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Feature
Public Citizen No.1
CORRECTION (from the Dec. 27 issue): In Micah L. Sifry’s “Public Citizen No. 1” [Dec. 20], Carl Mayer, although he is among those urging Nader to run, was incorrectly identified as a member of the Draft Nader Committee. Also, the town of Amherst is in Wisconsin, not Michigan.
A version of this article also appeared in Salon magazine.Micah L. Sifry
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Editorial
Street Fight in Seattle
After the Battle in Seattle one thing is certain: The next WTO confab will be held somewhere like Singapore or Jakarta.
Marc Cooper
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Ulster Says Maybe
Ireland’s struggle to extricate itself from the British Empire contributed early and disproportionately to the political vocabulary of the twentieth century: colonial domination and guerrilla res
The Editors
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Column
Blowjobs and Snow Jobs
If the sixties were the age of the war reporter and the seventies the age of the investigative reporter, then the late nineties may go down in history as the age of the blowjob reporter.
Eric Alterman
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One Problem of Bradley’s Candidacy Solved
The last remaining superpower
Might get a leader who would tower
Above a smallish premier of Japan.
The Third World wouldn’t be euphoricCalvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
Back to Beginnings
Cheick Oumar Sissoko, who lives and works in Mali, has looked around and noticed that his fellow filmmakers in sub-Saharan Africa are few–“and due to our financial need (great with regard to our
Stuart Klawans
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Algren’s Question
He would hang his coat neatly over the back of his chair in the leaden station-house twilight, say he was beat from lack of sleep and lay his head across his arms upon the query-roo
Dan Simon
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Stop-Time in the Levant
It is remarkable to what extent almost anything having to do with the Middle East in this country–be it political, cultural, historical or even personal–is permeated by the triumphalist vision
Ammiel Alcalay
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