[PEN-L:9262] Re: from SLATE

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Pollak
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Jim Devine wrote: > from Scott Shuger's column: >Hey, remember the Iraqi secret > weapons-of-mass-destruction program? Well, a story on page 19 of the > [Washington POST] reports that U.S. intelligence experts have seen no > indication that Iraq has resumed its chemical and

[PEN-L:9261] Re: Re: Order and Anarchy, a Person and a Thing (wasKant on Debt)

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Pollak
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Michael Hoover wrote: > Kant's essay entitled (if memory serves) "The Different Races of > Mankind" makes clear his view that full personhood depends on race > and is reserved for whites... Do you have a cite for this, Michael? I found a short section in Kant's Anthropol

[PEN-L:9260] BLS Daily Report

1999-07-17 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1999 RELEASED TODAY: Regional and state unemployment rates were relatively stable in June. Forty states recorded shifts of 0.3 percentage points or less, BLS reported. The national jobless rate was essentially unchanged at 4.3 percent. Nonfarm employment rose

[PEN-L:9257] Re: Fw: military keynesianism redux

1999-07-17 Thread Doug Henwood
Frank Durgin wrote: >Doug mentioned the armed guards on all of the nation's campuses. One >also finds them in shopping malls, at the entrances to various >institutions (museums, corporate headquarters, banks etc. Peek in the >yellow pages for a listing of the large number of private security

[PEN-L:9256] Re: Re: Kant's Immortal Soul, or, the Sublime Subject

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Hoover
> Kant was certainly > no radical out of touch with the world, expecting a > complete, sudden remaking of existing states through the > extermination of one's opponents, but understood > that the actualization of freedom and reason in the world would have > to be accomplished under real soc

[PEN-L:9255] Re: Kant in History (was Re: How not to read Kant....)

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Hoover
> 3 Most importantly, even strictly placed within his 18th century context, > Kant (1724-1806) cannot escape unfavorable comparisons to those who lived > the same century but had more progressive thoughts on race and/or gender. > For instance, Mary Astell (1666-1731), Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793

[PEN-L:9254] Blackshirts fuel Kremlin fears of Nazi revival

1999-07-17 Thread Frank Durgin
Elelctronic Telegraph July 17,1999 Blackshirts fuel Kremlin fears of Nazi revival By Marcus Warren in Voronezh RUSSIA'S neo-Nazis are on the march, taking to the streets and preaching their message of hatred with a zeal viewed with growing alarm by the Kremlin. Black-uniformed toughs from t

[PEN-L:9253] Turkey shoot continues

1999-07-17 Thread Frank Durgin
Home - Yahoo! - My Yahoo! - News Alerts - Help Friday July 16 1:51 PM ET Iraq Says Western Planes Attacked Sites In North BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said Western warplanes attacked sites in northern Iraq Friday

[PEN-L:9252] Fw: military keynesianism redux

1999-07-17 Thread Frank Durgin
-- > From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PEN-L:9241] military keynesianism redux > Date: Friday, July 16, 1999 5:42 PM > > Nicholas von Hoffman recently published an article claiming that there > are more than 738,000 police in the U.S., 1 for

[PEN-L:9251] Re: Re: Re: Re: Sports Jingoism (fwd)

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Hoover
> Also, Steve, how _did_ the US military keep track of the japanese-americans > in Hawaii during WWII. I don't seem to recall that they were all rounded up > under order 1066 but perhaps they were? > Ann Z. Li I'm not Steve but if I may be allowed to chime in... comparatively speaking, there wer