If academics don't exercise the academic freedom that tenure provides why
do they have tenure at all. Maybe they should resign.
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1206-06.htm
Published on Thursday, December 6, 2001
September 11 and the Politics of University Teaching
by Robert Jensen
At
washingtonpost.com: Venezuela's 'Bolivarian Circles' Get a Direct Line to
PresidentVenezuela's 'Bolivarian Circles' Get a Direct Line to President
Populist Program Only Builds Loyalty to Chavez, Critics Say
By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, December 4, 2001; Page A20
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Subject: [P_F_P] EVENT: NY LAW FORUM (12/12/01) WAR ON OUR RIGHTS
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ATTACKS ON CIVIL LIBERTIES AND IMMIGRANTSí RIGHTS SINCE SEPTEMBER 11
*Secret military courts taking the place of trials by a jury of
Duke Law Technology Review
December 7, 2001
FACILITATING ACCESS OF AIDS DRUGS WHILE MAINTAINING STRONG PATENT
PROTECTION
The general formula for patent protection--no incentive, no
innovation--does possess some inherent logic. Why would a
pharmaceutical company invest large amounts of
Pen-l old-timers may be interested in knowing that pen-l alumnus Wojtek
Solokowski (sp?) had a letter in the current issue of the NATION [New York],
criticizing Chalmers Johnson's blow-back hypothesis. Though the critique
was somewhat off-target, I think that Wojtek had a valid point: it's
Pen-l old-timers may be interested in knowing that pen-l alumnus Wojtek
Solokowski (sp?) had a letter in the current issue of the NATION [New York],
criticizing Chalmers Johnson's blow-back hypothesis. Though the critique
was somewhat off-target, I think that Wojtek had a valid point: it's
Pen-l old-timers may be interested in knowing that pen-l alumnus Wojtek
Solokowski (sp?) had a letter in the current issue of the NATION [New York],
criticizing Chalmers Johnson's blow-back hypothesis. Though the critique
was somewhat off-target, I think that Wojtek had a valid point: it's
So I would think that in teaching Ricardo's theory of comparative
costs, the following points should be made:
1. it is an exercise in comparative statics and thus says little
about the social conditions the English would suffer while their
economy is deflated. The point then is that
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=65914
Argentina seizes pension funds
BUENOS AIRES
ARGENTINA'S cash-starved government seized local pension fund money on
Thursday in a desperate effort to keep the country's economy afloat in
the face of foreign loan cutoffs.
See the references in the work by Larry P. Goodsen, Afghanistan's
Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics and the Rise of
the Taliban. Univ. of Washington Press, pb. just pubshed, $22.50.
Goodsen studied with L. Dupree, who I gather is a majorfigure
in Afghan Studies. Builds on Oliver
Rakesh writes: jim, you seem not to get the point.
It's awfully presumptuous to say that I missed the point when all I was
doing was using ObL as parts of _parenthetical remarks_ to explain the need
to look at _both_ the internal class relations _and_ international relations
when discussing
December 7, 2001
Released Today: Employment fell sharply for the second month in a row in
November, and the unemployment rate rose to 5.7 percent, the Bureau of
Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Nonfarm
payroll employment dropped by 331,000, following an even
A desperate Jim D. writes:
Can someone tell me how to set up a filter under Microsoft Outlook?
Step 1: make sure you're in a mail folder (i.e., Deleted Items) with a
prospective filteree's post in the list.
Step 2: click on organize on the toolbar, or if you don't use the
Toolbar, click
Rakesh writes: jim, you seem not to get the point.
It's awfully presumptuous to say that I missed the point when all I was
doing was using ObL as parts of _parenthetical remarks_ to explain the need
to look at _both_ the internal class relations _and_ international relations
when discussing
Rakesh writes: jim, you seem not to get the point.
I wrote:
It's awfully presumptuous to say that I missed the point
when all I was
doing was using ObL as parts of _parenthetical remarks_ to
explain the need
to look at _both_ the internal class relations _and_
international relations
Max Sawicky wrote:
If you are stuck with an older version of Outlook, this will not work since
all you can do is filter the whole list or nothing at all. In that case
you'll just have to shoot yourself.
Or you could convert to Eudora, and avoid all those MSFT security holes.
Doug
[was: RE: [PEN-L:20443] Re: RE: RE: Re: Afghanistan class]
Max Sawicky wrote:
If you are stuck with an older version of Outlook, this will
not work since
all you can do is filter the whole list or nothing at all.
In that case
you'll just have to shoot yourself.
Or you could
It is wrong that because I don't say anything about a topic that I hold to
any specific position on that topic. It would be wrong for me to conclude,
for example, that because you never post anything about homosexuality (as
far as I've seen) that you are either anti-gay or the opposite.
my
no-one asked me for my opinion of the Sa'udi royal house or of the issue of
classical European fascisms and the middle-eastern variety. Nor did I feel
moved to express opinions on these on my own, except in my original message
(which no-one seems to have paid attention to).
