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In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

"Court rise!" begins D.D. Guttenplan's courtroom thriller The Holocaust on Trial. "With the clerk's shout we stop talking and struggle to our feet. David Irving v. Penguin Books ...

Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

The Meaning of Muhammad The Meaning of Muhammad

My first memory of Muhammad Ali is from February 1964 in Miami's funky Fifth Street gym, just after the Beatles had departed from a memorable photo shoot. Ali was still in...

Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jack Newfield

Grief Without Portraits Grief Without Portraits

On December 10, Marc Herold, a professor of economics at the University of New Hampshire, released a report about civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Relying on news accounts fro...

Jan 17, 2002 / Michael Massing

2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $10,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutually by th...

Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ann Lauterbach

The Hollywood Three The Hollywood Three

When The Majestic was about to be released--it's the movie, you will recall, in which Jim Carrey plays a blacklisted screenwriter who suffers from amnesia--someone asked me to to...

Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Three Poems Three Poems

* Zero built a nest In my navel. Incurable Longing. Blood too-- From violent actions It's a nest belonging to one But zero uses it And its pleasure is its ow...

Jan 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Fanny Howe

For Her Own Good For Her Own Good

With the "family cap," the state says to welfare moms: no more babies!

Jan 17, 2002 / Feature / Karen Houppert

Divide and Misrule Divide and Misrule

One of the old school of the British colonial service, a man with the irresistible name of Sir Penderel Moon, wrote a book about the end of empire and titled it Divide and Quit. At...

Jan 17, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Crime in the Suites Crime in the Suites

There are more Enrons out there; the rot is systemic.

Jan 17, 2002 / Feature / William Greider

Enron: Crony Capitalism Enron: Crony Capitalism

The rise and fall of the house of Enron should trigger comprehensive investigations--civil, criminal and Congressional. The full scope of relations between Enron and its cronies ...

Jan 17, 2002 / The Editors

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