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Human Rights–The Next Step Human Rights–The Next Step

We must hold countries accountable for economic abuses just as we do for torture.

Dec 7, 2000 / Feature / Eyal Press

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

STILL LOSING RUSSIA "As a result of the Yeltsin era, all the fundamental sectors of our state, economic, cultural and moral life have been destroyed or looted," lamented Alexand...

Dec 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

The Beat The Beat

BEYOND SEATTLE The one-year anniversary of the "Battle in Seattle" saw embattled World Trade Organization chief Michael Moore peddling the argument that the WTO had weathered the s...

Dec 7, 2000 / Column / John Nichols

Marital Color Line Marital Color Line

On November 7, voters in Alabama erased from that state's Constitution a provision dating from 1901 that declared that "the legislature shall never pass any law to authorize or l...

Dec 7, 2000 / Randall Kennedy

In Fact… In Fact…

PINOCHET NABBED Any last hope former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet may have harbored that history would judge him kindly was dashed recently when a Santiago judge formally ch...

Dec 7, 2000 / The Editors

Long Playwright’s Journey Long Playwright’s Journey

You've got to understand what Sam Shepard meant to us. There are those who know Shepard as a movie star and those who discovered him, earlier on, when he won the Pulitzer ...

Dec 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Hal Gelb

Wanted: Three Electors Wanted: Three Electors

Let the chattering classes focus on chads and undervotes and Florida recounts and what the courts--state and federal, all the way up to the Supreme Court--would or wouldn't do. L...

Dec 7, 2000 / The Editors

Daniel Singer Daniel Singer

Death came as a release for Daniel Singer on December 2, but we feel like protesting its rude intrusion.

Dec 7, 2000 / The Editors

Greens, Fears and Dollars Greens, Fears and Dollars

They'd rather die than admit it, but environmental organizations thrive on disaster. They remember well enough what happened when Ronald Reagan installed James Watt as Secretary ...

Dec 7, 2000 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Ce N’est Pas un Président Ce N’est Pas un Président

All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth.       --John Lennon Florida's electoral mishegoss lends itself to the exploration of an issu...

Dec 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

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