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15391 [lbo-talk] U of Florida requirement for partner benefits: You must have sex -- rank: 46

via Drudge http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060120/LOCAL/201200329/1078/GATORS02&template=printart University of Florida employees have to pledge that they're having sex with their domestic partners before qualifying for benefits under a new health care plan at the university. The partners of homosexual ...

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Author:	mike larkin
Date:	Sun Jan 22 19:30:36 PST 2006

15392 [lbo-talk] Abramoff I -- rank: 46

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ January 21, 2006 -- EXCLUSIVE -- Jack Abramoff's past as a South African spy. According to South African intelligence sources, convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff was a long-time intelligence asset for South Africa's apartheid era security services. The revelations from South Africa help to explain Abramoff ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Mon Jan 23 13:23:27 PST 2006

15393 [lbo-talk] Another Step in the Wrong Direction -- rank: 46

Dear List: >From today's Denver Post. But I am curious about two things: 1) Can there be a campaign to the IRS about revoking the Church's tax-exempt status? 2) Is this a good sign that the Catholic Church is so threatened it is going this far? Bishop draws ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Fri May 14 08:39:10 PDT 2004

15394 [lbo-talk] Evo´s Inauguration Sprung Tears of Hope -- rank: 46

A North American writes from Bolivia. Thought I'd pass on the observations. Regards, Mike B) ****************************************************************** So many of us dream of a different way of life, a new society that values more than the egotistical pursuit of money. We dream of a world that honors nature, diversity, equality, creativity, and ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Mon Jan 23 17:16:22 PST 2006

15395 [lbo-talk] No new year cheer for Chinese migrant workers -- rank: 46

NDTV.com http://www.ndtv.com/homepage/ No new year cheer for Chinese migrant workers January 1, 2006 By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Wei Zebo normally can't wait to go home for Chinese New Year at the end of January. Only this year he doesn't dare. Like 60 of ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Tue Jan 24 14:34:05 PST 2006

15396 [lbo-talk] Who was Nick Berg? -- rank: 46

... by the US -- let's not pretend that the "Iraqi police" are any kind of independent entity worth considering), I'm ...

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Author:	John Lacny
Date:	Fri May 14 05:54:02 PDT 2004

15397 [lbo-talk] Lumpen -- rank: 46

Michael wrote: > >>> jdevine03 at gmail.com 01/25/06 9:38 AM >>> > FWIW, here's what Karl & Fred had to say about the LP in the CM: > >The "dangerous class", [lumpenproletariat] the social scum, that > passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old > society, may, here and ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jan 25 18:29:29 PST 2006

15398 [lbo-talk] Who was Nick Berg? -- rank: 46

... about who was holding him--the US military or Iraqi police. But what is someone doing in Iraq looking for a ...

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Author:	Christian Gregory
Date:	Fri May 14 04:43:33 PDT 2004

15399 [lbo-talk] Protesting Rumsfailed / Photos show MI in charge -- rank: 46

Kristol on the Daily Show: Don't vote for Kerry because he'll get the u.s out of Iraq in less than four years. -------------- US OUT protests in front of Rumsfailed's house: http://juliusblog.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_juliusblog_archive.html#108450202630454107 -------------- BLAIR URGED TO LOOSEN TIES WITH ...

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Author:	snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
Date:	Thu May 13 21:15:00 PDT 2004

15400 [lbo-talk] Out here in the red states -- rank: 46

... to look out the window and see lots of yellow police tape. They wondered what the heck happened but soon realized ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Thu May 13 16:24:11 PDT 2004

15401 populism vs. Marxism (was RE: Frank Sinatra) -- rank: 46

... living in territories that Chiang Kai-Shek's army and police >controlled killed by his regime is too high? > > >Brad DeLong ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Tue May 19 08:05:46 PDT 1998

15402 [lbo-talk] Bush as the lesser imperialist evil -- rank: 46

... administration had previously acknowledged that Syria has failed to adequately police its border with Iraq, may be developing weapons of mass ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu May 13 08:47:52 PDT 2004

15403 [lbo-talk] Re: civilized -- rank: 46

``I'd urge anyone else planning to make any more comments on the "civilized" thread to re-read the passage in the Chomsky interview first. ....Finally, I think it's actually an crucial question, how the US is both more civilized than it used to be, and how it is ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Thu May 13 01:39:41 PDT 2004

15404 [lbo-talk] Lemisch: The N-Y Historical Society Sinks to New Low w Black-Tie Gala for Henry Kissinger -- rank: 46

The New-York Historical Society Sinks to a New Low with a Black-Tie Gala for Henry Kissinger by Jesse Lemisch http://hnn.us/articles/new-york-historical-society-sinks-new-low-black-tie-gala-henry-kissinger Jesse Lemisch is Professor Emeritus of History at the John Jay College of Criminal ...

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Author:	Joanne Landy
Date:	Tue Oct 25 08:14:16 PDT 2011

15405 [Fwd: A Movie Electrician Responds to Katha] -- rank: 46

Tom Lehman wrote: > > Tom, thanks for an opportunity to respond to the critics of working > people in my industry. I said nothing about the workers -- I'm sure they're great hardworking guys.  There's > an illusion that film workers are rich, that our jobs are glamorous, > and all we do ...

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Author:	Katha Pollitt
Date:	Mon Nov 15 18:55:51 PST 1999