The First 2,920 Days The First 2,920 Days
I was driving my son to soccer practice not long ago, listening to a National Public Radio wrap-up of President Bush's first hundred days in office. My son, who was just a baby w...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The FBI in Peace and War The FBI in Peace and War
The FBI knows every way To put a case in disarray. For years they managed to mislay Some tapes a Birmingham DA Could use against the KKK. Because some files had gone astray ...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
‘Not in Our Name’ ‘Not in Our Name’
Daily life in the West Bank and Gaza: homes bulldozed, civilians bombed, people unable to get to the hospital because the borders have been closed, children shot with high-powered...
May 17, 2001 / Meredith Tax
McVeigh’s Last Message McVeigh’s Last Message
There is probably no punishment more painful to Timothy McVeigh than the great joke just played by the cosmos. In his fantasy life McVeigh has fancied himself a sort of stoic samu...
May 17, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
‘The Sound of Surprise’ ‘The Sound of Surprise’
Bright and eager, bouncy and buoyant, sharp-eyed and quick-eared and passionately in love--those are a few of the ways you could describe Calle 54, director Fernando Trueba's trib...
May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Rapacious Instincts in Sudan Rapacious Instincts in Sudan
Oil companies are partners with Khartoum in waging a cruel civil war.
May 17, 2001 / Feature / Eric Reeves
Re-education on Henry Adams Re-education on Henry Adams
Henry Adams liked to say that his pedigree and eighteenth-century upbringing had hobbled him in the races of the twentieth century. The scion of not just one but two Presidents of...
May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Michele Pridmore-Brown
Sub-Urban Planning Sub-Urban Planning
Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes--once the nation's largest public housing project--is currently being dismantled. Half of its buildings have already been torn down, and of those tha...
May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Adele Oltman
Blair’s Cooled-Off Britannia Blair’s Cooled-Off Britannia
As the election nears, the weather is rotten and the glow is off "New Labour."
May 17, 2001 / Feature / Maria Margaronis
Those Big Town Blues Those Big Town Blues
New York City voters aren't thrilled with their options in the fall elections.
May 17, 2001 / Feature / Doug Ireland