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March 28, 2005
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Feature
Hip-Hop Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Though promoted as an antiracist event, the rally lamented the state of the corporate music industry generally.
Mark Hatch-Miller
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GIs Against Torture
Low-ranking soldiers are taking the blame in the torture scandal while higher-ups get a pass.
John Sifton
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Race to the Bottom
Wal-Mart hopes to defeat its opponents by exploiting their racial divisions.
Liza Featherstone
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Editorial
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From the Publisher
Masthead watchers will note that with this issue I have dropped the editorial director half of my title. This change is recognition of a happy reality.
The Nation
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In the Park With Christo
From everywhere people flocked to New York City to experience the extraordinary installation in Central Park by the environmental artists Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude.
Roberta Brandes Gratz and Stephen A. Goldsmith
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Darfur and Development
The recent United Nations Commission of Inquiry’s report on Darfur may be right or wrong in claiming that the atrocities committed in the region do not amount to genocide.
Fatin Abbas
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Cedar or Sapling?
Ever since a massive bomb killed former prime minister Rafik Hariri on February 14, downtown Beirut has evolved into a solemn carnival, halfway between a wake and a rave.
Annia Ciezadlo
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Democracy’s Dilemmas
In what is being called the “cedar revolution,” demonstrators in Beirut brought down the pro-Syrian government at the end of February and forced Damascus to announce the withdrawal of its 14,00
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Column
The Bankruptcy Bill: A Tutorial in Greed
Lesson No. 1: Campaign cash is worth more than family values.
Robert Scheer
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On the Secret ‘Rendition’ of Terror Suspects to Countries Known to Use Torture
As Jesus said to render unto Caesar
A portion of thy grain or of thy stock,
Our policy’s to render unto Caesar
In hopes that he’ll apply electric shock.
Calvin Trillin
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Can Democracy Survive Bush’s Embrace?
It started off as a joke and has now become vaguely serious: the idea that Bono might be named president of the World Bank.
Naomi Klein
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Anti-Semite? Self-Hating Jew? Moi?
That the Boston Globe is a great newspaper can be in no doubt, as its brave (though flawed) reporting on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has recently demonstrated.
Eric Alterman
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Grim Fairy Tales
It seemed too bizarre to be anything but apocryphal, but, hey, I heard it on NPR: William Poole, a high school junior from Kentucky, was taken into custody and charged with threatening to commit
Patricia J. Williams
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Books & the Arts
In the Park With Christo
From everywhere people flocked to New York City to experience the extraordinary installation in Central Park by the environmental artists Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude.
Roberta Brandes Gratz and Stephen A. Goldsmith
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Fear and Loathing in Italy
Nineteen sixty-eight came early to Italy–it began with student protests at the University of Trento in 1967–and lasted longer, arguably, than anywhere else.
Frederika Randall
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Jews Without Borders
Although revered in certain circles as something close to holy writ, Edward W.
Daniel Lazare
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