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Report From New York Report From New York

As workers and holiday shoppers spilled out of Manhattan's midtown skyscrapers and stores during rush hour last week, they were confronted with an unusual sight: Several thousa...

Dec 15, 1999 / Roane Carey

Lord High Executioners Lord High Executioners

He looks like a pear that's going bad. Tall, corpulent and much the worse for gravity, W.S.

Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

What Price, Palestine? What Price, Palestine?

The plan to take Israeli athletes hostage during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games was conceived at a cafe on the Piazza della Rotonda in Rome, in the shadow of the Pantheon and the ...

Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Michael Young

Was Communism Reformable? Was Communism Reformable?

Never in history until the Soviet Union collapsed eight years ago had a great empire gone through such cataclysmic changes and accepted such staggering territorial losses without...

Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert V. Daniels

(AP Photo / John Duricka, File)

John McCain’s Vietnam John McCain’s Vietnam

Though he suffered as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, he seems blind to the suffering inflicted on that nation by America's brutal and misguided war.

Dec 15, 1999 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss

The Prattle on Seattle The Prattle on Seattle

The ideological rigidity that governs punditocracy trade debate transcends right/left dichotomies.

Dec 15, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman

On the Latest Republican Debate On the Latest Republican Debate

I watched these presidential hopefuls join Together for debating in Des Moines, And many times I heard allegiance sworn To Jesus and to babies not quite born.

Dec 15, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Joseph Heller Joseph Heller

Nelson Algren's 1961 review of Catch-22 is at www.thenation.com.

Dec 15, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Christopher Hitchens

The ‘Single Standard’ in Kosovo The ‘Single Standard’ in Kosovo

Cambridge, Mass.

Dec 15, 1999 / Christopher Hitchens and Noam Chomsky

Seattle From the Seine Seattle From the Seine

"Le monde n'est pas une marchandise"--the world is not a commodity--proclaimed the large banner in the Parisian demonstration against the WTO.

Dec 15, 1999 / Daniel Singer

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