The New York Times Magazine 1999 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
$140,000 - and a bargain: college tuition has increased significantly faster than inflation; but there actually are reasons. | | Matthew Miller |
A calcium-rich diet is the first line of defense.(a special advertising supplement: From Cause to Cure; osteoporosis) | | |
A canal runs through it: the Rothschilds enabled Britain to redraw the map of the world.(Best Land Deal) | | Ron Chernow |
A doll's house.(Barbie's dream homes)(Interiors) | | Lisa Zeiger |
A farmhouse isn't always a red-barn affair.(family home in India)(The Human Habitat)(Cover Story) | | Celia W. Dugger |
A field guide to the sixth extinction.(animals and plants that will not survive until the year 3000) | | Niles Eldredge |
Against irony.(young author sees cynicism as a scourge) | | Marshall Sella |
A game boy in the cross hairs.(co-creater of Doom and Quake computer games John Romero) | | Paul Keegan |
A joy ride with Ralph Nader: the car industry's fiercest critic is taken for a spin in the most expensive S.U.V. ever made.(Mercedes-Benz Gelaendewagen)(includes related information on other high-priced sport utility vehicles)(Illustration) | | Jeffrey Goldberg, James G. Cobb |
A league of his own: Kurt Warner is the best and brightest of the new lunch-pail quarterbacks.(Los Angeles Rams quarterback)(Illustration) | | Brett Martin |
Al Gore's money problem.(presidential candidate Albert Gore Jr.'s ability to raise money may hurt his campaign) | | Jill Abramson |
Aloft Down Under: 'I was never comfortable looking down.' And who would be, high in the riggings of a sailing ship?(The Sophisticated Traveler)(Part 2) | | Stephanie Speakman |
Alsace, where German gemutlichkeit meets French finesse.(Alsace, France)(The Sophisticated Traveler)(Part 2) | | Mimi Sheraton |
Alzheimer's...accurate diagnosis; help for families.(From Cause to Cure)(Special Advertising Supplement) | | |
A man for one season.(fashion designer Jeremy Scott) | | Dana Thomas |
A manifesto for the fast world.(sustainable globalization)(Cover Story) | | Thomas L. Freidman |
A man of many women.(film director Pedro Almodovar)(Interview) | | Jonathan Van Meter |
A man's place.(the economic power of women)(Panel Discussion) | | Michael Weinstein |
Amazing Grace.(designer and plastics advocate Grace Jeffers)(Interiors) | | Julie V. Iovine |
A money player in a power town.(Washington Redskins' owner Dan Snyder) | | David Brooks |
Ancient hatreds, new battles: Suharto kept a clamp on ethnic and religious violence in Indonesia; when he fell, the specter of anarchy re-emerged.(violent conflicts between Christians in Muslims since Jan 1999) | | Seth Mydans |
And another thing from David Hare.(playwright and actor David Hare) | | Sarah Lyall |
An encyclopedia of lost practices.(human habits that are not expected to survive the 21st. century) | | Ann Beattie, Bruce McCall, Frank Gannon, Mark Leyner, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Sherrill, Lee (American writer) Smith, Paul Tough |
A New York minute; the sights, smells, tastes, sounds, and sensations of a moment on earth: 9/9/99,9:09.(time capsule) | | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Phillip Lopate, Michael Pollan, A.M. Homes, James Traub, Nicholas Dawidoff, Alex Witchel, Pete Hamill, Susan Minot, John Berendt, Cathleen Schine, Elisabeth Bumiller, Frank McCourt, Darcy Frey, Chang-Rae Lee, Edwidge Danticat, Eleanor Randolph, Esmeralda Santiago, Harvey Shapiro, Lewis Lapham, Jhumpa Lahiri, Beth Fertig, Michael Hsu, Richard Sandler |
A peacenik goes to war: as German's Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer vociferously defends the very policies he once denounced, infuriating the fundamentalists in his own Green Party.(transformation of one of Germany's most left-wing, pro-peace radicals to a moderate politician who now supports military engagement) | | Josef Joffe |
A perfect madness of plants.(Daniel Hinkley, plant explorer, finds exotic plants and sells them to adventurous gardeners) | | Verlyn Klinkenborg |
A perfect set of teeth; there's noting sexier than a zipper.(Best Fashion) | | Alison Lurie |
Are you at risk?(a special advertising supplement: From Cause to Cure; osteoporosis) | | |
A savage life.(a woman butchers chickens for food)(Brief Article)(Column) | | Suzanne Winckler |
A shock to the system: if electromagnetic fields don't cause cancer, what's left to believe in?(coping with feared risks that are negated with scientific investigation) | | Mark Kingwell |
A social glacier roars.(changing role of women in society)(Cover Story) | | Gail Collins |
A stake in every pot.(young adults to be given $80,000 in economic equality plan) | | Matthew Miller |
At last blush.(the end of embarrassment) | | Ian Frazier |
Back to school, 1958.(a teacher describes his experiences)(includes related article interviewing author) | | Sara Mosle, Frank McCourt |
Balancing act.(designer John Bartlett)(Men's Fashion of the Times) | | Andrew Solomon |
Bashing the burbs.(resistance to suburbs stems from unwillingness to grow up) | | David Gates |
Bedlam on the streets.(mentally ill with no place to go) | | Michael Winerip |
Bedside story.(parent's personal account of a child's cancer) | | Craig Cutler |
Beefcake for the masses.(Bruce Weber's advertising photography) | | Herbert Muschamp |
