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February 21 & 28, 2000

The New Yorker cover for February 21, 2000

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profiles

Making It Real

John Lahr

How Mike Nichols re-created comedy and himself.

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a critic at large

The Promises Martha Stewart Made—and Why We Wanted to Believe Them

Joan Didion