Middle East Divide Middle East Divide
Jerusalem One of the many casualties of the Palestinian intifada in the occupied territories, now entering its third month, is the alliance between the Palestinian nationa...
Dec 7, 2000 / Graham Usher
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