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The Year of the Yellow Notepad The Year of the Yellow Notepad

Call it the year of the yellow notepad. Doris Kearns Goodwin, ejected from Parnassus, Pulitzer jury service and kindred honorable obligations, sinks under charges of plagiarism c...

Mar 21, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn

2002 Remake of Boys’ Town 2002 Remake of Boys’ Town

He ain't heavy, Father, he's my brother. I can take him by myself from here. Also, after what we've all been reading, We don't like to have you priests too near.

Mar 21, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Contractions Contractions

It all began with a missing sheet of homework. "Contractions," my son had written very clearly in his assignment log. "What's this?" I asked when he announced he'd finished every...

Mar 21, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Kids Get Left in the Lurch When the ‘Values’ Cops Arrive Kids Get Left in the Lurch When the ‘Values’ Cops Arrive

Homosexuals, no matter how exemplary in training and emotional stability, continue to be the object of suspicion when it comes to parenthood, particularly in the state of Florida...

Mar 21, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

A Princess’s Story A Princess’s Story

The church bells were pealing for Princess Margaret Rose (as she was known when she was a pretty and vivacious child) as I arrived on a bright, cold Sunday morning. Breaking with t...

Mar 14, 2002 / Column / Christopher Hitchens

God Changes Everything God Changes Everything

Let's say there was a school system or a chain of clinics on whose professional staff were a certain number of men who molested the children in their care and who, whenever this ...

Mar 14, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Billy Graham’s Explanation of His Taped Conversation With Richard Nixon Billy Graham’s Explanation of His Taped Conversation With Richard Nixon

He says that what he said about the Jews (They own and thus manipulate the news) Is not, of course, reflective of his views. So what part of the news did those Jews lose?

Mar 14, 2002 / Column / Calvin Trillin

The Fallout of Desperation The Fallout of Desperation

The news that the Pentagon had secret contingency plans to fight terrorism with nuclear weapons has the marks not of considered military doctrine but rather of an infantile tantr...

Mar 12, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

Back Into the Muck Back Into the Muck

Nation pay rates, you may have heard from brother Trillin, are not those of Condé Nast. Every once in a while I don't mind this, because the job just kind of does itself. ...

Mar 7, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

The Nightmare in Israel The Nightmare in Israel

Let's start with Baruch Kimmerling, a sociologist at Hebrew University. Here's what he published in the Jerusalem weekly Kol Ha'Ir last month: "I accuse Ariel Sharon of creating ...

Mar 7, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn

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