The Buy-and-Bust
Closed mid-April 2000 · On stands late April 2000
The Front
On Language
GHB placed on federal Schedule I under the Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reid Act
Index of the Thaw
Online brokerage account openings still climbing even as the NASDAQ gives back its winter gains, spring runway orders placed by department-store buyers, the season's first drive-in reopenings, a regional ticket-scalping arrest tally
The Chat Room After the Crash
A dispatch on day-trading message-board culture in the weeks after the NASDAQ's April slide — the etiquette of a stranger's screen name offering condolences, and a magazine finally covering online manners as a subject in their own right rather than a threat to print
The Foreign File
The Vote in Moscow
Vladimir Putin wins election to a full term as Russian president
The City
Subject: Undercover buy-and-bust tactics in Midtown and their legal exposure, using the Patrick Dorismond shooting on Eighth Avenue only as an opening anecdote
The Back
Books: A procedural historian's survey of undercover-policing controversies across three major American police departments since the 1970s · Art: An art-market note on collectors bidding six figures at a major spring auction for a young painter's canvases, sold before the paint is fully dry · Film: A survey of the spring's box-office runaway and what its crossover soundtrack album's sales say about the era's appetite for teen pop