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13921 story -- rank: 46

Friends, Saturday marks the third anniversary of my father's death. Each year I try to do a couple of things in his honor. I read a war memoir each year in appreciation of the importance of WW2 in his life. This year I read "My Just War" by Gabriel Temkin ...

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Author:	Michael Yates
Date:	Thu Apr 6 11:05:30 PDT 2000

13922 [lbo-talk] too cool for jazz hands -- rank: 46

Anyway, she explains why jazz hands are used: so clapping or cheering or booing won't interrupt the speaker. The speaker still gets feedback, she just doesn't get the hostility of an interruption. This, according to Polletta, is one of the techniques consensus democracy advocates in Direct Action have come ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sun Nov 13 04:42:42 PST 2011

13923 WB on its enemies, again -- rank: 46

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service - from the headline, I thought somebody'd hacked into the Bank's server!] SPRING MEETINGS: PERSONS OF COLOR WANTED TO BATTLE EVIL WORLD SYSTEM. There's not much time left before the folks who turned last year's Seattle trade talks into ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 6 10:48:56 PDT 2000

13924 Disastrous Attempts -- rank: 46

Take a look under the heading Disastrous Attempts about half way down the page. 'Made in China' label takes toll By Frank Langfitt, Sun Foreign Staff SHENZHEN, China -- The industrial revolution that turned "Made in China" into a catch phrase has come at a steep human price and perhaps nowhere is ...

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Author:	Tom Lehman
Date:	Thu Apr 6 06:53:10 PDT 2000

13925 NYT's wedding announcements -- rank: 46

Trivial? :o) Take a peek at this: http://www.chronicletelegram.com/front/head4.htm Carl Remick wrote: > >From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com> > > > >Subject: NYT's wedding announcements > > [Mega-oops! That last e-mail was supposed to go to my wife, not the list. > Yes, the NYT's social section ...

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Author:	Tom Lehman
Date:	Thu Apr 6 04:29:16 PDT 2000

13926 campus update -- rank: 46

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] ON CAMPUS KIRK SCIRTO, UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: 3 weeks of activism, 2 weeks of nightly vigils, 1 week of fasting. 20 of us covered our mouths and bound our hands with red tape outside the administrative building . . . We're camping out on the academic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 5 14:53:24 PDT 2000

13927 The Political Economy of the Beeper -- rank: 46

... wealthy?) enough to have real ones. I cannot imagine that police would look twice at them. But the kids out bike ...

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Author:	Juliana Shearer
Date:	Fri Aug 21 17:11:55 PDT 1998

13928 NYT's wedding announcements -- rank: 46

>From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com> > >Subject: NYT's wedding announcements [Mega-oops! That last e-mail was supposed to go to my wife, not the list. Yes, the NYT's social section is sillier than ever, but that's too trivial a subject to broach here. The following ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Wed Apr 5 10:12:16 PDT 2000

13929 Bears & Crashes -- rank: 46

Le Tue, Apr 04, 2000 a 04:06:04PM -0400, Doug Henwood a ecrit: > > American triumphalism. I don't notice a great political upsurge in > Japan after 10 years of stagnation, a possible fate for the U.S. > should the bubble burst. We've had an upsurge in radical political > activity ...

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Author:	JC Helary
Date:	Wed Apr 5 05:13:55 PDT 2000

13930 [lbo-talk] too cool for jazz hands -- rank: 46

Great stuff below, and a continuation of Mark Ames s rant about that Jon Stewart rally: http://l.ravi.be/gitzkJ. ravi On Nov 13, 2011, at 7:42 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > Anyway, she explains why jazz hands are used: so clapping or cheering > or booing won't interrupt ...

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Author:	// ravi
Date:	Sun Nov 13 08:13:23 PST 2011

13931 [lbo-talk] too cool for jazz hands -- rank: 46

I think shag's post below offers a fairly good account of why irony for the most part is the rhetorical weapon of reaction. Irony almost always is a defense of standing still. Most of my favorite writers were great ironists -- and great conservatives too. Carrol -----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Nov 13 08:26:28 PST 2011

13932 Congo, China, Kosovo -- rank: 46

------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Progressive Response 4 April 2000 Vol. 4, No. 14 Editor: Tom Barry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Progressive Response (PR) is a weekly service of Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF), a joint project of the Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for Policy Studies. We encourage responses to the opinions expressed in PR ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Apr 4 16:13:38 PDT 2000

13933 Fw: Not with Our Money -- rank: 46

> WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2000--The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HERE) received the following press release from Not With Our Money, a student-based organization. > > The press release follows: > > Monday, April 3. Armed with stickers that read "Sodexho = Prison Profit", students at ten colleges and universities ...

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Author:	David Glenn
Date:	Mon Apr 3 17:46:20 PDT 2000

13934 [Fwd: Fw: L.A.LaborNews - The China Syndrome - meltdown in the movement] -- rank: 46

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fw: L.A.LaborNews - The China Syndrome - meltdown in the movement Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 07:39:17 -0700 From: Sol Dollinger <soldoll at inreach.com> Reply-To: marxism at lists.panix.com To: Louis Proyect <marxism at lists.panix.com> -----Original Message----- From: L.A ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Apr 3 16:37:54 PDT 2000

13935 [lbo-talk] commentary on oakland "anarchist outsiders" and ishmaelreed op-ed -- rank: 46

... afterward by then Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and the Oakland Police, with the help of some of the local non-profiteers ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun Nov 13 13:07:19 PST 2011