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December 29, 2003 Issue
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Editorial
A Win for Campaign Reform
In a 5-to-4 decision as we went to press, the Supreme Court upheld nearly all the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act's provisions.
Rosenbaum Inquisition
In 2002, Republicans on a House Judiciary subcommittee trained their sights on an unlikely target: conservative Judge James Rosenbaum, Chief Judge of the US District Court for...
The Spirit of Geneva
The launching of a new Middle East peace plan in Switzerland in early December attracted more than the usual number of luminaries.
Gore’s a Dean Man Now
Al Gore endorsed Howard Dean for President for the same reason that so many other Democrats have: He wanted to be where the action is in his party.
Column
We Got Him…Now What?
The capture of Saddam Hussein is being treated as a celebratory occasion, but it is one that the Bush Administration might come to regret.
Target: George Soros
To declare oneself an unapologetic liberal in mainstream political debate these days is to invite abuse.
Who Needs Christmas? They Do!
When did Christmas shopping become a patriotic duty, the contemporary equivalent of collecting tin cans in World War II?
Books & the Arts
Go East, Young Man!
In one of his sunnier moods, Jean-Luc Godard might have tacked onto The Last Samurai the subtitle une étrange aventure de Tom Cruise.
Soul Keeping Company
The hours between washing and the well
Of burial are the soul's most troubled time.
Scully’s Way
Generations of Yale students share stories about special moments in Vincent Scully's courses on art and architecture.
Weapons of the Weak
African-American history, broadly defined, continues to be the most innovative and exciting field in American historical studies.
The Abstract Impressionist
I have always marveled at the way in which Abstract Expressionism was able to transform a disparate group of painters, none of whom had shown any particular promise of artisti...
