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41431 Reading Judy -- rank: 1000

d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote: >>Really? I've always wanted to look like Brad Pitt. >> > >Oh god Frances. Me too. Damn, and I've always wanted to look like Gina Gershon. Though girls, tell me - what's the charm of Brad Pitt? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 7 19:53:44 PST 1998

41432 Reading Judy -- rank: 1000

I'm going to be away from Jan 1-9, so I'd like to see the Judy fest begin like on the 10th. But whatever's convenient for the masses.... d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote: >Hey Doug-daddy. What is the scoop with LBO?! I can't for the life of me >read your exchange w/ Malecki. Do you think you could make the font any >smaller by chance. I'll get my binoculars out, okay? Really? Looked OK on my browser. Try again - I boosted the font size by 1 point <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/DH ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 7 17:46:01 PST 1998

41433 IMF vs World Bank -- rank: 1000

Copyright 1998, Inter Press Service FINANCE-POLITICS: 'High-Rhetoric' Fight Between World Bank, IMF Analysis by Abid Aslam WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (IPS) - Nineteenth Street in downtown Washington is starting to become like the Siachen glacier, a disputed mountain expanse over which Indian and Pakistani troops sporadically exchange gunfire. Only here, economists from the World Bank and its next-door neighbour, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), periodically exchange volleys over economic crisis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 7 12:47:22 PST 1998

41434 McDonalds question -- rank: 1000

Tom Kruse wrote: >I vaguely remember The Economist did a Big Mac index, which compared >the cost of Big Macs the world over, as a sort of globalized index of >costs/values. The Economist's web archive says the most recent article on their Big Mac index was April 28, 1998. Unfortunately they just have the text of the article and not the table, and the article doesn't mention Bolivia. They claim there's a 10-year history of the index at <http://www.economist.com/archive/index_Big_Mac.h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 7 07:23:00 PST 1998

41435 U.S.: "not sustainable" -- rank: 1000

[A pessimistic view of the U.S., based on a paper by the British monetarist Tim Congdon. His paper is at <http://www.lombard-st.co.uk/uk/BMM-19981207.pdf>.] FINANCIAL TIMES - MONDAY DECEMBER 7 1998 SPENDING: Paying for shop therapy By Richard Waters Will somebody else out there start spending soon? Please? These days it sometimes feels as though Americans are the only spenders left. US domestic demand has become the antidote to the world's economic malaise. Send us your tired, your poor an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 7 07:12:41 PST 1998

41436 Tobacco and capitalism. -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Freud is famously quoted as saying "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". >What a relief. But Doug, when I post an item totalling the annual profits >of the three major tobacco capitalists in the UK, a market of roughly 50 >million inhabitants, at around 3 billion dollars, then we cannot say a >cigarette is just a cigarette. Oh yes, and the world food market is cornered by greedheads like Cargill - better do something about that eating habit! And medi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 7 07:06:01 PST 1998

41437 Tobacco and capitalism. -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >Drugs of addiction make for a particularly reactionary brand of capitalism >- I am thinking of alcohol and caffeine (as in Cola), as well as nicotine. > >Forces are gathering against the capitalist control of nicotine. Oh please Chris. Liberals love hot rhetoric about tobacco capital; it makes them feel militant without taking much social risk. But the reasons people smoke are a hell of a lot more complicated than the evil machinations of Big Business. Fuck this ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 6 13:16:14 PST 1998

41438 Wellstone and Pinochet -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >There's a piece Sunday a.m. in the Washington Post >Outlook section by one of the prosecutors in the >Letelier/Moffit assasinations which says the U.S. >ought to be prosecuting Pinochet because there is >no way the murders would have been carried out >without his orders. And would they have happened in Washington without at least the approval of the U.S. government? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 6 10:12:34 PST 1998

41439 OPE archives -- rank: 1000

[For those few of you who missed this. In journalism, it's said that people often go off the record to spice up flavorless material.] Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 16:32:04 -0500 (EST) From: Gerald Levy <glevy at pratt.edu> X-Sender: glevy at acnet Reply-To: pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu To: pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu Subject: [PEN-L:1267] OPE-L ARCHIVES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu I am very pleased to announce that the OPE-L (Outline on Poli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 5 18:40:14 PST 1998

41440 Merger Mania -- rank: 1000

Henry C.k. Liu wrote: >What do Marxist economists have to say about this? Expropriate the expropriators! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 5 18:26:14 PST 1998

41441 Fwd: "Freakin Giuliani" review of a new play -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >This reminds me: Can any helpful souls out there (current or former NY >residents, perhaps?) provide a list of, say, five or ten fundamental >criticisms of Mario Cuomo, from a left/progressive standpoint? The basic problem with Cuomo is that he talked like an old-style liberal and did nothing at best and bad stuff at worst. He rolled over and signed a major income tax cut (skewed to the upper brackets) passed by the Republican-dominated legislature; this has left the s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 5 06:13:03 PST 1998

41442 Christopher Niles and Racism -- rank: 1000

Christopher Niles wrote: >So, Ken and Paul, you win. Happy? [...and so on backwards, more than I can easily cite....] from REMARKS ON MARX, Michel Foucault interviewed by Duccio Trombadori [Semiotext(e), 1991] Duccio Trombadori: But still apropos of polemics, you have also stated clearly that you don't like and will not accept those kinds of arguments "which mimic war and parody justice." Could you explain to me more clearly what you meant by saying this? Michel Foucault: What is ti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 4 18:54:10 PST 1998

41443 Fwd: "Freakin Giuliani" review of a new play -- rank: 1000

From: ARTISTpres at aol.com Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 19:54:48 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: "Freakin Giuliani" review of a new play Review of “Freakin Giuliani” a play by Robert Liebowitz Last night I had a singular experience, attending a play called “Freakin Giuliani” at the None Of The Above Theatre Company, Theatre 22 #54 West 22nd Street. As someone who has spent much of the past five years protesting against the Mayor, writing leaflets denouncing him, painting satirical portraits o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 4 18:14:17 PST 1998

41444 Prisoners of the American Dream -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:54:36 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >writes: >>The other day, someone mourned the out-of-printness of Mike Davis' >>Prisoners of the American Dream. > >That would be me. > >>Verso tells me they're going to reprint it in the spring of 1999. > >Woo hoo! No need to resort to an out-of-print book search then. They >didn't happen to say anything about Paul Buhle's Marxism in the USA by >any c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 4 11:20:14 PST 1998

41445 Prisoners of the American Dream -- rank: 1000

The other day, someone mourned the out-of-printness of Mike Davis' Prisoners of the American Dream. Verso tells me they're going to reprint it in the spring of 1999. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 4 10:54:36 PST 1998