Shut It Down Shut It Down
(Another Republican sea chantey) They all went down to stop Miami-Dade From making counts the judges had OK'd. Unlikely toughs, with ties and crisp white shirts, They w...
Dec 7, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Keepers of the Word Keepers of the Word
O Marvel, that one can give to another what one does not possess. O Miracle of our empty hands. --George Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest ...
Dec 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Dan Simon
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