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316 [lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth Reading.Huh? -- rank: 243

Oh, that's cute: He's good to his graduate students. My goodness, it could even be said that Ed Morgan of Yale was good to me, but, really Doug, we don't draw political conclusions from these essentially feudal relationships, at their best paternalistic. Oy vey, a "partnership" indeed! I ...

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Author:	Jesse Lemisch
Date:	Tue Oct 10 15:53:29 PDT 2006

317 [lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth Reading.Huh? -- rank: 243

... bad reaction to the 60s. This is from the Jon Weiner essay that set this off: <http://hnn.us/articles/30629 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 10 15:22:56 PDT 2006

318 [lbo-talk] Blue Dog victory? No says Nathan -- rank: 243

... within the Dem party have converged on, I think. Anthony Weiner was on WNYC this morning pushing the same talking points ...

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Author:	ravi
Date:	Thu Nov 9 10:10:17 PST 2006

319 [lbo-talk] Re: language -- rank: 243

... Czech mother used for bellybutton. With our son, the nickname "Weiner Nut" stuck, but that's what we call him, not ...

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Author:	ThatRogersWoman
Date:	Sun Jul 9 15:16:23 PDT 2006

320 [lbo-talk] Footnotes to history -- rank: 243

... Wyatt, 86, C.I.A. Officer, Is Dead By TIM WEINER F. Mark Wyatt, a career Central Intelligence Agency officer who ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Thu Jul 6 10:02:09 PDT 2006

321 [lbo-talk] Critical review of Clooney film on McCarthyism -- rank: 243

... article.aspx?id=111705A TCS Daily 'Romantic Radicals' By Lauren Weiner / 17 Nov 2005 It is the way of the bien ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Feb 17 07:26:07 PST 2006

322 [lbo-talk] Time to Get Religion -- rank: 243

On 11/7/06, Jim Straub <rustbeltjacobin at gmail.com> wrote: > BTW someone mentioned how our union SEIU is studying the megachurch > thing to learn about membership growth. This is true, although > I fear we're going to learn the wrong lessons from these places. > Megachurches, in their multi-tiered cadre ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Dec 4 11:37:28 PST 2006

323 Cox &Plato (was Re: [lbo-talk] putting quackery to the test) -- rank: 243

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

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Aug 10 19:36:50 PDT 2006

324 [lbo-talk] losers [ was: Lyndie England -- rank: 243

Wojtek wrote: >...The law says what it says and should be obeyed because it is the >law of >the land... Justin, I'm sure would disagree, since he thinks that the law is *not* what the law says but what *judges* say it says. In any event, since he, you, or ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri Sep 30 12:51:34 PDT 2005

325 [lbo-talk] Is US becoming hostile to science? -- rank: 243

> >Reuters.co.uk > >Is US becoming hostile to science? >Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:10 PM BST8 > >By Alan Elsner > >...Other polls show that only around a third of American adults accept >the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe, even though the >concept is virtually uncontested by ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sat Oct 29 10:49:39 PDT 2005

326 [lbo-talk] more on the econ Nobel -- rank: 243

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:18:06 -0400 Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> writes: > Doug wrote: > >[game theory always struck me as mostly empty wankery - can someone > > >convince me to the contrary? not to be too literal-minded, but what > > >town has five identical tire stores, anyway?] > > "Empty wankery ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Mon Oct 10 12:57:28 PDT 2005

327 [lbo-talk] more on the econ Nobel -- rank: 243

Doug wrote: >[game theory always struck me as mostly empty wankery - can someone >convince me to the contrary? not to be too literal-minded, but what >town has five identical tire stores, anyway?] "Empty wankery" it is. What can be said for a "theory" whose proudest accomplishment--the "Prisoner's Dilemma ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Mon Oct 10 12:18:06 PDT 2005

328 [lbo-talk] Bartels -- rank: 243

... The Analysis of a Social Moevment (Cambridge U press, 1983) Weiner, Douglas R., 1999, A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri Oct 7 09:26:12 PDT 2005

329 [lbo-talk] fun things to worry about -- rank: 243

... print If that doesn't work, it's by Tim Weiner in today's paper. The US Air Foce wants to ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Wed May 18 16:01:14 PDT 2005

330 [lbo-talk] leftwing hate machine -- rank: 243

... tune-ups. On the right, that's done by Michael Weiner > >and Ann Coulter. > > > >Maybe Ward Churchill would be willing to ...

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Author:	Michael Dawson
Date:	Thu Mar 17 09:38:19 PST 2005