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14761 Hate crimes -- rank: 46

... just been found guilty. The trial of the New York police officers who shot Amadou Diallo 41 times is soon to ...

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Author:	michael perelman
Date:	Fri Oct 15 20:42:54 PDT 1999

14762 [lbo-talk] Pope urges Indonesia to call off Christian executions -- rank: 46

Reuters.com News > World Crises >Article Pope urges Indonesia to call off Christian executions http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=SP254679 Fri 11 Aug 2006 (Recasts with Pope appeal, amends dateline) JAKARTA/VATICAN CITY, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict called on Indonesia on Friday to stop the imminent execution ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Fri Aug 25 17:16:28 PDT 2006

14763 [lbo-talk] "the male gaze" thiingy -- rank: 46

Camille Paglia: From the start, the "male gaze" struck me as conceptually limited and wrongly skewed to gender. It seemed to spring /a priori/ from 1970s feminist ideology rather than /a posteriori/ from primary study of world art works, particularly the glorious nudes of Greek, Roman and Renaissance art. As a ...

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Author:	Tom Walker
Date:	Sun Dec 11 07:59:58 PST 2005

14764 [lbo-talk] Bush's palace rises from the ashes of Baghdad -- rank: 46

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/bush-palace-shielded-from-iraqi-storm/2006/08/25/1156012740594.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 Bush 'palace' shielded from Iraqi storm Paul McGeough, Baghdad Melbourne Age August 26, 2006 THE plans are a state secret, so just where the Starbucks and Krispy Kreme stores will ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Fri Aug 25 19:03:36 PDT 2006

14765 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [SocialistsUnmoderated] Korean Sex Slaves -- rank: 46

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: TINO ROZZO <shinjin at rocketmail.com> Date: Dec 9, 2005 3:50 PM Subject: [SocialistsUnmoderated] Korean Sex Slaves To: ficu at riseup.net Thousands of N.Korean sex slaves in China: US official 2 hours, 41 minutes ago Thousands of North Korean refugees are working as sex ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Dec 10 06:02:25 PST 2005

14766 [lbo-talk] Economic chaos in Iraq -- rank: 46

August 26, 2006 Weary Iraqis Face New Foe: Rising Prices By DAMIEN CAVE New York Times BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 25 For Mehdi Dawood, Iraq s failures have leached into the cucumbers, a staple of every meal that now devours a fifth of his monthly pension. And it is not just the ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Sat Aug 26 08:27:34 PDT 2006

14767 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [Ufpj-disc] The Antiwar Movement Isn't Where You Think It Is -- rank: 46

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Charles Shaw (Newtopia) <charles at newtopiamagazine.net> Date: Dec 9, 2005 12:08 PM Subject: [Ufpj-disc] The Antiwar Movement Isn't Where You Think It Is To: Ufpj-disc at lists.mayfirst.org **Please see footer for list protocol** The Antiwar Movement Isn't Where You ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Dec 10 04:38:35 PST 2005

14768 [lbo-talk] Reversing common wisdom on pornography -- rank: 46

[Courtesy Sam Smith's Undernews] [This is probably a silly, superficial correlation. But it beats the hell out of the opposite silly, superficial correlation. So it could be of fun rhetorical use.] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=913013#PaperDownload EVIDENCE THAT PORN REDUCES RAPE ANTHONY D ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sat Aug 26 20:48:45 PDT 2006

14769 [lbo-talk] Federal Air Marshal kills innocent ... -- rank: 46

> either scenario is possible - in some ways yours is scarier to the extent > that cases of 'poorly trained, easly paniced, over armed, low bidder > para-military wanna-be's facing a situation that even well trained > professionals have trouble managing' may soon become a way of life (death) > in this ...

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Author:	paul childs
Date:	Fri Dec 9 12:24:05 PST 2005

14770 [lbo-talk] Reversing common wisdom on pornography -- rank: 46

I'm pretty sure that Oxford Debate Team argued something similar last fall, porn as outlet, etc. [Until about a month ago, I worked at the periphery of the porn industry in video-on-demand services, and followed these issues pretty closely. I can assure you that database management was never ...

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Author:	Blackmail
Date:	Sun Aug 27 08:12:04 PDT 2006

14771 [lbo-talk] Chechen PM interviewed -- rank: 46

Moscow News August 25, 2006 Ramzan Kadyrov: "I Keep Everything Under Control" Military commanders and heads of teyps (clans) swore on the Koran to be loyal to the "Kadyrov cause" By Aslanbek Dadayev Several days ago, Chechnya's Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov repeated for the umpteenth time that he had no ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Aug 27 09:52:02 PDT 2006

14772 [lbo-talk] Reversing common wisdom on pornography -- rank: 46

That's called an article worthy of publication? Yikes! Although I gotta admit, the quotes on the author's web site were funny. As rhetoric, it would fall flat b/c the guy has partisan fingers in the pie. First, in any debate with the radfems, his association with John, More ...

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Author:	info at pulpculture.org
Date:	Sun Aug 27 10:21:41 PDT 2006

14773 [lbo-talk] The Japanese Left Can Use Nationalism (was Japanese Right Wing Intimidation) -- rank: 46

On 8/27/06, Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion at mx6.tiki.ne.jp> wrote: > > On 28 août 06, at 08:59, joanna wrote: > > > Why does Japan need nationalism? > > I wish I knew, epecially since there seems to be plenty of it here > already. IMHO, what the Japanese Right have is only ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Aug 27 19:40:19 PDT 2006

14774 [lbo-talk] Ban on sale of cats and dogs in Mecca -- rank: 46

... of pet cats and dogs at the request of religious police. The commission for the promotion of virtue and prevention of ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Mon Aug 28 06:09:21 PDT 2006

14775 [lbo-talk] NYTimes Editorial: Rise of Pessimism -- rank: 46

... ask the question - "what left?" Further, the rise of a police state apparatus should cool- or at least temper- whatever good ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Mon Aug 28 10:25:50 PDT 2006