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Waiting for Fidel
Christopher Hunt
Waiting for Fidel: An excerpt from Christopher Hunt's revealing new book about Cuba.
Newsreal: “I wanted to shoot the CIA director”
Jeff Stein
In letters to Salon's correspondent, Pakistani terrorist Mir Aimal Kasi -- who faces the death penalty for killing two CIA employees -- explains why he did it, recounts his life on the lam and says his only regret is that he didn't kill higher-ranking CIA officials.
How to buy a Turkish rug
Laura Billings
Laura Billings weaves a delightful tale of a rug-bargaining session in Turkey that results in two purchases and some priceless insights.
Nagano: Not ready for prime time
Eric Gower
Eric Gower reports from Nagano, Japan, on the Russian Club, the CBS-embracing priest at Zenkoji temple and other Olympics-related additions to the local scene.
Newsreal: The army of the right
Jonathan Broder
The Wall Street Journal's defense correspondent investigates today's military and finds it becoming an increasingly right-wing institution.
The worst books of 1997
Dwight Garner
Salon Magazine's book critics survey the worst and most overrated books of 1997
The Abandoned Newborn
Sharon Olds
Won Ton Lust
John Krich
In this excerpt from his new book, 'Won Ton Lust,' John Krich
discovers an edible legend in Chengdu, China.
Allan Gurganus
Dwight Garner
Allan Gurganus, the not-quite-oldest survivor of New York's 15-year-long gay party, tells all about his relationship with John Cheever, learning to write on an aircraft carrier, Whitman's heroism and the redemptive power of laughter.
21st: The girl-game jinx
Elizabeth Weil
The girl-game jinx: By Elizabeth Weil. Computer games targeted for girls are storming the marketplace. Why haven't they found a place in their customers' hearts?
Chris Gulker
Don George
Chris Gulker, Apple's strategic relations guru, shares his business travel
tips and tales with Salon Wanderlust in this week's Road Warrior
Not too sleazy in the Big Easy
Courtney Weaver
A night on the town in New Orleans fails to generate the Caligula-like ambience sought by our reporter.
Media Circus: Standing room only
Catherine Seipp
To all those friends I have unfairly skewered in print, I can say only one thing from the humble bottom of my heart: get over it!
Breakdown at Q-Zar
Joyce Maynard
A mother goes to
a laser tag arcade with her teenage sons and has an emotonal meltdown.
Newsreal: Bad company
Todd Pitock
The reasons Nelson Mandela, who represents the triumph of democracy, embraces Moammar Gadhafi and other enemies of democracy.
An unsavory stew
Introduction by Camille Peri
'Grimm's Grimmest' restores the original Grimm fairy tales in all their bloody detail. Illustrated by Tracy Arah Dockray, introduction and translation by Maria Tatar.
Fantasy Isle
Stephen G. Bloom
Oprah, Demi and Arnold escape to Florida's Fisher Island. You can, too -- for a price.
For girls only
Laura Green
With love and irritation, a professor remembers the books she grew up with -- and away from.
Hollywood hangouts
D. J. Waldie
What transforms a simple Hollywood restaurant into a hangout for the rich and famous? Salon's Tinseltown correspondent dishes up the inside scoop.
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