MER
April 1999
Nineteen Shots
Closed mid-March 1999 · On stands late March 1999
The Front
The Second Line
A short note on the growing number of households installing a dedicated phone line for the modem, dial-up sessions now routinely running past midnight
The Foreign File
The Bombing Campaign, Week Three
NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia continues over Kosovo, with alliance spokesmen briefing daily on sortie counts as Belgrade's air defenses hold
The Feature Well
Nineteen Shots
Amadou Diallo was shot nineteen times by four Street Crime Unit officers in the vestibule of his Bronx building on February 4th
The Back
The Miseducation
Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill won Album of the Year at February's Grammy Awards
The Number One Show Nobody Admits to Watching
A brief note on the surprise ratings of a syndicated daytime hit, and the guilty appetite of a readership that watches it and calls it someone else's television