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1036 Pat Robertson on the faith-based thing -- rank: 395

... for Law and Justice. The Faith-Based Initiative proposed by President Bush is an official acknowledgment of the tremendous role that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 12 15:28:18 PST 2001

1037 Harvard Cancels Speech by "Anti-Israeli" -- rank: 395

... of the more despicable people in academia. I'm sure a visit to Harvard from Ariel Sharon or, say, Dick Armey ... Voiced on Poet's Words Against Israelis by Patrick Healy A Harvard University speech by an award-winning Irish poet was canceled yesterday after Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers and several professors and students complained about the poet's verbal attacks on US-born Jewish settlers and Israel's treatment of Palestinians. The poet, Tom Paulin, was scheduled to deliver a public reading on campus tomorrow evening. While students and professors were organizing a boycott of the speech, Summers expressed his own concerns ...

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Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Wed Nov 13 10:19:15 PST 2002

1038 [lbo-talk] I received this about Netanyahu via e-mail. Worthy of Re-publishing here! -- rank: 385

... It's great. Please forward this widely. ALL JEWS EVERYWHERE (A.J.E.) A MESSAGE TO ALL JEWS EVERYWHERE FROM ALL JEWS EVERYWHERE Our ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Fri Feb 27 11:08:27 PST 2015

1039 Spineless Max S. and Reactionary Slander (was RE: Russian Israelis) -- rank: 385

... divide-and-rule structure >of dual support for Arab and Jewish client states, the US >soon found itself in the same ... Lebanon in >1981, its primary form has been covert. As a child I remember my parents watching and enjoying a movie about the heroic battles the Israelis fought. Wish I ...

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Author:	Charles Jannuzi
Date:	Mon Mar 25 02:14:08 PST 2002

1040 Wolfowitz Booed at Pro-Israel Rally -- rank: 385

... 14 PM ET By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - A top administration official was interrupted and booed Monday when he told thousands of people gathered at the Capitol for a pro-Israel rally that Palestinians as well as Israelis have ... chants of "no more Arafat" and booed as he told a packed crowd of thousands that "innocent Palestinians are suffering and ...

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Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Mon Apr 15 19:27:03 PDT 2002

1041 [lbo-talk] Liza & Doug have a kid -- rank: 385

... US bank guarantor) goes into effect 1934: Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison 1946: ENIAC, first computer, finished by Mauchly/Eckert ... to become the European Union) is born 1973: Britain becomes a member of the European Economic Community 1981: Greece becomes the ...

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Author:	/ dave /
Date:	Sun Jan 1 12:07:30 PST 2006

1042 [lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard -- rank: 385

... the institution in question for more than forty years in a variety of capacities -- impressionable undergrad from the provinces, avid grad ... until recently it was quite possible to give C grades: a neocon faculty member in the government department -- treated as a joke for most of his career -- was known as "Harvey ... background of the typical undergraduate changed markedly in less than a generation. I remember attending commencement in the fraught summer

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Wed Jul 23 14:03:26 PDT 2008

1043 [lbo-talk] From the London Review of Books -- rank: 385

... as was the prospect of stopping Hitler’s rise by a comprehensive anti-Fascist union. The fact is that no one ... centre, got the true measure of Hitler’s National Socialism, a movement of a kind that had not been seen before and whose aims ... the Nazis as much the largest party, but short of a majority, the (Jewish) editor of the Tagebuch, a left-liberal weekly we took at home, published an ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Sun Jan 20 21:59:51 PST 2008

1044 Chomsky takes down Hitchens -- rank: 385

... would like to believe, > either. The left is in for a rough ride until we're all willing to > acknowledge that. There may be a grain of truth to this, but it goes both ways ... by the media, runs roughshod over our ability to provide a more nuanced and useful accounting. It seems to me that ... religions is one I > think bin Laden (who was declared a jihad ag

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Author:	/ dave /
Date:	Fri Oct 5 21:03:29 PDT 2001

1045 Putin on extremism, was: Re: [lbo-talk] Russian Far-Right Plans Anti-Immigrant Marches -- rank: 385

... PUTIN: I met just yesterday with the governor of the Jewish Autonomous Region and he gave me some interesting information, saying ... I won’t comment on that information, but it is a fact that does merit our attention. As for our work ... our many ethnic groups and religions is more than just a longstanding tradition in Russia. It is more than just harmony – it is a symbiosis of the various nationalities, ethnic groups and religions that ... this is our strength. This is why the authorities, the President and the government, will pay close and constant attention to ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Oct 25 09:36:44 PDT 2006

1046 Belgium messes with Sharon's head -- rank: 385

... JERUSALEM, Feb. 13 — Israeli officials reacted with outrage today to a decision by Belgium's highest court that Belgium could try ... to defend itself against terrorism." "We in Israel and the Jewish people as a whole have had enough of blood libels on the soil ... for consultations, while Mr. Netanyahu summoned Belgium's ambassador for a dressing-down. Israeli officials said that ambassador replied that he ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Thu Feb 13 16:25:29 PST 2003

1047 Peter Sloterdijk vs. Jurgen Habermas: A Society ofAcademicSpectacles? -- rank: 385

... lessers! (Just the sort of controversies that give > Jim Heartfield a steady livelihood -- not that I begrudge him his good > fortune ...

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Author:	Johannes Schneider
Date:	Mon Oct 18 10:03:03 PDT 1999

1048 Ideology and "Psychology", was Re: identifying with the enemy -- rank: 385

... the 1992 presidential candidacy of Bo Gritz. Gritz ran for president through a variety of local parties and groups, but his earliest candidacy ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon May 21 11:32:56 PDT 2001

1049 Is Saddam winning political war? (FWD: The Toronto Star) -- rank: 385

... Iraq. Politically, however, he is winning. This is not trivial. A political win may not stop the Iraqi leader from being ... Gulf War and target Israel, in order to draw the Jewish state (and thus o ther Arab countries) into the conflict ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Wed Mar 26 10:24:21 PST 2003

1050 placing the palestinian struggle -- rank: 385

... there is prejudice agianst Jews? I really do not give a damn what Arab groups use or do not use when ... to anti-Arab discrimination. The fact is that I am a Semite just like any other Jewish or Arab person. And to go and accuse me of ...

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Author:	Naji Dahi
Date:	Mon Apr 1 16:29:20 PST 2002