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A Question Concerning Al Gore’s Reconsideration of the Elián González Case A Question Concerning Al Gore’s Reconsideration of the Elián González Case

Sure, in our hearts we always knew That Albert Gore would always do Whatever it might take for him to win. How come, then, that this single case

Apr 13, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Bush Could Really Use a Fireside Chat With FDR Bush Could Really Use a Fireside Chat With FDR

It's cherry blossom time in Washington, DC, and there's no better place to retreat from the lobbyist feeding ground that is called the US Congress than the Franklin Delano Roosev...

Apr 10, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

He Took a Village He Took a Village

In the role of New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell--source and subject alike of Joe Gould's Secret--Stanley Tucci adopts the hesitant drawl of a displaced Southern aristocrat, who ...

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

Decline of the West Decline of the West

"I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided," said Sam Shepard, explaining his motivation for writing True West. "It's a real thing, double nature.

Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Yaffe

Passages to India Passages to India

In the early 1920s, E.M.

Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar

Her Own Lambs and Falcons Her Own Lambs and Falcons

It really is about time we had the letters of Rebecca West.

Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Georgette Fleischer

Free Trade and the ‘Starving Child’ Defense Free Trade and the ‘Starving Child’ Defense

Ajit Singh Ajit Singh, who graduated from Punjab University and obtained his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, is professor of economics at Cambridge University.

Apr 5, 2000 / Feature / Various Contributors

Raising a Ruckus: Students Take the Bus to DC Raising a Ruckus: Students Take the Bus to DC

Students heading for DC are bringing more than a toothbrush and a change of underwear.

Apr 5, 2000 / Feature / Jane Spencer

Jubilee 2000: Paying Our Debts Jubilee 2000: Paying Our Debts

A massive natural disaster reminds us why people worldwide have been engaged by the issue of debt relief.

Apr 5, 2000 / Feature / Robert W. Edgar

Time to Rein in Global Finance Time to Rein in Global Finance

The financial crisis that collapsed Asian economies in mid-1997 and then bounced around the world was a distant sideshow to most Americans until it reached Wall Street.

Apr 5, 2000 / Feature / William Greider

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