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December 27, 2004 Issue
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Editorial
Real UN Reform
Those conservatives who think that "UN Reform" means the dissolution of the United Nations are now calling for the resignation of Kofi Annan.
Bush’s New Team
On his first trip to Washington after the Supreme Court awarded him the presidency in 2000, George W.
Column
‘Big Ideas Need Sharp Elbows’
We may never reach a consensus on just what it was about George W.
Letters
Books & the Arts
The Illusion of Inclusion
In 1958 John Ashbery sailed for Paris to gather materials for a thesis he intended to write about Raymond Roussel, who at the time was an all-but-forgotten French poet, playwr...
Panegyric for the Plane Tree Fallen on Fifth Avenue
At the end of Eighty-eighth,
across from the museum and as west as east
will take you to the park from Gracie Mansion.
Before the lightning brought it ...
Is That All There Is?
It's hard to resist the misery of V.S. Naipaul's late fiction, hard not to surrender to its bleak and wary authority.
Subcontinental Homesick Blues
Nearly twenty years ago, in a village in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, a young woman called Roop Kanwar was burned to death at her husband's funeral pyre.
