiles, which were once ai ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 22:36:29 PDT 1999

40121 from the French press... -- rank: 1000

--From LE MONDE, 20 April 1999: "According to an itemized accounting, Sunday [18 April], from the UN High Commission on Refugees (HCR), 735,000 Kosovars have been forced to leave their homes since 1998, 564,000 of them [more than three-fourths] since 24 March [when the US-NATO bombings began]." As for the "humanitarian operation" supposed to be helping them, NATO appears to be responding very slowly and is "putting its military framework in place as if nothing else were ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 18:34:33 PDT 1999

40122 Saving Private Havel -- rank: 1000

The official Bastard-statement on the war in Yugoslavia by Boris Buden (editor in chief, Zagreb/Vienna) Saving Private Havel New graffiti is to be seen these days in bombed Belgrade. SLOBO KLINTONE (Slobo, you Clinton!). This simple but poignant message reveals the abyss in which a genuinely democratic stance has fallen since the beginning of the NATO military campaign against Yugoslavia. It illustrates not only the political deadlock of the democratic option: the intrinsic impossibility of a ch ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 13:50:47 PDT 1999

40123 A Personal Note -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Well, some of my female and gay friends are convinced that under a Repug >administration their civil rights would suffer a serious setback. And that's no small matter. But...expulsions of same-sexers from the armed forces are higher now than they were before Clinton's ridiculous don't ask/don't tell nonsense. Clinton signed the hideous Defense of Marriage Act and bought time on Christian radio stations to brag about it; he also signed the welfare bill, with its hi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 12:21:09 PDT 1999

40124 more Pacifica censorship -- rank: 1000

FAIR News Release Update: April 20, 1999 CounterSpin Broadcast Halted In-Progress by Pacifica Station WPFW On April 20th, CounterSpin, the national radio show produced by the media watch group FAIR, was taken off the air while in-progress by WPFW, the Washington, D.C.-based Pacifica affiliate. The show included a segment on media coverage of the use of depleted uranium weapons by NATO forces in the Balkans, followed by an interview with Larry Bensky, a broadcaster recently fired by Pacifica. WPF ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 12:16:13 PDT 1999

40125 Hitchens profile -- rank: 1000

New York magazine's profile of Christopher Hitchens - a promo tie-in for his new book on Clinton, No One Left To Lie To - is at <http://www.newyorkmag.com/This_Week/view.asp?id=2302>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 20 11:59:53 PDT 1999