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What They Do Know Can Hurt You What They Do Know Can Hurt You

This article is adapted by permission from Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (O'Reilly).

Feb 10, 2000 / Feature / Simson L. Garfinkel

The Plutonium Files The Plutonium Files

Eileen Welsome, a mild-mannered 48-year-old reporter laboring away in obscurity for a tiny afternoon newspaper in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is no one's idea of a media Bigfoot.

Feb 10, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman

Remembering in Black and White Remembering in Black and White

It may be my imagination, but this year Black History Month has seemed to present a more complicated range of memorials than in the recent past.

Feb 10, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Farewell, Gary Bauer Farewell, Gary Bauer

x Farewell, adieu to Gary Bauer. We never thought that you'd be our Next President. Too small. Too sour. The countryside we'd have to scour

Feb 10, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The McCain Insurgency The McCain Insurgency

Every presidential contest in the past two decades has produced something of a quasi populist--a mad-as-hell candidate of the left, right or center who runs against the establish...

Feb 10, 2000 / David Corn

China Spying Story: All the Excuses Fit to Print China Spying Story: All the Excuses Fit to Print

China Spying Story: All the Excuses Fit to Print 20010206 The words of the FBI inquisitor concerning his treatment of Wen Ho Lee couldn't have been more chilling: "It seemed l...

Feb 6, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Original Valley Girl The Original Valley Girl

Bette Midler got her first starring role in the movies in 1979, playing the lead in The Rose, a thinly disguised biopic about Janis Joplin.

Feb 3, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Sweating Out the Words Sweating Out the Words

CLARIFICATION: A sidebar to Debbie Nathan's February 21 "Sweating Out the Words," about The New Yorker's literary contest and the publishing and informatics industries (converting ...

Feb 3, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Debbie Nathan

Bobby, He Hardly Knew Ye Bobby, He Hardly Knew Ye

Robert Scheer was the last journalist to interview Robert Kennedy.

Feb 3, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Robert Scheer

The Pinochet Principle The Pinochet Principle

The arrest of Augusto Pinochet in England more than a year ago stunned the world and emboldened those seeking to bring dictators and war criminals to justice.

Feb 3, 2000 / Feature / Roane Carey

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