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1. Letters

   Letters

   Published: December 25, 2001

   . . . HAM-HANDED The viciousness and inappropriateness of James Hannaham's review of Charles Mee's plays True Love and Big Love demand a response all the way from the Pacific...

2. NY Mirror

   21st-Century Blues

   This Year’s Been Pretty Rough. Got Resolutions?

   Coco McPherson

   Published: December 25, 2001

   LAURIE CHURBA Age 32 Resides Manhattan Occupation Costume designer Was 2001 your worst year ever? Oh, yes, definitely. The collision of events has brought everything to a...

3. Listings

   Listings

   Tricia Romano

   Published: December 25, 2001

   New Year's in New York is traditionally a very international affair, but this time around it's a little different. The WTC disaster seems to have rendered more than a few...

4. Listings

   Listings

   C. Spartos

   Published: December 25, 2001

   Froofy boutique bars and fancy-pants Euro wineries are so last year. So is shelling out big bucks just to get drunk. Like many of her fellow New Yorkers, Spartos trades...

5. Art

   Lord of the Lolitas

   Jerry Saltz

   Published: December 25, 2001

   Long live the mystic loners. Among them, Emily Dickinson and Henry Darger—two death-obsessed American homebodies, reclusive geniuses whose work was discovered...

6. Books

   The Reel Deal

   Francine Russo

   Published: December 25, 2001

   A decade before the symbolism of the World Trade Center doomed it to destruction, architect-author James Sanders began researching the idea of New York in a century of movies....

7. Books

   Dressed for Excess

   Joy Press

   Published: December 25, 2001

   The rest of America may believe Manhattan is the modern equivalent of Sodom and Gomorrah (all recent protestations of sympathy aside), but New Yorkers know better: They point...

8. Books

   Back To Plastics

   R.C. Baker

   Published: December 25, 2001

   Jack Cole was a masterful comic book artist who helped define the golden age of his art form. In the early '40s he looked at sideshow freaks and a new wonder material that was...

9. Nation

   Gang-Rape Capital of the World

   Showing Bush the Face of Terror

   Nat Hentoff

   Published: December 25, 2001

   My administration will continue to speak and act for as long as the persecution and atrocities in the Sudan last. —George W. Bush, speaking before the American Jewish...

10. CityState

    Spying Behind the Shield

    NYPD 'Deep Throat' Alerted Black Cops to Surveillance

    Ginger Adams Otis

    Published: December 25, 2001

    An organization that represents black police officers announced a federal lawsuit against new york city earlier this month, claiming the new york police department secretly and...

11. Sports

    Sports

    Published: December 25, 2001

    OFF-COLOR REMARKS Nearly 20 years after Howard Cosell infamously referred to Redskins kick returner Alvin Garrett as "that little monkey," Monday Night Football is still the...

12. Sports

    Follow the Money

    You’ve Got Baseball Questions. We’ve Got Answers.

    Allen St. John

    Published: December 25, 2001

    Take away the John Rocker jokes, and this year's baseball winter meetings sounded more like a meeting of the G7 nations. Revenue streams. Budget gaps. Economic inequality. And...

13. Sports

    Lords of the Ring

    Mitch Abramson

    Published: December 25, 2001

    Usually, HBO is careful about airing boxing's dirty laundry, but with two mediocre boxers in Evander Holyfield and John Ruiz fighting for the WBA heavyweight title on December...

14. Features

    'Let Us Not Be Suckers for Anybody'

    Why People of All Colors Should (Still) Resist Racial Profiling

    Chisun Lee

    Published: December 25, 2001

    Only a sick few might have imagined invoking the name of Timothy McVeigh before September 11. Yet since that apocalyptic day, people the executed white rightist might have spat...

15. Features

    Wanted: A Protest Movement for Progressive Hawks

    Reviving Left Influence in a Time of Rampant Reaction

    Robert Christgau

    Published: December 25, 2001

    My most trusted ally thinks I shouldn't call us "hawks," and maybe she's right—it's catchy, but misleading. We're not hawks as that label was understood in the Vietnam...

16. Features

    A New Kind of Abortion War

    Stealth Pro-Life Campaign Erodes Reproductive Rights

    Sharon Lerner

    Published: December 25, 2001

    As they have been so often in the 28 years since Roe v. Wade, abortion rights supporters are once again on the defensive. This might seem strange, given that the most...

17. Nation

    Bob Kuttner’s ‘Prospect’

    How Not to Run a Liberal Magazine

    Cynthia Cotts

    Published: December 25, 2001

    After December 11, when The American Prospect axed senior editor Ana Marie Cox, the media gossip machine went into overdrive looking for a villain. Was Cox guilty of "not being...

18. Features

    Stop American Billions for Israeli Bombs

    Anti-Occupation Activists Question U.S. Aid

    Alisa Solomon

    Published: December 25, 2001

    There weren't any surprises in the foreign-aid bill Congress passed last week, least of all in the appropriation the U.S. handed Israel: more than 17 percent of the entire...

19. CityState

    The Other Ghosts of Ground Zero

    Unlike Other New York Landmarks, the Twin Towers Were Built on Landfill(ed) With Drama of the Past

    Sandy Yang

    Published: December 25, 2001

    Even after recovery workers at the World Trade Center site clear away the massive steel debris and uncover land on which new buildings and a memorial can be erected, we will...

20. Features

    Checking in for Waldorf Hysteria

    Free Traders and Fair Traders in Stalemate as CEOs Converge on New York

    Lenora Todaro

    Published: December 25, 2001

    When you enter the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel through the Park Avenue lobby, you step upon a 148,000-piece tile mosaic, "The Wheel of Life," which depicts the drama of human...