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Lott Should Resign Lott Should Resign

Among the obscenities accumulating in the political atmosphere, the most disgusting may be Trent Lott.

Dec 12, 2002 / Editorial / The Editors

The Hungry Physician The Hungry Physician

It seemed like a straightforward invitation. Dinner at an upscale uptown restaurant, sponsored by a drug company, where the topic was to be financial planning.

Dec 12, 2002 / Editorial / Dr. Marc Siegel

Reasons for Doubt Reasons for Doubt

When I was in college, I joined a court-watching project in Roxbury, Massachusetts. We observed criminal trials, then interviewed judges, lawyers and witnesses.

Dec 12, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Where Were the Women? Where Were the Women?

Their support of Democrats declined in 2002, helping to sink the party's fortunes.

Dec 12, 2002 / Feature / Anna Greenberg

Censorship 101 Censorship 101

Annals of Higher Education: If recent events at Stanford and Harvard are any indication, the past decade's earnest debates over "political correctness" are over, replaced by ro...

Dec 5, 2002 / Editorial / Bruce Shapiro

As Miss World Turns As Miss World Turns

The war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women's bodies.

Dec 5, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Rawls and Us Rawls and Us

The late John Rawls was, by all accounts, a remarkably modest and generous person, much beloved by his friends and students, and profoundly uninterested in the kinds of fame an...

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Fixing the Rotten Corporate Barrel Fixing the Rotten Corporate Barrel

States grant corporate charters; they should start taking some of them away.

Dec 5, 2002 / Feature / John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander

Diary of the Bridget Joneses Diary of the Bridget Joneses

If single women have been told once, they've been told a thousand times: Don't think you're ever too successful or too young to have your ovaries shrivel up and die. Use 'em or...

Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ashley Nelson

Legal Victory for Airport Screeners Legal Victory for Airport Screeners

A federal judge hands nine workers an unexpected victory in their battle against a law requiring citizenship for all airport screeners.

Dec 3, 2002 / Feature / Michael Flaherty

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