EVENT # 261.1: NEVER GIVE AN INCH
EVENT # 261.1: NEVER GIVE AN INCH
 VICTORIA'S SECRETS:
Who the Hell is the IMF?LLOYD MORCOM
There appears to be only one game in town these days, and that's the free market economy. If you're not in it, you're nowhere, dead, a loser. Your children will starve, your wife is duty bound to leave you.
The economy: this huge metal and plastic beast with billions of nipples on which we all may suck if we're good... More
One way of doing that is buying our "stuff." Wear it, drink from it, click over it.
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HairBINYAVANGA WAINAINASomebody somewhere should start a museum of Black hair. If art is about suffering, surely what we darkies go through to keep our hair up to trend is worthy of a biennale.
In the 70s, the chafe of polyester was not the only torture Kenyan boys had to deal with. There was the kinyozi (barber). In my home town, there was a street full of kinyozi's. It was my dad's job to take us to the kinyozi every last Saturday of the month. Normally the prospect of a day out with my Dad was filled with pleasure. His wallet was always full of crisp hundred shilling notes -- and he had not read that rule book mothers inherit (together with eyes in the backs of their heads) that says, "not more than one ice-cream and I will not relent even if you bang you head against the window and have a full-blown tantrum in the middle of the market with the ice-cream men looking at me as if I some sort of child-abuser and anti-ice-cream -communist." ... More
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COMING MONDAYKEVIN CAREY on how the Bush Administration is isolating itself from the world community in DAY ONE; BOB POWERS reviews new music from Gary Burton, the Jazz Messengers and Dan Barrett in POWERSSOUND; BINYAVANGA WAINAINA explains the ins and out of preparing mutura in G21 AFRICA.. PLUS more surprises!
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SILVER SURF: : "The True Blue Roo Poo Company: Palpably the Planet's Premier Purveyors of Painstakingly Presented Pristine and Pulchritudinous Poo Products" is what came up on the screen when I was surfing for Tasmanian Devils in order to help with my son's university essay.
I wouldn't have taken an inordinate amount of notice but for that word "pulchritudinous ". It's one of those words I come across in books every once in a while and promise myself that, one-day, I'll look up. Microsoft Word's spell check balked at the word pulchritudinous as did the 300,000 word dictionary I keep on my Windows 98 desk top. So just what did it mean? ..."Kangaroo Poo & Jurassic Park" JOHN LIBBY More
SUBJECT: Crustacean, Crustacean Hey Man - I don't remember saying to you that you were an actual crustacion, What I probably meant, if I did infer that you had hard-shelled mollusk like traits is that you were uptight about being an old middle aged doofus or somethin' I don't know. I don't remember saying that. It is probably a lie to make you seem important to your readers, if you still have any. But I will go on the record as saying that you DO have a beard like a mussel!
I remain your most Obedient and Humble servant.
It makes sense.
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FEED THE HUNGRY.You can help someone else in this world and IT WON'T COST YOU A DIME.If you simply remember to drop by The Hunger Site every day that you surf and click a simple button ONE LESS PERSON WILL GO HUNGRY.The food is distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme and paid for through the sponsorship of companies that care.Do your part.
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A week ago Friday I opened the paper and found an article on the front page detailing the IMF's prescriptions for the Australian economy. These were abolition of all tariff protection of industry, reducing the award system to a simple safety net, slashing the top tax rate and "substantially" increasing work tests on the unemployed. Now who does the IMF represent, and what is the economy that "it" should benefit from these moves?
Until something like the State of Emergency in Cincinnati happens, most Americans just don't want to talk about race. You bring race up and people start to squirm in their seats. They get their backs up with predisposed rebuttals about how it wasn't their ancestors, or they are not responsible, or Blacks have it great now beginning to rattle in their brains like dice in a cup. They can't even hear what you have to say, no matter how bland or incisive, so hot are they to put an end to the topic. That is until city blocks start burning and the riot police are in the streets. Then they sit up and take notice. Ted Koppel wants to do a half hour on the latest outbreak of racial anger. It's an old tune... 
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