Notes From a Latin Lover Notes From a Latin Lover
Civil wars do not start overnight. You do not simply wake up one morning in what has been a peaceful country only to discover organized armed forces trying to destroy each other. ...
Jun 14, 2001 / Books & the Arts / James North
Yale Bites Unions Yale Bites Unions
For God, country and the ruling class.
Jun 14, 2001 / Feature / Kim Phillips-Fein
Post-Jeffords Slippery Slope in the Senate Post-Jeffords Slippery Slope in the Senate
If Georgia's Miller did decide
He's really on the other side,
The Democrats might then connive
To make Strom prove he's still alive.
Jun 14, 2001 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Renaissance Men, by the Letter Renaissance Men, by the Letter
"I want to know everything, everything...and I'm going to. I want to visit the theatre and the opera and the art galleries. I want to meet people. I want to learn...." The words a...
Jun 14, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Paul Gardner
Star Wars Foes Hit DC Star Wars Foes Hit DC
The two sisters from the Our Lady of Angels convent had driven down from Pennsylvania with a message for their Congressman: Say no to Star Wars. It was proving a tough sell.
Jun 13, 2001 / Feature / Matt Bivens
Letters Letters
...AND APPLE PIE Ravello, Italy Katha Pollitt's heart-wrenching "Happy Mother's Day" was, of course, a treat ["Subject to Debate," May 28]. But the crystalli...
Jun 7, 2001 / Alexander Cockburn, Gore Vidal, Ken Silverstein, Susan Sontag, Gila Svirsky, Tarek Milleron, Matthew Runci, Holly Burkhalter, and Nathaniel A. Raymond
Bush’s Tax Savings: Unreal! Bush’s Tax Savings: Unreal!
A Nation analysis finds that benefits to Bush, Cheney and the Cabinet could top million.
Jun 7, 2001 / Feature / Michael Scherer
The Dogmeteers The Dogmeteers
It's been six years since Dogme 95 nailed its ten-point "Vow of Chastity" to the door of world cinema. Lars von Trier's gang of four Danish film rebels flung an inkwell at the fat...
Jun 7, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo
Harvard’s ‘Fitting Choice’ Harvard’s ‘Fitting Choice’
On July 1 Larry Summers--the Wunderkind economist who ran the Treasury Department under President Clinton--takes over as president of Harvard University. "A fitting choice," edito...
Jun 7, 2001 / Matt Bivens