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On the Gradual End of the Estate Tax On the Gradual End of the Estate Tax

For years, estates of wealthy men were taxed-- The sort of thing that spoils a nice goodbye. The tax will disappear by 2010. And then the rich will find it safe to die.

May 31, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Bosco’s Big! Best! Believe It or Not! Bosco’s Big! Best! Believe It or Not!

Bosco, a black labrador retriever owned by Tim Stillman of Sunol, a small community near San Francisco, has been Mayor there for over eight years--after getting more votes than t...

May 31, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Body Count in Kosovo Body Count in Kosovo

Over the past two years, it has become commonplace to read that the casualties among Kosovo Albanians were not sufficiently high to warrant the NATO intervention that put an end-...

May 25, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

Cold Comfort Cold Comfort

They were kidnapped on the street, or summoned to the village square, or lured from home with false promises of work, to be forced into the Japanese military's far-flung, highly ...

May 25, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Brilliant Legal Tactics By Raoul Felder Brilliant Legal Tactics By Raoul Felder

So Rudy's lawyer, playing the piranha, Decided he'd gain ground by dissing Donna. The judge, appalled that anyone could be As crude as that, then squashed him like a flea. Th...

May 25, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Bush’s Faustian Deal With the Taliban Bush’s Faustian Deal With the Taliban

Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-US terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush Administration will embrace you. All that matters is...

May 22, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer

Sites for Sore Eyes Sites for Sore Eyes

This magazine has been inundated of late with missives from irate Naderites demanding that the editors immediately exile me to The New Republic, the DLC or worse. My last column ...

May 17, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman

What Sontag Said in Jerusalem What Sontag Said in Jerusalem

Susan Sontag went to Israel and picked up her Jerusalem Prize on May 9. Ori Nir reported in Haaretz the following day that after accepting the prize from Jerusalem's mayor, Ehud ...

May 17, 2001 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The FBI in Peace and War The FBI in Peace and War

The FBI knows every way To put a case in disarray. For years they managed to mislay Some tapes a Birmingham DA Could use against the KKK. Because some files had gone astray ...

May 17, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The First 2,920 Days The First 2,920 Days

I was driving my son to soccer practice not long ago, listening to a National Public Radio wrap-up of President Bush's first hundred days in office. My son, who was just a baby w...

May 17, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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