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40276 work -- rank: 1000

Friday April 2 12:14 PM ET Americans obsessed with work By Ann Quigley NEW YORK, Apr 02 (Reuters Health) -- Despite technological improvements designed to lessen their workload, Americans work more at the century's end than its beginning, in part because they have developed a religious-like attachment to work, according to one researcher. ``We think not of progress in terms of transcending the workplace and work, but we think more about work as an end in itself. And leisure is not the goal of pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 7 14:36:40 PDT 1999

40277 Bleeding Heart Gazette -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >KOSOVANS RECOUNT MASSACRES 6 Apr. 99 etc. Max, I don't get your point. I don't think anyone on this list is denying that Serbs have done and continue to do horrible things in Kosovo. The arguments made here instead are that they're not the only guilty ones, that NATO isn't the proper agency to do anything about it, and the U.S. and its allies are using humanitarian concerns to push an imperial agenda. You're doing the same thing Nathan Newman and Chris Burford are - turnin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 7 13:31:26 PDT 1999

40278 No jobs, but great stock prices -- rank: 1000

Margaret wrote: >NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Job reductions continued at a record >pace in March, with companies announcing 68,984 in the >month, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., >an outplacement firm. > >March marked the 12th straight month in which job cuts >were higher on a year-to-year basis. And it brought >total job reductions for the past six months to a >record 456,860. > >The firm also said March marked the first month in "a >long time& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 7 12:43:42 PDT 1999

40279 double blackmail (Zizek) -- rank: 1000

[Here's the full English version of the Zizek piece that RKMickey translated for us from the abridged German.] AGAINST THE DOUBLE BLACKMAIL Slavoj Zizek The top winner in the contest for the greatest blunder of 1998 was a Latin-American patriotic terrorist who sent a bomb letter to a US consulate in order to protest against the American interfering into the local politics. As a conscientious citizen, he wrote on the envelope his return address; however, he did not put enough stamps on it, so tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 7 12:35:49 PDT 1999

40280 Fwd: [PEN-L:4919] BLS Daily Report -- rank: 1000

BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1999 "What you see isn't always what you can get," said an article in Monday's "Washington Business" section of the Washington Post. ... The author says there should options when information is available electronically. Trouble is, the formats that Webmasters choose for the data they display rules many of them out. Often the user can't do much more than read information on the screen. ... Web pages display tables created in hypertext ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 7 11:55:06 PDT 1999

40281 "WWIII vs Vietnam" -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >The illogicality of continuing massive bombardments of the whole of Serbia >while delaying for logistical reasons the arrival of Apaches that could >concentrate only on the territory of Kosovo is not challenged in public. Sort of calls your cheerleading for the NATO humanitarians into question, doesn't it? Sometimes what appears "illogical" is actually logical once you understand the starting premises. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 7 11:39:42 PDT 1999

40282 political addresses -- rank: 1000

>Address Directory - Politicians of the World >http://www.trytel.com/~aberdeen/ > >Snail mail and, being added, e-mail, phone and fax contact >info for the provincial governors, prime ministers, >presidents and monarchs of 195 nations.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 7 08:44:40 PDT 1999

40283 basta! -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >enough! if people want to mourn yoshie's unsbbing, please do so with >yoshie who unsubbed. if people want to talk about the issues this might >raise for the conduct of polemic and debate on the list, this can be done >surprisingly well without talking about it in playground terms, or even >talking about yoshie's unsubbing for that matter. if people want to talk >about the issues involved with how the left approaches the war, doing so >without recourse to san ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 7 07:46:05 PDT 1999

40284 Caspian intrigue -- rank: 1000

[It's like the 19th century all over again - Balkan War & Caspian intrigue....] Wall Street Journal - April 7, 1999 Former Israeli Intelligence Agent Is an Unlikely Player in Asia Oil By JAMES M. DORSEY Special to THE WALL STREET JOURNAL HERZLIYAH, Israel -- A former Israeli intelligence agent seems an unlikely player in the struggle to exploit the vast untapped pools of crude oil and natural gas in Central Asia that the Soviet Union failed to extract when it controlled the region. Now that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 7 08:00:49 PDT 1999

40285 multiculti racism -- rank: 1000

[from "You May!," by Slavoj Zizek - London Review of Books, 3/18/99] <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n06/zize2106.htm> [...] Even racism is now reflexive. Consider the Balkans. They are portrayed in the liberal Western media as a vortex of ethnic passion - a multiculturalist dream turned into a nightmare. The standard reaction of a Slovene (I am one myself) is to say: 'yes, this is how it is in the Balkans, but Slovenia is not part of the Balkans; it is part of Mitteleuropa; the Balkan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 7 07:37:06 PDT 1999

40286 race, class, & TV -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - April 7, 1999 Daytime Viewership Isn't Divided by Race By LEON WYNTER THERE WERE a lot of good reasons why comedian Roseanne's new daytime talk show broadcast from the legendary Apollo Theater in New York's Harlem during November's ratings sweeps. Mostly, there was a pragmatic one: The struggling show sorely needs viewers, especially black viewers. African-Americans supply a disproportionate number of the guests, studio audiences, hosts and viewers for daytime talk shows. B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 7 07:29:45 PDT 1999

40287 Tobin tax -- rank: 1000

[address bounce] Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 14:10:42 +0200 From: Harald Schumann <HSchumann at spiegel.de> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [de] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: Tobin Tax References: <199904070647.CAA24919 at dont.panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Henry C. K. Liu wrote: > For the record, my orignmial statement on another list was: > > A simple Tobin tax is like trying to fight a r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 7 07:06:28 PDT 1999

40288 2-bit pricks -- rank: 1000

[today's Sam Smith excerpt...] >FOREIGN POLICY > >"'We're not inflicting pain on these fuckers,' Clinton said, softly at >first. 'When people kill us, they should be killed in greater numbers.' >Then, with his face reddening, his voice rising, and his fist pounding his >thigh, he leaned into Tony [Lake], as if it was his fault. 'I believe in >killing people who try to hurt you. And I can't believe we're being pushed >around by these two-bit pricks.'" -- George ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 6 13:35:36 PDT 1999

40289 cruise envy -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick pointed me to this hideous editorial from the Observer <http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Observer/Story/0,3879,39805,00.html>. The paper is edited by a social democrat, Will Hutton - right? Here's the concluding paragraph: "The Blair goverment is on the spot. If the war is to be won, Blair and Chirac must pressurise Clinton into stepping up the US commitment - an alliance with Europe against the US that Blair will not want to make. We must be clear-headed about our aims and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 6 13:07:08 PDT 1999

40290 Kosovo-Metohija -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: >Redmond's >theory that the US is subordinate to the EU is ridiculous, but the >counter theory is also ridiculous. The French have never hesitated >to oppose the US on something they did not like. Opposing the U.S. is one thing, organizing a war is another. The U.S. is reminding the EU who's the top imperialist. This may inspire the EU to think about its own foreign policy, but that's for tomorrow, which is another day. >Squeezing Russia is clearly c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 6 11:48:57 PDT 1999