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February 22, 2001

+ THIS WEEK ...

Poets may be "the unacknowledged legislators of the world," as Percy
Bysshe Shelley once put it, but what of journalists? Well, in the
February and March issues of Harper's magazine Christopher Hitchens,
a columnist for The Nation and Vanity Fair and the author of a new
collection of essays on literature and politics entitled
*Unacknowledged Legislation*, has been making a bid of his own for
legislator -- or prosecutor -- status, arguing in his inimitable way
that Henry Kissinger ought to be indicted for crimes against humanity.

This week and next in Atlantic Unbound, James Fallows, The Atlantic's
national correspondent, engages Hitchens in an exchange of e-mail
correspondence about both the Harper's articles and the book -- with
its essays on such writers as George Orwell, Salman Rushdie, Norman
Podhoretz, and many others. To accompany the exchange, we're offering
two influential Atlantic articles by Seymour M. Hersh (a journalist
"legislator" if there ever was one) from May and December, 1982,
which went on to form part of his book *The Price of Power: Kissinger
in Nixon's White House*.

Also this week: a flashback to Charles C. Mann's report on the
Napster controversy from last September's Atlantic, new Unbound
Fiction, fresh ink from Sage Stossel, and more.

Cheers,

Wen Stephenson
Editorial Director
The Atlantic Online
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+ In ATLANTIC UNBOUND, The Atlantic's online journal ...

Fallows@large
THE WORK OF WORDS
Feb 21 | James Fallows exchanges e-mail with Christopher Hitchens,
author of *Unacknowledged Legislation* and would-be prosecutor of
Henry Kissinger.
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/fallows/jf2001-02-21/

Plus, from The Atlantic's archive:

- "Kissinger and Nixon in the White House" (May 1982)
The first of two articles on Henry Kissinger's service as national
security adviser to Richard Nixon. By Seymour M. Hersh
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/82may/hershwh.htm

- "The Price of Power" (December 1982)
Kissinger, Nixon, and Chile. By Seymour M. Hersh
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/82dec/hersh.htm

Also in Atlantic Unbound:

Unbound Fiction
I WAS JUST LOOKING
by Joe Kuhl
Feb 21 | "Her scarlet djelleba was torn slightly at the hem. He gazed
at the smooth, graceful curve of her calf, deliberately revealed, he
was certain, for his eyes only."
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/fiction/2001-02kuhl.htm

Sage, Ink
ESCAPIST LITERATURE
Feb 21 | A cartoon by Sage Stossel.
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/sage/ss2001-02-21.htm

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+ In FLASHBACKS...

THE HEAVENLY JUKEBOX
In last September's Atlantic, Charles C. Mann argued that most
coverage of the Napster controversy has missed some basic points.
Chief among them: the fight against Internet "piracy" is being led by
a peculiar and grasping business -- the recording industry -- that
should not be allowed to set the rules.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/09/mann.htm

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+ In D.C. DISPATCH | from National Journal

Legal Affairs
GOOD PARDONS, BAD LAWS, AND BUSH'S UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY
by Stuart Taylor Jr.
Feb 22 | By pushing for sentencing reform, Bush can show that
compassionate conservatism is more than a slogan.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/taylor2001-02-22.htm

Media
DYING TO BE READ -- WHAT OBITS TELL US
by William Powers
Feb 22 | Obits can reflect a paper's values. Consider the send-offs
for Dale Evans and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/powers2001-02-22.htm

Political Pulse
SIMPLY "SHOWING STRENGTH" MIGHT NOT DO
by William Schneider
Feb 22 | Sharon's problem is that Palestinians live in the same
neighborhood as Israelis.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/schneider2001-02-22.htm

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+ In POST & RIPOSTE | Forum Highlights

"The Feel-Good Presidency"
Is NBC's *The West Wing* a "wish-fulfillment fantasy" for liberals?
Readers weigh in on Chris Lehmann's critique of the hit TV show --
and Lehmann responds.
http://forum.theatlantic.com/WebX?.ee6f14e

"Reinventing Privacy"
Will technology give back what it has taken away? Who will profit
most in the new privacy space? Join the conversation on Toby Lester's
March cover story.
http://forum.theatlantic.com/WebX?.ee6f115

"Waugh's Sword"
Readers respond to the review of Evelyn Waugh's *Sword of Honour*
trilogy in the February Atlantic. Was Waugh a razor-sharp satirist
and one of the great novelists of the 20th century, or was he prone
to "snobbery, prejudice, cowardice" and a "nauseating contempt, laced
with fear, for the lower classes"?
http://forum.theatlantic.com/WebX?.ee6f1ae

... and much more.
http://www.theatlantic.com/pr/

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