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40831 Remedial Class Struggle -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >In Fl the ruling class is not saying that there are too many people in >college. Actually, they are saying that we need way more college grads. >Universities are expanding and new ones are opening. Since only 17% of the >FL population has a college degree (source for this statistic--a guy at a >sandwich shop), there aren't people to fill those "technical/managerial" >elite positions. Makes the new tuition policy all the more inexplicable. ...

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Date:	Sun May 31 17:34:09 PDT 1998

40832 Remedial Class Struggle -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Where could one get more information about the Manhattan institute, >particularly on the advice about college students? I was afraid you'd ask that. I got this bit of intelligence from Josh Mason. Josh, you here? Doug

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Date:	Sun May 31 16:36:02 PDT 1998

40833 Remedial Class Struggle -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >This is particularly galling when one takes into account that the FL state >public school system is ranked among the lowest in the country (somewhere >between 47-49). Of course a large percentage of the students are going to >need extensive remedial work. Seems to me the U.S. ruling class doesn't give a damn if most kids can't read or add - might interfere with their being turned into drones for Wal-Mart. Sure, we need a technical/managerial elite, but no ...

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Date:	Sun May 31 16:28:26 PDT 1998

40834 the hell with democracy -- rank: 1000

>From a review of Alan Blinder's Central Bankin in Theory and Practice (MIT, 1998) by one Manuel Guitián (no affiliation given) in Finance & Development, June 1998: "Blinder also poses a most interesting question that inevitably arises with arguments for central bank independence. Those arguments, in the author's own words, 'apply just as well to many other aspects of economic policy - and, indeed, to noneconomic policy as well.' Yet no one talks of turning over those aspects to inde ...

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Date:	Sun May 31 13:16:32 PDT 1998

40835 Wenn ich Kultur hoere (was Re: Invention of the white race // Rakeshon eugenics) -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >The evident crappiness of the latest racist pseudo-biology is an >indication of the desparation and decadence of the bourgeoisie Decadence, maybe, but desperation? What is desperate about the bourgeoisie? Everything is going their way. They've crushed their rival of 75 years, socialism is near-dead as a political force, profits are high in the U.S. (and getting better in Europe), and money is ruling just about all aspects of social life. That doesn't sound desperate t ...

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Date:	Sun May 31 09:51:43 PDT 1998

40836 LBO web updates -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Re: Asia Melts... > >"At a press conference in 1995, when WBAI/Pacifica reporter Amy Goodman >asked World Bank president James Wolfensohn if the Bank was going to make >loans to Indonesia conditional on ending human rights violations, the smart >and worldly Wolfensohn said, incredibly, that it was the first he'd heard >of them." > >Remarkable. > >Absolutely remarkable. > >And the White House picked Wolfensohn as its World Bank ...

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Date:	Sun May 31 09:09:08 PDT 1998

40837 List Volume -- rank: 1000

Andrew Kliman wrote: >I just came across the best argument for further controlling the volume on >this list, in a business publication to which I subscribe. The author, one >Doug Henwood, writes: > >"In [TV] news, then, speed of thought and language are prized, meaning, says >Bourdieu, no real communication can take place. Real communication, and >real thought, take time; what can be done in an instant is only to pay >homage to received ideas. TV loves ... 'fast t ...

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Date:	Sat May 30 23:07:46 PDT 1998

40838 LBO web updates -- rank: 1000

I've just added two articles to the LBO web site <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>, one on the Asian collapse and one on European Monetary Union. Both are clickable from the first screen, and are sprinkled with links and graphics. Plus updated U.S. employment, unemployment, and earnings stats. Is the long real wage decline over? Slightly spiffier appearance here & there, too. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 ...

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Date:	Sat May 30 17:57:38 PDT 1998

40839 abortion litmus test -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >In my political tent, I would trade 100 middle-class >pro-choicers for 100 Catholic pro-lifers who supported >aid to the poor in preference to what we have now or what >we had three years ago. Do Catholic pro-lifers score high on care for the poor? What's the gender gap in the abortion polls? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 29 19:04:06 PDT 1998

40840 volume -- rank: 1000

I'm enjoying this list tremendously, but could we temper the volume a bit? Please don't quote long posts for a one-line comment, and please limit yourself to no more than 2-3 posts a day. I like the volume, but lots of people don't. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 29 11:21:36 PDT 1998

40841 Invention of the white race // Rakesh on eugenics -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >R-squared per se may or may not be indicative of the 'scientific value' of >the finding. I agree with all you said. My only point, lifted from Gould, was that their strongest case was able to explain 5% of social outcomes, which is pretty useless. On their own terms it's bullshit. Their own terms are even more bullshit than their stats, but I don't think anyone here would disagree. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 29 11:16:48 PDT 1998

40842 bourgeois internationalism -- rank: 1000

A press release from the Cato Institute begins: >May 29, 1998 > >Cato Institute launches Spanish-language Internet Web site >Institute's ideas attracting growing interest in Latin America and Spain > >The Cato Institute today launched a new Spanish-language Web >site-www.elcato.org <http://www.elcato.org>-featuring essays and studies >produced by Cato scholars on a wide range of issues, many of which are of >particular importance to Latin Americans, Spaniards, an ...

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Date:	Fri May 29 09:40:19 PDT 1998

40843 Invention of the white race // Rakesh on eugenics -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >With the hegemony of neoliberalism and the severe erosion of what little >elements of the 'welfare state' that the USA has ever developed, the ruling >class in America is in need of a new emphasis on geneticism and biologism. Not Clinton though. The White House is holding practically daily welfare-to-work heroism events. There is much cheering that the 10,000 or so ex-welfare recipients who've been hired by Big Biz in Big Bill's PR scheme report excellent retent ...

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Date:	Thu May 28 16:54:33 PDT 1998

40844 Invention of the white race // Rakesh on eugenics -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >What Jensen & Co. do is not much different for what passes for standard >fare in economics: applying sophisticated mathematical models to bullshit >data (the Garbage In Garbage Out syndrome). In fact, these folks use >scientific jargon and technical mumbo-jumbo to cover the glaring emprical >emptiness of their thought. As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in his review of the Bell Curve in The New Yorker, that if, as they argue, IQ explains 50% of socia ...

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Date:	Thu May 28 16:08:59 PDT 1998

40845 FYI: Bill Gates, from riches to riches -- rank: 1000

Kirsten Neilsen wrote: >so no wall street journal or nyt either? Not if Bob Bartley sends it. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 28 09:08:59 PDT 1998