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181 [lbo-talk] Re: post-doctorate -- rank: 1000

He is not depressed, believe me. The world is more competitive now than it was when you two were starting out. In addition LA is more competitive than many or most other places. Having a film industry background I know how much you have to hustle to stay on top of the game here. One has to be extremely diligent and driven. Those seem to be qualities of people who succeed here. Since the boyfriend grew up in Holland I believe he is used to a more laid back world where health care is pa ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 24 18:39:52 PST 2006

182 [lbo-talk] Re: post-doctorate -- rank: 1000

If he does he hasn't had it diagnosed or at least hasn't shared that with us if he has. Marta On Jan 24, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Jim Devine wrote: > Also, is it possible that he has Asperger's syndrome (mild autism) > which is characterized by poor social skills, by poor ability to plan > one's life, and by poor common sense, but by professorial pretensions? > >

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183 [lbo-talk] Re: post-doctorate -- rank: 1000

He is not scum....he is just a procrastinator and unorganized man who may not have the get up and go to make things happen in his life. None of us who have watched him at UCLA can understand why it has taken him so long to get his PhD. He still doesn't have it. We are told now after being told many times in the past by him that he will have it soon, this time in April. I am right to be concerned. My daughter has not married him yet. But this is getting personal now when I did not s ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 24 10:12:30 PST 2006

184 [lbo-talk] Abramoff/Bush photos exist -- rank: 1000

TIME Says Abramoff-Bush Photos Exist http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012306A.shtml TIME has seen five photographs of Abramoff and the President that suggest a level of contact between them that Bush's aides have downplayed.

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Date:	Mon Jan 23 14:32:24 PST 2006

185 [lbo-talk] post-doctorate? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:02 AM, Guest wrote: >> Marta Russell wrote: >> >> >>> Ok so it sounds like he is going to be a poor boy >>> >> for quite a while >> >>> and my daughter will have to pay the bills. That's >>> >> just great. >> >> > > > Of course he should provide for his woman, not the > other way around. Oh the shame of it! > Well the guy is 32 years old and my daughter is 25. When she is ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 23 09:19:41 PST 2006

186 [lbo-talk] post-doctorate? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2006, at 6:23 PM, joanna wrote: > > Yes. And I hope he's a decent guy because the way that scenario > usually runs is that they get the women to support them while they > can't make much money. Then they get a professorship, start making > some bucks, dump their wives and marry some dewey eyed graduate > student. > > Joanna This is why I am trying to get my daughter to focus on her own career path. It's a difficult situation. She's working in the film biz an ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 22 18:42:26 PST 2006

187 [lbo-talk] post-doctorate? -- rank: 1000

Ok so it sounds like he is going to be a poor boy for quite a while and my daughter will have to pay the bills. That's just great. Marta On Jan 22, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> The alternative, in this neo-liberal world, would be to >> pay people who get the Neuroscience jobs less. >> > > It's not just that; getting a PhD doesn't exactly make you > 'qualified' to be a professor, the same way that going to pilot > school doesn't make you qualified to fl ...

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188 [lbo-talk] post-doctorate? -- rank: 1000

Can one of the professors on this list serve please explain to me what is the purpose of a post doctorate? My daughter's boyfriend has been taking years to get his PhD in Neuroscience from UCLA. At long last it appears he is actually going to have it this spring. All this time he has lived on a very very small amount of money from teaching at UCLA as a graduate student. Now he wants to move over to Cal-Tech. He will only get a third more than he is getting now - under $30,000 to be exa ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 22 13:32:22 PST 2006

189 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Urgent Phone Action: IT'S FILIBUSTER FRIDAY!! -- rank: 1000

Begin forwarded message: > From: The Pen <activist.gb at gmail.com> > Date: January 19, 2006 6:44:15 PM PST > > > CALL ALL YOUR SENATORS LOCAL DISTRICT OFFICES NOW TO OPPOSE ALITO > > We have gotten many emails from our participants, asking "what more > can we do?. Some have reported senators arbitrarily turning off > their answering machines at night, or long waits on hold. Are they > trying to hide from the thousands and thousands of their > consti ...

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190 [lbo-talk] Alito & disability -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2006, at 10:13 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > >> Yeah, but I think dispersal plays a big role. Back >> when, working class folks lived together as neighbors >> in the Back of the Yards, drank in the smae bars, hung >> out on the porch, went to the union hall if they had >> one. Now withthe car and burbs, as noted in previosu >> threads, we are dispersed to the winds. >> > > I agree. There are many reaso ...

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191 [lbo-talk] Zogby on Bush wiretaps -- rank: 1000

From: NT To: ImpeachBushNOW at yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 8:30 AM Subject: [ImpeachBushNOW] Zogby: Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping Democrats.com Zogby Poll: Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping By Bob Fertik Created 2006-01-13 23:34 For Immediate Release: January 16, 2006 New Zogby Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he wiret ...

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192 [lbo-talk] Alito & disability -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2006, at 10:13 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > > The reproductive rights movement has relied very very heavily on > litigation at the expense of building popular support and > membership organizations. Faye Wattleton, who headed Planned > Parenthood 1978-92 and now runs the Center for the Advancement of > Women, agreed with me strongly when I made that point in an > interview <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#030717>. > This is also true to a less ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 15 10:57:58 PST 2006

193 [lbo-talk] Alito & disability -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2006, at 9:51 AM, Bitch | Lab wrote: > > After I sent that .... I guess I was interpreting NN's as a claim > that all anyone involved in social change cares about is the > judicial arena. As I said to someone offlist, that's not how it > works -- it's always a well-rounded strategy. Offlist, someone else > told me that we need to work on the legislative arena. Yeahbutt. We > already _are_. Any social movement tends to engage in multiple > strategies: agitation, ...

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194 [lbo-talk] Alito & disability -- rank: 1000

On Jan 14, 2006, at 7:57 PM, Bitch | Lab wrote: > At 10:28 > > What groups with whom we as lefties identify are going that way -- > using the courts--as a way to achieve social change? REally, I thnk > it's just NN imaginging that all the world is a bunch of attorneys > like him. And using it as a trope to hammer on something else. What > that is, I'm unclear. I have my uncharitable suspicions though. > > When the ADA was passed the Disability Rights Defense Fund and ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 14 22:16:52 PST 2006

195 [lbo-talk] Alito & disability -- rank: 1000

On Jan 14, 2006, at 7:57 PM, Bitch | Lab wrote: > At 10:28 > > What groups with whom we as lefties identify are going that way -- > using the courts--as a way to achieve social change? REally, I thnk > it's just NN imaginging that all the world is a bunch of attorneys > like him. And using it as a trope to hammer on something else. What > that is, I'm unclear. I have my uncharitable suspicions though. > When the ADA was passed the Disability Rights Defense Fund and sever ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 14 22:12:46 PST 2006