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Post-Littleton Gun Vote in the Senate Post-Littleton Gun Vote in the Senate

When guns became the issue of the day, Republicans, as is their custom, put Their party right behind the NRA, And shot themselves quite badly in the foot.

May 27, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Rolling Thunder: the Rerun Rolling Thunder: the Rerun

People concerned about the US-led NATO war against Yugoslavia find much to reflect upon in the Vietnam experience.

May 27, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney

Episode I–The Phantom Menace Episode I–The Phantom Menace

Not only now but every week, I am reminded at two-minute intervals of the influence of Star Wars.

May 20, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Monthly Review at 50 Monthly Review at 50

Monthly Review celebrated its semicentennial on May 7 with a Manhattan bash featuring loyalists Ossie Davis, Adrienne Rich and Cornel West, and a special retrospective May issue ...

May 20, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Paul Buhle

Of Time and the Artist Of Time and the Artist

One afternoon in 1985, I rode in a taxi down Broadway with the physicist I.I. Rabi, discussing time and age.

May 20, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

CCA, the Sequel CCA, the Sequel

James Neal is a short, muscular man with close-cropped hair who has spent the past twelve years behind bars for armed robbery.

May 20, 1999 / Feature / Eric Bates

No Sweat No Sweat

The bucolic, palm-studded campus of Stanford bears no resemblance to the old and gritty auto workers' summer camp at Port Huron, Michigan, where SDS was formed in 1962.

May 20, 1999 / Feature / Marc Cooper

Smart Bombs Smart Bombs

There was quite an astonishing little item in the paper recently about the sort of thing that makes me glad I grew up in the inner city: i.e., the national proliferation of "assa...

May 20, 1999 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Kosovars and Palestinians Kosovars and Palestinians

Many Jews have, understandably, seen parallels between the tragic events in Kosovo and their experiences of the Holocaust. But in fact, it is not a good parallel.

May 20, 1999 / Ghada Karmi

Iraqi Sideshow Continues Iraqi Sideshow Continues

On May 12 the Iraqi News Agency reported the deaths of twelve people, including two children, and 200 head of livestock near the northern city of Mosul, caused by American bombs.

May 20, 1999 / Dilip Hiro

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