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February 2001
How It Was Decided
Closed mid-January 2001 · On stands late January 2001
The Front
Field Notes: The Recount
A short glossary item on 'chad' entering the American vocabulary
On the Ratings
Survivor's second season draws the network's largest audience outside the Super Bowl
The Essay
How It Was Decided
The thirty-six-day Florida recount and the Supreme Court's decision installing Bush, read for what a close election reveals about the machinery underneath it
The Foreign File
The Gujarat Toll
A Republic Day earthquake levels Bhuj and outlying villages in Gujarat; the death toll climbs for weeks past the first estimate
The Feature Well
The City
The Back
January Notices
Short reviews of the season's political memoirs and a runway retrospective on the year's return of the tailored suit