March 20, 2000 Features The First Stone BY JOEL BLEIFUSS Ready, aim, inform. It's All About the Benjamins BY SALIM MUWAKKIL Jesse Jackson's new crusade. Labor Goes Global BY DAVID MOBERG Kohl's True Legacy BY PAUL HOCKENOS A rising right. Isolated But Not Alone BY TONY WESOLOWSKY Austria's Jorg Haider taps into Europe's racism. News & Views Editorial Flub watch. A Terry Laban Cartoon Forgotten America BY JUAN GONZALEZ Malathion madness. ThIngs Fall Apart BY G. PASCAL ZACHARY Tony Blair bungles the peace process in Northern Ireland. Nothing to Lose BY ROBERT DOWNING Mexican students regroup after students eject strikers from campus. No Mercy BY CHRISTIAN PARENTI California's juvenile justice system could become one of the nation's toughest. On the Fence BY MATTHEW KNOESTER Human rights or big oil for Al Gore? Appall-O-Meter BY DAVID FUTRELLE Profile BY RUSSELL CONTRERAS Ray Hill shows us the other side.   Culture Sucking in the '70s BY JOE KNOWLES BOOKS: What's beneath the shag carpet. Passion and Warfare BY JOSHUA ROTHKOPF FILM: Jim Jarmusch, minimalist maestro. The Mob Next Door BY BILL BOISVERT TV: The mafia and the suburbs, together at last! Freedom's Sweet BY G. PASCAL ZACHARY MUSIC: Sonny Rollins, saxaphone colossus. Father Figures BY MUMIA ABU-JAMAL

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