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Everything falls
Jill Ketterer
My father is a burning martyr scratching his balls as I condemn him for his sin.
Out of Afghanistan
Phillip Robertson
After witnessing the fall of Kunduz and seeing the dead body of one of his colleagues, our Afghanistan correspondent tries to get out of the country.
Torn between two lovers
Cary Tennis
How can I move on when I keep thinking about the ex I left? What is the latest sleeping-around etiquette? How can I ask a girl out?
All crazy on the Kunduz front
Phillip Robertson
Greetings from the 10th century, where the Northern Alliance fighters who protect me by day try to kill me for my phone at night.
A Kennedy the Bush administration can love
Jake Tapper
President Bush and John Ashcroft honor Bobby Kennedy as a tough-on-crime attorney general who fought "evil," but RFK's daughter cries foul.
Off track
Christopher Ott
Air disasters spotlight a need for better train service -- but American transportation policy has neglected railroads for decades.
The way we thought we were
Brendan Cooney
Two months ago, ground zero was the beginning of a new world. Now a volunteer looks back and finds we've returned to the old one.
Down on the peacock farm
Rob Elder
A previously unpublished 1999 interview with Ken Kesey reveals the "big-time generosity folded into gigantic nerve" that fueled the novelist's legend.
The war of the wizards
Chris Petrikin
"Lord of the Rings" vs. "Harry Potter"! The inside story of how a pair of AOL Time Warner movie studios are facing off with the two biggest movie releases of the new millennium.
My crush on Musharraf
Asra Q. Nomani
With his dogs, drinking, frameless glasses
and Armani suits, he's reviled by
extremists.
My so-called wedding
Rebecca Taylor
In the second row, my father averts his eyes, afraid he will not feel pride, but desire.
TV addict, prankster
Amy Reiter
Pitt won't miss "Friends," will Saran Wrap toilets; "Harry Potter" star's face vibrates. Plus: 'N Sync lowers standards, and Britney's the master of her domain!
Freedom begets evil, and other realizations
Norah Vincent
For civil libertarians -- like myself -- war is a time for some harsh reevaluation.
The making of Osama bin Laden
Jason Burke
From Saudi rich boy to the world's most wanted man: A British newspaper painstakingly retraces the development of a terrorist mastermind.
Ghost writer
Suzy Hansen
Katherine Ramsland talks about her hair-raising experiences tape-recording the voices of the dead and photographing ectoplasm.
The past as prologue
Russ Baker
Ramzi Yousef is in prison for plotting the 1993 World Trade Center bombing -- but we still don't know who he really is, who he might have been working with and what he could tell us about Sept. 11.
Bill Clinton speaks
Salon Staff
In a speech made earlier this month at Yale University, the former president reflects on "the first great struggle for the soul of the 21st century."
Love among the ruins
Cary Tennis
Salon's new advice columnist addresses the perils of post-Sept. 11 romance, fear of being fat, a best man's toast that went too far and other scenes from the human dramedy.
“Our Monica, Ourselves”
Charles Taylor
Eggheads probe some seldom-explored aspects of Clinton's impeachment -- class-hatred, anti-Semitism, fake prudery -- with insightful results.
“Dancing With Demons” by Penny Valentine and Vicki Wickham
Stephanie Zacharek
She drank, took drugs and walloped her (female) lover with a skillet, but Dusty Springfield was the pure, true voice of British R&B.
The wrong man for the job
Laura Miller
John Dean talks about Richard Nixon's backroom maneuverings in the appointment of Chief Justice Rehnquist.
“Liam”
Charles Taylor
The director of "High Fidelity" commands a nuanced tale of a small man consumed by fascism. It's what "Angela's Ashes" should have been.
Chapter 32: Friday, Dec. 15
Alfred Alcorn
In which a preposterous domicile is visited, and lust, exquisite food and talk of good vs. evil intermingle.
Hunting Osama
Max Garrone
The author of "Black Hawk Down" and "Killing Pablo" says that American special forces have been training to go after bin Laden for years and are more than ready.
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