Beneath the falling bombs: the Times correspondent in Belgrade wasn't just covering a war; he was fighting one, too.(New York Times correspondent's coverage of NATO bombings of Belgrade)(Column) | | Steven Erlanger |
Benedict Arnold, hero: a revolutionary turning point.(Best Battle) | | R.W.W. Apple Jr. |
Berlin in search of itself.(Berlin, Germany)(The Sophisticated Traveler)(Part 2) | | Roger Cohen |
Black unlike me.(a white woman adopts an African American boy)(Abstract)(Brief Article) | | Jana Wolff |
Brooklyn.(a man moves to Brooklyn, New York) | | Charles Siebert |
Bugged: a biologist challenges basic assumptions about what makes an ant colony and rankles the reigning king of the hill, Edward O. Wilson.(Deborah Gordon) | | |
Built to last.(creating a time capsule for the next millennium)(Panel Discussion) | | |
Burying Khomeini.(remembering Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini) | | Fouad Ajami |
Cambridge, Mass.(traveling in Cambridge, Massachusetts) | | M.R. Montgomery |
Casey at the beach.(women travels to Spain with her granddaughter) | | Elena Castedo |
Close to the bone.(Lives) | | Katherine Russell Rich |
Clothes unmake the man: what a girlfriend's gifts were telling him. | | Thomas Beller |
Commencement: from her suddenly grown-up daughter, a woman learns how to forge a friendship with an adult child; it's a lesson her mother never had the chance to learn.(Column) | | Francine Cournos |
Complainers of the world, unite!(petty concerns overshadow real political issues) | | Louis Menand |
Cop show and tell: the force behind the new 'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit' discusses his nonviolent conquest of goriest genre.(television producer Dick Wolf)(Interview) | | Hugo Lindgren |
Could this pig save your life?(pig-to-human transplants) | | Sheryl Gay Stolberg |
Crashing the academy: the Internet could destroy college as we know it; or, just possibly, save it. | | Mark Edmundson |
Creating a home ... on the margins.(making the most of living space in Brazil and Tennessee)(The Human Habitat)(Cover Story) | | Diana Jean Schemo, Mike Perry |
Creating an individualized treatment plan.(a special advertising supplement: From Cause to Cure; osteoporosis) | | |
Cuidad Juarez.(a man travels to Cuidad Juarez, Mexico) | | Earl Shorris |
Dance of a lifetime: the choreographer and provocateur talks about his plans for a dance center, getting older and the eternal struggle to make it home in time for `Law and Order.'(Mark Morris)(Interview) | | Laura Leivick |
Dangerous crossing: lying, scheming, and conniving to get into public school; the right one, that is.(illegal strategies parents use to get their children into school districts with superior public schools) | | Andy Newman |
Dead in the water.(cargo-ship Delta Pride stuck off the U.S. coast) | | Thomas Hackett |
Dead poet's society: the spirit of Virgil saved Europe, time and again.(Best Fable) | | Marina Warner |
Debbie Reynolds embarks on educational campaign.(a special advertising supplement: From Cause to Cure; osteoporosis) | | |
Designs for the next millennium; the archival cockroach, and a dozen other ways to talk to the future.(time capsule designs) | | Herbert Muschamp |
Dialects.(On Language)(social perceptions of dialects)(Column) | | Margalit Fox |
Did God have a choice? The universe is knowable - up to a point.(Best Question) | | Dennis Overbye |
East Timor's aftermath: a rare look at the faces and horrors of a deadly blood feud. | | Janine di Giovanni, Philip Blenkinsop |
Eccentric monuments and monumental eccentricities in the Southwest.(The Sophisticated Traveler)(Part 2) | | Joseph Skibell |
Electroboy.(electroshock patient recounts experience) | | Andy Behrman |
Euro neurosis: here are three reasons for Americans to fear the arrival of a united European currency.(Column) | | Jeffrey E. Garten |
Every dictator's nightmare.(human rights messages)(Best Idea) | | Wole Soyinka |
Everything in it place: one man's love affair with the periodic table.(Best Invention) | | Oliver Sacks |
Evil's interrogator: the writer Gitta Sereny has been criticized for getting too close to her subjects, even befriending them; but how else, she asks, can you extract the darkest secrets of Nazi exterminators and child murderers? | | Isabel Hilton |
Executive privilege: if this year's sitcoms seem more similar than ever, thank the growing swarms of networks suits. | | Larry Doyle |
Ex-prisoner's dilemma: off the hook at last, one of the Clinton era's most puzzling characters talks about her new friends (the women she met behind bars), her old friends (Bill and Hillary) and what she misses about jail.(Susan McDougal)(Interview) | | Suzi Parker |
Eye of the storm: as the Chinese Government calls for his arrest, the exiled leader of the massive Falun Gong movement talks about living in New York and watching politics and belief collide back home.(Li Hongzhi)(Interview) | | Jonathan S. Landreth, J.S. Greenberg |
Eyes on the fries.(McDonald's global success in the fast food restaurant business and its plans for its 25,000th restaurant) | | William Grimes |
Eyes wide open.(God no longer owns the universe)(Best Idea) | | Richard Powers |
Fair ball.(baseball broadcaster Tim McCarver)(Interview) | | John Solomon |
