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December 2, 2002 Issue
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Editorial
Letter From Newark
The eleventh floor of the federal building in Newark is not a place anyone visits by choice. The air-conditioning is always either too cold or not cold enough.
Alien Nation
When immigrant janitors in Boston went on strike this fall, they attracted some unlikely allies.
Half a Victory at the UN
Iraq's decision to accept the United Nations Security Council resolution, passed unanimously on November 8, sets in motion a tightly scripted plan for UN arms inspectors to ...
Stand Up, Fight Back
In defeat, Democrats have convened their perennial circular firing squad, issuing salvos of what Groucho Marx used to call departee--what they should have said.
Column
A Silver Spoon Is Gouging Unions
President Bush, a scion of great wealth who has never had to earn an honest living, has abruptly wiped out the jobs, retirement security and health benefits of 850,000 blu...
Take Two Aspirin
Well, the elephant is out of the barn now. Congress is lost and whither Congress, so will go the courts.
The Antiwar Movement and Its Critics
Do we have an antiwar movement? We're getting there.
Letters
Feature
Guns ‘R’ U.S.
Terrorists and gun smugglers like to buy guns in America because of the abundant inventory at gun shops and gun shows, and the laxity of US gun-law enforcement.
Books & the Arts
A Sex of One’s Own
Nature versus nurture was always too simple a formulation. Now, we ask: Is it chance, choice, family, culture, hormones or genes that determine who we are and whom we love?
...Atop the Volcano
Gioconda Belli--poet, novelist, society belle reborn as Sandinista comrade--has written a memoir of the Nicaraguan struggle that reads like a romance--a romance with politic...
