SAT–A Failing Test SAT–A Failing Test
Educators have long known the rap sheet on the SAT, the college entrance exam that millions of young people have taken as a rite of passage for some seventy-five years. Since its ...
Mar 15, 2001 / Peter Sacks
On the White House Dress Code On the White House Dress Code
The President's demanding proper dress--
A tie, a coat, a shine on shoes or boots.
Some citizens may find this a relief:
We've now returned to government by suits.
Mar 15, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Will Jodie Whitewash Leni? Will Jodie Whitewash Leni?
Hitler's filmmaker is Foster's fixation.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wallace
Three Gentlemen of Venona Three Gentlemen of Venona
Three Gentlemen of Venona San Francisco While Stephen Schwartz does a good job of tearing apart the Venona book by Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, he praises the...
Mar 15, 2001 / Stephen Schwartz, Morton Sobell, and John Lowenthal
Third Annual Hollywood Issue Third Annual Hollywood Issue
THIS IS THE THIRD of what now threatens to become The Nation's annual Hollywood issue. Following in the footsteps of the catholic Mr. Soderbergh, whose Y2K output ran the gamut fr...
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind
Middle East Peace Talk Middle East Peace Talk
Ariel Sharon's election as Israeli Prime Minister insures a prolonged pause in progress toward Israeli-Palestinian peace. While awaiting his successor, politicians and commentator...
Mar 15, 2001 / John V. Whitbeck
While the Academy Slept While the Academy Slept
The strange career of the documentary Oscar.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carl Bromley
Our Mobsters, Ourselves Our Mobsters, Ourselves
Why The Sopranos is therapeutic TV.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Ellen Willis
Hollywood’s Big Sleep Hollywood’s Big Sleep
With negotiations between the Writers Guild and some of Hollywood's major film studios and TV networks at an impasse as the May 1 deadline nears, putting the panic of a strike in...
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Raymond Chandler
Residual Anger Residual Anger
Hollywood unions on the brink.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper