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196 Are you the Weakest Link? -- rank: 243

>Here is a very simple little test comprising of four questions to >determine the level of your intellect. Your replies must be >spontaneous and immediate, with no deliberating or wasting time. And >no cheating. Marks, set....GO!!! > >........ > >2 : If you overtake the last runner, what position are you now in ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sun Jun 9 20:53:25 PDT 2002

197 How Americans get to work -- rank: 243

... Class Gridlock, but No Easier to Unlock BYLINE: By TIM WEINER DATELINE

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Jun 3 11:32:19 PDT 2002

198 Cop Watching is Illegal -- rank: 243

>>Justin wrote: >>>...From a legal point of view, however, pretrial deterntion is >>>never punishment, since the law says a pretrial detainee is >>>presumed innocent... >> >>"Then the law, sir, is an ass" (Barkis) > >OK, so what's your proposal for making sure that the accused shows >up for trial? Reasonable (affordable ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Mon Jul 15 09:15:00 PDT 2002

199 Some sort of Foxy ultimatum? -- rank: 243

07/01 00:00 Mexico's Fox Says Sept. 11 Cut U.S. Interest in Latin America By John Lyons and Nick Benequista Merida, Mexico, July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Mexican President Vicente Fox said the U.S. commitment and presence in Latin America have been reduced since the September terrorist attacks. He ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Mon Jul 1 09:26:43 PDT 2002

200 Enron: the containment strategy -- rank: 243

Democrats, GOP Debate The Effects Of Enron Some Say Scandal Not a Political Issue By Thomas B. Edsall and Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, January 20, 2002; Page A05 AUSTIN -- Those attending the annual Republican National Committee meeting here expressed confidence that the scandal surrounding Enron Corp.'s bankruptcy ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Sun Jan 20 14:10:32 PST 2002

201 Fwd: Please sign on to this anti-war statement -- rank: 243

From: DavidMcR at aol.com Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 00:03:45 EST Subject: Please sign on to this anti-war statement Dear Friend, Please join Barbara Ehrenreich, Adolph Reed, Michael Albert, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Naomi Weisstein, Edward Said, Stephen Shalom, Katha Pollitt, John Leonard, Sue Leonard, James Weinstein, Daniel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 15 13:23:23 PST 2002

202 Ehrenreich, Esst, Said and Ellsberg, LLP. Please sign on to this anti-war statement -- rank: 243

And remember George Soros gives a grant to the CPD, East and West, the red-baiting rascals. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Campaign+for+Peace+and+Democracy%22+George+Soros Michael Pugliese, w/long tongue in cheek DavidMcR at aol.com wrote: In a message dated 12/14/02 11 ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Dec 15 09:26:15 PST 2002

203 first anti-capitalist -- rank: 243

... are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Mon Aug 12 20:43:10 PDT 2002

204 Entropy -- rank: 243

Norbert Weiner. His _The Human Use of Human Beings: >Cybernetics and Society ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Thu Apr 11 13:30:56 PDT 2002

205 Entropy -- rank: 243

... theory was also someone involved in its further development, Norbert Weiner. His _The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Thu Apr 11 10:23:34 PDT 2002

206 anti-globalization label -- rank: 243

... In Mexico, Greed Kills Fish by the Seaful By TIM WEINER BAHÍA DE LOBOS, Mexico, April 5 - The fishermen set out ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Wed Apr 10 09:51:46 PDT 2002

207 Probability (was RE: Civil Liberties) -- rank: 243

Luke Weiger wrote: >> >>Do you follow this with coin tosses? Each coin toss, no matter how many >>times you do it, has a 1/2 probability of coming up heads. It doesn't >>matter if your previous 500 coin toss where heads (See Stoppard's play >>_Rosenkrantz and Guidenstern are Dead ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Sep 20 13:49:05 PDT 2001

208 Pirates and Emperors -- rank: 243

Justin wrote: > The Caesar ref that Shane invokes I don't get. Pompey, Caesar's >rival, cleared the Mediterranean of pirates. The story, found in both Plutarch and Suetonius, is that the young Caesar, while on service in the Eastern Mediterranean, was captured by Cilician pirates and held for ransom. When ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 21 21:13:57 PDT 2001

209 kakistocracy update: "we did not invent corruption" -- rank: 243

... Attacks, U.S. Officials Say By LOWELL BERGMAN and TIM WEINER WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 - In recent months, Osama bin Laden and ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Tue Oct 9 18:28:08 PDT 2001

210 Local Tyrants and the American Empire -- rank: 243

Dennis B. asks: >From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> > > Local tyrants who fell out of favor with the American Empire, with >> all their brutality and cruelty, are better antagonists of the masses >> than the American Empire and its new lackeys, for the simple reason >> that the latter have bigger ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Nov 24 11:17:23 PST 2001