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9436 [lbo-talk] behind Dan Rather's suit against CBS -- rank: 1000

New York Observer - October 1, 2007 <http://www.observer.com/2007/dan-rather-s-last-big-scoop> Dan Rather's Last Big Scoop by Felix Gillette A few years ago, Dan Rather's producer told The New Yorker's Ken Auletta, "A lot of people know Dan, and nobody knows him." Two and a half years later, not much has changed. These days, a lot of people know why Mr. Rather is doing what he is doing, and nobody knows why. The category-5 newsman continues to baffle. At issue is Mr. Rather's ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 06:16:59 PDT 2007

9437 [lbo-talk] Last Supper, in a leather harness -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200709/ CUL20070925b.html> [pic at <http://www.cnsnews.com/cns/photo/2007/092507FolosomFull.jpg>] Homosexuals Mock 'Last Supper' With Sex-Toys Twist By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Senior Editor September 25, 2007 (CNSNews.com) - Organizers of San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair -- sponsored by Miller Brewing Co. -- have portrayed Christ and his disciples as half-naked homosexual sadomasochists in the event's promotional adve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 26 05:55:23 PDT 2007

9438 [lbo-talk] miners argue against safety regulation -- rank: 1000

[I think this qualifies as a man bites dog story.] New York Times - September 26, 2007 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/us/26mine.html> Utah Mine Country, After Disaster, Tells Panel It Fears Overregulation By DAN FROSCH HUNTINGTON, Utah, Sept. 25 With quiet voices, their words sometimes husky with emotion, residents of Utah coal country told a state panel on Tuesday that they feared the mines would be overwhelmed by new safety rules after a fatal accident last month. "We've go ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 05:09:47 PDT 2007

9439 [lbo-talk] letter to the editor -- rank: 1000

New York Times - September 26, 2007 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/opinion/l26iran.html?pagewanted=2> To the Editor: Re Mr. Ahmadinejad Speaks (editorial, Sept. 25): In commenting on the appearance of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia, you say, Unlike Iran s citizens, Americans have the right to laugh at leaders. Yes, we do have that right, and I m glad for it. But when was the last time President Bush appeared before an audience that laughed at him? His audiences are a ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 05:04:42 PDT 2007

9440 [lbo-talk] GM-UAW agreement -- rank: 1000

NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal Sept. 26, 2007 General Motors and the United Auto Workers said they reached a tentative agreement on a new national contract for about 74,000 U.S. auto workers, which includes a historic restructuring of GM's obligations for UAW retiree health care. The deal was announced at about 4 a.m. in Detroit after a two-day national strike by the UAW against GM. FOR MORE INFORMATION, please see: http://online.wsj.com/article/ SB119079465500439816.html?mod=djema ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 05:01:54 PDT 2007

9441 [lbo-talk] anorexia, a fashion shoot -- rank: 1000

These are not for the easily squicked, as they say. In other words, viewer discretion advised. Shots by the Italian fashion photog Oliviero Toscani: <http://jezebel.com/gossip/prada/milan-subtly-reminds-fashion-week- attendees-to-occasionally-eat-food-303352.php> <http://gawker.com/news/lose-weight-now%2C-ask-me-how/-303473.php> and a Times (London) story about it all: <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2530325.ece> Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 25 18:08:59 PDT 2007

9442 [lbo-talk] Clash of Sexual Civilizations (was Re: ahmadinejad) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2007, at 6:59 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > In other words, being a "homosexual" (regardless of behavior) can get > you discharged from the military if you reveal the fact. > > That's pretty close to a law _not_ against sodomy but against the > identity of "homosexual." It sucks, but it's not a crime. You get discharged, but you don't go to jail. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 25 17:43:04 PDT 2007

9443 [lbo-talk] Clash of Sexual Civilizations (was Re: ahmadinejad) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2007, at 6:08 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > However, the military continues to make the status of > being a declared homosexual in impediment to military > service, though not a crime. Well not exactly. You can declare yourself, just don't do anything. <http://www.sldn.org/binary-data/SLDN_ARTICLES/pdf_file/1099.pdf> (b) Policy. - A member of the armed forces shall be separated from the armed forces under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense if one or ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 25 17:42:33 PDT 2007

9444 [lbo-talk] cracks in the Manhattan r.e. market? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Last I checked, Manhattan real estate > was going for about $1k/sf Yup, that's what it is in Soho.

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Date:	Tue Sep 25 13:49:20 PDT 2007

9445 [lbo-talk] cruising in Tehran -- rank: 1000

[links in original] <http://gawker.com/news/international-lover/where-to-find-hot-gay-sex- in-iran-303521.php> international lover Where To Find Hot Gay Sex In Iran Iran's President Ahmadinejad probably doesn't get out much with the common people, so he's probably missing all the hot gay action in and out of Tehran. For starters, Cruising for Sex suggests checking out the park by the city theater at Vali Asr and Enghelab right in the middle of everything, and tourist-friendly too! We s ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 25 13:36:59 PDT 2007

9446 [lbo-talk] post analytical Marxist era -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > These types of exchanges, arguments , "games" are almost > all of what these lists consist in. Dunno if that's true, but this one is played for sure. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 25 13:16:00 PDT 2007

9447 [lbo-talk] in literature as in politics... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Eric wrote: > The Times covered Faulkner's visit in a dispatch by George Barrett, > which ran under this 4-column headline: "Faulkner Inspects West > Point, Gives a Reading and Stays for a Chat: Faulkner Finds Cadets > Knowing: Corps Studied Works for Nobel Laureate's Visit." Noam Chomsky told me he got a better reception at West Point than he ever got at Harvard. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 25 11:11:54 PDT 2007

9448 [lbo-talk] Clash of Sexual Civilizations (was Re: ahmadinejad) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > In Iran, too, some people, especially younger urbanites, > have adopted the aforementioned sexual categories whose origins Michel > Foucault traces back to nineteenth-century bourgeois culture of the > West.1 But a majority of Iranians, apparently including their > President, have not adopted the idea of sexual orientations, nor have > much of the rest of the Third World. I know you're trying to get your boy off the hook fo ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 25 09:25:18 PDT 2007

9449 [lbo-talk] Clash of Sexual Civilizations (was Re: ahmadinejad) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2007, at 11:48 AM, ravi wrote: > I cannot claim to peer in Ahmedinejad's brain, but I think Michael > Smith's point about acts being considered illegal (not existential > states or attributes) is relevant -- one could read him as stating > that Iran[ians] does not subscribe to that particular form of > classification [of sexual identity], and what they have laws against > are acts such as X (e.g: X = sodomy, whether practised by someone who > identifies himself as ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 25 09:02:42 PDT 2007

9450 [lbo-talk] political tourism -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/celebrating-diversity/bill-oreilly-visits- ghetto-finds-blacks-well+behaved-303333.php> celebrating diversity Bill O'Reilly Visits "Ghetto," Finds Blacks Well-Behaved Over the weekend, loud-mouth asshat and Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly pulled what sort of looked like a Don Imus but was really much worse. It seems that O'Reilly's most recent encounters with the black community have left him seriously impressed with how much progress they've made since ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 25 09:01:30 PDT 2007