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The Fix
Salon Staff
Schwarzenegger makes play for prime-time convention slot, Barbara Walters bemoans ubiquity of Paris Hilton, and Ron Reagan's not letting up on Bush.
“Fahrenheit 9/11”: Nay!
Stephanie Zacharek
Moore's latest has some powerful images that are invariably overwhelmed by his jokey, faux-populist self-righteousness.
“Fahrenheit 9/11”: Yea!
Andrew O'Hehir
Moore is not just a traditional muckracker, but a crusading artist -- like Dickens, Solzhenitsyn and Springsteen -- and has become a signal artist of our time.
Letters
Salon Staff
Dodgeball, "the most egalitarian of games"? Tim Russert, underappreciated? Salon readers come to their defense -- and pipe up in favor of Bollywood and Steven Spielberg, too.
Cryin’ shame
Jon Caramanica
Shaped up, shipped out ... and feelin' so blue. The image of the melancholy soldier has become country music's money shot.
Writing in the Margins
Scott Thill
Our indie-publishing roundup: She's a neo-feminist icon, plus she shot Andy Warhol! The impenetrable French shrink who fuels today's film critics. Tony and Carmela as philosophers. Forgotten Bigfoot? He hasn't forgotten you!
This thick excitement
Nuala O'Faolain
The town-hall dances in my tiny Irish village were the most exquisite, prolonged foreplay the world has ever known.
“Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge”
Charles Taylor
One of the biggest Indian movies of all time has finally reached America -- and deserves to translate into a big success here, too.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
O'Reilly declares war on Moore and Hollywood Nazis. Plus: Is Bush a lock in November, and is L.A. more dangerous than Baghdad?
Leave me alone!
Cary Tennis
Just because I bounced between anorexia and bulimia people think they can comment on what I'm eating.
Heavenly creatures
Curt Holman
Jeff Smith's "Bone" and Dave Sim's "Cerebus" defined a comics era -- and helped make funny animals cool again. With both these epic series ending, the comics world is at a crossroads.
The Arabian Panther
Abigail R. Esman
Dyab Abou Jahjah's Arab European League calls for sharia law, celebrates 9/11 and warned Belgian Jews to break with Israel or else. Is he defending Muslims' civil rights -- or inciting hatred?
Blowing our minds
Larry Smith
Martin Torgoff, author of "Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000," talks about America's complicated and schizophrenic history with drugs.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Ben and Jen, the Osbournes and Eminem fall off Forbes' Celebrity 100 list, and WSJ reporters call byline strike. Plus: Could you be the next Michael Hutchence? Mark Burnett wants to know!
Lone Star gets loonier
Jake Bernstein, Dave Mann
Texas Republicans endorse God, squabble, call for dismantling the federal government, await indictments and pray for Bush.
“The Chronicles of Riddick”
Andrew O'Hehir
This plot-packed "Pitch Black" sequel -- starring, yes, Vin Diesel -- is thoroughly enjoyable, but not because it's any good.
Vote your vagina!
Rebecca Traister
Eve Ensler, the vulva-friendly playwright, hosts a fundraiser in New York in the hopes of getting young women to vote with their ... well, you know.
Letters
Salon Staff
Responses to Ann Marlowe on Raphael Patai's influential book "The Arab Mind" run the gamut from healthy skepticism to outright sarcasm -- "Hello! Ms. Marlowe, it's called a discourse."
An Olsen intervention
Corrie Pikul
Girls, before you turn 18, read this! Expert advice about becoming a woman from Janice Dickinson, J.T. LeRoy, Annie Sprinkle, a Ying Yang twin and more.
“The Candy Men” by Nile Southern
Charles Taylor
Terry Southern's son tells the wacky tale of his dad's '60s pornographic masterpiece "Candy," whose heroine is both dirtier and more innocent than today's dead-eyed Britney nymphets.
The wolf in all of us
Katharine Mieszkowski
The return of the gray wolf to the American West isn't just a triumph for conservationists. It's a victory over the darkness in our own human nature.
Mail-order divorce
Dan Kois
Netflix delivered any movie I asked for directly to my door. And yet, somehow, it just wasn't enough.
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