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James Carville
Joan Walsh
The Ragin' Cajun savages spineless Democrats, journalists who suck up to Bush and the GOP politicians who brought us Enron.
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A biography of the irrepressible James Boswell and more of our favorite new books.
“Ambling Into History” by Frank Bruni
Noam Scheiber
A new book says George W. Bush is a pretty nice guy who's matured a lot in the past two years. Maybe so, but is that all we ask for in a president?
Sex and the single neurotic
Carina Chocano
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is messed up and real in the innovative "Watching Ellie," but the heroine in "Leap of
Faith" is a formulaic Empowered TV Woman with fake problems.
Too late to stop the hangman?
Dave Lindorff
Missouri is determined to execute Joseph Amrine for murder even though every prosecution witness and the jury foreman now say he's innocent and new witnesses point to another man. Why? A federal law says the evidence came in too late.
The chill is gone
Richard Blow
The once-great Stephen King has been recycling his plots and characters for 20 years now. It's time he made good on his threats to retire.
With Snoop Dogg and the wild tummy shirt girls at Mardi Gras
Brett Forrest
Outside, the crowd resembled an endless copulation of confused ants. Inside, a woman attached herself to the Doggfather and squirmed in the light of temporary stardom.
What real hockey looks like
Steve Kettmann
The Olympic hockey tournament is a golden opportunity for the NHL to make some long-overdue changes.
“Big Fat Liar”
Damien Cave
This tepid Hollywood revenge comedy, starring Frankie Muniz of "Malcolm in the Middle," chooses safe, clean fun over true teen anarchy.
Glimpse of the future
Julie Talen
In an age when movie musicals are mostly children's cartoons, Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge" brilliantly reinvents the genre and opens the door to a new cinematic style. So why didn't the critics get it?
Was President Bush abducted by aliens?
Chris Colin
When Dubya had his close encounter of the pretzel kind, did he in fact take a trip far, far away?
The deadly children of Ghazni
Phillip Robertson
On the treacherous Kabul-Kandahar road, our correspondent falls into the hands of a gang of feral kids with Kalashnikovs.
The kitschification of Sept. 11
Daniel Harris
America hid from the harsh realities of the attack behind a maudlin curtain of heavenly firemen and weeping angels.
Doing the Sundance shuffle
Alan Deutschman
Our intrepid reporter went to the ridiculously famous indie film festival, hobnobbed with Mariah and Mira, breathed the same air as Brad and Parker and uncovered one dirty little secret.
Stuck outside of Kabul … with the nuclear blues again
Phillip Robertson
Musharraf is afraid of losing a war, while Vajpayee is afraid of losing an election. It's hideous politics that makes rational people like me want to drink too many gin and tonics.
Gamblers Inc.
Kristy Siegfried
In California, betting to win can be a buttoned-down, corporate slog through the salary-man trenches.
Love motel
Stephen Lemons
Chas Ray Krider's photos unlock the noir sexuality of the quintessential American motor inn.
Touring Times Square
David Bowman
The lost seediness can still be found, if you're with the king of 42nd Street.
The year in music
Joey Sweeney
Britney grows up, the Strokes get the girls, Bob Dylan pencils a moustache and everyone is mad at the goddamn record industry! Why hype finally failed in 2001.
All hail Pottersville!
Gary Kamiya
The "bad" town in "It's a Wonderful Life" jumps and jives 24/7 with hot bars and cool chicks -- while "wholesome" Bedford Falls is a claustrophobic snooze.
John Walker’s brothers and sisters
Anthony York
None of the San Francisco Bay Area's many other Muslim converts followed his same ill-fated path. But is there something about their religious experience that estranges them from their own country?
Almost like love
Lillian Ann Slugocki
The potential for innocence beckoned me and I became reckless in search of it.
Women’s football: Ready for prime time?
King Kaufman
When teams like the Vipers and the Slammers mix it up, it's the real deal. And they're hoping recognition is just a chip-shot field goal away.
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