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Rare Good News Rare Good News

The Journal of Nutrition wrote about Some researchers who tested chocolate out. It may help stave off heart attacks, they claim. Red wine, we've known for years, can do the sa...

Nov 10, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Mr. Sammler’s Planet Mr. Sammler’s Planet

What ought to be read--and why--are questions that have a unique urgency in a multicultural milieu, where each group fights, legitimately, for its own space and voice. In the pas...

Nov 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans

The ‘Stealth Campaign’ The ‘Stealth Campaign’

This issue goes to press on Wednesday, November 8, the day after the election, when all was supposed to have been decided, all was to be made clear. Instead, a great bewilderment...

Nov 10, 2000 / Jonathan Schell

Coronation by Cornet Coronation by Cornet

LOUIS ARMSTRONG AT 100 In 1927 a young cornetist led his band into a meticulously hilarious version of a classic composition Jelly Roll Morton had made famous, "Twelfth St...

Nov 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro

Where’s the Mandate? Where’s the Mandate?

It wasn't exactly a reversal of 1994, but in this year's Senate races Democrats erased much of the Republican majority that was established in that year of Grand Old Party hegemo...

Nov 10, 2000 / John Nichols

Ring Lardner Jr. (1915-2000) Ring Lardner Jr. (1915-2000)

The last chapter in Ring Lardner Jr.'s new memoir, I'd Hate Myself in the Morning (Nation Books), is called "Sole Survivor." When Lardner, who died October 31, wrote it he was in...

Nov 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky

Romancing the Screen Romancing the Screen

VINCENT CANBY As a memorial tribute to Vincent Canby, the "Arts & Leisure" section of the New York Times recently published half a page of excerpts of his prose, as se...

Nov 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Just a Needle-Stick Away Just a Needle-Stick Away

In New Mexico, communists who fail to register their party affiliation with the state commit a felony. Under New Mexico's DNA databanking law, if they are caught they are require...

Nov 10, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Kimmelman

A DNA Balance Sheet A DNA Balance Sheet

DNA testing can convict the guilty; it can also destroy the privacy of millions.

Nov 10, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Kimmelman

Indian Country, NY Indian Country, NY

A land-claim suit is pitting Oneidas against other upstate residents.

Nov 10, 2000 / Feature / Beverly Gage

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