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May 29, 2000 Issue
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Editorial
Column
Underground Against the Taliban
The atrocities of the Afghan Taliban toward women have been widely reported in the Western press: women banned from work; forbidden to leave their homes unless shrouded in the...
Feature
What Monsanto Knew
In a small brick house strung year-round with Christmas lights, behind curtains made of flowered sheets, Jeremiah Smith is listening to his favorite preacher on the radio.
Books & the Arts
Village Idiots, Then & Now
To watch Lars von Trier's The Idiots is to see a dead dog rise and howl at the moon.
A Closing of the American Kind
You will recall that when Augie March went to Mexico, he hooked up with an eagle, which he called Caligula.