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76 [lbo-talk] From failed, surreal dreams to a plague of fantasies -- rank: 199

... more or less, the way we see *Star Trek* or Tolkien's works. Just as no sensible person would declare the ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Fri May 6 14:39:12 PDT 2005

77 [lbo-talk] Marketing the Chronicles of Narnia -- rank: 199

... high English teacher of fundamentalist leanings assigned these awful things. Tolkien is definitely preferable to C.S. Lewis, and I've ...

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Author:	John Lacny
Date:	Thu Mar 10 14:13:24 PST 2005

78 [lbo-talk] D&D Player? you're detached from reality -- rank: 199

... distaste for Wagner in Israel? D&D is derived from Tolkien, whose "Lord of the Rings" is in turn painfully derivative ...

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Author:	John Lacny
Date:	Thu Mar 10 14:02:28 PST 2005

79 [lbo-talk] W gloats; Clinton cheerleads -- rank: 199

Elves in Tolkien are not cute, diminutive, risible. They're lofty, noble, old ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Mar 10 13:55:54 PST 2005

80 [lbo-talk] Globalisation in reverse: HCL BPO sets new trends -- rank: 199

HCL BPO sets new trends ISHANI DUTTAGUPTA TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 2005 12:17:10 AM] The accent reminds you of Pierce Brosnan. The name, of course, is not Bond but Houston. And ever since India's HCL Technologies took over the Belfast-based contact centre Apollo from BT ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Sat Jan 29 17:43:44 PST 2005

81 [lbo-talk] China's the change agent for next 20 yrs: Gates -- rank: 199

... than we ourselves possess. -- Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"] * TagZilla 0.057 * http://tagzilla.mozdev ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Sat Jan 29 10:03:37 PST 2005

82 [lbo-talk] China playing hard to woo Indian IT giants -- rank: 199

China playing hard to woo Indian IT giants BEIJING: China has set up a special division to woo Indian software majors, especially the four giants-- TCS, Infosys, Wipro and Satyam-- to help them expand their operations in the country, a senior official said on Tuesday. "We have set up the Sino ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Tue Jan 25 10:08:27 PST 2005

83 [lbo-talk] Matrix VC to invest in Indian IT firms -- rank: 199

Matrix VC to invest in Indian IT firms The Economic Times Tuesday, January 25, 2005 BANGALORE: Matrix Partners, the US-based leading venture capital firm, is scouting for technology start-ups and IT firms in the Indian subcontinent to make strategic investments. Having invested in similar start-ups and tech firms ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Tue Jan 25 09:56:20 PST 2005

84 [lbo-talk] Indian IT budgets to increase by 7% -- rank: 199

IT budgets to increase by 7% PTI[ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2005 07:27:31 PM] MUMBAI: Budget of Indian IT companies is expected to rise by seven per cent in 2005, significantly higher than the global average of 2.5 per cent, IT research firm Gartner said. The IT spend in ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Wed Feb 16 23:03:08 PST 2005

85 [lbo-talk] Narnia -- rank: 199

... Has anyone ever noticed that there is no religion in Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings? I mean, The Silmarillion ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Dec 20 07:38:19 PST 2005

86 [lbo-talk] Uplink 2 -- rank: 199

The August issue of Uplink, a.k.a. the Tolkien issue, is done: http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/Uplink/CurrentIssue ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Sat Aug 6 23:18:11 PDT 2005

87 [lbo-talk] Speaking of Kaballah...Settler Rabbi threatens to conduct Pulsa Denura ceremony on Sharon...which rabbi says will lead to his death... -- rank: 199

... talkin' bout that whiney little green "give me my precious" tolkien kind...were talkin' the big clay rabbi of prague type ...

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Author:	bryan
Date:	Tue Sep 14 14:43:19 PDT 2004

88 [lbo-talk] Golden age of satire? -- rank: 199

... evil; left = good. > >A moral schemata taken... right out of Tolkien's playbook. ... Fine. I'll rip off JRRT's schemata ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sat Oct 16 17:56:04 PDT 2004

89 [lbo-talk] Golden age of satire? -- rank: 199

... evil; left = good. A moral schemata taken... right out of Tolkien's playbook. The Left has to push beyond moral categories ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Sat Oct 16 13:40:40 PDT 2004

90 [lbo-talk] Fall of the Chief Ringwraith -- rank: 199

... re better > than that. I'm sort of partial to Tolkien's subversively Zizekian perspective on evil: when evil (read: a ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Sun May 9 11:50:35 PDT 2004