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Behind the Blue Helmets Behind the Blue Helmets

The new US envoy to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke, has personal experience of how frustrating it can be to negotiate, even when speaking in the name of that mega-clich&ea...

Sep 9, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams

Students for Sale Students for Sale

Research support was provided by the Open Society Institute and the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.

Sep 9, 1999 / Feature / Steven Manning

Little Limbaughs and the Fire Next Time Little Limbaughs and the Fire Next Time

Residents of Skaneateles, New York, complained to visiting reporters about the Clintons' decision to make themselves relatively scarce on their recent vacation.

Sep 9, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman

On the Possibility That Pat Buchanan Will Run as a Third-Party Candidate On the Possibility That Pat Buchanan Will Run as a Third-Party Candidate

Buchanan hints he's leaving. The GOP says, "Stay!" They fear that he'd be draining The wacko vote away.

Sep 9, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin

East Timor’s Agony East Timor’s Agony

With Dili burning and anti-independence militias carrying on a murderous terror campaign beneath the noses of Indonesian soldiers and police, the United Nations prepared to evac...

Sep 9, 1999 / The Editors

US Complicity in Timor US Complicity in Timor

While the Indonesian military's thugs continue their rampage in East Timor, most foreign reporters have fled the country.

Sep 9, 1999 / Allan Nairn

A Haunted Journey A Haunted Journey

After the war life will begin to stir once again, but we won't be here, we will have vanished just as the Aztecs have vanished.

Sep 9, 1999 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Road to Reform The Road to Reform

Nearly everyone seems to agree that the war on drugs has been a disaster, but little progress in ending it has been made.

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Carol A. Bergman

Marijuana Made Easy Marijuana Made Easy

For more than half a century, the US government has maintained a hard line on marijuana, denying that the plant has any medical value at all.

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Cynthia Cotts

George Soros’s Long Strange Trip George Soros’s Long Strange Trip

Research assistance: David Levinson Wilk.

Sep 2, 1999 / Feature / Russ Baker

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