April 16, 2001 Issue

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Features

On Butterfly Wings

This is going to be yet one more article on the never-ending recount-a-rama in Florida. But first a flashback to a pre-Election Day campaign moment: It's October. George W.

David Corn
Making the Case in Albany

While most of the 1,500 people who traveled to Albany from all over New York State last Tuesday endured freezing winds outside the legislature to tell stories of families torn apart and chant s

Amy Bach
Times Letters Unfit to Print

Praising its coverage, not criticizing it, is the best route to getting published.

Michael Massing
He Has a Dream

The grand ambition of the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Scott Sherman

Columns

The Beat

John Nichols
This Warning May Be Hazardous to Your Health

Katha Pollitt
On the Bush Administration Rescinding Stricter Limits on Arsenic in Drinking Water

Yes, arsenic's in what we drink.
That's not as scary as you think.
Sure, hidden in the stroganoff
It's used for knocking people off.
But in your water it's OK.
That's what the mining interests say.
And W. now says so, too.
It mixes well with CO2.

Calvin Trillin
Metastasis in Macedonia

"The project of Greater Serbia," I was once told by one of the many pessimistic intellectuals in Skopje, "has within it the incurable tumor of Greater Albania. And this cancer will metastasize in Macedonia." The "logic" of enclosing all contiguous minorities into one state, and mustering them all under one flag, was the essence of the Milosevic scheme until it brought destruction on itself. The urgent question now is whether the large Albanian populations living next to Albania in Kosovo and Macedonia have assimilated this lesson or have decided to try to improve on it.

Christopher Hitchens
The Heck With That Global Warming Stuff

Robert Scheer

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