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LITERARY HERO
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December 30, 2002 Issue
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Editorial
The Hungry Physician
It seemed like a straightforward invitation. Dinner at an upscale uptown restaurant, sponsored by a drug company, where the topic was to be financial planning.
A New New Deal?
The same week that New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced his plans to close eight city firehouses, Mike Wallace, John Jay College professor and bard of New York, held...
Making the Connections
A sense of the larger picture is growing among US citizens, notably, though not only, among a young generation, along with a revulsion against official and corporate contemp...
Show-and-Tell Time
For a brief moment one could almost believe that the US march toward war with Iraq had paused.
Lott Should Resign
Among the obscenities accumulating in the political atmosphere, the most disgusting may be Trent Lott.
Column
Reasons for Doubt
When I was in college, I joined a court-watching project in Roxbury, Massachusetts. We observed criminal trials, then interviewed judges, lawyers and witnesses.
Iraq After D-Day: The Cordesman Memo
Napoleon would sketch out in an afternoon the new constitution and legal arrangements for one of France's imperial conquests.
Books & the Arts
What Are They Reading?
Recently, while doing some research into social conditions in the early twentieth century, I came across a reference to Looking Backward, written in 1888.
Mamet Goes Wildeing
The great disparity in the critical reaction to Caryl Churchill's Far Away, now playing Off Broadway, serves to remind us that opinions are just that--neither right nor ...
Frederick Seidel of St. Louis
Frederick Seidel of St. Louis, Missouri, is probably the last American decadent--certainly he is the most distinguished.
Beyond the AIDS Quilt
Last year marked the "twentieth anniversary" of AIDS, a grim occasion, to say the least, that put major US newspapers in an unenviable predicament.
The Conservative Imagination
Dinesh D'Souza became a right-wing campus radical at Dartmouth in the late Carter years. His motives should be recognizable to former campus radicals of the other variety.
