Cover of December 25, 2000 Issue

Editorial

Middle East Divide

Jerusalem

One of the many casualties of the Palestinian intifada in the occupied territories, now entering its third month, is the allian...

Marital Color Line

On November 7, voters in Alabama erased from that state's Constitution a provision dating from 1901 that declared that "the legislature shall never pass any law to authorize o...

In Fact…

PINOCHET NABBED

Any last hope former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet may have harbored that history would judge him kindly was dashed recently when a Santiago judge formally...

Wanted: Three Electors

Let the chattering classes focus on chads and undervotes and Florida recounts and what the courts--state and federal, all the way up to the Supreme Court--would or wouldn't do...

Daniel Singer

Death came as a release for Daniel Singer on December 2, but we feel like protesting its rude intrusion.

The Unscanned Majority

Amid all the partisan sniping, talking-head screeching and judicial decisions, there are two indisputable facts that go far toward explaining the true tragedy of the Florida r...

No Finality Without Fairness

The US Supreme Court's stunning 5-4 stay Saturday of the Florida undervote count--less than 24 hours after the equally stunning Florida Supreme Court decision ordering that s...

Gore’s Supreme Challenge

If I had been so bold as to have wagered that Al Gore would succeed in the latest Supreme Court round, I would have quickly called my bookie this morning after breakfasting in ...

Column

The Beat

BEYOND SEATTLE The one-year anniversary of the "Battle in Seattle" saw embattled World Trade Organization chief Michael Moore peddling the argument that the WTO had weathered the s...

Greens, Fears and Dollars

They'd rather die than admit it, but environmental organizations thrive on disaster. They remember well enough what happened when Ronald Reagan installed James Watt as Secreta...

Letters

Feature

Books & the Arts

Keepers of the Word

O Marvel, that one can give to another what one does not possess. O Miracle of our empty hands.
      --George Bernanos,
Diary of a...

In Our Orbit

STILL LOSING RUSSIA

"As a result of the Yeltsin era, all the fundamental sectors of our state, economic, cultural and moral life have been destroyed o...

Korea’s Fallout

On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the so-called forgotten war was finally remembered. With the Associated Press's Pulitzer Prize-winning "revelation" a year ago tha...

Long Playwright’s Journey

You've got to understand what Sam Shepard meant to us.

There are those who know Shepard as a movie star and those who discovered him, earlier on, when he won the...

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