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5431 Fwd: Vanishing Voter Weekly Update -- October 18, 2000 (fwd) -- rank: 149

From: Vanishing Voter <vanishingvoter at ksg.harvard.edu> To: vanishingvoter at ksg.harvard.edu Subject: Vanishing Voter Weekly Update -- October 18, 2000 ONE IN SEVEN LIKELY VOTERS STILL UNDECIDED ON A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE October 18, 2000 from the Vanishing Voter Project http://www.vanishingvoter.org =============================== About one in seven Americans likely ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 18 10:07:04 PDT 2000

5432 Gramsci Redux -- rank: 149

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: > dispense with these forms. Marx's embrace of direct democracy and call for > the elimination of the state and politics in toto certainly originates in > democratic sentiments, but it is entirely utopian; like his call for the > elimination of all markets ...

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Author:	Dennis R Redmond
Date:	Tue Oct 17 23:37:54 PDT 2000

5433 dumbing down -- rank: 149

Arthur Diamond once did a comparison of Richard T. Elly lectures, given at the economics meetings. The writing style got worse and worse with regularity. > > But doesn't Hemingway's prose test out at a pretty low grade level too? > > Michael Yates > > Doug Henwood wrote: > > > [Since over 80% of U.S ...

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Author:	michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Date:	Mon Oct 16 09:17:07 PDT 2000

5434 dumbing down -- rank: 149

But doesn't Hemingway's prose test out at a pretty low grade level too? Michael Yates Doug Henwood wrote: > [Since over 80% of U.S. adults are h.s. grads, and almost half have > at least some college, why is the discourse pitched so low?] > > New York Times - October 16 ...

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Author:	Michael Yates
Date:	Mon Oct 16 08:06:38 PDT 2000

5435 dumbing down -- rank: 149

[Since over 80% of U.S. adults are h.s. grads, and almost half have at least some college, why is the discourse pitched so low?] New York Times - October 16, 2000 Why the Mind Shrivels for the Body Politic By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Does the dialogue of the presidential ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 16 06:53:41 PDT 2000

5436 After the Autumn of the Patriarch: Part 2 (was Re: everything's really ok) -- rank: 149

... were too scrooge-like, and the other half >>(the Ralph Nader-Wall Street Journal wing) believed the >>institutions were too generous ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Oct 15 09:54:23 PDT 2000

5437 Uncle Ralph Wants You -- rank: 149

... classic piece of political art: > >http://www.kryo.com/green/nader/rwytvg.jpg > >Tom > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from ...

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Author:	Gregory Geboski
Date:	Sat Oct 14 09:42:01 PDT 2000

5438 Uncle Ralph Wants You -- rank: 149

... classic piece of political art: http://www.kryo.com/green/nader/rwytvg.jpg Tom

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Author:	Tom Lehman
Date:	Sat Oct 14 08:05:42 PDT 2000

5439 debates -- rank: 149

... race is too close to risk a protest vote for Nader. > But I will do this with great reluctance. I think ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Thu Oct 12 10:36:21 PDT 2000

5440 debates -- rank: 149

... race is too close to risk a protest vote for Nader. > But I will do this with great reluctance. I think ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Oct 12 09:20:28 PDT 2000

5441 debates -- rank: 149

>>True enough. There was one subtle difference which might amount to >>nothing. >>Bush aruged that foreign affairs should be about "us" in every >>circumstance. >>Gore, at least, mentioned humanitarian reasons. If we stick to the >>rhetoric, >>and by all means, let's stick to the rhetoric, Bush is obligated to ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Thu Oct 12 09:14:05 PDT 2000

5442 everything's really ok -- rank: 149

... were too scrooge-like, and the other half >>(the Ralph Nader-Wall Street Journal wing) believed the >>institutions were too generous ...

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Author:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Wed Oct 11 14:50:01 PDT 2000

5443 everything's really ok -- rank: 149

... were too scrooge-like, and the other half >(the Ralph Nader-Wall Street Journal wing) believed the institutions >were too generous ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 11 12:44:34 PDT 2000

5444 RES: RES: RES: Yugoslavia: what the media is hiding (The Guardian) -- rank: 149

... opposed to the United States, where opposition (e.g. Ralph Nader) gets the full access to the media, presidential debates, and ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Mon Oct 9 15:15:20 PDT 2000

5445 American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee -- rank: 149

... have not yet been added to this list. > >Hopefully Raph Nader will break his silence on foreign afffairs and will >speak ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Oct 7 08:22:12 PDT 2000