The Two Americas, continued

2002-09-10 Thread Louis Proyect
(Another two articles from the front page of the NY Times business section. Juxtaposed against one another, they illustrate how class society operates. Based on obvious editorial discretion around these sorts of questions and nervousness over the impending war with Iraq, one gets the sense

The Two Americas

2002-09-06 Thread Louis Proyect
(These two articles appear on page one of today's NY Times business section) G.E. Expenses for Ex-Chief Cited in Divorce Papers By GERALDINE FABRIKANT Papers filed yesterday in the divorce of John F. Welch Jr., the former chief executive of General Electric, by his wife contend that G.E.

Re: The two Americas

2000-03-04 Thread Charles Brown
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/03/00 10:53AM "This young boy appears not to have many advantages in life," said Arthur A. Busch, the Genesee County prosecutor, who said the boy probably would not be charged and was released today to an aunt. this mollycoddling goes against the Spirit of

Re: The two Americas

2000-03-03 Thread Jim Devine
"This young boy appears not to have many advantages in life," said Arthur A. Busch, the Genesee County prosecutor, who said the boy probably would not be charged and was released today to an aunt. this mollycoddling goes against the Spirit of America of these days! If we are to be Tough on

Re: The two Americas

2000-03-03 Thread Timework Web
These two Americas only exist "anecdotally" (that is to say in narratives of lived experience). Statistically, things have never been better. Unemployment is at a 30 year low and inflation is under control. One doesn't have to fudge the numbers. All one has to do is fudge the conditio

Re: The two Americas II

2000-03-03 Thread Timework Web
from Dispatches by Michael Herr: Page 2, "At the end of my first week in country I met an information officer in the headquarters of the 25th Division at Cu Chi who showed me on his map and then from his chopper what they'd done to the Ho Bo Woods, the vanished Ho Bo Woods taken off by giant

The two Americas

2000-03-03 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, March 3, 2000 Pondering That Indiscreet Charm of the Superrich: Nothing Left to Buy? By LAURA M. HOLSON Rex Golding, a partner at Softbank Technology Ventures, has made a lot more money than he had ever expected. But even among the circle he associates with, things are getting a