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Backbeat in China Backbeat in China

A hundred days ago Wu'er Kaixi was a fugitive.... Yesterday, before an audience of 800 Americans and Chinese at Brandeis University, he showed what brought a 21-year-old Beijing N...

Jun 13, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Globalizing Clinical Research Globalizing Clinical Research

Big Pharma tries out First World drugs on unsuspecting Third World patients.

Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / Sonia Shah

Advice and Consent Advice and Consent

Senator Russ Feingold had hoped the Senate Democratic leadership would challenge George W. Bush's decision to withdraw the United States from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. At...

Jun 13, 2002 / John Nichols

It’s Payback Time It’s Payback Time

Labor-backed politicians are being asked to return the favor in union fights.

Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / David Moberg

Birthday Poem Birthday Poem

Hot, rained-on, packed-down straw, strewn then abandoned between the rows of eggplant, tomato plants, onion, and herbs catches the evening's last September gnats in pale mats and ...

Jun 13, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Lynne McMahon

A Word to Graduates: Organize! A Word to Graduates: Organize!

It's boring but do it, says the playwright. Otherwise, you allow evil to settle in.

Jun 13, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Tony Kushner

In Fact… In Fact…

BAN THE CLUSTER BOMB Caleb Rossiter reports: The coalition of anti-landmine advocates who helped win the 1997 treaty banning the devices, which has been signed by more t...

Jun 13, 2002 / The Editors

Bad for Business Bad for Business

"How many times can you say 'unbelievable'?" my wife asked the other morning, as I was rattling the newspaper and again exclaiming over the latest outrageous news from American ca...

Jun 13, 2002 / William Greider

Fighting the Gay Right Fighting the Gay Right

They're here...they're queer...they're conservative!

Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / Richard Goldstein

Home Security System Home Security System

The timing of George W. Bush's proposal for a Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security--hastily unveiled when revelations about FBI lapses were hitting the front pages--smack...

Jun 13, 2002 / The Editors

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