September 27, 1999 Issue
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Features
A Haunted Journey
After the war life will begin to stir once again, but we won't be here, we will have vanished just as the Aztecs have vanished.
Daniel Singer
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Students for Sale
Research support was provided by the Open Society Institute and the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.
Steven Manning
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Editorials
US Complicity in Timor
While the Indonesian military's thugs continue their rampage in East Timor, most foreign reporters have fled the country.
Allan Nairn
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East Timor’s Agony
With Dili burning and anti-independence militias carrying on a murderous terror campaign beneath the noses of Indonesian soldiers and police, the United Nations prepared to evacuate its East Tim
the Editors
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Columns
On the Possibility That Pat Buchanan Will Run as a Third-Party Candidate
Buchanan hints he's leaving.
The GOP says, "Stay!"
They fear that he'd be draining
The wacko vote away.Calvin Trillin
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Little Limbaughs and the Fire Next Time
Residents of Skaneateles, New York, complained to visiting reporters about the Clintons' decision to make themselves relatively scarce on their recent vacation.
Eric Alterman
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Books and the Arts
Behind the Blue Helmets
The new US envoy to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke, has personal experience of how frustrating it can be to negotiate, even when speaking in the name of that mega-cliché, "the world
Ian Williams
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Candid in Camera
It all began in the heat of the summer of 1940. Hitler was at his peak in Europe. France had been defeated.
Gore Vidal
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War of the Worlds
When a boy comes of age in a movie made by Francophones, he's generally obliged to visit a brothel.
Stuart Klawans
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