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Toni, queen of the desert
Amy Reiter
Actress Toni Collette talks about her "intense" desert-romance flick "Japanese Story" -- and why she likes weddings almost as much as Muriel Helsop.
Letters
Salon Staff
"Welcome to the dawning of a new age of air travel!" Readers respond to Andrew Leonard's "Five O'Clock Shadow? You're a Marked Man!"
Better sex through yoga
Dave Hill
Our intrepid reporter visits a yoga class that promises to awaken the parts "down there" and finds that it helps if your teachers are hotties.
Letters
Salon Staff
"The issue of sex and race is still a toxic one for South Carolina." Plus: Why Jews shouldn't have Christmas envy.
“Mona Lisa Smile”
Stephanie Zacharek
Those costumes! Those actresses! All those daring and unconventional ideas! Oh, wait -- this beautiful, mindless '50s women's-college flick doesn't have any of those.
‘Joice to the world
Anne Lamott
On a visit to San Quentin, I learned that no one is beyond the reach of divine love -- despite society's way of stating the opposite.
The Fix
Karen Croft
Nicole Kidman tells Diane Sawyer what to do, Madeleine Albright jokes about Osama and Orlando says he does it for the women. Plus: Scarlett Johansson is all over the Golden Globes.
Clark: Howard Dean can’t win
Josh Benson
Wesley Clark says Dean lacks national security credibility -- and throws cold water on the idea of a Dean-Clark dream ticket. But after Saddam Hussein's capture, will his own war-critic stance work against him?
The queen of Jerusalem
Christopher Farah
In the wake of the Six-Day War, a young Palestinian woman won an Israeli-sponsored beauty pageant. Organizers promised her glamour, international fame and modeling contracts. Instead, she wound up in Flint, Mich. -- bitter and cynical.
Out of the shadows
Jen Banbury
Armed only with ancient film, scraps of paper, broken buildings and an irrepressible passion to create, Baghdad's artists are emerging from the long darkness of Saddam.
John Kerry slams Bush’s “raw deal” for America
Salon Staff
"Coddling big oil, serving up tax giveaways for the wealthiest, and opening up doors for the lobbyists and for the polluters: That's the only mission accomplished by George W. Bush."
Wish upon a star
Damien Cave
Bush-bashers are hoping that entertainment celebrities will turn out crucial first-time voters. But the audiences aren't sold.
Letter from an Army vet
Salon Staff
A disabled Vietnam-era vet visits a Minneapolis V.A. hospital and discovers that many fellow vets oppose the Bush administration's war in Iraq.
Night raid in Baghdad
Jen Banbury
"Twenty-three hours of boredom and a minute of hell": Our reporter joins U.S. troops on a mission to find guerrillas.
Have yourself a horny little Christmas
Cole Kazdin
Looking at the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog makes me want to buy their clothes, but I'm too exhausted from self-abuse.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
The fascinating details of Neil Bush's business affairs evoke memories of the "China scandals" that once plagued the Clintons.
Notes from an activist: After Miami, what next?
Marisa Handler
Direct action offers a thrill at once addictive and searing, but this movement needs to grow, or we will only be speaking to ourselves.
Operation Iron Hammer: Make noise, kill cows
Jen Banbury
If the U.S. wants to capture or kill Iraqi insurgents, local residents ask, why is it providing advance notice of its attacks?
I don’t
Dan Savage
I'd love to satisfy my mother and annoy Rick Santorum by getting married to my boyfriend. But I care for him -- and our son -- too much to risk it.
Save the Earth — dump Bush
David Talbot
In a slashing interview, environmental leader Bobby Kennedy Jr. denounces the administration's "crimes against nature" and discusses the Democratic presidential pack, the dawn of Arnold's California reign -- and his own political future.
In the lion’s den
Michelle Goldberg
America's highest-powered conservatives invited me to their posh weekend retreat, expecting me to bash the left. I'm afraid I wasn't a very good guest.
Dean’s momentum builds
Josh Benson
The front-runner goes to Washington, and instead of excoriating congressional "cockroaches," gets some big endorsements.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Remembrance of air flights past: The pilot's most memorable moments that don't involve explosive floods of blue toilet fluid.
The state of your unions
Salon Staff
Salon readers share tales of ugly divorces, same-sex relationships, and love born from tragedy.
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