‘The Sound of Surprise’ ‘The Sound of Surprise’
Bright and eager, bouncy and buoyant, sharp-eyed and quick-eared and passionately in love--those are a few of the ways you could describe Calle 54, director Fernando Trueba's trib...
May 17, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
The FBI in Peace and War The FBI in Peace and War
The FBI knows every way To put a case in disarray. For years they managed to mislay Some tapes a Birmingham DA Could use against the KKK. Because some files had gone astray ...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
No Rush to Judges No Rush to Judges
President Bush's first list of nominees to the US Circuit Courts of Appeal, unveiled on May 8, was deceptively conciliatory and seeded with hard-to-oppose minorities and women, st...
May 17, 2001 / The Editors
Tax Cut Madness Tax Cut Madness
If all goes as the GOP has planned, George W. Bush will have on his desk by Memorial Day a $1.35 trillion tax bill that is wrongheaded and an utterly inequitable pander to the pri...
May 17, 2001 / The Editors
The First 2,920 Days The First 2,920 Days
I was driving my son to soccer practice not long ago, listening to a National Public Radio wrap-up of President Bush's first hundred days in office. My son, who was just a baby w...
May 17, 2001 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Letters Letters
A VICTIM OF THE WAR ON DRUGS Yucaipa, Calif. Your editorial on "The Worst Drug Laws" [April 9] was excellent. It's long past time to reverse the damage done ...
May 10, 2001 / Our Readers
Suffer the Children Suffer the Children
In 1995 the brutal slaying of Elisa Izquierdo by her crack-addicted mother seized headlines. Responding to the public's outrage that city officials had ignored obvious signs that ...
May 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Daphne Eviatar
In Fact… In Fact…
BUSH'S CHILDPROOF BUDGET George W. Bush pledges to "leave no child behind" even as he touts his tax cut as coming from "the surplus funds" left "after we've met our needs." But ...
May 10, 2001 / The Editors
Dioxin: Studied to Death Dioxin: Studied to Death
Industry has been doing all it can to keep an EPA report from being published.
May 10, 2001 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
The Marriage of Orpheus The Marriage of Orpheus
Something brushed my cheek with damp-- a leaf, its little valley slick with run-off after rain. One last drop shook loose and struck a spider web, which shuddered but held o...
May 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Debora Greger