The Nation back issues from July 2000:
LETTERS.
Jul 03, 2000 ... PCBS FELL ON ALABAMA ... St. Louis * Nancy Beiles's "What Monsanto Knew" [May 29] presents a one-sided and very misleading version of issues relating to Monsanto's (now Solutia's) former polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) facility in Alabama. Apparently Beiles ...
David Horowitz's Long March.(former radical embraces the political right)
Jul 03, 2000; ... On October 19, 1959, Frederick Moore Jr., a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley, climbed the steps of Sproul Hall and began a hunger strike to protest the university's compulsory military-training requirement through ROTC. "I am a conscientious objector," Moore declared. "I ...
Washington's Costly Cuba Policy : US AID TO DISSIDENTS IS SEEN BY THE CASTRO GOVERNMENT AS FUNDING SUBVERSION.
Jul 03, 2000; ... The case of little Elian Gonzalez brought vividly into focus just how contradictory and counterproductive US policy toward Cuba really is. On the one hand, the United States does not want any more floods of undocumented Cubans arriving by small boat--as during the rafter crisis of 1994. So ...
Universal Childcare: It's Time -- CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT FOR A BOLD INITIATIVE. ADVOCATES MUST SEIZE THE MOMENT.
Jul 03, 2000; ... Once upon a time, childcare was stuck at the bottom of the national policy agenda. Times have changed. Welfare reform and state budget surpluses, as well as labor shortages, have transformed the political environment. Skilled workers are in short supply. The call is out: Moms, come back to ...
A Literature From Below.(conversation between Pierre Bourdieu and Gunter Grass)(Interview)
Jul 03, 2000; ... The role of the public intellectual--and the moral onus, assuming that one exists--seems ever to thread the Scylla of celebrity and the Charybdis of marginality. In a conversation printed in part simultaneously in the French daily Le Monde and German weekly Die Zeit, sociologist Pierre ...
Second-Wave Soundings.(Review)
Jul 03, 2000; ... <Pre> THE WORLD SPLIT OPEN: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America. By Ruth Rosen. Viking. 446 pp. $34.95. IN OUR TIME: Memoir of a Revolution. By Susan Brownmiller. Dial Press. 360 pp. $24.95. </Pre> The women's liberation movement, as it was called in the sixties and ...
A REAL LIFE DRAMA.(Poem)
Jul 03, 2000; ... <Pre>This dog standing in the middle of the street,tail stiff, fur bushy with fear, and a pedigree rabbit,its neck broken and bleeding beneath his paws,might have been forgiven or simply taken away and shot under different circumstancesand no one would have ...
Affirmative Retraction.(Review)
Jul 03, 2000; ... <Pre> CREATING EQUAL: My Fight Against Racial Preferences. By Ward Connerly. Encounter. 286 pp. $24.95. THE DEBT: What America Owes to Blacks. By Randall Robinson. Dutton. 262 pp. $23.95. </Pre> A century ago, as America made clear its retreat from the egalitarian gains of ...
Tea Time.(Review)
Jul 03, 2000; ... TIME REGAINED Everyone knows you can't film Remembrance of Things Past, so Raul Ruiz did it. With hindsight--the only kind worth having, as far as Proust is concerned--I now understand this act of effrontery and genius as the culmination of Ruiz's career. As if to ...
The Way the World Works.(Brief Article)
Jul 03, 2000; ... Beset by entirely convincing accusations from Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker that he is a war criminal (Iraq, class of '91), Gen. Barry McCaffrey reached out to human rights groups. David Shull, deputy general counsel and human rights officer at McCaffrey's Office of National Drug Control ...
Au Clair de la Lune.(childrearing in urban environments)(Brief Article)
Jul 03, 2000; ... The month of June always makes me wistful. School's out. A half-liberated, half-sad seasonal sensation settles over me, a feeling I associate with childhood and summer vacation. When I was growing up and the bell rang for the last time on the last day, children streamed out the schoolhouse ...
Independence: An Endangered Species?(online journalism)(Brief Article)
Jul 03, 2000; ... The hopes of many for the birth and sustenance of independent web journalism took a body blow recently when all 140 employees of the APBnews.com crime news site were let go with no warning, as the company's $27.1 million in start-up funds dissipated into a reported $7 million worth of ...
Campaign Money Morass.(Brief Article)
Jul 03, 2000 ... The waters--the foul, polluted, poisonous waters--are rising. Another election year, another flood of special-interest money inundates the political landscape. It's become mundane, perhaps a bit boring, to note each year the new spending records. But we can't let them pass unremarked ....
