The Meridian Archive
MER
December 2000
One City, Two Dugouts

One City, Two Dugouts

Closed mid-November 2000 · On stands late November 2000

The Front

On the Word 'E-Sign'

The E-Sign Act makes electronic signatures federally binding

Index of the Cold Snap

The season's first heating bills, holiday ad pages, national broadcast ratings for the Series

The Waitlisted Handbag

Department stores nationwide report waiting lists for a single accessory line, the object itself less the point than the wait

The Catalogue That Loads

A holiday gift-guide roundup of e-commerce sites now performing print's old catalogue function, covered as its own retail category rather than a threat to the page

The Foreign File

The Hole in the Hull

USS Cole attacked in Aden harbor

The City

Subject: The Yankees beat the Mets in the first Subway Series since 1956

The Back

Books: null · Art: A saleroom social history of the auction houses' clubby manners and Old World discretion, the antitrust mechanics reduced to a paragraph and left to the business wires · Film: null