Fast boats and big flopping fish.(Bass Masters Classic) | | James Gorman |
Fat cats.(the growing girth of male rock stars)(Men's Fashions of the Times) | | Neal Karlen |
Fear itself: what we know about how it works, how it can be treated and what it tells us about our unconscious.(Cover Story) | | Stephen S. Hall |
Fendi for themselves: Silvia Venturini bags a winner for the Italian fashion clan.(Italian fashion designer for Rome's Fendi house of fashion) | | Dana Thomas |
First person female.(male authors writing in female voice) | | Jim Harrison |
For God and country: the eternal country-and-western icon discusses her new bluegrass album, her faith and the joy of looking trashy.(Dolly Parton)(Interview) | | Brian Carmody |
Foster seniors. | | Ed Kashi, James Benet |
Freudian slipcovers.(decorators as therapists)(Interiors) | | Shax Riegler |
Fugitive in the family.(father runs out on family but author still wants to keep in touch)(Column) | | Emily Yoffe |
Full nelson: outmanned and outgunned, the British flummoxed the French.(Best Naval Battle) | | Patrick O'Brian |
Galileo's universe: in the footsteps of the great scientist, from Pisa, his birthplace, to Rome, where he was tried for heresy.(The Sophisticated Traveler)(Part 2) | | Dava Sobel |
Game boys.(Men's Fashion of the Times)(men dressing like characters in video games) | | Rebecca Barry |
Get ready, here comes the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle.(device is designed to obliterate incoming warheads) | | Peter Maass |
Gimme shelter. even on a short-term lease, Donna Karan proves you can take it with you. | | Peter Viladas, Gabrielle Karan |
Going Hollywood.(fashion designers venturing to Hollywood ) | | Joe Queenan |
Greenback blues.(new dollar coin versus paper dollar)(The Way We Live Now) | | Jason Goodwin |
Greetings from the fishbowl.(Lance Loud and Myles Berkowitz compare their experiences in making films that document personal and private experiences for a mass audience) | | |
Hack, counterhack.(inside look at hacker group) | | Bruce Gottlieb |
Hamlet alone: a celebration of skepticism.(Best Poem) | | Helen Hennessey Vendler |
Hey, where's the action?(what viewers really saw in the 1998 Super Bowl) | | |
High rollers.(roller coaster technology has advanced to new heights; includes five picks from the publisher of Park World) | | Ted Oehmke |
His father is a rebel leader ... and other complications from the life of Philippe Wamba, a Harvard-educated memoirist and American-African. | | Jake Chessum, Randy Kennedy |
Hollywood roulette.(movie studio executives)(Column) | | Judith I. Brennan |
Hometown commandos: during the recent shootings in Littleton, Colo., fully equipped Special Weapons and Assault Weapons Teams were on the scene, carrying some pretty heavy accessories.(costs of police equipment and weaponry used by SWAT forces) | | Chris Mitchell |
Homeward bound.(Chinese-American woman finds connection with grandmother) | | Janet Wu |
Home wrecked.(do-it-yourself obsession) | | Robert Sullivan |
Household chores.(sister of mentally ill man hopes for outside help) | | Janifer Dumas |
How 'I' moved heaven and earth: we've lived in the me-centerd universe long enough now to wonder if this is a good thing.(The Me Millennium) | | Richard Russo |
How not to get killed on deadline.(foreign correspondents trained in methods to deal with kidnappings and other violence they may be exposed to) | | Ian Fisher |
How the bean saved civilization.(Best Invention) | | Umberto Eco |
How to make a time capsule. | | Jack Hitt |
How to win: the creator of the hit computer game Sim City discusses his coming masterwork - a simulatioon of family life, in which players compete for love and happiness.(Will Wright)(Interview) | | Amy Silverman |
'I did not join the Hebrew faith - I returned'.(black woman's return to faith of her people) | | David Isay |
Images.(time capsule image selection) | | Ingrid Sischy, Luc Sante, John Waters, Arthur Coleman Danto, John Ashbery, Andrew Ross, Peter Arnell, Mark Crispin Miller, John Szarkowski |
I'm O.K., you're selfish.(survey on individualism)(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included) | | Andrew J. Cherlin |
In a chat room you can be NE1: constructing a teen-age slef, on line. | | Camille Sweeney |
In from the cold.(8.29.99: Lives) | | Bennet A. Zelner |
In God's place.(the cultural effect of scientific thought) | | Alan Lightman |
In praise of bad art. | | Deborah Solomon |
Inside out: genetic self-portrait by Gary Schneider.(The Me Millennium)(Brief Article) | | John Noble Wilford |
Instant intimacy: when the silence in a subway car is broken, you may suddenly find yourself with a needy friend.(author's experience in helping to save a man who fell between a NYC subway and the platform) | | Roxana Robinson |
Integration Anxiety.(a New Jersey town struggles with race) | | Lisa Funderburg |
In the age of radical selfishness: what it's like being 30-something, overpaid and totally disconnected.(The Me Millennium) | | David Samuels |
In the closet.(4 people's wardrobes)(Endpaper) | | |
In the dark.(the use of Braille is declining) | | Stephen Kuusisto |
In the groove.(Men's Fashion of the Times)(actor Taye Diggs) | | Carrie Rickey |
In the Republic of Georgia, beauty and the beast.(a man travels to Georgia) | | John Ash |