The Microsoft Breakup.
Jul 03, 2000; ... The pace of recent events made one of the most significant rulings in the history of American antitrust law seem like an anticlimax. The headline news that Microsoft will cease to exist as we have known it if the government has its way was thoroughly anticipated in the weeks of final ...
Bush's Abortion Flip-Flop?(candidate George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
Jul 03, 2000; ... Which current candidate for President reversed the abortion stand he espoused as a Congressional candidate in the seventies and adopted a position more acceptable to the mainstream of his party? If you said Al Gore, you may be only half right. George W. Bush appears to have done the same. ...
Mexico's Gringo-ized Vote.(upcoming presidential election)(Brief Article)
Jul 03, 2000; ... Mexico City Uncertainty is what's new in the July 2 Mexican presidential elections. For the first time in years, victory is not guaranteed for the presidential candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI); in fact, there is a good possibility that he will lose. ...
Oh, Say It Isn't So, Perot.(Poem)
Jul 03, 2000; ... <Pre>You really think you're going to go--Just take your dough and leave the...
Assad's Syria.(president Hafez Assad)(Brief Article)
Jul 03, 2000; ... Hafez al-Assad steered Syria out of the disorders that accompanied the end of colonialism in the Middle East and into an era of normalcy. He gave his country thirty years of stable rule. He also provided for his succession by his son Bashar, which so far has proceeded smoothly. By the ...
NATION NOTES.(Brief Article)
Jul 03, 2000 ... We congratulate Nation columnist Patricia Williams for her well-deserved MacArthur Foundation "genius" ...
LETTERS.
Jul 10, 2000 ... TAXING THE INTERNET Kalamazoo, Mich. * When did Peter Schrag become a Republican? His call to extend the sales tax to purchases on the Internet serves only those on the right side of the income gap ["loophole.com," May 15]. Sales taxes are regressive, hitting the ...
CORRECT WEB ADDRESS.(Correction Notice)
Jul 10, 2000 ... The correct address for Peace Action, mentioned in the sidebar "Getting ...
SEARCH AND DESTROY : GAY-BAITING IN THE MILITARY UNDER `DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'.
Jul 10, 2000; ... In the wake of Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy's high-profile sexual harassment case against another Army general (who himself had just been put in charge of investigating sexual harassment!), the mainstream media have given a substantial amount of coverage to the appalling rates of sexual ...
Revenge of the Girl Bands : THE DYKE MUSIC SCENE BLENDS FEMINIST VALUES AND 'DO IT YOURSELF' PUNK CULTURE.
Jul 10, 2000; ... At a moment when gay and lesbian politics can seem to be dominated by Millennium Marches and mainstream family values, the current dyke music scene offers a welcome alternative. Far from the frenzy of corporate sponsorship, girls with guitars are writing smart songs about sex, politics and ...
The Other Gay Media : URBAN NIGHTLIFE GUIDES GIVE NEW MEANING TO THE PHRASE 'LIFESTYLE JOURNALISM'.
Jul 10, 2000; ... AOL's buyout of Time Warner may have been this year's largest new media/old media merger, but in terms of sheer market consolidation, PlanetOut's purchase of Liberation Publications in late March was the most unabashedly triumphant. An Internet venture with more than $19 million in ...
The Vision Thing : WERE THE DC AND SEATTLE PROTESTS UNFOCUSED, OR ARE CRITICS MISSING THE POINT?
Jul 10, 2000; ... "This conference is not like other conferences." That's what all the speakers at "Re-Imagining Politics and Society" were told before we arrived at New York's Riverside Church. When we addressed the delegates (there were about 1,000, over three days in May), we were to try to ...
Summitry in Pyongyang : THE TWO KOREAS' UNITY EFFORT COULD END THE WORLD'S LONGEST-RUNNING CONFLICT. AT THE SAME TIME, IT WOULD DENY THE PENTAGON ONE OF ITS LAST, USEFUL DEMONS.
Jul 10, 2000; ... When Kim Dae Jung ended his historic pilgrimage to Pyongyang in mid-June by crossing back over the 38th parallel, it marked the first time that the leaders of South and North Korea had met in fifty-five years-ever since Dean Rusk first eyed that phantom line as a good place to divide Korea ...
Gato and Alex--No Safe Place -- GANGS AND STATE VIOLENCE: THE HUMAN STORY OF THE LOS ANGELES POLICE SCANDAL.
