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9691 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Job openings at Panix -- rank: 1000

[Panix is a splendidly run little operation, so any of you geeks want a job in NYC...] Begin forwarded message: > From: mc at panix.com (MOTD [Panix]) > Date: September 7, 2007 5:57:46 PM EDT > To: motd-system at panix.com > Subject: Job openings at Panix > Reply-To: staff at panix.com > > (The following article has been automatically mirrored from MOTD) > > (Posted by Mara's Staff Account) Fri, Sep 07 2007 -- 5:48 PM > --------------------------------------------- ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 7 19:15:28 PDT 2007

9692 [lbo-talk] wages in I-banking -- rank: 1000

Hey, do you make $23,486 a week? Financiers in Greenwich do! <http://www.bls.gov/opub/ils/pdf/opbils60.pdf>

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Date:	Fri Sep 7 14:20:07 PDT 2007

9693 [lbo-talk] ObL criticizes Dems, praises Chomsky, notes subprime crisis, urges conversion to Islam to lower taxes -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/09/new-obl-tape-ir.html> New OBL Tape: Iraq, Democratic Control September 07, 2007 2:15 PM ABC News' Jonathan Karl Reports: ABC News has obtained a transcript of the latest taped message from Osama bin Laden. Sources tell ABC News the tape, bin Laden's first message in three years, is approximately 30 minutes long, and does not contain overt threats to the United States. According to the transcript, which can be viewed by clicking here, bi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 7 13:49:26 PDT 2007

9694 [lbo-talk] ObL blames the corpos -- rank: 1000

Bin Laden says Bush repeating Soviet mistakes WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden, in a U.S. transcript of a newly released video, said President George W. Bush was repeating the mistakes of Soviet leaders by refusing to acknowledge losses in Iraq. "How similar is your position today to their position approximately two decades ago," the al Qaeda leader said in a reference to the former Soviet Union's operations in Afghanistan. "The mistakes of Brezhnev are being repeated by ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 7 13:36:07 PDT 2007

9695 [lbo-talk] guts @ Yale -- rank: 1000

Hilarious review of gut courses at Yale: <http://gawker.com/news/ivy-league/what-are-the-gut-classes-at- yale-297435.php> A sample: planets and stars - Generally speaking everyone has been wasted at some point and stared blankly at the sky and been like, shit, space and shit is sweet. And then you get to Yale and you find out that you can take astronomy to meet requirements and that its not hard math or anything and you think this is the sweetest thing ever. And every year the reviews ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 7 12:04:14 PDT 2007

9696 [lbo-talk] getting down to what matters: feeling up the candidates -- rank: 1000

<http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=28639> September 07, 2007 Gallup Ranks the 2008 Candidates According to a Feeling Thermometer Obama rated the most positively by Americans; Hillary enjoys broadest partisan support by Lydia Saad GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Using a "feeling thermometer" rating scale, Gallup recently tested the public images of several of the Republican and Democratic candidates running for president in their respective parties. Of these, only one ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 7 11:42:00 PDT 2007

9697 [lbo-talk] Free Contraceptives in Iran (was Re: Fashion industry thrives in Iran) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 7, 2007, at 2:10 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > No, I don't think so. Among those who are not members of the power > elite and who are on the broadly left side of the political spectrum, > perspectives on Iran do not appear to be determined by perspectives on > the Democratic Party. If anything, this is probably one of those > issues on which one is likely to encounter more useful approaches > among those whose ideas of political economy and social change are > moder ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 7 09:27:22 PDT 2007

9698 [lbo-talk] memory... -- rank: 1000

I posted a piece from the Washington Post the other day on how hard a job mythbusters have. The article provoked an interesting thread on the AAPOR list. Among the points: people often remember that things are associated, but not the precise details of the association. I'm not supposed to forward messages from the list, but one poster reported on a 1991 survey in the Detroit area. Several respondents knew Sen Joe McCarthy was somehow associated with communism - but thought he was a communi ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 7 08:53:46 PDT 2007

9699 [lbo-talk] Problems with the Kerala model -- rank: 1000

Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, I was friendly with a guy in the UN Press Office who'd originally come from Kerala. He told me that the state's problem was that high levels of social development raised expectations which the weak economy couldn't deliver on. So people emigrated. He applied this analysis to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe - high educational and health levels combined with bupkes in the material realm meant a lot of dissatisfaction. Better the American way o ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 7 06:20:23 PDT 2007

9700 [lbo-talk] Distortions of Longevity Tables Re: It Sucks to Be Male -- rank: 1000

On Sep 6, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > These mortality figures (logevity at birth) are well and good for a > very > rough and ready assessment of the health of a whole nation in > comparison > to other nations or to its own (reasonably distant path). For > almost any > other purpose they should be looked at skeptically. As long ago as the > 1950s a number of public health writers were pointing out, for > example, > that if one measured life expectancy _at 6 ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 6 15:59:53 PDT 2007

9701 [lbo-talk] It Sucks to Be Male -- rank: 1000

On Sep 6, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Ismail Lagardien wrote: > Why the &^%$ is it that males can carry HPV, "give it" to their > FEMALE partners and thereby exposing them to the possibility of > cervical cancer, and yet, not show ANY signs, or symptoms of it > ourselves. We just pull up our zippers and away we go!!!! > > i am officially pissed - and hate men! We do die younger. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 6 11:21:28 PDT 2007

9702 [lbo-talk] Stalag p*rn -- rank: 1000

[plenty of links at original] <http://fleshbot.com/sex/found/pornifying-history-stalags-sex-and-the- holocaust-296983.php> Despite its more obvious intentions and effects, like any example of visual culture pornography serves as a reflection of the time and place in which it was produced: witness the cocaine-soaked ambiance and Reaganesque paranoia of such 80s porn classics as "New Wave Hookers" and "Cafe Flesh", or for that matter any of the celebrity culture-obse ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 6 09:55:05 PDT 2007

9703 [lbo-talk] Mirror neurons -- rank: 1000

On Sep 6, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > My assumptions are of course materialist, as Ted argues. I don't > see how > a sense of musical or literary decorum can drop from the sky any more > than correct ideas can. Who said they do, or can? You're always on the prowl for arguments with straw men, but here's one yourself. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 6 07:30:01 PDT 2007

9704 [lbo-talk] Dems: Wonder-weenies of the Universe! -- rank: 1000

On Sep 6, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > "Why are Democrats incapable of feeling any shame at all? Over what? Their complicity with imperialism? Or over the occasional and misleading impression they try to give sometimes that they're above that? Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 6 07:27:36 PDT 2007

9705 [lbo-talk] the Finkelstein denoument -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect] Chronicle of Higher Education - September 6, 2007 <http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/09/2007090603n.htm> Tenure Dispute at DePaul Ends With a Settlement and Professor's Resignation By PAULA WASLEY Chicago A long-running battle between DePaul University and the controversial political scientist Norman G. Finkelstein reached an anticlimactic conclusion here on Wednesday as the professor announced his decision to resign from the university. Mr. Finkelstein has attracted bo ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 6 06:12:33 PDT 2007