The arrival of 2000 reminds us that life is short. Deadening routines
often squander our time, while evasions take unnecessary tolls in human
suffering. But much better possibilities remain.
Every day, a nationwide media barrage...
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22 December 1999
On Saturday, Dec. 18, Julia Hill, aka Butterfly, descended from her aerie in a redwood near Stafford, Calif., touching ground for the first time in two years. In the deal that brought Madame Butterfly back to terra firma, Hill agrees to...
15 December 1999
In June 1900, troops of the Western powers broke the Boxer siege of the embassies in Peking, looted the Empress Dowager's summer palace, and thus, destroyed for a time the valiant nationalist effort to halt colonial exploitation of China....
10 December 1999
When the World Trade Organization summit collapsed in Seattle, major
American news outlets seemed to go into shock. The failure to launch a new
round of global trade talks stunned many journalists who were accustomed to
covering...
08 December 1999
It's one of the marvels of the season that Bill Bradley has been able to muster to his cause such bankable liberal names as Senator Paul Wellstone, Prof. Cornel West, Robert Reich and the editor of The Nation, Katrina vanden Heuvel...
03 December 1999
It's a pro-democracy movement. And it's global.
The vibrant social forces that converged on Seattle -- and proceeded to deflate the WTO summit -- are complex, diverse and sometimes contradictory. Yet the threads of...
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