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Explainer 1999:
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- Why Are India and Pakistan Fighting?
Matt Alsdorf Dec. 30, 1999 - What's the Legal Status of Gay Marriage?
Matt Alsdorf Dec. 23, 1999 - Why Wonderful Life Comes but Once a Year
Matt Alsdorf Dec. 22, 1999 - "Samaranch": Explainer Corrects Himself
Matt Alsdorf Dec. 20, 1999 - How Do You Say "Samaranch"?
Matt Alsdorf Dec. 17, 1999 - No Relation No. 7
Matt Alsdorf Dec. 17, 1999 - Who Killed Martin Luther King?
Matt Alsdorf Dec. 15, 1999 - Are Bush and McCain Really Neck and Neck?
Matt Alsdorf Dec. 10, 1999 - Why Doesn't the IRS Take Visa?
Matt Alsdorf Dec. 10, 1999 - Who Gets To Unionize?
Matt Alsdorf Dec. 8, 1999 - Is Seattle's Curfew Legal?
Matt Alsdorf Dec. 2, 1999 - No Relation No. 6: Moore Than Meets the Eye
Matt Alsdorf Dec. 2, 1999 - What Is Source Code?
Matt Alsdorf Nov. 30, 1999 - Why Gore Paid His Accountants $4 Million
Matt Alsdorf Nov. 25, 1999 - What Do Autopilots Do?
Matt Alsdorf Nov. 23, 1999 - How Will the Budget Cuts Work?
Matt Alsdorf Nov. 19, 1999 - $100 Million for a Bride?
Matt Alsdorf Nov. 19, 1999 - What Is After-Hours Trading?
Matt Alsdorf Nov. 12, 1999 - What Is a Hostile Takeover?
Matt Alsdorf Nov. 11, 1999 - How To Tell Armenia From Azerbaijan
Matt Alsdorf Nov. 9, 1999 - Making Money at the U.S. Mint
Matt Alsdorf Nov. 5, 1999 - Is The New New Thing Copyrighted?
Matt Alsdorf Nov. 2, 1999 - Will New Stocks Increase the Dow?
Matt Alsdorf Oct. 27, 1999 - Do Cellular Phones Cause Brain Cancer?
Matt Alsdorf Oct. 27, 1999 - How Do You Say "Chechnya"?
Eve Gerber Oct. 27, 1999 - Who Gets Liddy Dole's Money?
Matt Alsdorf Oct. 22, 1999 - Does the Dow Always Dip in October?
Matt Alsdorf Oct. 22, 1999 - Who Runs Antarctica?
Matt Alsdorf Oct. 21, 1999 - What Is Moore's Law?
Matt Alsdorf Oct. 14, 1999 - Do Statutes of Limitations Apply to DNA Cases?
Matt Alsdorf Oct. 12, 1999 - A Budget Briefing
Matt Alsdorf Oct. 9, 1999 - Why Hasn't the U.S. Gone Metric?
Matt Alsdorf Oct. 6, 1999 - What Is Gene Therapy?
Matt Alsdorf Oct. 2, 1999 - Can You Kill Someone Twice?
Matt Alsdorf Sept. 29, 1999 - How Does the Reform Party Choose Its Candidate?
Matt Alsdorf Sept. 28, 1999 - Did Taiwan Shake All Day?
Matt Alsdorf Sept. 24, 1999 - What Is the LAPD Scandal?
Matt Alsdorf Sept. 23, 1999 - What Is Entrapment?
Matt Alsdorf Sept. 21, 1999 - What is Puerto Rico?
Matt Alsdorf Sept. 17, 1999 - A Timor Primer
Matt Alsdorf Sept. 15, 1999 - Which Creation Theory?
Matt Alsdorf Sept. 10, 1999 - What Is Money Laundering?
Matt Alsdorf Sept. 10, 1999 - Explaining Today's Papers
Matt Alsdorf Sept. 8, 1999 - Waco Twofer: Pyrotechnic Tear Gas and Delta Force
Matt Alsdorf Sept. 2, 1999 - Has the Chinese Spy Story Fizzled?
Matt Alsdorf Aug. 31, 1999 - Are Dead Bodies Dangerous?
David Plotz Aug. 23, 1999 - Where Were Eichmann’s Memoirs for 37 Years?
Bruce Gottlieb Aug. 18, 1999 - What Is a "Hate Crime"?
