September 4, 2000 Features Never Mind the Bollocks BY BILL BOISVERT Here's the new Republican Party The Battle of Philadelphia BY DAVE LINDORFF Working It BY DAVID MOBERG Will unions go all out for Gore? Black Radicals Regroup BY SALIM MUWAKKIL Detroit hosts the Black Radical Congress. Mad Sheep Scare BY TERRY J. ALLEN Farmers, scientists and the USDA square off in Vermont. News Cleaning Up BY HANS JOHNSON Missouri, Oregon consider campaign finance initiatives. Star Strike BY BEN WINTERS Actors demand a better deal. Renegade or Redeemer? BY STEVE ELLNER Hugo Chavez leads Venezuela into a new era. The New Front BY KARI LYDERSEN American anti-abortion groups crusade in Ireland. Profile BY TED KLEINE Johnny Lira is in their corner. Views Editorial BY DAVID MOBERG Big money problems. Appall-O-Meter BY DAVID FUTRELLE A Terry Laban Cartoon Dialogue: The Balkans More Conspiracy Theories? BY EDWARD S. HERMAN A Humanitarian Crusade BY DIANA JOHNSTONE Culture A Man for All Seasons BY HOWARD ZINN Francis Wheen's Marx: A Life. Interstate Rambler BY PHILIP CONNORS On the road with Larry McMurty. England's Dreaming BY JOHN GHAZVINIAN History falls off the back of a lorry. Under the Influence BY JASON SHOLL Sadie Plant writes on drugs. Vanishing Act BY JOSHUA ROTHKOPF Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man. Presidential Dance Parties BY GREG SMITHSIMON

Presidential Dance Parties By Greg Smithsimon Candidates can't be trying to impress anybody with their theme songs. The biggest musical hubbub was over a snafu during Hillary Clinton's Senate candidacy announcement, when the CD accidentally spun on to "Captain Jack," who, Billy Joel promised, "will get ya high tonight." The opposition pounced on this as incontrovertible evidence that electing the First Lady would herald the return of bong-wielding hippies and half-naked flower children, while the rest of us just wished it were that easy. But the song Hillary's team meant to play wasn't any better, unless "New York State of Mind" convinced anyone that thinking about New York is an adequate substitute for Clinton actually living there.   TOP HOME SUBSCRIBE MAIL   In These Times © 2000 Vol. 24, No. 20