Jim, no one had
I didn't see anything in the Jim's original note that would give Rakesh
cause to respond in a combative way. Let's just drop the thread.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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The report into NHS resources by Mr Wanless, former chief executive of
NatWest Bank, endorsed the existing system of funding health care from
general taxation as fair and efficient, although he raised the spectre
of charging patients for non- clinical services, such as computer access
I wrote:
you may have heard that there are a lot of immigrant workers
who do the sh*t work in Saudi Arabia, while the SA elite is quite scared
of
the cultural modernity (improvement in women's social status, etc.)
that seems to go with the rise of capitalism, which has been happening in
Rakesh's statement is fairly accurate in both substance and interpretation.
It is important to understand that this conflict is less about religion
than about power and exploitation, but also that the Muslim world represents
the first wave of attempts by former colonial domains to unravel the
Greetings penners! I´m dropping out of lurk mode after some months of
lurking...
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Duke Law Technology Review
December 7, 2001
Goodsen's book is an excellent compression of large amounts of history and
geography into an easily accessible form for the novitiate into the Afghan
Gordian knot.
It seems bizarre that the quasi intellectual right wing (TNR) has branded as
pink MESA, which I view as relatively conservative and
Michael Meerpol said that penners might be interested in Dean Baker's
The New Economy Goes Bust. I think that he is correct.
http://www.cepr.net/new_economy_goes_bust.htm
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Meerpol said that penners might be interested in Dean Baker's
The New Economy Goes Bust. I think that he is correct.
http://www.cepr.net/new_economy_goes_bust.htm
I notice the summary comment here, Even the most cursory review of the data
Doug Henwood wrote:
Max Sawicky wrote:
If you are stuck with an older version of Outlook, this will not work since
all you can do is filter the whole list or nothing at all. In that case
you'll just have to shoot yourself.
Or you could convert to Eudora, and avoid all those MSFT
Jim writes:
Just because GWB -- and his ilk -- almost always misuses words doesn't mean
that I should avoid using words.
no but you shouldn't misuse them or use opprobrious language selectively.
I think that people should (1) face Christopher Hitchens' point that ObL is
a horrible
Jim writes:
the US southern slave-owners didn't fight for their independence in order to
tighten control over their slaves. Rather, they did so to _defend_ their
control over slaves. It's quite possible for oppressors to be reactionary.
Jim, this is a weird analogy. It's enough that 9/11 is
Rakesh, ease up please.
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:28:11PM -0800, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
Jim writes:
Just because GWB -- and his ilk -- almost always misuses words doesn't mean
that I should avoid using words.
no but you shouldn't misuse them or use opprobrious language selectively.
Jamil, i cannot comment on your historical analysis of the struggles
of the moro people and the chechnyans, but your point against hasty
aggregations is surely correct and important. It seems to me that
sadat achieved a rapprochment with egyptian jehadi because they (like
say the shiv sena
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Sabri Oncu wrote:
The losses caused during the Gulf War are still on the minds of
Ankara, and the rhetoric of putting in one and gaining three, which
was the slogan of former President Turgut Ozal during the Gulf War, is
accepted as one of the biggest mistakes in Turkish
when i was off the list jim made comments that make his position
much more complex than i thought. i was going on the comments that
were in my in box. so jim if have misunderstood you, i apologize. i
guess the use of the word fascism is inflammatory...which of course
as jim says doesn't mean
I wrote: the US southern slave-owners didn't fight for their independence in order
to tighten control over their slaves. Rather, they did so to _defend_ their control
over slaves. It's quite possible for oppressors to be reactionary.
Rakesh writes: Jim, this is a weird analogy. It's enough
RB writes:when i was off the list jim made comments that make his position much more
complex than i thought. i was going on the comments that were in my in box. so jim if
have misunderstood you, i apologize. i guess the use of the word fascism is
inflammatory...which of course as jim says
Chris wrote:
Now there are all sorts of mathematical modelling of financial data,
including analysing share prices through chaos theory.
You tell me!...
Once I was asked by some money managers to develop a model that would
forecast whether interest rates would go up or down. Of course, I
BTW, to reject analogies is to reject theory, since theory is
nothing but a form of analogy, a re-creation in one's mind of
empirical reality.
i would first like to reject non illuminating analogies.
9/11: Pearl Harbor; al Qaeda: Imperial Japan; the royal family: slavocracy.
i don't deny
Rakesh writes:
i would first like to reject non illuminating analogies.
9/11: Pearl Harbor; al Qaeda: Imperial Japan; the royal family:
slavocracy.
SNIP
Why don't we bring this thread to an end at this point? I don't think there
is anyone on this list who would benefit form its
Why don't we bring this thread to an end at this point? I don't think there
is anyone on this list who would benefit form its continuation.
Best,
Sabri
My congratulations to Jim for enduring the abuse.
My usual e-mail address is down. You can contact me temporarly for any
pen-l business at this address.
-
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
CSU
Chico, CA 95929
Why don't we bring this thread to an end at this point? I don't think there
is anyone on this list who would benefit form its continuation.
Best,
Sabri
My congratulations to Jim for enduring the abuse.
Hey Nick you want abuse. let's get started on another topic: why
can't greider or anyone
With acknowledgements to Mark's list and to Michael Keaney, this extract
from the FT shows the extent to which the regulation of finance capital
may not be totally unwelcome to finance capital itself.
Chris Burford
The City's reasons to be cheerful: parts one to six:
The Financial Services
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