March 21, 2005 Issue
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Features
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The Outsider
Write-in candidate Donna Frye was the moral winner in San Diego's mayoral race.
Abby Aguirre
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Porto Alegre Postcard
This year's World Social Forum gave culture its due--and reaped the rewards.
Alisa Solomon
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Going Nowhere
In May 2003 the centrist Democratic Leadership Council published its yearly list of "100 New Democrats to Watch." The DLC frequently puts out these lists as a way to publicly solidify its identif
Ari Berman
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Editorials
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Time to End Recidivism
What about the 178 women who will be released from US prisons every day of the year?
Richard M. Aborn
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Letter From Ground Zero
One of the most difficult things to judge in the world today is the extent of American power.
Jonathan Schell
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Hunter S. Thompson
He said he wanted his ashes shot out of a cannon. "A great funeral" was what he wanted, he told his son. Then he walked into the kitchen and shot himself dead in the head.
Warren Hinckle
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Filibustering the Truth
For more on judicial nominations, see Garrett Epps's "Judicial Jeopardy: Questions for Nominees."
Judd Legum and Christy Harvey
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Accounting for Torture
As an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, David Cole represents Maher Arar and Ahmed Abu Ali in their civil cases against the government.
David Cole
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Too Young to Die
The immediate outcome of the Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision in Roper v.
the Editors
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Columns
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The Cheese Stands Alone
Beijing Plus 10, the follow-up on the momentous 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, is opening at the United Nations as I write, and like other UN gatherings since George W.
Katha Pollitt
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Dr. Arnold’s Diet: Take a Steroid, Kick a Woman
Back in the early 1990s, the right-wing taste of the year was Newt Gingrich. He led the Republican sweep into Congress in the 1994 midterm elections.
Alexander Cockburn
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On the Risk of Having a Notoriously Foul-Mouthed Comedian Host the Oscars
Though having Rock, some said, was plain insane, he
Eschewed the sort of language used by Cheney.Calvin Trillin
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Books and the Arts
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Rock the Casbah
What might it mean to call a film indispensable? Perhaps not much. At base level, we'd merely be asserting that other films (maybe the vast majority) are candidates for the garbage heap.
Stuart Klawans
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American Graffiti
In the works that made him famous, Jasper Johns realized an ancient dream by painting things that overcame the distinction between reality and representation--numerals, for example, or targets.
Arthur C. Danto
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Porto Alegre Postcard
This year's World Social Forum gave culture its due--and reaped the rewards.
Alisa Solomon
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On the Risk of Having a Notoriously Foul-Mouthed Comedian Host the Oscars
Though having Rock, some said, was plain insane, he
Eschewed the sort of language used by Cheney.Calvin Trillin
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