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41326 LBO on Wall Street -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >I got to thinking: without revealing any confidential subscriber >information, how many people on Wall Street read LBO? Are there >actually traders (not, in my experience, the most intellectually >inclined of fellows) out there who will read a well-informed alternate >opinion, if only to gain some money-making insight? I have no idea, really, but my sense is not many at all. Wall Street's sales are also not "over" 20,000 - they're approaching 20,000. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 21 10:25:32 PST 1998

41327 tobacco -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >Doug my website source, >http://www.citizen.org/tobacco, gives $43 million in >lobbying in the first six months of this year; in >addition to the now well-developed skew in campaign >contributions. I think there is more to this than you >allow. It also says that's compared to $15m last year. The industry's back is to the wall - what do you expect? And how does this compare to other interests? I don't see this in the report. But the Center for Public Integri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 21 10:16:14 PST 1998

41328 kick Boddhi: yes or no? -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote (of "boddhi"): >You nearly got throw off PEN-L for this kind of racist >baiting. I hope that Doug Henwood has backbone enough to do the job which >should have been done long ago. I find Boddhi almost as offensive and irritating as you do. But I'm not sure he's committed any kickable offenses yet. Let me poll the assembled masses. Those with strong feelings one way or the other, write me privately (not the list!!! please!!!!! here's a link to simplify things ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 21 09:44:13 PST 1998

41329 debt and bankruptcy -- rank: 1000

rc&am wrote: >have i got this right, then? is it too crude to say that debtors are >allowed to file for bankruptcy if there are either assets which can be >liquidated or if there is the capacity for future wages? correct me >if i'm wrong - anyone. if this is so, does this mean that bankruptcy >is simply a means to restructure debt repayments, and that those who >are not in a position to do so would ... well.. what happens to them? Under present law, if you can afford th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 21 09:38:33 PST 1998

41330 something to ponder -- rank: 1000

[From The Liscio Report website.] A LETHAL COMBINATION When it comes to reading the pulse of the international market place there are precious few in the same league as Joe Quinlan at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. We checked in with Joe late last week and found him worried about "a lethal combination " of declining foreign capital inflows and America's widening current account deficit. Now, Joe's the first to admit that running a constant, yawning current account deficit need not wreak h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 21 09:25:17 PST 1998

41331 correction -- rank: 1000

Sorry, that should have been the Reps control almost 2/3 of governorships, not 3/4. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 21 09:13:25 PST 1998

41332 Impeachment: Clinton's Service to the Democrats -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant wrote: >The fact is that the Republicans have been in serious trouble ever >since the end of the Cold War. So why do they control both houses of Congress, about 3/4 of the governorships, approaching that many state legislatures, and even the mayoralty of New York City? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 21 09:07:39 PST 1998

41333 Hastert and ... tobacco -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >So many people assume that such a process as "X identifying with Y" occurs >that I >must be wrong. But honestly, I really cannot imagine what meaning that could >have, and rather think the burden of proof lies on those who think it does. It >seems mystical to me. Yup. People never see rejected, idealized, admired, or despised aspects of themselves in others, do they? What a ludicrous invention of those hyperimaginative Freudians! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 21 07:51:16 PST 1998

41334 Salon on Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >So where do we register Doug as the official pontificator for the >culturally hip materialist left? Only Brits are allowed to play that role on American TV. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 20 22:32:55 PST 1998

41335 Salon on Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote: >Oh well a piece by Annalee Newitz, the babe who dubbed me SnitgrrRl, what >would you expect? She loves Doug's ass. I'd even say she sucks Doug's >ass and I bet there's a welt to prove it. Why its a veritable orgy of ass >kissin' among that Berkeley crowd and Annalee'd do anything to ingratiate >herself to a Yalie, she's into that kinda thang. Miscegenation you know; >it's quite a turn on for Berkely English grads. Gad, and I thought you'd ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 20 22:27:23 PST 1998

41336 Hastert and ... tobacco -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >According to Common Cause, Smoke and Mirrors, page, > >in the ten years to 31 Dec 1995 Hastert received in PAC declared >contributions from tobacco companies > >$26,700, In 10 years? That's not even pocket change by DC standards, unless there are 3 zeros missing, which seems incredible. Apropos money in U.S. politics, the lead item from the January Harper's Index: "Estimated amount a major party U.S. presidential candidate must raise per hour to becom ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 20 15:31:58 PST 1998

41337 David Bacon -- rank: 1000

[This bounced as a nonmember submission. But since it comes from Michael Eisenscher, I thought it was worth forwarding.] Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 13:36:33 -0800 To: meisenscher at igc.apc.org From: Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher at igc.org> Subject: AN URGENT APPEAL: Don't Let This Voice Be Silenced Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" PLEASE FORWARD TO OTHERS WHO MAY BE INTERESTED. APOLOGIES FOR DUPLICATION THROUGH CROSS-POSTING. December 20, 1998 Siste ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 20 15:27:05 PST 1998

41338 J'adore, my sweet Gore -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >A life-style liberal? Does that mean he doesn't look at his watch when he >comes? Vidal says in his memoir Palmipsest that he's never loved anyone and never wanted to give anyone pleasure. The sight of an erection in his partner was enough to make him lose his own. Palmipsest is very very funny, but Vidal comes off as a pretty hateful individual. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 20 11:31:54 PST 1998

41339 Hastert and ... tobacco -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Are the Republican's jealous that Clinton has carried forward the corporate >agenda with more skill than they could? Yes. I think the best explanation of their anti-Clinton mania is that he co-opted their issues, leaving them little of substance to talk about except their hatred of Clinton for his alleged embodiment of the "sixties." As Maureen Dowd wrote in today's New York Times: "Tom DeLay, the jagged-edge exterminator who may next-up in the Speaker rou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 20 10:32:51 PST 1998

41340 Hastert and ... tobacco -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >To lose one speaker, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks >like carelessness. > >But already Gingrich and DeLay are scrambling to get consensus for a >"healer" in Dennis Hastert, who has worked with DeLay in the past. > >About whom very little dramatic is known except there is one video clip of >him losing his temper questioning an official of the Federal Food and >Drugs Agency over ... funny thing ... tobacco. > >No ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 19 13:34:33 PST 1998