BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1997
RELEASED TODAY:
EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- Employment and unemployment were little
changed in August. The jobless rate was 4.9 percent in August; it had
been 4.8 percent in July and has shown little movement over the past
several months. Nonfarm
The issue I think isn't Diana but the common
understanding of her, which is deeply flawed,
to say the least.
Though this addressed a comment of Sid's, my answer is that Diana,
for reasons I've already mentioned, was and is a profoundly British
phenomenon. Let the Brits sort her out; the
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For you Beat fans, I thought the following nifty snippet from the late
James Baldwin might be of interest:
Now, I do not know what white Americans would sound like if
there had never been any black people in the United States,
but they would not sound the way they sound.
A journalist had done a story on gender roles in Kuwait several years
before the Gulf War, and she noted then that women customarily walked
about 10 feet behind their husbands. She returned to Kuwait recently and
observed that the men now walked several yards behind their wives.
She
Hi there,
This is my first attempt at sending a message so bear with me.
I am looking at research on poverty in New Zealand and what strikes me is how
empirical it all is. Most of the literature is concerned with setting up /
measuring /defining poverty lines and arguing about which is best.
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1997
As the second half of a two-part minimum wage hike took effect Sept. 1,
a look at the latest data from BLS shows that 1.5 million workers were
making the former minimum wage of $4.75 in the second quarter of 1997
Unpublished work tables from BLS
At 03:03 PM 9/5/97 -0700, Max S. wrote, inter alia:
All this shows the public needs the royals more
than ever. They are offended by the
sub-zero demeanor of Queen E., much
preferring the cuddly Queen Mum. But what
they are really longing for is the next real-life
fairy tale to begin.
Following coffee-sipping Louis P's suggestion, I checkout out _Lingua
Franca_. The latest issue (September 1997) has a longish piece on
Mike Davis, author of _City of Quartz_, by Adam Shatz. Shatz
concludes a bit sadly, along with Tariq Ali, that Davis has started an
unfortunate slide toward
My own response to all the ballyhoo about Di has generally been in the
direction of "Eat the Rich!" (or at least royalty). But a friend whose
daughter moved recently to London sent this first-person impression of the
funeral, which, no matter how you feel about Di, offers some insight into
the
Max:
"Abbie Hoffman had more influence than Diana. I defy anyone to specify
concrete, noteworthy social changes resulting from her existence."
In the spirit of hard-headed science, Max, how about quantifying the
respective influences of Abbie and Diana? While we're at it, why not
Reported and expected action as of 6 p.m., 8 Sept.
Sweden
all ports organised by Swedish Dockworkers Union to stop and all ACL and
CAST containers to be halted. All trade with Liverpool and Sheerness to be
hit.
Gothenburg: ACL vessel diverted until Wednesday. Dockers refusing to handle
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Date: Sept 5, 1997
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Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 15:54:18 -0700
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Subject: International solidarity
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Turin September 8, 1997
Dear comrades:
17 delegates from ICEM affiliated trade unions in Africa and Asia are
participating in a seminar on Globalization
Max Sawicky wrote,
Max Sawicky wrote,
And I'd gladly pay to see a jacquerie.
Or a purple cow?
This looks like a Chagall reference, but I don't
get it. Please enlighten.
I've never seen a purple cow
I never hope to see one
but I can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see than be one
I can't
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