Jul 10, 2000; ... This is the story of Gato and Alex, two Salvadorans who as children became refugees from America's war in their homeland only to become rivals in America's gang war on the streets of Los Angeles. When these two homeboys finally turned their lives toward peace, there was no safe place for ...
Letter From Brazil.(squatters build own neighbourhoods)
Jul 10, 2000; ... Rio de Janeiro How's this for a progressive pipe dream? A self-governing, low-income neighborhood where the buildings are constructed communally. Where the houses are structurally sound-most made from concrete and brick. Where residents visualize the homes they desire-and then ...
The Devil and Mr. Hearst.(Review)
Jul 10, 2000; ... <Pre> THE CHIEF: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. By David Nasaw. Houghton Mifflin. 687 pp. $35. </Pre> William Randolph Hearst is one of those people we all know was very, very famous but are never quite sure why, or what we are to think of him. We know he built a huge ...
The Devil in Mr. Marx.(Review)
Jul 10, 2000; ... Karl Marx: A Life. By Francis Wheen. Norton. 431 pp. $27.95. At a quarter to 3 in the afternoon on March 14, 1883, one of the world's brainiest men, Karl Marx, ceased to think. He passed away peacefully in his favorite armchair. Three days later, a few miles up the road, the man ...
African Heart, No Darkness.(Review)
Jul 10, 2000; ... Home and Exile. By Chinua Achebe. Oxford. 110 pp. $20. A revealing question: Why has V.S. Naipaul come to be much better known in the West than the great African writer Chinua Achebe? The two men are virtually the same age; Achebe turns 70 this year, Naipaul is two years ...
Back Again.(Poem)
Jul 10, 2000; ... <Pre> The wormy apple tree we chainsawed to a stump is not content to be a barren amputee. It has produced a clump of rank and spindly shoots, a thicket still unthinned, each one a ...
Freedom Song.(Ornette Coleman interviewed)(Interview)
Jul 10, 2000; ... Ornette Coleman * summer cds The voice on the other end of the phone, answering from a Harlem rehearsal studio, considers your standard-format interview question ("You haven't played New York much for decades, have you?") and quips, "That's a sixty-year-old conversation. Are ...
Columbo This Isn't.(Dumont, Bruno)(Review)
Jul 10, 2000; ... HUMANITE The first thing I need to explain about Bruno Dumont's Humanite shouldn't have to be said at all. It's that the film is not a whodunit. Granted, the opening sequence reveals that a crime has been committed-a particularly revolting crime, a worst-case scenario. What's ...
Black November?(commentary on National Commission on Terrorism's recent report)(Brief Article)
Jul 10, 2000; ... It was with an almost nostalgic feeling that I opened the report of the National Commission on Terrorism, presented to Congress the week before Mehmet Al Agca was repatriated from Italy to Turkey. Perhaps you remember those heady days of the eighties, when "terrorism" was in every headline ...
The Moral Property of Women.(abortion drug mifepristone to be regulated; this seen as political)(Brief Article)
Jul 10, 2000; ... Since 1988, when it became available in France, American women have been waiting for mifepristone. Also known as RU-486 ("the French abortion pill"), it was supposed to be the medical end run around the anti-choice movement-"the little white bombshell," as the New York Times Magazine ...
Health & Wealth.(links between poverty and ill-health and inequality and ill-health)(Brief Article)
Jul 10, 2000; ... Hard to say whether wisdom is part of the package, but there's no question that health and wealth-or the lack of both-go together. Poorer people are more likely to be sick than richer ones; and people who live in poor countries are likely to die sooner than those who live in rich ones ....
Give Us a Real Debate.(Ralph Nader files lawsuit against)(Commission on Presidential Debates charging that it is illegal supported by corporate donations)
Jul 10, 2000 ... The pernicious influence on politics of corporate money isn't confined to donations to candidates and parties. Big Business also influences the most important event in a presidential campaign: the debates. The major-party producers of this quadrennial infomercial and their corporate ...
Sense and Secrecy.(panic over national security seen to have political overtones.)(Brief Article)
Jul 10, 2000 ... One of the most alarming currents this election year is a national security panic serving several overlapping interests. It began more than a year ago with grossly inflated claims of Chinese spying contained in a Congressional committee report that was pumped up by conservative Republicans ...
Zimbabwe: Land & Votes.(Land use key issue in parliamentary elections)(Brief Article)
Jul 10, 2000; ... Zimbabwe's parliamentary election in late June is about two issues: the governance question and the land question. From the point of view of governance, President Robert Mugabe is simply the latest liberation hero turned despot, yet another example of the failure of successful nationalism ...
