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9466 [lbo-talk] A gem of a speech from Zoellick on socialists, anarchists, and anti-globo protesters -- rank: 46

In a discussion of the Sophists, Hobbes, Popper, and Marx I made the mistake, in referring to the first chapter of a book I wrote on the subject (which was favourably reviewed by Alasdair MacIntyre), of giving an e-mail address instead of a webpage. The corrected reference is http://www ...

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Author:	james.irldaly at ntlworld.com
Date:	Thu Jun 7 03:27:40 PDT 2007

9467 [lbo-talk] Computing R&D: science or engineering? -- rank: 46

To open things up a bit ask yourself, what does DNA do? Is it possible to enlarge our understanding of "computation" by thinking deeply about this? .d. --------- I didn't know who David Baltimore was so I looked him up on wiki. Oh, that David Baltimore... Fascinating character, real power house ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Fri Jun 8 07:38:40 PDT 2007

9468 Hitchens on single standards -- rank: 46

... I did think that it was proper to conduct a police > investigation and effect an extradition and arrest of ObL or ...

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Author:	ravi
Date:	Sat May 4 06:38:45 PDT 2002

9469 Terror Inc. -- rank: 46

> On Fri, 3 May 2002, Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: > > The principle is similar: local thugs who stepped in where national > authorities could not or did not step in, who had only the most minimal > local support, who combined tactical shrewdness and business sense with a > penchant for terrifying violence, etc ...

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Author:	Dennis Breslin
Date:	Sat May 4 06:24:14 PDT 2002

9470 Hiro on Iran -- rank: 46

Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> said: > [When I interviewed Hiro last night, he emphasized the class conflict > between the young Westernized bourgeois of North Tehran and the > religious poor and working class residents of South Tehran.] And in his Wall Street Journal article, Hiro said: > Equally important is to understand ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sun Jul 18 23:48:23 PDT 1999

9471 Hitchens on single standards -- rank: 46

... I did think that it was proper to conduct a police investigation and effect an extradition and arrest of ObL or ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Fri May 3 16:41:06 PDT 2002

9472 WITH THE U.S. AS AN ALLY, DICTATORS GET TOUGHER -- rank: 46

Far Eastern Economic Review May 9, 2002 CENTRAL ASIA WITH THE U.S. AS AN ALLY, DICTATORS GET TOUGHER AN ACCOUNT OF REPRESSION IN CENTRAL ASIA THIS YEAR By Ahmed Rashid KAZAKHSTAN Galymzhan Zhakiyanov, leader of newly formed Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan party, seeks shelter in French embassy, but is later ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Fri May 3 03:50:37 PDT 2002

9473 Ahmed Rashid -- rank: 46

[fwd, Ian Murray]: What Went Wrong? By Ahmed Rashid. Issue cover-dated May 09, 2002. Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, by John Esposito. Oxford University Press. ---------- Ahmed Rashid's Jihad, is almost entirely devoted to developments in Central Asia during the 90s, and the migration of Islamic ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Thu May 2 16:02:08 PDT 2002

9474 [lbo-talk] Republican state senator punches Democrat lawmaker, won't apologize -- rank: 46

----- Original Message ----- From: "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> [Yeeeeeeeehaw! -B.] Ala. lawmaker punches Senate colleague ============= Still more on the "lawyers behaving badly" front: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/318711_fightinglawyer07.html Thursday, June 7, 2007 Last updated 12:35 a.m. PT Seattle lawyer suspended for scuffle Defense attorney ...

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Fri Jun 8 12:06:46 PDT 2007

9475 HISTORIC ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION -- rank: 46

... the April 20 rally, my article quoted the D.C. police with the figure of 75,000, and that of most ...

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Author:	jacdon at earthlink.net
Date:	Thu May 2 10:29:59 PDT 2002

9476 [lbo-talk] Court gives cities power to block big box stores -- rank: 46

California Supreme Court Hands Big-Box Stores Mixed Blessing By Mike McKee The Recorder June 8, 2007 California cities wanting to ban so-called big-box stores such as Wal-Mart have a new and powerful weapon in their arsenal - and they have the residents of the small city of Hanford ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Fri Jun 8 22:44:42 PDT 2007

9477 HISTORIC ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION -- rank: 46

... to a concluding rally in front of the Capitol. The police estimated at least 75,000 demonstrators were in the streets ...

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Author:	jacdon at earthlink.net
Date:	Wed May 1 04:54:54 PDT 2002

9478 Rwanda/Intervention (was Caldwell on war) -- rank: 46

Joe K. wrote: > The war in Rwanda was over politcs [...] I object to the idea that there >is a "killer culture" or a "culture of impunity" in Rwanda. Compare this >discussion to the one which has been going on on a "culture of poverty". I agree, and that was precisely my ...

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Author:	Maureen Therese Anderson
Date:	Sun Jul 18 13:03:18 PDT 1999

9479 Balkanization -- rank: 46

... everyone was at everyone else's throat but for the police is just false. >> >So you think conditions would improve if ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Sun Mar 31 18:41:06 PST 2002

9480 [lbo-talk] The Disappearance of Sexual Discourse in the Late Ottoman Middle East -- rank: 46

FULL TEXT available at: <http://www.historyschool.tau.ac.il/2006-7%20Events/Zeevi.Article.pdf> Social Analysis, Volume 49, Issue 2, Summer 2005, 34 53 HIDING SEXUALITY The Disappearance of Sexual Discourse in the Late Ottoman Middle East Dror Ze'evi Abstract: From Belgrade to Baghdad, from Algiers to Aleppo ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Jun 9 08:13:40 PDT 2007