February 21, 2000 Issue

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Features

Medical Rebels

Research support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.

Katherine Eban Finkelstein
The Pinochet Principle

The arrest of Augusto Pinochet in England more than a year ago stunned the world and emboldened those seeking to bring dictators and war criminals to justice.

Roane Carey

Columns

Orrin Hatch Ends Whatever It Was

The Orrin Hatch campaign is done--
Kaput at last, without a doubt.
And now, perhaps, could someone please
Explain what that was all about?

Calvin Trillin
Justice for Bernard Baran

On January 30, 1985, 19-year-old Bernard Baran was convicted of molesting five 3-, 4- and 5-year-old boys and girls at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) in Pittsfield, Massachusetts,

Katha Pollitt

Books and the Arts

The Original Valley Girl

Bette Midler got her first starring role in the movies in 1979, playing the lead in The Rose, a thinly disguised biopic about Janis Joplin.

Stuart Klawans
Bobby, He Hardly Knew Ye

Robert Scheer was the last journalist to interview Robert Kennedy.

Robert Scheer
Sweating Out the Words

CLARIFICATION: A sidebar to Debbie Nathan's February 21 "Sweating Out the Words," about The New Yorker's literary contest and the publishing and informatics industries (converting information to digital form), mentioned a company, netLibrary, and suggested that workers involved in hours' worth of work in its sites in China, India and the Philippines were "ruining their wrists and eyes in the process." netLibrary tells us that it requires letters of attestation and proof of working conditions from vendors it works with, requiring standards applicable in the United States. Neither Nathan nor The Nation visited netLibrary's vendor sites. Further, The Nation has no specific knowledge of poor conditions or injury to any of netLibrary's workers.

Debbie Nathan
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