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In Cold Type In Cold Type

As summer winds down, retreats and vacations come to an end (no more toasted marshmallows) and regular life begins again, with everyday chores like buying new shoes for childre...

Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz

Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He? Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He?

Consider kids who bullied Richard Perle-- Those kids who said Perle threw just like a girl, Those kids who poked poor Perle to show how soft A mamma's boy could be, those kids...

Aug 29, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Hey, He’s Bruce Hey, He’s Bruce

When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, reunited to tour behind The Rising, came to Madison Square Garden on August 12, they juxtaposed "41 Shots," Springsteen's powerful so...

Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

The Shame of Meatpacking The Shame of Meatpacking

Workers in the country's most dangerous industry are struggling for safety.

Aug 29, 2002 / Feature / Karen Olsson

Miami Heat Miami Heat

An antigay ballot initiative spurs some surprising political coalitions.

Aug 29, 2002 / Feature / Donna Minkowitz

Auteur, Auteur! Auteur, Auteur!

The streets of lower Manhattan are deserted--also spotlessly clean and glowing in the light of the golden hour--when the studio head takes the movie director outside to tell hi...

Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Letter from Iraqi Kurdistan Letter from Iraqi Kurdistan

Kurds want Saddam Hussein gone but are wary about joining a US-led attack.

Aug 29, 2002 / Feature / Michael Howard

Hijackers I Have Known Hijackers I Have Known

I have met three hijackers in my life, and I hope I do not sound crabby and disillusioned if I add that the standard of hijacking is not what it used to be.

Aug 29, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

The Imperial Presidency The Imperial Presidency

The August 26 speech by Vice President Dick Cheney at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Nashville has made at least two things clear: first, that the Bush Administration ...

Aug 29, 2002 / The Editors

Mitchell Paints a Picture Mitchell Paints a Picture

In Empire Falls, Richard Russo’s neo-Dickensian novel of a dying mill-town in central Maine, the high school art teacher is portrayed as something of a soul-killer. Indiffere…

Aug 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

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