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Anger in Italy.(Comment)(Giuliana Sgrena shot at by American troops)
April 4, 2005... Rome Giuliana Sgrena, an intrepid journalist for the left-wing newspaper Il Manifesto who had become an icon of national unity during her twenty-eight days as a hostage in Iraq, was returning home: Italians in a high mood zapped their TVs to observe the latest from Baghdad while keeping...

Abolition, a class-free endeavor.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 21, 2005... San Francisco * While I'm grateful for the attention Daniel Lazare gives to my book Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves ["Intolerable Cruelty," Feb. 14], in some of his comments I don't recognize the story I told. With such phrases as...

Radio raves.
March 21, 2005... * We're planning a special issue on radio this spring and we want you to be a part of it. Whether you turn the dial, go online or listen via satellite, tell us in fifty words or less what your favorite station is and why (be sure to include your city and state). Send submissions by March...

Men in black.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 21, 2005... New York City * Russell Jacoby's review of the third volume of my father's unpublished work ["Men in Dark Times," Feb. 7] was a little short on substance (I admit I am not an unbiased commentator). It is in fact the volume that deals with the New Left and the Vietnam War, and it is very...

March madness.(Correction Notice)
March 21, 2005... * In Baz Dreisinger's "In Radical Matrimony" [March 7], Janet Jagan's daughter-in-law is Nadia, not Nadine, Jagan. In John Nichols's March 7 "Now He Has the Power," John Kerry won two counties, not one, in Kansas. In Eric Alterman's March 14 "The Liberal Media," his Altercation blog began in...