Invention is the mother of necessity: Gutenberg didn't invent the printing press - and other surprises from 1,000 years of ingenuity.(Best Invention) | | Jared Diamond |
Invisible hand.(Ralph Ellison's unfinished novel) | | Gregory Feeley |
Ira Glass is, um (pause, delete)...listening; the perfectly edited world of his `American Life.'(The Glow at the End of the Dial; radio talk show host Ira Glass) | | Marshall Sella |
Irritating women.(time line of women agitators) | | |
It takes all kinds: an album of archetypal personalities, then and now.(The Me Millennium) | | Caroline Knapp, Charles McGrath, Wayne Koestenbaum, Daniel Menaker, Alberto Manguel, Roger Wilkins, Mary Gordon, Jeffrey Eugenides |
Janeane Garofalo.(actress and comedienne)(Interview) | | Martha Frankel |
Jean therapy.(denim garments by Gucci)(includes related interview with singer Lauryn Hill) | | Penelope Green |
Jumpin' Jade flash.(daughter of Mick and Bianca Jagger)(includes related article on the style of Mick Jagger) | | Tommy Hilfiger, Brian Degen Leitch |
Just add water.(innovative designs for backyard swimming pools) | | Brian Palmer |
Just a soccer star, after all: the son of Algerian immigrants, Zinedine Zidane was expected to lead France to a multicultural future; that's a lot to ask, even of a World Cup hero.(ethnic factors that have complicated Zidane's rise to world fame after France became the 1998 World Cup soccer champion) | | John Vinocur |
Just win, baby: why I root for the home team, but against the hometown. | | David Shields |
Let's talk about me.(Culture Zone)(one-person shows usually too autobiographical)(Brief Article) | | Jonathan Van Meter |
Levi's blues.(jeans company fighting to retain cool image) | | Hal Espen |
Linguistic big bang: for the first time in history, scholars are witnessing the birth of a language - a complex sign system being created by deaf children in Nicaragua. | | Lawrence Osborne |
Listening to men, then and now.(communication between men and women)(Column) | | Deborah Tannen |
Live fast, die old.(retirement in America)(The Way We Live Now) | | Charles McGrath |
Live, from hell.(how reporters cope with covering war, such as the conflict in Kosovo; includes summary of Belgrade magazine Vreme's survey of how Serbs and Albanians regard one another) | | Peter Godwin |
Looking young is getting old.(wardrobe to age gracefully - women)(Cover Story) | | Judith Shulevitz |
Los naturales.(Dominican baseball players in the US) | | Mark Winegardner |
Luxury 101.(new dormitory rooms) | | Julian E. Barnes |
Manufacturing the next extreme sport.(the rise of skiboarding) | | Jeff Wise |
Men in brown.(Men's Fashion of the Times)(man wears brown suit) | | Tom Perrotta |
Men in masks: south of the border, the superhero is alive and well.(wrestlers who wear masks in Mexico)(includes related resource information) | | Black Kent |
Mental health ... identifying depression, living with OCD, new treatments offer hope.(obsessive compulsive disorder) | | |
Mental muscle.(personal trainers as psychologists)(Men's Fashions of the Times) | | Kimberly Stevens |
Me, with the stars in my eyes.(dreaming of celebrities) | | Wayne Koestenbaum |
Microbes 3, humans 2.(E.coli versus humans)(Best Species) | | Edward O. Wilson |
Miranda on the hot seat.(Miranda rights were overruled by Congress in 1968) | | Roger Parloff |
Mobility after fractures.(a special advertising supplement: From Cause to Cure; osteoporosis) | | |
Money for nothing: a new breed of Internet profiteers is spinning virtual gold into hard currency.(buying and selling of imaginary property from the Internet game 'Ultima Online') | | John Cook |
Morality bites: 'Everyman,' great characters, but where's the love interest?(Best Story) | | Elmore Leonard |
Morning becomes Bryant Gumbel.(Bryant Gumbel returns to morning TV) | | William Eugene Carter |
Mrs. Kennedy's Christmas.(conversations between Jackie Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, 1963) | | Vance Muse |
My body.(21 nearly nude women comment) | | Michael O'Neill, Vanessa Beecroft |
My high-school muse.(fashion) | | Bob Morris |
My husband, I think I'll dress him.(Men's Fashion of the Times)(a woman wants to buy clothes for her husband) | | Susan Squire |
My new South African identity: as the Mandela era draws to a close, South Africa's most renowned novelist sees her nation, for all its problems, embracing an expanded notion of 'us.'(author Nadine Gordimer; Pres Nelson Mandela and the future of South Africa.) | | Nadine Gordimer |
Nanny's failed safari.(memories of grandma's personality)(Brief Article)(Column) | | Dana Tierney |
Narrate or die: why Scheherazade keeps on talking.(Best Story) | | A.S. Byatt |
New Amsterdam.(Dutch fashions and home designs) | | Rebecca Voight |
New kid on the block.(filmmaker Spike Lee's new motion picture `Summer of Sam')(Interview) | | Eric Messinger |
Newlyweds relish setting up their first homes ... and dreaming about the next.(The Human Habitat)(Cover Story) | | Dirk Johnson, Dennis Engbarth |
New money is inflating suburban homes ... into full-fledged mansions.(The Human Habitat)(Cover Story) | | Rick Lyman, Mark Schapiro |
No hits, all the time: WFMU stays away from the latest trends.(The Glow at the End of the Dial; alternative radio station in Jersey City, NJ) | | Jaime Wolf |
