Crunch Time at the FCC Crunch Time at the FCC
One of the most important votes of 2003 will be cast not in Congress or in voting booths across the country but at the Federal Communications Commission.
Jan 16, 2003 / Michael J. Copps
Fun-Fact Quiz Fun-Fact Quiz
1. Which of the following statements is true?
A: George W. Bush has been arrested four times.
B: George W. Bush is the first President with an MBA.
Jan 16, 2003 / Feature / Arianna Huffington
Dissident or Apologist? Dissident or Apologist?
The Iraqi-American writer and Brandeis professor Kanan Makiya is nowadays considered by many in the United States to be the Iraqi dissident par excellence.
Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Sinan Antoon
Was It Sexy, or Just Soviet? Was It Sexy, or Just Soviet?
Given the number of prematurely world-weary young men and women who followed the lure of easy money, cheap alcohol and even cheaper sex to the geopolitical discount bins of the...
Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eliot Borenstein
Iraq War Blowback Iraq War Blowback
A deeply disturbing development that has been buried under the debris of war talk is the fact that since 1998, in a major historical reversal, most of the deaths and injuries f...
Jan 16, 2003 / Saskia Sassen
Who Killed Emmett Till? Who Killed Emmett Till?
The summer before 14-year-old Trent Lott entered all-white Pascagoula High School in Mississippi, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago named Emmett Till convinced his mother to let...
Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Holmberg and Rebecca Segall
A Republican Discusses Taxes A Republican Discusses Taxes
Because they pay too much in taxes--
To feed the poor and fight the axis--
The rich are truly discommoded.
It spoils the fun of being loaded.
Jan 16, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Our Man in Saigon Our Man in Saigon
In the new film version of The Quiet American, a photographer races into a plaza in downtown Saigon, rather puzzling jaded British reporter Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine).
Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / H. Bruce Franklin
Letter From Iraq Letter From Iraq
I asked Fatima, a mother with nine children, all living with her husband and her sister in three rooms, "How are you preparing for the war?" She replies, "Oh, there is not much...
Jan 16, 2003 / Elizabeth Roberts
The Rest of Love The Rest of Love
The hive is for where
the honey was.
Was findable there,
then not.
Sometimes, I think I dreamed it,
or I am saying it like a thing
Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Carl Phillips