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11551 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Blackmail wrote: > it may have traction here on this list, but i'm still not buying it. I haven't read the book, but it's reputed to be based on empirical observation in many countries over many decades. In that case, what's not to buy? You have some beef with the statistical technique? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 22 08:29:55 PDT 2007

11552 [lbo-talk] obscene devices -- rank: 1000

<http://avn.com/index.php? Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=289264> 'Obscene' Devices Head for the Supreme Court By: Mark Kernes Posted: 9:00 am PDT 5-21-2007 WASHINGTON - You know a case is ripe for Supreme Court review when the retelling of its history cites lower court decisions labeled "Williams I," "Williams II," "Williams III," "Williams IV" and "Williams V." The "Williams," of course, is ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 08:27:03 PDT 2007

11553 [lbo-talk] Regime Change and Paranoid Reaction -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2007, at 8:05 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi quoted official Iranian sources as saying: > that act in line with the interests of the aliens Ah, I see - it's their own Alien & Sedition Acts! Or maybe they've been studying the works of A. Mitchell Palmer: "My information showed that communism in this country was an organization of thousands of aliens who were direct allies of Trotzky. Aliens of the same misshapen caste of mind and indecencies of character, and it showed that the ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 05:23:18 PDT 2007

11554 [lbo-talk] MESA on Academic Boycott of Israel (was Re: academic boycott of Iran) -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2007, at 7:56 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Doug is happy about the fake news of an academic boycott of Iran No I'm not. I think academic boycotts are largely stupid, unless a virtuous and substantial force in the target country has made the request. And U.S. sanctions against Iran are awful. In that WP article, I was interested in the comments of Juan Cole and especially Noam Chomsky, who are not known as saber-rattlers. If you've said anything on the detention of Haleh Esfan ...

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Date:	Tue May 22 05:17:59 PDT 2007

11555 [lbo-talk] more on the Archer thesis -- rank: 1000

<http://www.sacbee.com/328/story/161093.html> Ron Dzwonkowski: Murderous war side-effect By Ron Dzwonkowski - Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, April 26, 2007 Elliot Leyton closed his final lecture before retiring three years ago from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a warning for America. He forecast that as the war in Iraq dragged on, the United States would likely see a rise in violent crime, even catastrophic mass homicides. Leyton was not just guessing. An anthropologist, h ...

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Date:	Mon May 21 15:06:32 PDT 2007

11556 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000

On May 21, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Here's my LBO message from about a year ago on this [6/12/2006]; maybe > this is what you guys are recalling. > > Dane Archer's actually done some interesting archival research on > this. > During the 20th century, murder rates are significantly higher when a > country is at war or immediately following wartime. Moreover, this > increase cannot simply be due to returning veterans, because the > murder > rate also ...

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Date:	Mon May 21 15:03:24 PDT 2007

11557 [lbo-talk] choices -- rank: 1000

Yale is asking me to vote for the alumni rep on the aptly named Yale Corporation, which is the equivalent of what other universities call their board of trustees. The choices are Bill Gates's mom and the retired chair of JP Morgan Chase. There's more diversity among the presidential candidates!

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Date:	Mon May 21 14:31:26 PDT 2007

11558 [lbo-talk] academic boycott of Iran -- rank: 1000

[Yoshie, better work on Noam - evidently he hasn't gotten the memo yet.] Washington Post - May 20, 2007 Academics May Boycott Iran Over Scholar's Detainment By Robin Wright Washington Post Staff Writer Momentum is building behind an academic boycott of Iran to pressure the government to free imprisoned American scholar Haleh Esfandiari, who was jailed in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on May 8 after more than four months under house arrest. The Middle East Studies Association of North America ...

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Date:	Mon May 21 14:13:18 PDT 2007

11559 [lbo-talk] Mrs Dennis -- rank: 1000

[pic at original - gotta hand it to the little guy...] <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/ article1813550.ece> Essex girl fills White House race with lurve Sarah Baxter, Washington AN Essex girl may be the first lady with a tongue stud to have set her sights on the White House. The wife of Dennis Kucinich, a left- wing Democratic congressman and 2008 presidential candidate, is a 29- year-old hippie chick from Upminster at the end of London Underground s District ...

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Date:	Mon May 21 14:00:50 PDT 2007

11560 [lbo-talk] McCain uncorks one -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0507/ McCain_unloads_on_Romney_Mitts_camp_punches_back.html> Sen. John McCain used a blogger conference call today to unleash his toughest -- and most personal -- attack yet on former Gov. Mitt Romney. Per a McCain aide, one of the bloggers asked about the immigration issue and Romney's attack on the compromise."Maybe I should wait a couple of weeks and see if it changes because its changed in less than a year from his position before, ...

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11561 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000

On May 21, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > The war effect theory does not explain > that. However, it is possible to extend this argument to other > factors > legitimizing violence e.g. the hip hop music and gangsta rap in > particular - > which would make the Archer's theory better suited to explaining > this kind > of violence. As I recall, something like half the hip hop records are bought by white suburban kids. They're not killing each other. People wi ...

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Date:	Mon May 21 13:14:14 PDT 2007

11562 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000

On May 21, 2007, at 2:38 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > Doug mentioned the Iraq war blowblack as maybe contributing, but > I'd be > willing to bet there's very little link this time. I just don't > see it > being vets in north philly, east cleveland and west las vegas > shooting up > blocks. Isn't the people vets mostly do violence to, their spouses > and them > selves? As I recall, that's not the theory - it's not the vets that do the crimes, it's the sight of state-spons ...

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Date:	Mon May 21 12:26:25 PDT 2007

11563 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000

On May 21, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Blackmail wrote: > it'd be sad to see philly > backslide into the climate of fear that gripped the city in the late > eighties and early nineties. The other night someone recounted to me what Frank Rizzo said the night he was first elected sheriff in Philadelphia. Asked what he intended to do, he replied: "Make Atilla the Hun look like a faggot." Doug

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11564 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000

[No mention, of course, of the blowback from the Iraq war.] Crime rises as police fight other threats By Jason Szep 2 hours, 4 minutes ago BOSTON (Reuters) - After a night of dancing, Chiara Levin was shot in the head by a stray bullet from a gunfight as she sat in a Cadillac sport utility vehicle. Hours later she was dead. The killing of the 22-year-old Kentucky native, who recently graduated university with honors, in a tough neighborhood in Boston's Dorchester district on March 24 sparked ...

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Date:	Mon May 21 08:22:56 PDT 2007

11565 [lbo-talk] A public square -- rank: 1000

On May 21, 2007, at 3:03 AM, wrobert at uci.edu wrote: > Not only is he not going to get paid > for it, but he is expected to pay for the production of the index. That's pretty standard in book publishing - the author is almost always responsible for the index. That's not been hard on me, since I spent about 10 years as a book indexer. But most authors find doing their own index a crushing chore (and crushing bore) - but contacting out for it costs about $2-3 per book page. Doug

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