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Feb 9, 2003 / Feature / Miranda Kennedy

Landless, Jobless, But Not Hopeless Landless, Jobless, But Not Hopeless

The day after the World Social Forum dialogues, I visited an encampment of landless people squatting in garbage-wrap tents alongside the road an hour from Porto Alegre.

Feb 9, 2003 / Feature / Tom Hayden

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

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

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

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

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

Letter From London Letter From London

Europeans opposed to war in Iraq are united by a deep distrust, even fear, of America.

Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan

A ‘Good Man’ Is Not So Hard to Find A ‘Good Man’ Is Not So Hard to Find

I was standing in line for Bowling for Columbine in Brussels not long ago with two writer/editor friends, when a 15-or-so-year-old Belgian boy in front of us turned around and ...

Feb 6, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman

Genet’s Palestinian Revolution Genet’s Palestinian Revolution

This essay will appear as an introduction in New York Review Books' new edition of Prisoner of Love (February 2003).

Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ahdaf Soueif

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