[PEN-L:10800] Re: unnecessary condescension?

1997-06-13 Thread Karl Carlile
KARL: Blair I found your message below so insightful. It provided me and, I am sure, others with such an understanding of the state of the class struggle that I wonder is there much more that can be said. It is more of this that is needed on pen-l. Your presence is really missed. What will

[PEN-L:10804] Re: Blue chip?

1997-06-13 Thread Anders Schneiderman
At 11:09 AM 6/12/97 -0700, Eugene wrote: Anders, you don't play poker, do you? I do (poorly), but I didn't figure that was the kind of chip they were referring to. After all, if you're betting blue chips, you're taking a bigger risk by making a bigger bet, whereas blue chip companies are

[PEN-L:10808] Turkey - Military Coup Approaches (fwd)

1997-06-13 Thread Shawgi A. Tell
FYI Shawgi Tell Graduate School of Education University at Buffalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 09:14:57 -0700 From: MID-EAST REALITIES [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list MER-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:10807] Re: Blue chip?

1997-06-13 Thread jtreacy
Treacy: We can see Anders did not mispend any of his time as an undergraduate at a poker table. Oh for the nights of 747, holdem, seven card stud with everything wild. [EMAIL PROTECTED] copyrighted On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Hank Leland wrote: I believe the term is derived from

[PEN-L:10813] A light shines out of DC

1997-06-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
== Gosh, this kind of thing could give hypocrisy a bad name, especially if somebody somewhere recalls what Operation Paperclip was. Any hands, class? Don't worry, folks, if the Russians come alive again Uncle Markus will be rehabilitated and brought over with a private cardiac

[PEN-L:10814] Price Index Question

1997-06-13 Thread Eric Nilsson
I have a technical questions about price indicies related to work I'm doing. The numerical example below is long. But it has important implications for calculating/miscalculating employment compensation and the standard of living of workers. 1) Suppose in three years the real value of wages

[PEN-L:10815] 331 European economists against EMU (fwd)

1997-06-13 Thread Michael Eisenscher
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:18:18 +0200 From: iire [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 331 European economists against EMU Open letter from European economists to the heads of government of the 15 member states of the European Union

[PEN-L:10816] Re: Real Life Question

1997-06-13 Thread tom wood
The question for the Left: how do we translate our vision of a just society into popular mythologies and hierophanies with a potential for mass appeal. wojtek sokolowski institute for policy studies johns hopkins university baltimore, md 21218 [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (410) 516-4056 fax: (410)

[PEN-L:10818] IQ, Bell Curve, Human Ability

1997-06-13 Thread Shawgi A. Tell
Greetings, This was posted on another list a while back. It addresses IQ and human ability. --- The conclusion that "human ability varies infinitely" and "the notion that human ability is normally distributed"

[PEN-L:10817] Re: D'Souza Can Kiss My Brown Ass

1997-06-13 Thread JayHecht
In a message dated 97-06-13 05:00:47 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rakesh bhandari) writes: The real puzzle remains the black culture of overachievement. Rakesh Let me "second that emotion!" I have three friends (in economics) whose publication/teaching/service records were objectively better

[PEN-L:10812] victims of nafta

1997-06-13 Thread NAIMAN @ CITIZEN * Robert Naiman
in preparation for forthcoming USTR report on how great NAFTA is, and expected vote on expansion of fast track authority in the fall, we are preparing a file of workers displaced or affected by NAFTA who would be willing to speak to the news media about their experiences. all leads pursued.

[PEN-L:10811] Re: D'Souza Can Kiss My Brown Ass

1997-06-13 Thread Max B. Sawicky
The best answer to D'S and Murray stems from one of their own findings, the implications of which have not been sufficiently explored. In their research it turns out that Askenazi Jews have higher average intelligence than Caucasians. . . . Of course, we're talking central tendencies

[PEN-L:10810] Re: D'Souza Can Kiss My Brown Ass

1997-06-13 Thread rakesh bhandari
Now Max thought that . It would follow that to improve the gene pool, when the nubile daughters of gentiles come of age they should be impregnated by Jews of Eastern European descent with Ph.D's. Actual marriage, of course, would not be necessary because nature overrules nurture. Anything to

[PEN-L:10805] FW: BLS Daily Report

1997-06-13 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1997 RELEASED TODAY: Half of all workers afflicted with carpal tunnel syndrome missed 30 days or more of work, according to BLS report on the characteristics of lost-worktime injuries. Work-related hernias, amputations (usually involving the finger), and

[PEN-L:10809] Re: D'Souza Can Kiss My Brown Ass

1997-06-13 Thread Doug Henwood
Max B. Sawicky wrote: The best answer to D'S and Murray stems from one of their own findings, the implications of which have not been sufficiently explored. In their research it turns out that Askenazi Jews have higher average intelligence than Caucasians. It would follow that to improve the

[PEN-L:10806] Re: D'Souza Can Kiss My Brown Ass

1997-06-13 Thread Max B. Sawicky
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rakesh bhandari) Subject: [PEN-L:10801] D'Souza Can Kiss My Brown Ass I am sure that this is common knowledge to progressive economists, but having looked at many of the reviews of the Bell Curve, I am surprised that the following simple point seems

[PEN-L:10803] Re: historical question

1997-06-13 Thread Anders Schneiderman
At 08:33 PM 6/12/97 -0700, you wrote: I'd like to agree with Ellen's comments and just add that during the Reagan years much of the heart of protective legislation for labor was decimated. For instance, many OSHA regulations were quietly taken off the books. Example: businesses are still

[PEN-L:10802] movies, etiquette, pitfalls of social democracy, etc.

1997-06-13 Thread John Lawrence Gulick
Silkwood -- labor process in the nuclear power industry, corporate surveillance and intimidation, and betrayl by cynical and slick liberal D.C. advocacy lawyers (a Hollywood flick w/o grotesquely Hollywood production values or plot twists) ... John Gulick P.S. Karl, if you're going to get