Birthday Poem Birthday Poem
Hot, rained-on, packed-down straw, strewn then abandoned between the rows of eggplant, tomato plants, onion, and herbs catches the evening's last September gnats in pale mats and ...
Jun 13, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Lynne McMahon
A Word to Graduates: Organize! A Word to Graduates: Organize!
It's boring but do it, says the playwright. Otherwise, you allow evil to settle in.
Jun 13, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Tony Kushner
In Fact… In Fact…
BAN THE CLUSTER BOMB Caleb Rossiter reports: The coalition of anti-landmine advocates who helped win the 1997 treaty banning the devices, which has been signed by more t...
Jun 13, 2002 / The Editors
Bad for Business Bad for Business
"How many times can you say 'unbelievable'?" my wife asked the other morning, as I was rattling the newspaper and again exclaiming over the latest outrageous news from American ca...
Jun 13, 2002 / William Greider
Fighting the Gay Right Fighting the Gay Right
They're here...they're queer...they're conservative!
Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / Richard Goldstein
Home Security System Home Security System
The timing of George W. Bush's proposal for a Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security--hastily unveiled when revelations about FBI lapses were hitting the front pages--smack...
Jun 13, 2002 / The Editors
Dialing for Clean Dollars Dialing for Clean Dollars
If a definition of news is something that hasn't happened before, readers of the New York Times may be excused for wondering why the paper featured a front-page story on June 8 on...
Jun 13, 2002 / The Editors
A Bombmaker of Conscience A Bombmaker of Conscience
We are all fascinated by the lives of the powerful and famous, and in the last part of the twentieth century Andrei Sakharov became one of Russia's most famous. He burst onto the ...
Jun 13, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder
Anthrax and the Military Anthrax and the Military
The Pentagon's recent decision to limit anthrax vaccine shots to those at high risk does not address the fundamental objection to the shots, which is the lack of informed consent....
Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / Mary L. Cummings
France: The Film Vote France: The Film Vote
Politics were never far from anyone's mind at this year's fifty-fifth Cannes International Film Festival, which unfolded in a France still reeling from the shock of far-right cand...
Jun 13, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Leslie Camhi