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Sweet Victory: People Over Profits in Brazil Sweet Victory: People Over Profits in Brazil

Each day, while pharmaceutical companies prosper, 8,500 people in the global South die of AIDS. Thanks to strict intellectual property laws that keep drug prices sky-high, only 7 ...

Jul 1, 2005 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Profiles in Cowardice Profiles in Cowardice

Senate Democrats are preparing to take a dive on the issue they have righteously hammered for four years--the estate tax.

Jun 29, 2005 / William Greider

Shoot the Piano Player Shoot the Piano Player

Reviews of The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Me and You and Everyone We Know and other new films.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

To the Wires Overhead To the Wires Overhead

This is the year when the swallows did not come back you have not noticed

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

To Being Late To Being Late

Again again you are the right time after all not according to however we planned it

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

To the Margin To the Margin

Following the black footprints the tracks of words that have passed that way before me I come again and again to your blank shore

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

Mother Nature’s Son Mother Nature’s Son

Novalis's unfinished novel is a kaleidoscope of visions and allegories of nature.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Ross Benjamin

Prosaic Judgments Prosaic Judgments

Adam Kirsch prefers his own ideas about poetry to actual poems.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella

The Theater of Cruelty The Theater of Cruelty

The detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib were both a continuation and a divergence from historical prison practices.

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Amitav Ghosh

Avian Flu: A State of Unreadiness Avian Flu: A State of Unreadiness

America remains unprepared for a possible avian flu pandemic.

Jun 29, 2005 / Feature / Mike Davis

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