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11431 Mumia ad -- rank: 46

... electrocuted. >But it's practically certain that he killed a police officer about 8 >blocks from where I live. And as ...

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Author:	Michael Eisenscher
Date:	Fri Aug 14 19:23:59 PDT 1998

11432 [lbo-talk] On the term, "Political correctness" -- rank: 46

... stop-and-frisk tactics employed by the New York City Police Department amount to racial profiling and violate the Constitution. "When ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Aug 20 10:04:38 PDT 2013

11433 [lbo-talk] Foreclosure Phil -- rank: 46

MotherJones.com / News / Feature Foreclosure Phil Years before Phil Gramm was a McCain campaign adviser and a lobbyist for a Swiss bank at the center of the housing credit crisis, he pulled a sly maneuver in the Senate that helped create today's subprime meltdown. David Corn May 28, 2008 Who ...

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Author:	Shane Taylor
Date:	Sun Jun 15 18:44:22 PDT 2008

11434 "What Peru needs now is a woman..." -- rank: 46

<http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36156-2001Mar7.html> Restoring Trust in Presidency Might Take a Woman's Touch Peruvians, Shocked by Scandal, Turn to Female Candidate By Anthony Faiola Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, March 8, 2001; Page A17 JAUJA, Peru -- Thousands of residents poured into the streets of ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Thu Mar 8 19:32:17 PST 2001

11435 [lbo-talk] backstory on UMich-Pluto -- rank: 46

<http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/18/pluto> JUNE 18 Michigan Severs Ties to Controversial Publisher In September, the University of Michigan Press faced intense criticism from pro-Israel groups and questions from some regents over its distribution of a book called Overcoming Zionism, which argues that the creation of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 23 12:27:27 PDT 2008

11436 Fwd: {FP} Houston Report -- rank: 46

Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 18:31:22 -0500 From: Pacifica Campaign <pacificacampaign at yahoo.com> Dear Friends, I am pleased to report that I returned several days ago from a weekend of inspiring protest and national organizing at the Mar. 2-Mar. 4 Pacifica National Board meeting in Houston. More ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 8 08:50:36 PST 2001

11437 [lbo-talk] Chuck's Cassirer posts -- rank: 46

Foucault wrote: > All human behavior is scheduled and programmed through rationality. > There is a logic of institutions and in behavior and in political > relations. In even the most violent ones there is a rationality. What > is most dangerous in violence is its rationality. Of course violence > itself is terrible. But the ...

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Author:	Ted Winslow
Date:	Tue Jun 24 12:02:55 PDT 2008

11438 Fw: Dumbing down, American-style -- rank: 46

-----Original Message----- From: Anthony d'Auria <apd at andrew.cmu.edu> To: psn at csf.colorado.edu <psn at csf.colorado.edu> Date: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 10:47 AM Subject: Dumbing down, American-style The projection of United States' power abroad has much to do with the way in ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Mar 7 11:24:39 PST 2001

11439 BK on Identity -- rank: 46

Hi Dennis, >> I've pondered your response, Ian, as well as what you say later in this thread. And I couldn't disagree more. The "point" here is hardly academic and goes right to the crux over question about how to fight, how to eradiate racism, in its various forms. ************* I ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Mon Mar 5 08:41:19 PST 2001

11440 SENATOR BYRD: 'THERE ARE WHITE NIGGERS' -- rank: 46

... apology of course but also wondered how hard they can police it when the word is used so much in public ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Mon Mar 5 04:45:03 PST 2001

11441 BK on Identity -- rank: 46

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: > > Wrong question[s], totally. > > What is needed to eradicate racism is the only question Yoshie. Etiological > analysis of it's construction is at the "point" of diminishing returns. The > moment somebody comes up with an explanation that racism is rational [under > capitalism or any other politico-economic ...

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Author:	Dennis Breslin
Date:	Sun Mar 4 07:25:33 PST 2001

11442 [lbo-talk] Italy fingerprint plan criticised -- rank: 46

... minister has sparked criticism with a proposal that would see police fingerprinting all members of the Roma community living in camps ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Fri Jun 27 06:33:13 PDT 2008

11443 David Horowitz/reparations for slavery -- rank: 46

... he >covered controversial events on campus very thinly from the police >perspective. > >And Horowitz isn't posting my letters on his ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Fri Mar 2 17:45:04 PST 2001

11444 David Horowitz/reparations for slavery -- rank: 46

... he covered controversial events on campus very thinly from the police perspective. And Horowitz isn't posting my letters on his ...

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Author:	berlin at socrates.Berkeley.EDU
Date:	Fri Mar 2 15:51:06 PST 2001

11445 David Horowitz/reparations for slavery -- rank: 46

... atrocities, but he said we > must be the campus thought police to have come to his talk. My experience of attempting ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Fri Mar 2 14:54:56 PST 2001