Eve Gerber Aug. 13, 1999 - Can James Carville Be Sued for $100,000?
Eve Gerber Aug. 11, 1999 - Can Ice Cubes Cool Your Pool?
Tad Fallows Aug. 10, 1999 - How Strong Is the Case Against Linda Tripp?
Michael Brus Aug. 6, 1999 - Can a New Magazine Survive?
Aug. 4, 1999 - A Tax Break for Warren Buffett?
Maura Kelly Aug. 2, 1999 - A Non-Profit IPO?
Matt Alsdorf Aug. 2, 1999 - In the Event of a Water Landing
Michael Brus July 23, 1999 - What Did Martin Frankel Do?
Matt Alsdorf July 21, 1999 - Who Is Arthur Schnitzler?
July 20, 1999 - How To Quit the Republican Party
Jodi Kantor July 20, 1999 - The FBI's Top 10 List
Eve Gerber July 16, 1999 - George W.'s Racial Covenant
Eve Gerber July 14, 1999 - Copyrights for Dead People?
Maura Kelly July 12, 1999 - Who Should Pay for Hillary's New York Trips?
Eve Gerber July 2, 1999 - What's a Caucus?
Michael Brus June 29, 1999 - No Relation No. 5
Michael Brus June 24, 1999 - What's in a Flag?
Michael Brus June 18, 1999 - What Is a Recess Appointment?
Michael Brus June 14, 1999 - What Can't a Beauty Queen Do?
Bruce Gottlieb May 27, 1999 - Audio/Video on the Internet
Bruce Gottlieb May 18, 1999 - Why Don't Buses Have Seat Belts?
Bruce Gottlieb May 11, 1999 - What Is a Dutch Auction IPO?
Bruce Gottlieb May 6, 1999 - How Does Jesse Jackson Do It?
Jodi Kantor May 5, 1999 - A Bomb That Drops Spools of Wire?
Bruce Gottlieb May 3, 1999 - How Many High Schools Have Armed Guards?
Bruce Gottlieb April 28, 1999 - Is Signing Caskets a New Mourning Ritual?
Jodi Kantor April 26, 1999 - Who Is the Kosovo Liberation Army?
Eve Gerber April 23, 1999 - Can Air Power Alone Win a War?
Bruce Gottlieb April 14, 1999 - A Balkans Glossary
Bruce Gottlieb April 7, 1999 - How Do You Pronounce "Kosovo"?
Eve Gerber April 2, 1999 - Why Do Japanese Commit Hara-Kiri?
Bruce Gottlieb March 25, 1999 - Can Terry Anderson Make Iran Pay?
Bruce Gottlieb March 24, 1999 - What Are Exploratory Committees?
Bruce Gottlieb March 16, 1999 - No Relation No. 4: Bimbo Edition
Bruce Gottlieb March 13, 1999 - Explainer Repeats Himself
Bruce Gottlieb March 11, 1999 - Who Was Dr. Strangelove?
Bruce Gottlieb March 9, 1999 - Who Writes Unsigned Editorials?
Bruce Gottlieb March 8, 1999 - Is Juanita Broaddrick Telling the Truth?
Bruce Gottlieb March 3, 1999 - What are 'Autonomy' and 'Independence' in Kosovo?
Bruce Gottlieb March 1, 1999 - Can Ken tell Monica to Shut Up?
Jodi Kantor Feb. 25, 1999 - Can You Earn Dollars by Borrowing Yen?
Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 25, 1999 - Does Bill Clinton Run Murder Inc.?
Jodi Kantor Feb. 19, 1999 - Why Are Airline Pilots Sick So Often?
Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 18, 1999 - Why Can't American Airlines Pilots Go on Strike?
Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 18, 1999 - Can Hillary Be a New York Senator?
Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 13, 1999 - Was Jordan's King Hussein Really a King?
Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 11, 1999 - Has Monica Really Been Questioned 23 Times?
Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 9, 1999 - Does a settlement mean you're guilty?
Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 5, 1999 - What Are "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"?
Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 4, 1999 - Is the Senate Like a Jury?
Bruce Gottlieb Jan. 20, 1999 - Did America Break the Rules By Spying on Iraq?
Bruce Gottlieb Jan. 15, 1999 - How Can You Tell If Clinton Is Your Father?
Bruce Gottlieb Jan. 8, 1999
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