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5941 China corporate whistle blowers play high risk game -- rank: 72

The Times of India TUESDAY, MARCH 05, 2002 China corporate whistle blowers play high risk game REUTERS BEIJING: Chinese academic Liu Shuwei did not expect to receive death threats after she queried the financial health of a blue-chip company. But that is precisely what happened when she urged banks to ...

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Author:	Ulhas Joglekar
Date:	Wed Mar 6 11:53:23 PST 2002

5942 Too Fucking Many Good Books, was Re: David Lynch -- rank: 72

Justin Schwartz wrote: > >CB: So what is the problem with having a political standard for art ? > > > > None, as long as it is one standard among many, and is enforced only by the > critics and the public rather than the cops. > I like the idea of multiple standards (which I would prefer ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Mar 4 21:12:35 PST 2002

5943 working class -- rank: 72

... for firefighters -- it is part of the job definition for police. And police constitute an instance in which there is, for the most ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Jun 30 07:39:31 PDT 2002

5944 I love a man in a uniform -- rank: 72

... military and the presidency has increased. Overall, the military, the police, the presidency, the U.S. Supreme Court and banks are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 28 17:04:58 PDT 2002

5945 Communism -- rank: 72

... The state, which is an organisation > > staffed by soldiers, the police, judges and jailers charged with enforcing > > the law, is only ... not correspond with my experience or understanding > of the world. Police, judges and jailers exist in large part to handle > crimes ...

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Author:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Fri Jun 28 12:20:53 PDT 2002

5946 Communism -- rank: 72

... The state, which is an organisation > staffed by soldiers, the police, judges and jailers charged with enforcing > the law, is only ... not correspond with my experience or understanding of the world. Police, judges and jailers exist in large part to handle crimes ...

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Author:	Paul Prescod
Date:	Fri Jun 28 11:35:25 PDT 2002

5947 Communism -- rank: 72

I'm pasting a shortish essay from a comrade on another list (with permission) about the nature of communism for your consideration and possible criticism. If it is too long, let me know and I won't do it again. Tahir Communism: an alternative world Communism (or socialism, the same thing ...

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Author:	Tahir Wood
Date:	Fri Jun 28 06:22:44 PDT 2002

5948 Two Argentines Shot Dead in Anti-Government Riots -- rank: 72

... as hundreds of anti-government demonstrators fought pitched battles with police in the worst riots since an elected government was toppled ... negotiations on the pact rolling. But things look bleak. Riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse unemploye

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Author:	Tom Wheeler
Date:	Wed Jun 26 14:32:37 PDT 2002

5949 No surprises here -- rank: 72

... Afghanistan would prove futile; the correct response was intelligence and police work, not brute force. Al-Qaida's nu

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Wed Jun 26 11:15:04 PDT 2002

5950 Russian extremism -- rank: 72

Vremya MN June 26, 2002 COULD FASCISM BE IMPOSED ON RUSSIA? The threat of extremism and neo-fascism could be exaggerated Author: Valery Solovyev, political consultant, analyst with the Gorbachev Foundation on issues of radicalism in Russia [from WPS Monitoring Agency, www.wps.ru/e_index.html] FASCISM AS EVEN A ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Wed Jun 26 06:21:31 PDT 2002

5951 Plato -- rank: 72

... Subject: Re: Plato > > > > >Please don't equate my statements as police behavior. Ever. > > Gee, sorry, you're sensitive today! ============= No just ... when people equate what I write on this list with police behavior. :-) You know Carrol and I have been bantering around ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Tue Jun 25 20:16:29 PDT 2002

5952 Chechnya -- rank: 72

I'm posting this mainly because it gives a good synopsis of how complicated the Chechen issue is. Chris Doss The Russia Journal ---------------------------- From: "Robert Bruce Ware" <... at brick.net> Subject: Chechen Peace (JRL #6320) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 It's a great relief that it took no more than ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Mon Jun 24 02:19:55 PDT 2002

5953 More! More! More! news from Russia -- rank: 72

Russia's State Duma passes government-sponsored bill on combatting extremism MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's lower house of parliament moved a step closer to passing a Kremlin-sponsored law on combatting political extremism Thursday that many lawmakers and human rights groups say would give the government too much power. Lawmakers in ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Thu Jun 20 07:08:06 PDT 2002

5954 more rollback of ADA -- rank: 72

... was no back seat in the patrol >car so the police put you on top of the car and strapped you ... yourself and had to have surgery. Would you want the police to do this >to the next victim they arrested? No ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Tue Jun 18 11:10:35 PDT 2002

5955 Clarance, David and Antonin, on my side? -- rank: 72

$2.50/hr, no benies, more taxes. IRS wins case on cash tips By Marie Beaudette THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the Internal Revenue Service can use estimates to make sure it is collecting enough taxes on cash tips, a decision expected to affect about 200 ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Tue Jun 18 09:29:16 PDT 2002