False Positive False Positive
As a child, while waiting for my weekly piano lesson to start, I used to read with pleasure Erma Bombeck's column as it appeared in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette. What prehom...
Oct 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Caleb Crain
Profits of Fear Profits of Fear
Every closet in my medical office is suddenly filled with samples of Ciprofloxacin, an ordinary antibiotic intended primarily for use with bladder infections. This week, every pat...
Oct 18, 2001 / Dr. Marc Siegel
Indict Pinochet Indict Pinochet
It's been three years since Gen. Augusto Pinochet was detained in London under the European Anti-Terrorism Convention for crimes that included terrorist atrocities. If George W. B...
Oct 18, 2001 / The Editors
On V.S. Naipaul’s Nobel Prize On V.S. Naipaul’s Nobel Prize
So V.S. Naipaul finally gets the prize. It's said he's willing, through unblinking eyes, To make his observations, then recall The bleakest Third World countries, warts and al...
Oct 18, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Call in the UN Call in the UN
This year the Nobel Peace Prize committee got it stunningly right when it honored the United Nations and Secretary General Kofi Annan. For all its bureaucratic and political timid...
Oct 18, 2001 / The Editors
Letters Letters
TERRORI$T CA$H--$TAY$ CLEAN St. Clairsville, Ohio Lucy Komisar's June 18 "After Dirty Air, Dirty Money," on money-laundering [posted on the Nation web...
Oct 18, 2001 / Roane Carey and Our Readers
Peace in Our Time Peace in Our Time
The twin towers had barely toppled before the ubiquitous Henry Kissinger was on TV proclaiming the gravity of the assault and the urgency of American retaliation. The Forrest Gump...
Oct 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Carolyn Eisenberg
Mugging the ICC Mugging the ICC
While the United States has spent the past few weeks imploring other countries to cooperate with our war on terrorism, behind the scenes it's apparently retaining an isolationist ...
Oct 18, 2001 / Daphne Eviatar
Respite in a Minor Key Respite in a Minor Key
I would like an unbroken stretch of drizzly weekday afternoons, in a moulting season: nowhere else to go but across the street for bread, and the paper. Later, faces, voices...
Oct 18, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Marilyn Hacker
Court Time for Henry Court Time for Henry
Although it may appear that the aftershocks of September 11 have somewhat deposed the discourse of human rights and international law and replaced it with that of law and order, th...
Oct 18, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens