News and Profits News and Profits
Jay T. Harris resigned March 19 as publisher of the San Jose Mercury News, saying he was unwilling to make staff cuts necessary to meet the profit goals of Knight Ridder, the pape...
May 10, 2001 / Editorial / Jay T. Harris
Dioxin: Studied to Death Dioxin: Studied to Death
Industry has been doing all it can to keep an EPA report from being published.
May 10, 2001 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard
Leave No Child Behind? Leave No Child Behind?
I scanned all the cheap effusions that followed the Bob Kerrey disclosures, looking for just one mention of just one name. Ron Ridenhour. Ron was the GI who got wind of the My La...
May 10, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
In Fact… In Fact…
BUSH'S CHILDPROOF BUDGET George W. Bush pledges to "leave no child behind" even as he touts his tax cut as coming from "the surplus funds" left "after we've met our needs." But ...
May 10, 2001 / Editorial / The Editors
Bush’s Antichoice Assault Bush’s Antichoice Assault
In many respects, the recent meeting in Chicago of the National Abortion Federation (NAF), the major professional association of abortion providers in North America, looked like a...
May 10, 2001 / Editorial / Carole Joffe
The Marriage of Orpheus The Marriage of Orpheus
Something brushed my cheek with damp-- a leaf, its little valley slick with run-off after rain. One last drop shook loose and struck a spider web, which shuddered but held o...
May 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Debora Greger
Is GE Mightier Than the Hudson? Is GE Mightier Than the Hudson?
Unwilling to pay for a PCB cleanup, it argues that nature can do the job.
May 10, 2001 / Feature / Richard Pollak
Happy Mother’s Day Happy Mother’s Day
When we left that old journalistic evergreen, the evils of daycare, two weeks ago, the media hysteria over the NICHD study had just about peaked. The researchers had begun to tur...
May 10, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Literature’s Candida Literature’s Candida
One recent Tuesday, members of the literary old guard gathered at the Church of All Souls on Manhattan's Upper East Side to bid final farewell to one of their secret society and t...
May 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Dan Simon
Indecent Proposals Indecent Proposals
When the guy I'm seeing, Dan, invited me to the Wayne Wang film The Center of the World I felt sure it would lead to a hot night. The movie poster featured a stripper licking a lo...
May 10, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Amy Sohn