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The eleventh floor of the federal building in Newark is not a place anyone visits by choice. The air-conditioning is always either too cold or not cold enough.

When immigrant janitors in Boston went on strike this fall, they attracted some unlikely allies.

Iraq’s decision to accept the United Nations Security Council resolution, passed unanimously on November 8, sets in motion a tightly scripted plan for UN arms inspectors to return to Iraq.

In defeat, Democrats have convened their perennial circular firing squad, issuing salvos of what Groucho Marx used to call departee–what they should have said.

President Bush, a scion of great wealth who has never had to earn an honest living, has abruptly wiped out the jobs, retirement security and health benefits of 850,000 blue- and white-collar

Well, the elephant is out of the barn now. Congress is lost and whither Congress, so will go the courts.

Do we have an antiwar movement? We’re getting there.

The talk of war has done its job.
Rove’s hopes were far exceeded.
So maybe, with the voting done,
The war itself’s not needed.

Nature versus nurture was always too simple a formulation. Now, we ask: Is it chance, choice, family, culture, hormones or genes that determine who we are and whom we love?

Gioconda Belli–poet, novelist, society belle reborn as Sandinista comrade–has written a memoir of the Nicaraguan struggle that reads like a romance–a romance with politics and revolution, ce