MER
September 2001
The Nine Judges and the Song
Closed mid-August 2001 · On stands late August 2001
The Front
The Nine Judges and the Song
A federal court orders Napster shut down
Field Notes: August
Beach-permit sales along the Gulf Coast, the going rate for a share house outside Traverse City, interstate traffic at its summer peak, the gossip columns' busiest month of the year
The Essay
The Diary Nobody Edits
An essay on the earliest wave of personal web diarists writing without an editor between them and a reader, taken as a coming shift rather than a curiosity
The Foreign File
The Red Zone
G8 protests turn violent in Genoa's cordoned Red Zone; a demonstrator, Carlo Giuliani, is shot dead by a carabiniere
The Feature Well
The City
The Southampton Item
Lizzie Grubman backs a Mercedes SUV into a crowd outside a Southampton nightclub
The Back
August Notices
Short reviews of the season's beach reading, and the season's best-selling pop album