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Four Rms, Rent Slashed, Sad Vu Four Rms, Rent Slashed, Sad Vu

Having a hard time finding a new apartment to fit your budget? Consider a move to the blocks around Ground Zero. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the body set up by f...

Apr 11, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Elizabeth Dole Elizabeth Dole

Get set again for Liddy Dole. She's back, to let the good times roll. She's entering another race, Her hair and diction all in place. (Her hair is even more precise Than tha...

Apr 11, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

US Jews Cannot Acquiesce to Sharon’s Monstrous Behavior US Jews Cannot Acquiesce to Sharon’s Monstrous Behavior

What does it mean to be Jewish?

Apr 9, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Lying in State Lying in State

How cool is Jennifer Harbury? She is currently arguing her own case before the Supreme Court, demanding the right to sue the government because, she maintains, its leaders delibe...

Apr 4, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

Twenty Years On Twenty Years On

Here we are, twenty years on, and the reports of the Israeli army smashing its way through Palestinian towns remind me of what came out of Lebanon as Sharon and his invading army...

Apr 4, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Middle East Troubles: A Summary The Middle East Troubles: A Summary

They give each other tit for tat. The next tat may get Arafat.

Apr 4, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Tests, Tracking and Derailment Tests, Tracking and Derailment

As state budgets around the country are slashed to accommodate the expense of the war on terror, the pursuit of educational opportunity for all seems ever more elusive. While sta...

Apr 4, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Bush Fiddled While Mideast Burned Bush Fiddled While Mideast Burned

There is enough blame to go around for the events that have turned the Camp David promise of peace into the killing fields of the Mideast without dragging in President Bush.

Apr 2, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

The God Squad The God Squad

Was it lack of space or was it lack of time that made Katha Pollitt so bland and lenient about the current state of religious leadership in our country and our culture ["God C...

Mar 28, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Adventures in Book Reviewing Adventures in Book Reviewing

Back in 1994, Christina Hoff Sommers accused The New York Times Book Review of unfairly assigning her attack on the women's movement, Who Stole Feminism?, to the distinguished sc...

Mar 28, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

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