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7996 [lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> I doubt many alums of WSU buy newspapers and cut the pay of >> contributors. > > Did you see that as the main point of Summers' essay? Well, sorta. To me, his point is that the pampered children of our elite go to places like Harvard to learn how to make even more money than they grew up with, and view the faculty as hired help ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 22 13:51:45 PDT 2008

7997 [lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Does Summers imagine these dynamics would shift dramatically among, > say, working-class Alabama A&M or Wayne State undergrads? How much of > this essay pertains to the pampered rich any more than the rest of us? I doubt many alums of WSU buy newspapers and cut the pay of contributors. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 22 11:39:41 PDT 2008

7998 [lbo-talk] dustup -- rank: 1000

My latest exchange with Landsburg is up: <http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-landsburg- henwood22-2008jul22,0,4824536.story> Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 22 10:02:29 PDT 2008

7999 [lbo-talk] Dustup revisited -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Monday: Was Phil Gramm right about the current economic malaise being > a "mental" recession? Point: Steven. Counterpoint: Doug. > > ----- > > Phil Gramm, background from wiki... > > Gramm is a vice-chairman of UBS Investment Bank, a financial services > company based in Switzerland. Mmmm, nice. I'll work some of this into Thursday's post.

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Date:	Tue Jul 22 09:12:39 PDT 2008

8000 [lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard -- rank: 1000

<http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp? sectioncode=26&storycode=402674> All the privileged must have prizes 10 July 2008 The banality and sense of entitlement of rich students at Harvard left John H. Summers feeling his teaching had been degraded to little more than a service to prepare clients for monied careers I joined the staff of the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University in 2000. As tutor, then as lecturer, I advised senior theses, conceived a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 22 09:05:13 PDT 2008

8001 [lbo-talk] troops not so conservative -- rank: 1000

From: "Craighill, Peyton M" <Peyton.M.Craighill at abc.com> Date: July 22, 2008 11:29:49 AM EDT Subject: ABC News Blog: Taking Aim at the Military Vote Barack Obama is playing to a variety of audiences while he travels abroad this week, with stops in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as Europe. One of them is an interesting voting group that could pack some surprises: Active-duty U.S. military. Conventional wisdom holds that U.S. service members including the 500,000 currently s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 22 08:52:37 PDT 2008

8002 [lbo-talk] CBO: cost of saving GSEs is $25b -- rank: 1000

[this seems a little low...] <http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=152> Federal Financial Assistance for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac CBO released a letter this morning that analyzes the Administration s July 14th proposal to provide temporary authority to the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase obligations and other securities issued by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks. The authority provided under this proposal would expire on December 31, 2009. (The Congress may consid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 22 06:44:31 PDT 2008

8003 [lbo-talk] press management -- rank: 1000

[via Mike Allen] Appearing on MSNBC's 'Hardball' from Baghdad, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell objects to the 'message management' that resulted in three days of images of Senator Obama that were almost entirely except for a lone Iraq interview with Terry Moran produced and released by the Pentagon. Andrea Mitchell, re Obama: 'He didn't have reporters with him. He didn't have a press pool. He didn't do a press conference while he was on the ground in either ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 22 05:25:11 PDT 2008

8004 [lbo-talk] Obama: weird clothing ban puzzles experts -- rank: 1000

Obama clothing ban puzzles Mideast experts Campaign tells reporters not to wear green during Obama's trip because it's the color of Hamas. But is it really? See also: Obama's Muslim liaison read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11935.html

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Date:	Mon Jul 21 16:29:16 PDT 2008

8005 [lbo-talk] ambition today... -- rank: 1000

...at least among socialites. From a Page Six Magazine profile of Olivia Palermo (via Gawker): <http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20080720/Living+Socialite +Olivia+Palermos+Sweet+Spot> Although she has a year of media studies at the New School to go, Olivia is ready to take on the acting world. Leaning against the simple, modern white Jonathan Adler desk in her bedroom, she confides, I don t have to work my parents have always supported me in everything I ve wanted to do but I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 21 15:08:04 PDT 2008

8006 [lbo-talk] clustering -- rank: 1000

[just posted to the AAPOR list] This week at the <http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/tpmcafe-book- club/>TPM Book Club, Bill Bishop will be discussing his book "The Big Sort: Why The Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart." He <http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/21/ the_quickest_way_to_describe/>opens the discussion with a simple calculation: "The quickest way to describe The Big Sort is with a simple calculation. In 1976, about a quarter ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 21 14:18:15 PDT 2008

8007 [lbo-talk] Dustup -- rank: 1000

I'm doing an exchange on economic issues this week with Steven Landsburg of Slate and the University of Rochester, a self-described "hardcore libertarian," on the LA Times website. Here's the link: <http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-dustup-2008- jul21-25,0,1728086.storygallery> or <http://tinyurl.com/6fy6a4>. The topics: Monday: Was Phil Gramm right about the current economic malaise being a "mental" recession? Point: Steven. Counterpoint: Doug. Tuesday ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 21 13:07:42 PDT 2008

8008 [lbo-talk] Chavez courts capitalists -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect's Marxmail] <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? pid=20601109&sid=a3lPdagjmVJw&refer=home> Chavez Pleads for Investment as Falling Output Fuels Inflation By Daniel Cancel and Matthew Walter July 18 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wore a suit for the occasion, and, grinning at about 300 business leaders he usually calls ``oligarchs,'' asked for help relieving a drought in investment. ``Those of you who have money abroad, bring some home,'' he impl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 20 17:47:36 PDT 2008

8009 [lbo-talk] Derbisol -- rank: 1000

The AAPORites have been carrying on their discussion of the use of phony names in surveys. A common trick in surveys of drug use is to ask about the consumption of "Derbisol" (aka derb or dirt) - which doesn't exist. Close to 1 in 5 respondent say they've used it on some surveys. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 18 10:37:09 PDT 2008

8010 [lbo-talk] Kewl -- rank: 1000

On Jul 18, 2008, at 6:47 AM, J T. Ramsay wrote: > I've gotta disagree that it's so 2005. This isn't last.fm. Pandora > actually employs musicologists to sort out similarities in the > music style, rather than arbitrarily bundling music by loose genre > association. It must have improved since 2005, then. It was pretty wacky when I used it last, which was probably then, or 2006. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 18 04:57:26 PDT 2008