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9796 Russian media -- rank: 46

Novoe Vremya No. 29 July 2002 THE HONEST CHILD AND THE RED TUNDRA Looking at the role of the media in Russia under President Putin Author: Alexander Pumpiansky [from WPS Monitoring Agency, www.wps.ru/e_index.html] A QUESTION ASKED OF PRESIDENT PUTIN AT HIS NEWS CONFERENCE REVEALED A GREAT ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Mon Jul 22 06:49:16 PDT 2002

9797 immigration? -- rank: 46

I remain skeptical of not just separatist racial politics but separate race organizations. I write all this with the sinking feeling of loosing whatever friends I have had. 1. CLR James' defense of separate, but not separatist, black politics was elaborated in certain historical conditions, i.e., an apartheid America. Does ...

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Author:	Rakesh Bhandari
Date:	Mon Jan 18 11:27:40 PST 1999

9798 Fwd: Slavoj Zizek on The Communist Manifesto -- rank: 46

[from another list...] Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 20:20:42 -0500 (EST) From: "John P. Lacny" <jplst15+ at pitt.edu> Subject: Slavoj Zizek on The Communist Manifesto Slavoj Zizek-- whatta guy! The following is from the excellent Croatian publication Arkzin! (www.arkzin.com), the website of which I would ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 17 10:22:15 PST 1999

9799 Another chick takes revenge. -- rank: 46

World / US Print article | Email Marital strife leaves Coca-Cola flat By David Stern Published: July 20 2002 5:00 | Last Updated: July 20 2002 5:00 Divorce can be costly. Coca-Cola is finding out the hard way that in Uzbekistan even a global drinks giant can become like the ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Fri Jul 19 23:48:33 PDT 2002

9800 [lbo-talk] China's policewomen to leave for Haiti -- rank: 46

... There will be seven policewomen in China's fifth riot police squad to Haiti under the United Nations peacekeeping mission, which ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Sun Mar 25 04:26:21 PDT 2007

9801 dollar, euro, Russia -- rank: 46

What I find really ironic in teh contemporary economic world, by the by, is that capital is leaving the US, worried by corruption in the US economy, and flooding into Russia, due to confidence in the increasing professionalism in Russian business. This is too rich for words! Chris Doss The Russia ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Fri Jul 19 07:08:08 PDT 2002

9802 What the Bush regime's foreign policy was always about -- rank: 46

The following article is great, coherent, informative, analytic writing. The whole piece is free online, too. It's about the best summary I know of how US foreign policy got us from there to here. I'm posting just an excerpt. A couple updates are necessary: 1. the significant elements (the ...

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Author:	Charles Jannuzi
Date:	Thu Jul 18 22:46:58 PDT 2002

9803 Fw: Loopy paranoia only gets loopier -- rank: 46

a few hours later the story had changed to the movie star wasn't angry...but still, ya wonder what bizarre example of paranoia is next...talk about a panic driven society. steve Indian actress shaken by terror questions, wants to go home Thu Jul 18, 5:31 PM ET excerpt ...

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Author:	steve philion
Date:	Thu Jul 18 20:04:17 PDT 2002

9804 Daughter Is Sent to Jail -- rank: 46

What a great idea for a campaign to show the punitive nature of these rules? Does she live at home? What I don't get about this whole thing is why she couldn't get Xanax from doctors. It couldn't be that hard. ----- Original Message ----- From: <JBrown72073 at cs.com ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Thu Jul 18 07:59:34 PDT 2002

9805 Dying Children: A Valuable, Scarce and Contested Resource -- rank: 46

[ From _The_Wall_Street_Journal_, July 8, 2002. This is long, but I think that the language that people use is as weird as the facts, and needs to be savored in its full extent. The final symbol is especially exquisite, although I wonder if exploiting dying and dead children ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Thu Jul 18 07:23:52 PDT 2002

9806 Daughter Is Sent to Jail -- rank: 46

... anti-anxiety drug Xanax from a pharmacy in Tallahassee, the >police said. <snip>

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Author:	JBrown72073 at cs.com
Date:	Thu Jul 18 06:53:22 PDT 2002

9807 Starr Chamber protest -- rank: 46

STOP THE INQUISITION! We proclaim our opposition to the climate of intolerance and repression represented by the Starr investigation and the impeachment proceedings. It is nothing less than an inquisition with its trampling on civil rights and use of threats and humiliation to promote a repressive, Christian fundamentalist morality. We regard ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Sun Jan 17 09:54:08 PST 1999

9808 Daughter Is Sent to Jail -- rank: 46

... anti-anxiety drug Xanax from a pharmacy in Tallahassee, the police said. Governor Bush disclosed his daughter's rehabilitation lapse in ...

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Author:	R
Date:	Thu Jul 18 04:16:24 PDT 2002

9809 National Review Columnist gets -- rank: 46

If the flake at NR wants to do some real journalism, why doesn't he pursue the Atta in Prague story? Czech intelligence was following Atta and his meetings with various Iraqis there. Now the interesting thing about the Iraqi diplomatic contingent in Prague is that it seems to give up ...

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Author:	Charles Jannuzi
Date:	Thu Jul 18 01:29:18 PDT 2002

9810 [lbo-talk] New Translation Prompts Debate on Islamic Verse -- rank: 46

Here are two cases that present a contrast: a Muslim Iranian-American woman presenting a new feminist translation of the Koran and a non-Muslim German woman judge ruling against a speedy divorce based on what she thinks is the proper reading of the Koran and Muslim customs, mistaking what some ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Mar 26 01:18:09 PDT 2007