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8911 [lbo-talk] Ba'thists -- rank: 46

you'll have to take this with a grain of salt, but this is what Kenneth Pollack has to say about the Ba'th Party, which has 1.5 million members. As a CIA agent specializing in Persian Gulf military analysis, he certainly has a particular spin. I certainly haven't ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Tue Apr 8 08:34:32 PDT 2003

8912 [lbo-talk] Unions Face Mounting Bargaining Woes -- rank: 46

Minus Members' Power, Unions Face Mounting Bargaining Woes Mark Brenner, Mischa Gaus and Chris Kutalik Labor Notes January 2008 William Ehman got acquainted with the current direction of collective bargaining in his industry from the back of a squad car. The former president of Steelworkers Local 1537, Ehman led a group ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Fri Dec 28 19:21:54 PST 2007

8913 [lbo-talk] was Bhutto something, returning to the subject -- rank: 46

... hardly ever knock off the seriously nasty bastards in real police states. Well, because the latter are paranoid tyrants who know ...

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Author:	(Chuck Grimes)
Date:	Fri Dec 28 19:42:35 PST 2007

8914 [lbo-talk] Benazir Bhutto reportedly assasinated in a suicidebomb attack -- rank: 46

... against riot cops and had my recent encounter with the police here. I'll be the first to admit that I ...

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Author:	Chuck
Date:	Sat Dec 29 16:14:43 PST 2007

8915 [lbo-talk] Iraq war "clearer" to Americans than WW 2 -- rank: 46

> Does this mean that we should ease up in our judgements > of the Germans who lived under the Third Reich. I remember > being in taught in school, how bad the Germans were because > they wouldn't speak up, when Hitler's regime was waging > unjustified wars, and committing ghastly crimes ...

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Author:	loupaulsen at attbi.com
Date:	Mon Apr 7 13:42:09 PDT 2003

8916 [lbo-talk] The creation of the modern British obituary -- rank: 46

[I didn't realize it was so recent a transformation, and so traceable to one man] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/nyregion/30massingberd.html The New York Times December 30, 2007 Hugh Massingberd, Laureate for the Departed, Dies By MARGALIT FOX Hugh Massingberd, a celebrated former obituaries editor ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sun Dec 30 04:26:05 PST 2007

8917 [lbo-talk] The creation of the modern British obituary -- rank: 46

One of the things that I haved to look forward to when I die is that I will receive one of these sorts of obits in the annual supplement to the King's College Cambridge report, sent to all members of the College. I got a master's degree there. Unfortunately ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun Dec 30 04:49:30 PST 2007

8918 Ends/Means Re: [lbo-talk] What History Will Remember -- rank: 46

... example is lousy. Remember Burrough's Dr. Benway: "I deplore brutality...it's inefficient." > All means are measured against the end ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Apr 7 09:26:12 PDT 2003

8919 Mumia ad -- rank: 46

... wrote: > There's also no right to a trial without police malfeasance. No doubt this is true in practice, but it ...

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Author:	Paul Henry Rosenberg
Date:	Sun Aug 16 17:39:33 PDT 1998

8920 Ends/Means Re: [lbo-talk] What History Will Remember -- rank: 46

... example is lousy. Remember Burrough's Dr. Benway: "I deplore brutality...it's inefficient." > All means are measured against the end ...

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Author:	H. Curtiss Leung
Date:	Mon Apr 7 09:13:08 PDT 2003

8921 [lbo-talk] Henry Rollins, B-Movie Actor -- rank: 46

... Satanism in a small Arkansas town and corrupt prosecutors and police looking for a conviction at any cost. I've got ...

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Author:	Stephen Philion
Date:	Sun Dec 30 13:03:10 PST 2007

8922 [lbo-talk] Henry Rollins, B-Movie Actor -- rank: 46

... Satanism in a > small Arkansas town and corrupt prosecutors and > police looking for a > conviction at any cost. I've got ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Dec 30 13:22:42 PST 2007

8923 [lbo-talk] the sociologist as loner -- rank: 46

Passion and pessimism Zygmunt Bauman has known the terror of war and the trauma of exile. These experiences have made him a champion of the underdog and a caustic critic of the status quo. Yet for all his international popularity - he is one of Europe's most influential sociologists - he remains ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Sun Apr 6 11:10:24 PDT 2003

8924 [lbo-talk] Robert Fisk, "The Battle of Baghdad" -- rank: 46

The Battle of Baghdad 'Ever so slowly, the suburbs were turned into battlefields' By Robert Fisk 06 April 2003 http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=394486 The Iraqi bodies were piled high in the pick-up truck in front of me, army boots hanging over the tailboard, a ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sun Apr 6 09:34:33 PDT 2003

8925 [lbo-talk] Peace, Hamza -- rank: 46

The WEEK ending 6 April 2003 WHY HAS THE PEACE MOVEMENT FAILED? February and March saw the largest mass protests across the world for more than a decade. Millions marched in Europe - especially Britain, Italy and Spain - followed by hundreds of thousands more across the Middle East right through Turkey to ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Apr 6 07:16:10 PDT 2003