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4051 [lbo-talk] kvetching about Sontag's relation to the closet -- rank: 149

DSR debburz at yahoo.com, Fri Jan 7 12:57:24 PST 2005: >--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: >> Sontag's discussion of illness as metaphor (_Illness as Metaphor_, >> 1977) -- some diseases get romanticized, some are regarded as >> punishments for bad personalities of patients or their mothers, >> others become ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Jan 7 18:26:38 PST 2005

4052 [lbo-talk] kvetching about Sontag's relation to the closet -- rank: 149

>Window Media newspapers, January 7, 2005 >http://www.houstonvoice.com/2005/1-7/view/editorial/edit.cfm > >Don't settle like Sontag >Before faulting the media for 'straight-washing' the personal life >of author Susan Sontag, consider how we all rationalize keeping one >foot in the closet. > >By Chris Crain ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Jan 7 12:39:45 PST 2005

4053 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 149

Finally, after a long postscript-writing and holiday merrymaking, five shows have been freshly posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. They are: December 30, 2004 Leslie McCall, professor of sociology & women's studies at Rutgers, on inequality in the U.S. December 23, 2004 Maya Rockeymoore ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 6 16:27:46 PST 2005

4054 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 149

white flight from the cities cut across income groups. i remember reading a case study of how public housing in the boston area was transformed from a relatively comfortable comfortable ammenity enjoyed by the ethnic white working class to a very much stigmatized and dangerous place over the course of twenty ...

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Author:	alex lantsberg
Date:	Mon Jan 3 07:53:28 PST 2005

4055 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 149

... a position that would have appealed to the young Ralph Nader, when he opposed public housing in his hometown). NYC public ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 07:22:08 PST 2005

4056 [lbo-talk] A Form Letter for Corporate Journalists -- rank: 149

From Infoshop News: http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050228163331712 A Form Letter for Corporate Journalists Dear self-styled journalist; The inaccuracies your profession produces about people with my political affiliation have become so common that I no longer have the time to respond to each instance individually. I ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Mon Feb 28 19:34:41 PST 2005

4057 [lbo-talk] A Very Long Engagement -- rank: 149

Thomas Seay entheogens at yahoo.com, Sun Feb 27 10:41:47 PST 2005: >Yes, I saw the movie at the beginning of January and I had >completely forgotten about her disability. In some ways, it was not >focused upon too much and that is in some ways good, because the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Feb 28 13:50:52 PST 2005

4058 [lbo-talk] The realist argument for a w/drawal schedule -- rank: 149

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com, Sat Feb 26 20:52:29 PST 2005: >[What's interesting about this is that it argues that setting a >clear timetable for withdrawal -- specifically over an 18-month >period -- would be the best course of action even from a >counter-insurgency perspective. It does ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Feb 27 10:46:06 PST 2005

4059 [lbo-talk] A Very Long Engagement -- rank: 149

alessandro coricelli acoricelli at mac.com, Sat Feb 26 22:46:00 PST 2005: >Anyhow, I don't understand Kelly's taken of the movie [Million >Dollar Baby] as well (maybe I do, but I disagree). Disability cannot >be considered as a condition that forgets the intrinsic fact that it >deals ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Feb 27 08:33:47 PST 2005

4060 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 149

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Sat Feb 26 08:17:28 PST 2005: > >Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Fri Feb 25 09:07:21 PST 2005 >>>DSR wrote: >>> >>>>America is choking off the need by Leftists to understand where >>>>common ground can be found, e.g., Yoshie's citations ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Feb 26 09:03:18 PST 2005

4061 [lbo-talk] Who Set People Up for Disappointment and Demoralization? (polls as scientific form of prayer?) -- rank: 149

... you suggesting that 4 percent of the vote to Ralph Nader would have boosted morale? Thomas __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail ...

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Author:	Thomas Seay
Date:	Fri Feb 25 22:10:27 PST 2005

4062 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 149

>People on the (broadly defined) left can't blame these political >problems on conservative Christians and the GOP alone. The majority >of people on the (broadly defined) left have made their choice of >supporting the party that agrees with the GOP and conservative >Christians on the Welfare Reform, "Charitable Choice ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Feb 25 17:49:42 PST 2005

4063 [lbo-talk] Who Set People Up for Disappointment and Demoralization? (polls as scientific form of prayer?) -- rank: 149

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Fri Feb 25 15:42:50 PST 2005: >We had this little election last year. The antiwar candidates got >creamed in the Democratic primaries, and the guy who started the war >in Iraq got re-elected. I'll try posting this again to see if ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Feb 25 17:09:25 PST 2005

4064 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 149

> > > The Bush solution is to give the churches government money to run >>> their "moral" church-based welfare services as he cuts back >>> traditional gov't services. >>> Marta >> >>However, Mark Chaves' study of religious congregations shows that it is >>liberal and progressive congregations, not the conservative ones that are >>more likely ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Feb 25 16:37:18 PST 2005

4065 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 149

>Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > >> > The Bush solution is to give the churches government money to run >>> their "moral" church-based welfare services as he cuts back >>> traditional gov't services. >>> Marta >> >>However, Mark Chaves' study of religious congregations shows that it is >>liberal and progressive congregations, not the conservative ones that ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Feb 25 15:56:31 PST 2005