Cables Coming in From the Cold Cables Coming in From the Cold
Nearly four years ago, soon after the initial public release by the National Security Agency (NSA) of its long-secret Venona archive--decoded Soviet intelligence messages transmi...
Jun 17, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Walter Schneir and Miriam Schneir
Bill Bradley: Can He Get Into the Game? Bill Bradley: Can He Get Into the Game?
On April 30, 1992, Bill Bradley strode to the podium of the US Senate. The previous night, riots had erupted in Los Angeles following a not-guilty verdict in the first Rodney Kin...
Jun 17, 1999 / Feature / David Corn
Racial Ventriloquism Racial Ventriloquism
I know I'm not supposed to read too much into a movie like Episode I: The Phantom Menace, but when you're living with a 6-year-old whose entire generation role-plays and reiterat...
Jun 17, 1999 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
A Hard Schooling A Hard Schooling
I come here and discover that you are merely another fraud in the city university system. Of the 150 receiving degrees today, you hold only 191 jobs. That is less than two jobs p...
Jun 17, 1999 / Jimmy Breslin
CUNY Under Attack CUNY Under Attack
The politics of America's largest urban university have entered a restless, disordered, tumultuous period, a violent whirlpool from which it seems unable to extricate itself.
Jun 17, 1999 / Frederick S. Lane
Third Way–Dead End? Third Way–Dead End?
In the week preceding the European parliamentary elections, Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder produced a joint declaration, called "Europe, the third way, die neue Mitte" (t...
Jun 17, 1999 / Daniel Singer
Showdown in Pristina Showdown in Pristina
The Russian contingent that declared its sovereignty over Pristina's airport is a stark sign of how deeply the Kosovo war has eroded the already deteriorating US-Russian relation...
Jun 17, 1999 / The Editors
Octopussy by Other Means Octopussy by Other Means
In the movie that has been assigned to us to write about, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Mike Myers from Saturday Night Live plays a secret agent named Austin Powers.
Jun 17, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Strategy of the Other Republican Presidential Candidates The Strategy of the Other Republican Presidential Candidates
Completely confident, they know that--fair And square, on issues--they'll defeat George Bush. But still, where is that famous picture where
Jun 17, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Electoral College Dropouts Electoral College Dropouts
When Americans go to the polls next November to choose a President, virtually every citizen over the age of 18 will have the opportunity to cast a ballot. But while the rules of ...
Jun 17, 1999 / Feature / Matthew Hoffman