Albright’s State Deportment Albright’s State Deportment
Flirtatious and ferocious at the same time, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stamps the world stage over Kosovo, threatening fire from heaven if Serbian strongman Slobodan ...
Feb 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams
Oscar Who? Oscar Who?
Although the producers of the Academy Awards ceremony like to boast that a billion people watch their broadcast, I take comfort in knowing that another 5 billion do not.
Feb 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Flying the Iraqi Skies Flying the Iraqi Skies
Having hit Saddam Hussein where it hurts--in the Republican Guard barracks, military intelligence headquarters and other strategic components of his regime's power base--duri...
Feb 25, 1999 / Dilip Hiro
The ‘Nightmare Scenario’ The ‘Nightmare Scenario’
Y2K is coming, ready or not. Right now, mostly not.
Feb 25, 1999 / Feature / Kevin Sanders
HOPE for Africa HOPE for Africa
For more information on HOPE for Africa and Jesse Jackson Jr.'s views, see www.jessejacksonjr.org.
Feb 25, 1999 / Jesse Jackson Jr.
Spice Grrrl Spice Grrrl
On a trip to Russia in 1995 I was told by the young writers I met there that when a certain famed Soviet novelist returned to his native land, he was an offensive anachronism to th...
Feb 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Eileen Myles
Remember the Alamo, Part II Remember the Alamo, Part II
On the fourth of August last year in San Antonio, the Alamo rumbled.
Feb 25, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Bárbara Renaud González
Twilight of the Czar Twilight of the Czar
President Clinton recently paid a visit to a fallen czar. The blundering Yeltsin may be clinging to his throne, but his effective reign came to a close on August 17, a date to re...
Feb 25, 1999 / Daniel Singer
Ils Accusent… Ils Accusent…
"Existence..resistance." "Who sows misery reaps rage." It was with such slogans that some 15,000 highly determined unemployed and their companions marched throu...
Feb 25, 1999 / Daniel Singer