No regrets: he spent 40 years searching for a lost song, and found something to live by.(a song, heard on the radio, about having no regrets inspires a search for the artist and title) | | Ze'ev Chafets |
No time like the past; 16th-century China was swell, and 14th-century Africa wasn't bad either.(Best Time to Be Alive) | | |
'Nov. 22, 1963, the day I died.'(Vaughn Meader, comedian and author of 'The First Family') | | Vaughn Meader |
Off the Books.(an African American experience in corporate America) | | Hakim Hasan |
One good turn: how machine-made screws brouth the world together.(Best Tool) | | Witold Rubczynski |
One tough fop.(Men's Fashion of the Times)(former detective's taste in clothes) | | Ken Gross |
On language: fancy speak.(8.29.99)(Column) | | Charles Harrington Elster |
Order in the court: the jurors were starved, jailed - and victorious.(Best Trial) | | Scott Turow |
Ouch, dude.(injuries from extreme sports) | | Andy Newman |
Out of the jungle.(actor Brendan Fraser)(Men's Fashions of the Times)(Cover Story)(Interview) | | Alex Witchel |
Over the top at Victoria Falls.(The Sophisticated Traveler)(Part 2) | | Steve Chapple |
Pablo Neruda's house in the sand.(a man travels to poets Pablo Neruda's house on Isla Negra, Chile) | | Annick Smith |
Paris dining: lemon grass and ginger? Oui et non.(restaurants in Paris, France) | | Patricia Wells |
Passion fish: sublime ceviche, so cool, yet hot, invites strong feelings.(includes recipes) | | |
Peace. Period.(Prime Minister Ehud Barak) | | Deborah Sontag |
People's Choice Awards: J.D. Power & Associates' rapid rise came from polling the public and ignoring the experts, threatening the elitism of traditional consumer research groups like Consumers Union; which raises the age-old question: whose opinion should matter?(includes examples of consumers' opinions of leading brands from J.D. Power and Consumer Reports) | | Timothy Noah |
Perfect timing.(47 year-old watch shop in Grand Central Station) | | Bob Morris |
Photography today.(special advertising supplement) | | |
Pinochet without hatred.(dictator's arrest is satisfying moral censure) | | Isabel Allende |
Playing chicken with Milosevic.(how Milo Djukanovic, pres of Montenegro, has managed to deal with Serb Pres Slobodan Milosevic) | | Blaine Harden |
Poolside polemics: in this season of bikinis and barbecues, why are we still buying books about Bill?(popularity of books about Bill Clinton) | | Louis Menand |
Power suffering. | | Jennifer Egan |
Pressures of the press.(journalists from nations that do not have a free-press policy)(Panel Discussion) | | Jonathan Fenby, Hamid Reza Jalaipur |
Private eyes.(high-resolution space imagery for sale) | | Robert Wright |
Prom '99: Versace dress, stretch Humvee, condom.(discussion between party planners Orie Argamany, the Event Group, Los Angeles, and Jennifer Gilbert, Save the Date, New York City) | | Rory Evans |
Protester's delight.(In the Works) | | Austin Bunn |
Prozac mother and child: psychiatry's new drugs give us back our lives, but will they steal our secret histories?(The Me Millennium) | | Lauren Slater |
Puerto Rico means business, Puerto Rico means pleasure; providing the ideal climate in every way, Puerto Rico's industrial star is fast rising above the balmy waters of the Caribbean...and far beyond.(Special Advertising Supplement) | | |
Ready-to-swear fashions.(Men's Fashion of the Times)(fashion designer David Mamet) | | David Blum |
Revenge of the nerds.(the joys of the game of bridge) | | Dale Peck |
Ricky who?(8.29.99: Style) | | Stephen J. Dubner |
Riding the mo in the lime green glow: and other money-mad moments in the life of a day trader.(Cover Story) | | Matthew Klam |
Riding the wild, perilous waters of Amazon.com: you think it's easy navigating a $20 billion company that has never made a dime?(what the future may hold for the Internet company)(Cover Story) | | Peter de Jonge |
Risky business.(Gavin de Becker's strategy to reduce violence in schools)(Interview) | | Brett Forrest |
Rose's Turn.(TV journalist Charlie Rose's new job on '60 Minutes II')(Interview) | | Rebecca Johnson |
Salem's lot: where hearty porridges warm the spirits.(Recipe) | | Molly O'Neil |
Santa's little helper.(Lives) | | Susan Dominus |
Secrets and ties: tastes. | | Abbott Combes |
She who must be obeyed.(Style)(mothers and their influence on fashion designers) | | Michael Musto |
Shirley, you jest.(Style)(actress Shirley MacLaine)(Brief Article)(Column) | | Paul Rudnick |
Sierra Leone is no place to be young.(children are soldiers in Sierra Leone)(Abstract) | | Jan` Goodwin |
Single file.(8.29.99: The Way We Live Now) | | Stacey D'Erasmo |
Sound bites over Jerusalem: in Israel's elections next month, Mideast peace and the struggle between secular and religious Jews hang in the balance; is this any place for the hard-nosed tactics of James Carville and Arthur Finkelstein?(American campaign advisors for the Labor and Likud parties, respectively)(Cover Story) | | Adam Nagourney |
Sounds.(selecting sounds for a time capsule) | | Gerald Marzorati, Quincy Jones, Gary Stewart, Liz Algarin-Tucker, Brian (American musician) Wilson, Raymond Roker, Robert Walser, Lisa Capitanelli, Rick Gillette |
Space cowboy.(Men's Fashion of the Times)(special effects designer Chris Gilman) | | William Norwich |
Spies wanted.(recruiting for the Central Intelligence Agency) | | Tim Weiner |
