Forty-One Shots, No Verdict
Closed mid-March 2000 · On stands late March 2000
The Front
On the Word 'Bypass'
A surgical term's brief tenure as a household word
The Insured Gown
Grammy-night dresses insured for the first time at these numbers, and the arena-tour and album-sales figures behind the acts wearing them
On the Word 'Portal'
How a piece of technical shorthand became the industry's word for the front page of American life
The Foreign File
The Long Way to Concord
Cuban officials press the custody claim of a shipwrecked six-year-old held in Miami, a stringer's note on the diplomacy behind the courtroom fight
The Stones and the War
Tomás's dispatch on Sierra Leone's diamond-funded civil war, pitched and filed over the foreign desk's view that a resource story isn't a war story
The City
Subject: The four officers acquitted of all charges in the Diallo shooting
The Back
Books: null · Art: null · Film: David Letterman returns from quintuple bypass surgery and breaks his own on-air irony to thank his surgical team