BLAIR CLARK.(Late editor of The Nation eulogized)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Jul 10, 2000 ... Since it was Blair Clark who in 1977 helped persuade Nation publisher James Storrow Jr. that the Fish-Navasky team (Hamilton Fish as publisher and Victor Navasky as editor) would make a worthy successor to the Storrow-Clark team, and it was Blair Clark who in 1980 gave a top reference to ...
Cleansing Serbs in Kosovo.(Kosovo Protection Corps violently attacks Serbs and other minorities while being funded by the UN.)(Brief Article)
Jul 10, 2000; ... In early June, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan told the Security Council that violent attacks by Kosovo Albanians against Serbs and other minorities "appear to be part of an orchestrated campaign." The Secretary General did not say who exactly is orchestrating this campaign ....
THE SUCCESSION IN SYRIA.(Brief Article)
Jul 10, 2000; ... The nod goes to Bashar Assad. Compared to his dad he's quite mod. There's hope ...
STARC CONVERGES.(Student Alliance to Reform Corporations holds conference.)(Brief Article)
Jul 10, 2000 ... Jane Spencer writes: Perhaps the clearest evidence of new energy in the student protest movement was the wake-up hour at the STARC (Student Alliance to Reform Corporations) National Convergence meeting in early June. Breakfast (socially responsible vegan bread, soybean margarine, organic ...
A SCALIA-THOMAS COURT?(Brief Article)
Jul 10, 2000 ... Although George W. Bush has said he won't impose an abortion-rights litmus test on his Supreme Court nominations, he has also said how much he admires Justices like Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia. For an informed speculation on what a Supreme Court packed with Scalia-Thomas clones ...
BUSH'S SOCIAL SECURITY CUTS.(Brief Article)
Jul 10, 2000 ... As Al Gore and George Bush unveil dueling Social Security programs, here's a reality check. The Campaign for America's Future, a public interest group in Washington, recently publicized a critique of Bush's privatization plan by four economists, who concluded he's got a nice surprise for ...
NEWS OF THE WEAK IN REVIEW.(State Department dedsignates "rogue nations" as "states of concern";)(Jane Fonda regrets posing for 1972 photo with N. Vietnamese.)(Brief Article)
Jul 10, 2000 ... * The State Department announced it has retired the swashbuckling epithet "rogue nation," which was applied to North Korea, Iran, Libya and other US-designated pariahs, in favor of the phrase "states of concern." The department now believes those benighted lands are in recovery based on ...
Letters.
Jul 17, 2000 ... STUDENTS FIGHTING SWEATSHOPS Washington, D.C. * Liza Featherstone's May 15 "The New Student Movement" depicts growing student activism geared toward ending "sweatshop" conditions in the developing world. What Featherstone does not address, however, is what defines a ...
CORRECTIONS.
Jul 17, 2000 ... In "Campaign Money Morass" [July 3], our description of 527 "stealth PAC" contributions was incorrect. They are not ...
ON THE ROAD WITH RALPH NADER.(Green Party leader runs for President)
Jul 17, 2000; ... On a spectacular spring day at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, about 1,500 college kids are sitting by the lake outside the student union, drinking beer, listening to bands and waiting for Ralph Nader to show up and explain why he's running as the Green Party candidate for President ...
Nader: A Personal View -- AS HIS SUPPORT GROWS, SO WILL HIS EFFECT ON POLITICIANS SEEKING TO STAY IN POWER.
Jul 17, 2000; ... This is one of a series of commentaries about presidential politics that will appear between now and the November elections. --The Editors The Ralph Nader running for President this year is quite a different person from the driven crusader whom I first met as a young ...
Arizona: The New Border War -- THE LATEST FLASH POINT PITS ANGRY RESIDENTS AGAINST DESPERATE MEXICAN JOB-SEEKERS. IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS, MEANWHILE, BUSY THEMSELVES WITH BODY COUNTS.
Jul 17, 2000; ... Douglas, Arizona It's near dusk when Larry Vance's big Dodge Ram pickup rolls into the K-Mart parking lot on the edge of this gritty southeastern Arizona border town. And Vance is as hot as his rumbling diesel engine. "They poisoned my dogs last night," he says, seething ....
The New World Order (They Mean It).(Review)
Jul 17, 2000; ... <Pre> EMPIRE. By Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Harvard. 478 pp. $35. </Pre> The United States never held a large number of direct colonies, a fact that has prompted many political leaders to declare it the great exception to colonialism. Yet the Monroe Doctrine was for a century ...
