[PEN-L:4242] Re: Fwd: a s...

1996-05-13 Thread Elaine Bernard
Hi Christine: I just got in from Belgrade last night, so I'm not thinking too clearly. Could you send me a brochure about the school, and also email me suggestions about the theme and what you would like me to talk about. Recently I've been talking about the need for government and a public

[PEN-L:4243] UNION SUMMER NEEDS HELP -- QUICK

1996-05-13 Thread Teresa Ghilarducci
The AFL-CIO Union Summer (named after "Freedom Summer) has two weeks of "waves" scheduled in 19 places around the nation. They need top notch organization types, labor educators, charismatic union leaders and LEFT LUMINARIES to speak to these college students.

[PEN-L:4244] Re: Fwd: a s...

1996-05-13 Thread D Shniad
Elaine, What's this about? Sid Hi Christine: I just got in from Belgrade last night, so I'm not thinking too clearly. Could you send me a brochure about the school, and also email me suggestions about the theme and what you would like me to talk about. Recently I've been talking

[PEN-L:4246] male backlash

1996-05-13 Thread JDevine
This is in part true, but the backlash has been an over reaction because I don't think women and minorities have done all that well. The ravings of the right are to the PERCEPTION that women and minorities are doing better in corporate america, and therefore cutting out white males from

[PEN-L:4247] Yale Strike/Graduation

1996-05-13 Thread Doug Henwood
--- FORWARDED MESSAGE --- To all those following the Yale strike: I'm writing to update you on the Yale strike and to invite you to join us, together with Rev. Jesse Jackson and AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Rich Trumka on the New Haven Green for a

[PEN-L:4248] Russian Economic Reform

1996-05-13 Thread David Johnson
I am a relatively recent reader of this newsgroup (or is it a mailing list?) so I do not know what kind of messaging may have taken place earlier on this subject. I'm not even sure I have figured out how to post to it. I would be very interested to hear from people who have been following

[PEN-L:4249] Re: Russian Economic Reform

1996-05-13 Thread PBurns
It is worth checking out the following pieces from New Left Review: Peter Gowan, 'Neo-Liberal Theory and Practice for Eastern Europe' NLR 213, Sept/Oct 1995 and the debate this article provoked between Gowan and John Lloyd in NLR 216, Mar/April 1996. On the political

[PEN-L:4250] Re: Russian Economic Reform

1996-05-13 Thread Doug Henwood
At 10:19 AM 5/13/96, David Johnson wrote: I am a relatively recent reader of this newsgroup (or is it a mailing list?) so I do not know what kind of messaging may have taken place earlier on this subject. I'm not even sure I have figured out how to post to it. I would be very interested to hear

[PEN-L:4251] Nafta site on the Web

1996-05-13 Thread Arvind Jaggi
A few days ago a pen-ler requested Nafta (and Gatt-) related web sites for one of his students. I had suggested one. Technology and fate conspired against me and all of my bookmarks on the browser got deleted. In case the individual in question or anybody else recorded that address, I would

[PEN-L:4252] Re: male backlash

1996-05-13 Thread bill mitchell
Jim writes (with deletions by me): The fact that many (most?) two-adult heterosexual families are nowadays dependent on both adults' incomes gives more women economic some econonomic leverage they didn't have in the past. (Men and women may not be competing directly in the marketplace, but

[PEN-L:4253] Re: One family's experience with HMO (fwd)

1996-05-13 Thread Mike Meeropol
Dear Penners: An economist friend who doesn't usually subscribe to PEN-L received the post from SID and sent this comment. [aside to Harry Cleaver: Bill wants you to contact him!] Bill Moore wrote: From: Bill Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why am I not surprised? A good friend of mine (a CPA,

[PEN-L:4254] FW: Mormon Masturbation: In severe cases, tie a hand to the

1996-05-13 Thread James Michael Craven
Just thought I would post this to the list; it is directly from "The Guide to Mormon Youth."(this is for real) I thought it could be adapted for those neoclassicals and others in economics whose erudite and elegantly quantified fantasies essenmtially amount to mathematical masturbation

[PEN-L:4255] Re: One family's experience with HMO (fwd)

1996-05-13 Thread GC-ETCHISON, MICHAEL
A Heart-Wrenching Story about One Man's Conscience and an HMO leads to the "horrifying prospect to contemplate that medical decisions between doctors and patients (difficult enough in the HMO environment) are subject to second guessing by financial aid and accounting folks..." And I

[PEN-L:4256] Re: UNION SUMMER NEEDS HELP -- QUICK

1996-05-13 Thread Walter Daum
On Mon, 13 May 1996 06:35:19 -0700 Teresa Ghilarducci said: The AFL-CIO Union Summer (named after "Freedom Summer) has two weeks of "waves" scheduled in 19 places around the nation. They need top notch organization types, labor educators, charismatic union leaders and LEFT