Spree-ality.(the Knicks Latrell Sprewell) | | Mike Wise |
Spy to spy.(ShopTalk)(Panel Discussion) | | Oleg Kalugin, Peter Sichel, Nicholas Lansing |
Starting over: Dan Quayle is back - and being left in the dust by the son of the President he served; why risk the humiliation again; he wants to be taken seriously; seriously.(former VP and year 2000 presidential candidate) | | Melinda Henneberger |
Stay tooned.(Style)(television's portrayal of couples)(Abstract)(Brief Article) | | Nell Scovell |
Steve Martin, in revision: how the Jerk became a man of letters.(comedian and motion picture actor's love for writing) | | R.J. Smith |
Steven the good.(filmmaker Steven Spielberg)(Abstract)(Cover Story) | | Stephen Dubner |
Sue thy neighbor.(frivolous law suits over appearance of homes)(Interiors) | | Tracie Rozhon |
Suite dreams: the latest luxury boxes usher in a whole new era of hospitality for deep-pocketed sports fans.(Illustration) | | Joanna Caagan |
Surfing on the slippery skin of a bubble.(venture capitalist, Steve Jurvetson, navigates through an uncertain time for Internet stocks) | | Po Bronson |
Take this job and shovel it.(Men's Fashion of the Times)(overweight comedian Horatio Sanz) | | Lynn Snowden |
Teaching Johnny the appropriate way to flirt: the Supreme Court justices may have just decided that sexual harassment between children is a legitimate problem, but the schools are way ahead of them.(Cover Story) | | Cynthia Gorney |
Terra incognita: science may be no closer than ancient tribes to understanding consciousness.(The Me Millennium) | | George Johnson |
The Accomodations of Adam Michnik.(Poland after Communism) | | Roger Cohen |
The art of darkness.(filmmaker Martin Scorcese)(Interview) | | Michael Kaplan |
The axis of austerity.(Prada) | | Ginia Bellafante |
The battle of the binge.(college students and binge drinking)(Review) | | Jack Hitt |
The big peep show.(The Way We Live Now) | | Michael Sorkin |
The blues brothers: one sings; the other doesn't.(blues guitarists B.B. King and Kenny Wayne Shepherd) | | S.S. Fair |
The book that killed colonialism: as the west clamored for spices, the novelist 'Multatuli' cried for justice.(Best Story) | | Pramoedya Ananta Toer |
The bus stops here.(2 men who were there discuss history of mandatory school busing)(Panel Discussion) | | Leon Rock, James Swann |
The candidate: a prospective freshman judges a college the way it will judge him.(analysis of the different kinds of questions on college applications)(Column) | | Matthew Yglesias |
The Caribbean and the islands of the Bahamas.(The Sophisticated Traveler)(Part 2)(Special Advertising Supplement) | | |
The Chow dynasty: its patriarch - Mr. Chow - is now as famous for being famous as he is for green prawns. | | Nell Scovell |
The Class of Prop. 209.(California campuses maintaining diversity with affirmative action) | | James Traub, Gail Albert Halaban |
The collector.(Charles Saatchi) | | Deborah Solomon |
The Crusades, even now.(Crusades in Middle Ages affects world in 20th century) | | Karen Armstrong |
The curse of blood and vengeance.(Albanian Shtjefen Lamthi's killer's family will probably get their punishment) | | Scott Anderson |
The D.A.'s husband trouble.(District Attorney Jeanine Pirro) | | Lisa DePaulo |
The disciples of discipline.(author John Rosemond's views on child rearing)(includes related article on parenting styles)(Abstract) | | Susan Bolotin |
The dresser: becoming someone else, with the help of a personal shopper. | | Daphne Merkin |
The eminence of excess: Thierry Despont's clients include Bill Gates, Mickey Drexler, Conrad Black and other titans of the new gilded age; so who cares if rival architects find his work embarrassing?(mansions designed by the flamboyant architect) | | Nina Munk |
The empire strikes out: the unholy emergence of the nation-state.(treaties mark new concepts of international relations)(Best Treaty) | | Fareed Zakaria |
The fiber-optic confessional: you call to change your insurance but wind up baring your soul.(Column) | | Laurence J. Gillis |
The future is ours to lose.(women in danger of regressing in quest for equality)(Cover Story) | | Naomi Wolf |
The good, the bad and the uhg!(1998 motion picture fashions) | | Michael Musto |
The great ape massacre.(Africans eat apes) | | Donald G. McNeil Jr. |
The greatest leap.(women in China) | | Sheryl WuDunn |
The ground war that was: three hellish weeks in the life of the Kosovo Liberation Army. | | Janine di Giovanni |
The haunting of our language.(On Language)(Column) | | Jeffrey McQuain |
The hot phone.(design of cell phones) | | Ted Oehmke |
The Ice Age cometh; when China ruled, Islam rose and a lost sailor glimpsed America.(The Best of the First Millennium) | | Filipe Fernandez-Armesto |
The incubator of dreams: an invention of Renaissance aristocrats, private rooms gave space to grow,.(The Me Millennium) | | Barbara Grizzuti Harrison |
The intruder: she thought she was alone; but she wasn't.(one woman's memory of meeting a New York City neighbor after years of their seeing each other while gazing out their brownstone windows)(Column) | | Jane Bendetson |
The I.P.O. boomers.(initial public offering; Internet stocks as a cultural phenomenon) | | Bob Walker |
The irrelevance of a Palestinian state.(even if a Palestinian state is formed, Israel will still dominate) | | Anthony Lewis |
