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September 6, 1999 Issue

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Editorial

Colombia’s Best Hope

Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.

Russia and Election 2000

President Boris Yeltsin's firing of his fifth Prime Minister in seventeen months and Russia's renewed war in the Caucasus are stark signs of his regime's instability, desperat...

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Will Bulworth Run?

Run, Warren, run? The latest made-for-buzz wrinkle in the 2000 presidential campaign is that actor Warren Beatty is considering a rewrite that would put him into the action.

The Editors

Column

And the Enemy Is…

Patricia Williams will be on leave for the remainder of the year, returning to this space in January 2000.

Patricia J. Williams

A Word of Sympathy for Candidates Who Did Not Do Well in the Ames Voting

Calvin Trillin

Letters

The Pacifica Struggle Continues

Oakland, Calif.

Marc Cooper and Our Readers

Feature

Saving History From the Shredder

They call him "the world's most famous bank guard": Christoph Meili, the former night watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich who in 1997 rescued from the shredder...

Jon Wiener