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February 5, 2001
The Comeback Kid

With a tongue-tied and TV-challenged president in the White House, Bill Clinton is poised to assume what could be a more powerful role: celebrity-in-chief.

December 20, 1999
Hell No, WTO!

Will we all look back on the Battle in Seattle as the first eruption of the anti-brand revolution, or was it just a nostalgic moment?

January 17, 2000
Mr. Shawn's Lost Tribe

The language and rituals and customs of the old 'New Yorker' are fast being forgotten. Renata Adler, with her first book in fifteen years, is the Last of the Mohicans.

August 2, 1999
Kennedy With Tears

John Kennedy seemed to be breaking the family mold. But in our grief, we are discovering what 40 years of public fascination with the Kennedy clan was really all about.

December 18, 2000
Gang of Four

While everyone was waiting for one of the candidates to do the right thing, the Bush black-bag operation stole the election. Does anybody care?

June 19, 2000
Use the Schmooze

Why is Al Gore media-challenged? Could it be that while he was trying to "make a difference," he never learned how to make a sale? The Democrats' pitch problem.

June 30, 2003
WMD, FCC & Tina

There’s a reason big media has given Bush a pass on weapons of mass destruction, but it has to do with a Powell other than Colin. Plus: I love Tina Brown (really!).

April 15, 2002
The Lifer

What could possibly have made biographer Robert Caro devote nearly three decades (and counting) to chronicling the life of LBJ? It's all about his -- and our -- addiction to power.

March 13, 2000
Bond Trading

At TED, the new-media version of a Mafia wedding, you rub elbows with the dons and capos of the Internet world and become an instant member of the family.

March 17, 2003
Oh, Get Real!

Put a couple of middlebrow programming execs in a dumbed-down, all-reality-all-the-time network television environment, and does hilarity ensue? Just ask Jeff Zucker and Susan Lyne.

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