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By Jodi Kantor and Eve Gerber
Updated Sunday, April 4, 1999, at 3:30 AM ET

Slate's Complete Kosovo Coverage

Economist, April 4

(posted Friday, April 2, 1999)

The cover editorial bluntly criticizes NATO's cautious intervention strategy for Kosovo ("horribly wrong") and urges the West to assume control of the region. The piece acknowledges that this will be difficult "from the air alone" but doesn't directly recommend ground troops. Another editorial berates President Clinton for foreclosing the ground troop option, thus goading Slobodan Milosevic into further obstinacy and tying NATO's hands. ... An article calls Microsoft President Steve Ballmer a "tyrant," a "little boy," and a poor choice for the position. Ballmer is neither restrained nor tech-savvy enough to lead the company through its current legal and business challenges.

New Republic, April 19

(posted Friday, April 2, 1999)

The cover story claims that New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has become a victim of his own achievements. Because his crime crackdown has succeeded, further reductions in lawlessness are coming at the cost of increased friction with innocent citizens. Racial hysterics and Dinkins Democrats exploit incidents like the Diallo murder to sully the mayor's success. ... An analysis claims that Republicans have abandoned foreign policy principles. The GOP was gearing up to criticize Clinton for coddling dictators, but the Kosovo bombing short-circuited this argument. So now some Republicans are criticizing Clinton for attacking a dictator, claiming that humanitarian interventions exhaust U.S. resources. ... An article argues that military exchanges with China are foolhardy. Officials insist the exchanges help dispel Chinese perceptions of American military weakness and give our guys a peek at China's military. But there is no real reciprocity of access, and we find ourselves hosting such dubious guests as generals who perpetrated the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

New York Times Magazine, April 4

(posted Thursday, April 1, 1999)

The cover story examines "The Last Counterculture": the Catholic priesthood. It attributes the plummet in the number of men entering the priesthood to pedophilia scandals, disillusionment with celibacy, and "the increasingly secular nature of American life." Contemporary seminarians try not to disengage from mainstream America, but they are disgusted with a popular culture that celebrates contraception, premarital sex, and godlessness. ... A profile of Dan Quayle suggests that his presidential run is all about proving he's not an idiot. The theme of his campaign--also the subtitle of his memoir--is that he's "America's most misjudged public figure." Though there is some Quayle revisionism--Larry King told him, "You're not a joke like you once were"--he is still widely considered unelectable.

Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report, April 5

(posted Tuesday, March 30, 1999)

The newsweeklies all run worried, doubtful cover stories on the Kosovo war and eavesdrop on the high-level conversations behind it. Time stresses the historical angle, calling the Balkans a centuries-old "tinderbox" that the NATO airstrikes will ignite. Newsweek's history lesson: Henry Kissinger reminds readers that World War I started not because of ethnic cleansing but because of outsider intervention. Time and U.S. News argue that the strikes compromise both dicta of the Powell Doctrine because the United States isn't acting with either maximum force or an exit strategy. Both Time and Newsweek report that the president told his advisers, "This isn't a 30-second commercial. This is going to be a sustained effort."

All three magazines profile Slobodan Milosevic. Newsweek psychologizes that his parents' suicides caused his "clear longing for certainties, a need to be in control." Time describes Milosevic as "one of the great losers of history" but then wonders if he's crafty enough to outmaneuver NATO anyway. U.S. News and Newsweek cheer Gen. Wesley Clark, director of NATO's campaign against the Serbs. U.S. News calls him "the smartest man in the Army," while Newsweek describes how Clark rappelled down a mountainside to rescue soldiers in Bosnia.

Rudolph Giuliani defends his handling of the Amadou Diallo shooting to Newsweek. "[The New York Police Department] is not the KKK," he offers.

The New Yorker, April 5

(posted Tuesday, March 30, 1999)

A piece by Seymour Hersh blames the U.S. government for the disintegration of U.N. weapons inspection efforts in Iraq. Eager to assassinate Saddam Hussein--and supported by presidential orders--the CIA hijacked the intelligence operation designed by the U.N. Special Commission for Iraq to track Iraq's weapons development, thus destroying UNSCOM's credibility. Hersh also alleges that Iraq paid Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov $800,000 for weapons know-how in 1997. ... A story describes the courtship between John Hinckley Jr. and a woman who had murdered her 10-year-old daughter, when both were confined to a D.C. mental hospital. The romance developed steadily until Hinckley began to pester a hospital pharmacist who resembled Jodie Foster.

Weekly Standard, April 5

(posted Tuesday, March 30, 1999)

The editors lambast the "pathetic incoherence" of Republican foreign policy and urge a return to the more moral and aggressive approach of the Reagan era. ... A piece calls the protests against the Diallo killing "a ludicrous moral pageant" and an attempt by the "prevailing ideological power structure" to delegitimize Mayor Giuliani in particular and conservative governance in general. ... The cover story argues that George Washington has been ignored by historians because he was a paragon of virtue and praises recent efforts to spiff up his media image.

Esquire, April 1999

(posted Tuesday, March 30, 1999)

An exposé headlined "DWB" (Driving While Black) slams Operation Pipeline--a Drug Enforcement Administration-sponsored program to catch drug "mules"--which effectively targets minorities. Cops are trained to pull over, interrogate, and search on the basis of "indicators," such as air fresheners, fast-food trash, lack of eye contact, and insufficient or excessive luggage. The indicators are often a proxy for the motorist's race: One trooper admits he was trained to target blacks.

Ms., April/May 1999

(posted Saturday, May 27, 1999)

The feminist magazine relaunches with articles on subjects predictable (female candidates for president, abortion clinic violence) and less so (adultery, the benefits of eating soy). ... A patient narrates her face lift. At first, she feels like "female goods in a dick-driven market," but a few weeks later finds her smoother, younger face a source of pleasure and confidence. ... A photo essay, "In Praise of Women," features shots of impoverished or oppressed women in Afghanistan, Africa, and Haiti, with lushly worded captions. ("Though worlds apart geographically, we are all sisters in our souls.")