The jurors' dilemma: in Andrew Goldstein's case, the choice of guilty or insane was no choice at all.(man who shoved woman onto subway tracks) | | Michael Winerip |
The knockdown.(an accident reveals a stranger's kindness) | | Deborah Y. Abramson |
The last refuge.(released member of the Armed Forces of National Liberation)(Interview) | | Nina Siegal |
The last tribal battle: in the remote reaches of the Brazilian rain forest, isolated Indians carry on as they have for thousands of years. Should they be fenced off from the modern world?(Illustration) | | Diana Jean Schemo |
The magic-air cure.(lack of professional dental care in Cambodia) | | Seth Mydans |
The making of a fugitive.(anti-abortion militant James Charles Kopp)(The Anti-Abortion Underground)(Cover Story) | | David Samuels |
The medium has a message.(the drawbacks of being a psychic) | | Rochelle Jewel Shapiro |
The Milosevic generation.(young Serbians) | | Blaine Harden, Art Zamur |
The name is Bing.(Men's Fashion of the Times)(a man gambles in Las Vegas, Nevada)(Humor) | | Stanley Bing |
The new Bronx bombers: high-tech bats turn Yankee pitchers into heavy hitters. | | Buster Olney |
The news of the day, on canvas.(history painting) | | John Russell |
The next Cardinal.(possible successors to John J. O'Connor) | | Paul Elie |
The oh zone: naming the next decade, and exploring the hear and now.(On Language)(English grammar)(Column) | | Jack Rosenthal |
The one-state solution: why the only answer to Middle East peace is Palestinians and Israelis living as equal citizens under one flag. | | Edward W. Said |
The outsider.(Israeli Prime Minister candidate Yitzhak Mordechai) | | Deborah Sontag |
The peacemaker: India won its freedom without firing a shot.(Best Revolution) | | Alan Brinkley |
The Persistence of polygamy: in return for statehood, Utah outlawed polygamy more than 100 years ago; but it never went away, and two trials about to begin may reveal that taking more than one wife can involve other kinds of sexual crimes as well. | | Timothy Egan |
The pilgrimage from Tiananmen Square: ten years after the uprising, three of its pivotal figures have found a new agent for change - Christianity.(Yuan Zhiming; Xie Suanjun; Su Xiaokang) | | Ian Buruma |
The precarious triumph of human rights: human rights now drives foreign policy to a degree unimaginable a decade ago; but the movement is doomed unless it can replace high-minded talk with real-world politics. | | David Rieff |
The prima leatherina.(rock star Joan Jett) | | S.S. Fair |
The real divide.(what is driving the dissension in the American political scene) | | Paul Berman |
The rebel code. | | Amy Harmon |
"There is no average day when you live in a tree".(tree dweller, Julia Hill)(Interview) | | Anthony Lappe |
The rest of the story.(history of women beyond male-defined milestones)(Cover Story) | | Jill Ker Conway, Natalie Zemon Davis |
The revolution will be in stereo: Cuba's salsa stars are its first capitalists and, Castro fears, its most potent opposition.(popularity of Cuba's musicians who have accumulated capitalist wealth) | | Silvana Paternostro |
The rumors of his death have been greatly exaggerated.(comedian Richard Pryor) | | Nelson George |
The Russian devolution: the country has spent the years since Communism spiraling downward; who is to blame? That's becoming a highly charged question in American politics. | | John Lloyd |
The shirt who loved me.(Men's Fashion of the Times)(a writer wears the same shirt every day)(Humor) | | Roger Director |
The Singer solution to world poverty.(ethicist's take on Americans' responsibility to world's poor) | | Peter (Judge) Singer |
The sound of the virtual voice.(effect of the Internet on women in business) | | Esther Dyson |
The Spanish test: the top Presidential candidates are courting Latino voters by speaking their language - or at least trying to; a panel of renowned linguists rates their performances in two recent speeches. | | |
The sperminator.(the practice of retrieving sperm from comotose or dead men) | | Lori B. Andrews |
The stones of Poland's soul.(Wawel Hill Castle, Krakow, Poland) | | Alessandra Stanley |
The tastes of autumn: a guide to at-home entertaining in the fall.(Special Advertising Supplement)(Illustration)(Recipe) | | Sue Woodley |
The test under stress: S.A.T. scores have never been so important, or so vulnerable to charges that they don't measure up; test coaching is part of the problem; it may also be part of the solution.(Cover Story) | | Tony Schwartz |
The trailblazer: for the first time in half a century, the Forest Service is standing up to Big Timber and its allies in Congress - all because of a quiet bureaucrat named Mike Dombeck.(head of the US Forest Service) | | Daniel Lewis |
The tricks mirros play: vanity can be treacherous - especially when entire societies distort their reflections.(The Me Millennium) | | Margo Jefferson |
The troubles that won't go away.(analysis of the political situation in Norther Ireland) | | John Lloyd |
The tyranny of cool.(adolescent fashions) | | Adrian Nicole LeBlanc |
The tyranny of the slugger: why home runs are bad for baseball.(Column) | | Nicholas Dawidoff |
The virtual science of high-tech forecasting. | | Jim Frederick, Christoph Niemann |
