The man standing next to me outside New York’s Brooklyn Museum of Art holds a PhD in English literature and a plastic, retractable light saber. He’s been standing here for an hour with his eight- and six-year-old children (a young Darth and Amidala), and in the last five minutes, he’s asked his masked son three […]
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Hitting Home
A leathery woman with a darkening black eye smokes cigarettes through the spaces of her missing front teeth and tells the police how her boyfriend slapped and bit her because he didn’t like her grandchildren. Another woman tells a counselor at a shelter that she’s tried to leave her husband 15 times in the two […]
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The Bidness of Voting
Colin Goldman is trying very hard to break the law. But it hasn’t been easy. In the months leading up to the election, Goldman, a libertarian candidate for the California assembly, has been running an election sweepstakes. He promises a $1,000-cash prize to one lucky winner to be chosen from those who sign up on […]
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Freezing For The Cause
Chris Hansen-Nelson’s gray hair stands out in this crowd. Out of the six hundred or so Bill Bradley volunteers staying at the Nashua Boys and Girls club tonight, there are only a handful of veteran campaigners. Nelson came of age in 1972, the first year in which 18-year-olds were allowed to vote. “We were all […]
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Frontiers of Free Marketing
After Sony Pictures admitted this June that its marketers had invented a film critic, other movie studios came clean with similar chicanery, such as placing paid workers in commercials and “suggesting” quotations to journalists. But in an age when the Internet has opened whole new worlds to marketing and public relations–realms yet unbound by clear […]
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After the Taliban
Asia | Europe and Russia | Middle East and Africa | The Americas The World Responds Column Archive Asia The U.S. Coalition Against Terror: Who’s On The Short List? As Allied troops and the Northern Alliance chip away at Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan, journalists throughout the world struggle to keep in step with the hourly […]
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Opportunity and Danger
Asia | Europe and Russia | Middle East and Africa | Australia | The Americas The World Responds Column Archive Asia Afghan Uncertainty On the day after opposition forces took over cities in Northern Afghanistan, the Afghan on-line news agency Afgha.com ran an article entitled “Why the Taliban Collapsed So Quickly,” by Anthony H. Cordesman […]