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Vol. 063 Issue 011 (November 1 1999)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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A Salute to the Valiant
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild A Salute to the Valiant It looks as though East Timor, at last, will be free, It’s been twenty-four years since the Indonesian military invaded that country...
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TROUBLETOWN
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Dangle, Lloyd
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Chomsky Strikes a Chord Noam Chomsky graciously acknowledged in his interview (David Barsamian, September issue) that the call to action on Iraq which he, Ed Herman, Edward Said, and Howard Zinn...
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A Muffled Trumpet
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Comment A Muffled Trumpet When Bill Clinton went before the United Nations on September 21, he sounded a muffled trumpet. Two days before, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan had urged the Security...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment The Power of Prayer Ban the Bong From a Time magazine article on Republican Presidential candidate Gary Bauer: “Calling for ‘Kingdom Impact Across Our Land,’ prayer partners are...
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ON THE LINE
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On The Line Students Take On School District Denver In the Denver public school system, some students are learning more outside of class than inside. While researching Nike’s exploitation of...
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Almost Out of Come-Outs
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Clinton, Kate
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Unplugged Kate Clinton Almost Out of Come-Outs You’ll be happy to know that October 11 was the Eleventh Annual National Coming Out Day. As a proudly observant lesbian, I participated once...
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Respecting the Holocaust
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Zinn, Howard
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It Seems to Me Howard Zinn Respecting the Holocaust Fifteen years ago, when I was teaching at Boston University, I was asked by a Jewish group to give a talk on the Holocaust. I spoke that...
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Scenes From East Timor
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Jardine, Matthew
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Scenes From East Timor By Matthew Jardine I left East Timor on September 4,1999, only hours after U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced the results of the historic balloting there. Despite...
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Oligopoly: The Big Media Game Has Fewer and Fewer Players
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Mcchesney, Robert W.
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Oligopoly Big Media Game Has Fewer and Fewer Players BY ROBERT W. McCHESNEY When Viacom announced its offer to gobble up CBS for $37 billion in September, it capped off a decade of unprecedented...
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Battered Women: A New Asylum Case
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Shelton, Anna
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Battered Women A New Asylum Case By Anna Shelton A battered immigrant from the Congo calls collect from a pay phone at the 300-bed detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She has been waiting...
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The Fatherhood Industry
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Davidoff, Judith
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The Fatherhood Industry Welfare Reformers Set Their Sights on Wayward Dads By Judith Davidoff As the sun sets low on the horizon, a herd of male elephants appears in silhouette. Birds swarm...
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Tillie Olsen
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Cusac, Anne-Marie
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The Progressive Interview Tillie Olsen ‘I haven’t published a lot of fiction. I haven’t published a lot of anything. But it does go on, it’s taught, anthologized. That’s very dear to me,...
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Ally Gets Jiggy
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McKissack, Fred
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In The Mix Fred McKissack Ally Gets Jiggy To mangle a line from Willie Nelson: Mommas, don’t let your kids grow up to be Ally McBeal. Fox’s Ally McBeal (Monday night slot)—winner of the...
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Things No One Knows
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Coleman, Wanda
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Poem Wanda Coleman Things No One Knows overcome by the stink of mildewed wash, i have been three months behind in my rent for thirty years, my countrymen do not love me. even my lines have lines,...
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BOOKS
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Books Fired, Fed-up, Discarded, and Scared Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan Faludi William Morrow & Company. 416 pages. $26.00. by Laura Flanders I had the luck this summer...
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Median Wage for Congress
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Ivins, Molly
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Small Favors Molly Ivins Median Wage for Congress It’s the money, stupid. The GOP budget would cut $1.8 billion out of federal research programs. Some of that research is in the technology...
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