The Sultan’s Brother Does a Service to Humanity The Sultan’s Brother Does a Service to Humanity
The brother of the Sultan of Brunei Set out to see how much a guy could buy, And fifteen billion's what he finally spent Before the sultan voiced some discontent. The guilt o...
Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
We Are the World We Are the World
At 5 o'clock in the morning, the radio alarm begins to blare the news. The United States is threatening to pull out of the World Conference Against Racism if the conversati...
Aug 23, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Letters Letters
IF I HAD A HAMMER... Bellevue, Wash. I agree with Katrina vanden Heuvel on the necessity of building a better infrastructure to combat the right-wing...
Aug 23, 2001 / Katrina vanden Heuvel, Victor Navasky, and Our Readers
The American Nightmare The American Nightmare
It should surprise no one that the European revolutionaries are not inspired by the American dream. Nobody, after all, expected the fighters for national liberation in the post-N...
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Poland–The Taste of Ashes Poland–The Taste of Ashes
From your very first encounters at the modernized Warsaw airport you know that you have entered the kingdom of private enterprise. The operator at the money exchange hands me $30...
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Pentagon’s Radioactive Bullet The Pentagon’s Radioactive Bullet
It is about two feet long, cylindrical and far denser than steel. When fired from a U.S. Army M1 Abrams tank, it is capable of drilling a hole through the strongest of tank armor...
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Bill Mesler
Tennessee’s Dilemma Tennessee’s Dilemma
Those who say that nothing of importance can be decided at Dayton have, at first glance, reason on their side.
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Joseph Wood Krutch
Atom Bomb: One World or None Atom Bomb: One World or None
The creation of the atom bomb is the greatest revolution ever accomplished in science--and unquestionably the most frightening.
Aug 23, 2001 / Freda Kirchwey
Fighting the Global Gag Rule Fighting the Global Gag Rule
Despite statements to the contrary, the rule is resulting in tragic circumstances for women abroad.
Aug 23, 2001 / Feature / Isabelle Lindenmayer