Post-Jeffords Slippery Slope in the Senate Post-Jeffords Slippery Slope in the Senate
If Georgia's Miller did decide He's really on the other side, The Democrats might then connive To make Strom prove he's still alive.
Jun 14, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
No Vengeance, No Justice No Vengeance, No Justice
Now that Timothy McVeigh has been executed, I suppose we're all supposed to stop talking about it--to "enjoy closure," a bit like the election. But McVeigh's execution wa...
Jun 14, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Run WFP Run! Run WFP Run! Run WFP Run! Run WFP Run!
Run WFP Run! Run WFP Run! New York City Doug Ireland's offhand comments about the Working Families Party's role in the upcoming municipal elections in New Yor...
Jun 14, 2001 / Doug Ireland and Our Readers
The Law’s Heavy Hand The Law’s Heavy Hand
For the most part, Harvard has been fairly lenient in disciplining the sit-in participants.
Jun 14, 2001 / Feature / Jane Manners
Star Wars Foes Hit DC Star Wars Foes Hit DC
The two sisters from the Our Lady of Angels convent had driven down from Pennsylvania with a message for their Congressman: Say no to Star Wars. It was proving a tough sell.
Jun 13, 2001 / Feature / Matt Bivens
McVeigh: Done to Death McVeigh: Done to Death
For more information, see our Death Row Roll Call.
Jun 12, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro
The Dogmeteers The Dogmeteers
It's been six years since Dogme 95 nailed its ten-point "Vow of Chastity" to the door of world cinema. Lars von Trier's gang of four Danish film rebels flung an inkwell at the fat...
Jun 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo
Harvard’s ‘Fitting Choice’ Harvard’s ‘Fitting Choice’
On July 1 Larry Summers--the Wunderkind economist who ran the Treasury Department under President Clinton--takes over as president of Harvard University. "A fitting choice," edito...
Jun 7, 2001 / Matt Bivens
Russian Nuclear Roulette Russian Nuclear Roulette
A baccalaureate should be an occasion to celebrate the present and express optimism about the future, but I must come to you today with very bad news about Russia, my subject of s...
Jun 7, 2001 / Feature / Stephen F. Cohen