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On the Fading of the Euro Dream On the Fading of the Euro Dream

Momentum for the euro wanes. The krone is preferred by Danes. And recent surveys all have found That British voters love their pound. But, seeing this through New World eyes,...

Oct 5, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Protest in Prague Protest in Prague

Call it the Prague Fall: a season not only to test the democratic progress of Central Europe's most favored post-Communist nation but to find out whether a nonhierarchical, nonvi...

Oct 5, 2000 / Tamara Straus

No Defense No Defense

How the New York Times convicted Wen Ho Lee.

Oct 5, 2000 / Feature / Robert Scheer

Social Pseudoscience Social Pseudoscience

Every five years the psychologist Judith Wallerstein updates her ongoing study of 131 children whose parents were going through divorce in Marin County, California, in 1971, an...

Oct 5, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

House Finches House Finches

To watch the pair of house finches that frequent the neighbor's feeder, I leave the charcoal blinds pulled up. The berry-splashed chest of the male-- each morning--make...

Oct 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Poch

Influence Peddling, Bush Style Influence Peddling, Bush Style

Democrats weren't the only ones who benefited from knowing wealthy Asians.

Oct 5, 2000 / Feature / David Corn and Dan Moldea

A One and a Two A One and a Two

I have two films to tell you about in this column, one of which I recommend to your attention because it's beautiful, absorbing, touching and droll. It will involve you in the ch...

Oct 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

The Former Yugoslavia The Former Yugoslavia

During the Kosovo crisis of last year, it was commonplace if not routine to hear two mantras being intoned by those who had decided that "never" would be about the right ...

Oct 5, 2000 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Oil on Political Waters Oil on Political Waters

The old politics of oil has resurfaced to add a nervous flutter to Election 2000 and also to revive an enduring question of modern industrial life--what is the right price for oi...

Oct 5, 2000 / William Greider

The Cartography of Death The Cartography of Death

Certainly...get him hanged! Why not? Anything--anything can be done in this country. --Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness So here we are, barely into the next century, and...

Oct 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt

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