The visible hand.(Questions for Clint Hallam)(Interview) | | Valerie Lincy |
The Western Front: where gunslinging students live out the myth of heroic violence.(The Way We Live Now) | | William Kittredge |
The whole world was watching: movies and the American century. | | Ric Robertson |
The world is her cloister: when the image gods need a miracle, they give Marla a call.(Marla Weinhoff, a New York production designer) | | Enid Nemy |
They bad.(And 1)(Company Profile) | | Larry Platt |
They did it their way.(John and Dominique de Menil's Houston home) | | Pilar Vilades |
They laughed, they cried.(authors Barry Sanders and Tom Lutz compare notes about human expression) | | |
The zen of Alzheimer's: in losing touch with this world, my mother found peace on another's plane.(one son's memoir of seeing his mother find a quieter world through disease)(Column) | | Steve Gettinger |
Through the Delta, blues on my mind.(Southern states)(The Sophisticated Traveler)(Part 2) | | Lewis Nordan |
Through women's eyes, finally.(women in art) | | Holland Cotter |
Tmorras nglsh: what language in the year 3000? | | William Safir |
Today, the musical dies.(the lamentable state of the Broadway musical) | | Albert Innaurato |
To hoop is divine.(Questions for The Rev. John Love)(Interview) | | Pete Catapano |
Tomorrow's ruins today.(questioning the preservation of architecture for the next millennium) | | Vincent Scully |
To whom it may concern.(candidates for opening a time capsule in the next millennium) | | Jared Diamond |
Trickle-down civil rights.(economic policies of Jesse Jackson, Sr) | | George Packer |
Tropicalia, agora!(rock musicians' and groups interest in avant-garde Brazilian music that emerged in the 1960s) | | Gerald Marzorati |
Turn left at cloud 109.(efficient travel proposal by Cirrus Design) | | James Fallows |
Two girls and a guy: Richard Strauss knew that triangles make the best music.(Best Love Song) | | Lorrie Moore |
Under deep cover.(fictional account of man who fought Cold War) | | John le Carre |
Unearthing a riot.(Tulsa confronts its racist past) | | Brent Staples, Fred R. Conrad |
Unraveling the mystery of soft bones.(a special advertising supplement: From Cause to Cure; osteoporosis) | | |
Wayward Christian soldiers: a flurry of double crosses led to Constantinople's demise.(Best Deception) | | John Julius Norwich |
Wayward intellectual finds God.(author Wieseltier, Leon) | | Sam Tanenhaus |
What causes osteoporosis?(a special advertising supplement: From Cause to Cure) | | |
What did you do in the war, mama?(trying to unite missing children and their families during the war in El Salvador)(Cover Story) | | Tina Rosenberg |
What do you do about Mao?(People's Republic of China must reconcile Mao Zedong's mistakes) | | Erik Eckholm |
Whatever happened to the class of 1994?(conservative representatives of last Congress) | | Dana Milbank |
What they were thinking. | | Catherine Saint Louis |
What was war?(the prospect of peace in the next millennium) | | Robert Wright |
What were they thinking?(fashion mistakes)(Column) | | Patricia Marx |
What your clothes make of you: dressing and identity.(Cover Story) | | Amy Spindler |
'When I was little, in 1995'.(children discuss gender and society)(Panel Discussion) | | Kim France |
When Tristram met Isolde: true love may last forever, but it hasn't been around that long.(romantic love relatively new concept)(Best Idea) | | Joyce Carol Oates |
Where everybody knew my name.(e-mail conversation about name Elizabeth) | | Elizabeth Stone |
Where have all the young men gone? The perfect substitute for war.(Best Game) | | Paul Auster |
Where W. got compassion.(Presidential candidate George W. Bush's relies on evangelist Marvin Olasky for his compassionate conservatism) | | David Grann |
Who am I? | | Jake Chessum, Abby Ellin, Degen Pener |
Who needs philosophy?(philosopher Martha Nussbaum) | | Robert S. Boynton |
Why a priest: the number of men studying for the priesthood has plummeted, and the resulting shortage is a major problem for the Catholic Church; but for those enrolled at Mount Saint Mary's Seminary, it isn't the church that has to change - it's the world.(Emmitsburg, MD seminary that ordains Catholic priests)(Cover Story) | | Jennifer Egan |
Why are we in Kosovo? | | Susan Sontag |
Will Monica ever get her blue dress back? The curious afterlives of scandal artifacts.(National Archives collection; former White House intern Monica Lewinsky) | | Thomas Mallon |
Winter dreams: six places around the world to make the most of coziness or cold.(The Sophisticated Traveler)(Part 2) | | Barbara Lazear Ascher, John Lukacs, David Plante, Elizabeth Andoh, Howard Frank Mosher, Rebecca Pepper Sinkler |
Words.(preparing a time capsule) | | George Saunders, John Waters, Christopher Buckley, Helen Fielding, Allan Gurganus, Bharati Mukherjee, E.L. Doctorow, Michael Kinsley, Arthur Miller, William (Canadian writer) Gibson, Dorothy Allison, Geoff Dyer, Michael Ondaajte, Robert L. Chapman, Nora Roberts, Honor Moore, Greil Marcus |
Youthful indiscretions: questions for Doug Liman.(director of films `Swingers' and `Go') | | Maureen Callhan |
Youthful indiscretions: questions for Doug Liman.(motion picture director of `Swingers' and `Go')(Interview) | | Maureen Callahan |
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