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Poetry Makes Nothing Happen? Ask Laura Bush Poetry Makes Nothing Happen? Ask Laura Bush

So Laura Bush will not, after all, be discussing the works of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes with a selected group of American poets at the White House on Fe...

Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt

We Speak Not of Osama We Speak Not of Osama

(With apologies to Cole Porter, the master, who wrote "My Heart Belongs to Daddy")

Feb 6, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Columbia Down Columbia Down

Like the perennial quest for a "Star Wars" antimissile system, the space shuttle has never been an entirely rational program.

Feb 6, 2003 / Wayne Biddle

Bush and AIDS Bush and AIDS

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Feb 6, 2003 / Richard Kim

Resist War and Empire Resist War and Empire

With up to 200,000 American and British combat troops already stationed in or on their way to the Persian Gulf area, war with Iraq looks increasingly imminent.

Feb 6, 2003 / Michael T. Klare

Bush’s Big Bad Budget Bush’s Big Bad Budget

George W. Bush's budget sketches the precipitous decline in our fortunes on his watch, while blurring the full costs of his shameless pander to privilege.

Feb 6, 2003 / Robert L. Borosage

In Dubya’s Battle In Dubya’s Battle

Although the Bush Administration acts as if the war train has already left the station, the antiwar forces continue to grow, and they are mobilizing in large numbers for a worl...

Feb 6, 2003 / The Editors

Letters Letters

SCURRILOUS ATTACK New York City

Feb 6, 2003 / Our Readers

Colin Powell at UN - AP

Powell Fails to Make Case Powell Fails to Make Case

The good soldier’s message at the UN is likely to carry enormous weight in shaping public opinion. But he did not make a compelling case.

Feb 6, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Rice for Peace Rice for Peace

Another antiwar action rapidly gaining supporters is the Rice for Peace program. In the 1950s, thousands of people apparently sent small bags of rice to President Eisenhower to e...

Feb 5, 2003 / Peter Rothberg

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