The Class of 2001
Closed mid-May 2001 · On stands late May 2001
The Front
The Meridian Index
Average starting salary offered to a graduating senior, this year versus last; the going rate for a decent seat at the Derby infield; sunscreen sales, year over year; the number of dot-com internships rescinded between offer and start date
Field Notes: May
Mother's Day flower-shop lines around the block, NBA and NHL playoff brackets narrowing, a national jump in air-conditioner service calls ahead of the first heat wave, moving-truck reservations booked solid through Memorial Day
The Essay
First Jobs, Cooling Market
A cohort raised on stories of twenty-five-year-old millionaires graduates into a market quietly asking them to lower their expectations
The Foreign File
Dispatch from Bogotá
A stringer's report from the demilitarized zone ceded to FARC three years earlier, where peace talks grind on without an end date and villagers have stopped expecting one
The Feature Well
The Tiger Effect
A profile of professional golf's sudden ratings boom, built around one player's dominance, and the network executives now reworking Sunday schedules around a single name
The City
Fleet Week
Sailors on liberty crowding midtown for the holiday weekend, the annual ships-in-the-Hudson spectacle, and the bars near the piers that plan their whole month around it
The Back
The Mummy, Returned
A review of the summer's first big sequel out of the gate, and short notices on the season's wedding-planning and etiquette guides