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Silver Linings Silver Linings

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Jan 5, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Block Ashcroft–II Block Ashcroft–II

Just how bad an Attorney General would John Ashcroft be? And is his nomination worth fighting? To answer the first question, talk to those who have experienced Ashcroft up close ...

Jan 5, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro

Alan Cranston Alan Cranston

After retiring from the Senate in 1993, Alan Cranston, who died on New Year's Eve of the new millennium in the home of his son Kim, began a new career that was as important as th...

Jan 5, 2001 / Jonathan Schell

The Führer Furor The Führer Furor

Chaplinesque Rapscallion New Leader of Germany's National Socialist Party       --The Onion "I have nothing to say about Hitler." With this...

Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter

Behind Mount Rushdie Behind Mount Rushdie

About a year ago, Amit Chaudhuri published in the Times Literary Supplement a panoramic survey of the past century or so of Indian writing and its reception in the West. He obser...

Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Sumana Raychaudhuri

Happy New Year Happy New Year

A cold snowy start to the new year, the first day of the new millennium. Not the fun one with champagne at the Pyramids and the all-night, round-the-globe pseudoprofundities and ...

Jan 5, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

TROOPS IN THE STREETS Nation contributing editor and radio host Marc Cooper was tossed out of the California State University system for antiwar activities in 1971 by executive ...

Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

Bush’s Phony ‘Bipartisanship’ Bush’s Phony ‘Bipartisanship’

The danger: He might sell the idea, and his agenda, with the help of a few Democrats.

Jan 5, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols

Block Ashcroft–I Block Ashcroft–I

John Ashcroft's nomination as Attorney General is the first installment on George W. Bush's enormous political debt to the radical right. Remember back in early February when Bus...

Jan 5, 2001 / Burt Neuborne

Dude, Where’s My Klawans? Dude, Where’s My Klawans?

Commenting on the German film Run Lola Run two years ago, The Nation's redoubtable film critic, Stuart Klawans, quoted a character speaking nominally of soccer: "The ball is round...

Jan 5, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors

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