George Smiley, Move Over.(Review)
Jul 17, 2000; ... HARRY GOLD: A NOVEL. By Millicent Dillon. Overlook Press. 280 pp. $26.95. "This is a story about a spy," writes Millicent Dillon in Harry Gold: A Novel. "And a spy, by definition, lies." On the book's jacket someone at Overlook Press added, "Eschewing the confines of ...
MoMA: What's in a Name?(Museum of Modern Art)
Jul 17, 2000; ... "Making Choices" at MoMA[*] Beneath the dazzle of individual exhibitions with which it is celebrating the year 2000, the Museum of Modern Art is setting in place a philosophy of Modernism that will define its agenda for the century just begun. MoMA has divided the history of ...
Smart and Smarter.(Review)
Jul 17, 2000; ... ME, MYSELF & IRENE[*] CHICKEN RUN In Me, Myself & Irene, Jim Carrey bullies a series of small children, gets into senseless fights (on the grounds that "he started it") and reverts hungrily to breast-feeding. This is how he behaves as a tough guy. As a mild-mannered ...
NURSES HEALTHCARE Rx.(California Nurses Association breaks ties with the American Nurses Association)(Brief Article)
Jul 17, 2000; ... "When corporations took over healthcare, nurses had to make a choice between the bottom line and the patients. Other groups tried to straddle the issue. We took the side of the patients and started to fight," says Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the California Nurses Association ....
SPREADING THE CNA STORY.(new nursing associations being formed)(Brief Article)
Jul 17, 2000; ... CNA's militant approach has attracted attention nationally. "Nurses around the country started writing, calling, e-mailing, saying, 'Please, please, can't CNA represent us?'" recalls DeMoro. "Then they started showing up at our door ...." When a delegation of Pennsylvania nurses arrived ...
MONTANA MUCKRAKER.(running for Public Service Commission seat)(Brief Article)
Jul 17, 2000; ... During two decades of digging into energy and utility issues in Western states, Pat Dawson says he was often asked, "When are you going to run for office?" He generally answered, "They're not ready for me yet." After Montana legislators approved a utility-deregulation scheme that favored ...
SOPRANO'S RADICAL TUNE.(Steve Van Zandts' political activity)(Brief Article)
Jul 17, 2000; ... Police group complaints about Bruce Springsteen's new song "American Skin (41 Shots)"--which, like Public Enemy's "41:19," deals with the death of Amadou Diallo at the hands of New York City cops--made E Street Band shows at Madison Square Garden politically charged events. But singing the ...
INDEPENDENCE DAYS.(demonstrations against the drug industry)(Brief Article)
Jul 17, 2000; ... The Missouri Progressive Vote Coalition affiliated with the USAction organization in June, bringing to twenty-three the number of states in which the group has linked up grassroots labor, farm and citizen coalitions. State and local groups allied with USAction, Families USA, Public ...
Al Gore's Teapot Dome.(Occidental Petroleum acquires large portion of Elk HIlls)(Brief Article)
Jul 17, 2000; ... Al Gore succeeded where the Administration of Warren Harding failed. He privatized Elk Hills, the huge oilfield outside Bakersfield, California, set aside long ago as a strategic reserve for the Navy. Back in the Harding days, Interior Secretary Albert Fall went to jail for taking a ...
Dust and Destiny.(ethics of genetic engineering)(Brief Article)
Jul 17, 2000; ... There is a wonderful tale in Natalie Babbitt's collection The Devil's Storybook. Once upon a time, a very bad man died and went to hell, where he fit in very well indeed. Up in the world, his wife placed the vessel of his ashes upon the mantelpiece, where they sat until the housemaid ...
Rock & Roll Fantasies.(Bruce Springsteen's song "American skin" draws complaints)(Brief Article)
Jul 17, 2000; ... <Pre>It ain't no secretThe secret my friendYou can get killed just for living in your American skin --Bruce Springsteen, "American Skin (41 Shots)" </Pre> It is a depressing rule for students of American political discourse that the more one happens to know about ...
Miranda Rights Reread.(Supreme Court upholds Miranda)(Brief Article)
Jul 17, 2000 ... It is impossible to overstate the importance--politically and legally--of the Supreme Court's recent 7-to-2 reaffirmation of its 1966 ruling in Miranda v. Arizona. The original Miranda case established clear rules governing confessions and, equally important, empowered the federal courts ...