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My past life as a dog
Janelle Brown
For 12 years, Buddhist nun Tenzin Palmo meditated alone in a tiny cave in Tibet. Now she wants to elevate the status of other Buddhist women, believed to be reincarnated as females as punishment for past mistakes.
“More World, less bank” — fewer protesters
Joshua Micah Marshall
Last weekend's lame protests raise the question: Is the nascent anti-globalization movement already dying?
Dogpatch confidential
Dennis Drabelle
Al Capp, the creator of "Li'l Abner," one of America's greatest comic strips, brilliantly combined comedy and commentary, until he lost it over the '60s counterculture and championed Nixon.
Stop the holy showboating
Dan McGraw
Listen up, jocks: God doesn't care if you score a touchdown. So do your praying in private, not in the end zone.
Iran’s leading filmmaker denied U.S. visa
Andrew O'Hehir
Director Abbas Kiarostami, one of international cinema's biggest names, is blocked from attending the New York Film Festival and speaking at Harvard.
“The Money Shot” by Laura Grindstaff
Damien Cave
The producers of daytime TV talk shows must woo wife beaters, drug addicts and other scum as guests. Their reward? Being treated like bottom-feeding slime by a public that laps it up.
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
What's in Tony Blair's important dossier? Plus: Gore speaks -- and so do the polls.
Play it again, scam
Carina Chocano
Crimes shown backward, heroes
sent back to high school, and yet another trip to the '60s. This week's lame new TV shows prove a trip down Memory Lane can be a snooze.
“Secretary”
Stephanie Zacharek
Whip me, spank me, correct my spelling mistakes. James Spader stars in a weird tale about the mysteries of desire.
Love in the age of irony, Part 4
"Since You Asked" readers
Young readers write about saving the environment, the legacy of free love and how it's impossible to sum up a generation in a magazine article.
How greedy was my Valley?
Andrew Leonard
A noir mystery and an academic study anatomize Silicon Valley's culture of fast money and culture splicing.
Love in the age of irony, Part 3
"Since You Asked" readers
Young readers talk about "alternative" relationships, cleaning up after the boomers, Kurt Cobain, the desire to love and be loved, and more.
Love in the age of irony, Part 2
"Since You Asked" readers
Readers weigh in on what it's like to be young and searching for love, sex and a way to make sense of the boomer generation.
It’s all good
Dr. Lynn Ponton
As a parent and a psychiatrist, Dr. Lynn Ponton has daily encounters with the danger and exhilaration that accompany adolescence. Teenage risk is scary, she says, but it is also a developmental necessity.
Yesterday’s terrorist, today’s peacemaker
Ashley Fantz
In a vote hailed as a landmark stride for democracy, Macedonian voters elect an ethnic Albanian guerrilla leader many authorities still denounce as a terrorist.
A pediatrician in shining armor?
Dr. Lawrence Diller
There are no flawless parenting gurus, says Dr. Lawrence Diller, but as a behavioral pediatrician with 25 years in practice, he can guarantee thoughtful advice and plenty of moral support.
Letters: Tidings of comfort and rage
Salon Staff
Readers respond to an atheist's lament, the plight of shunned mourners, and the heretical thoughts of readers in the wake of 9/11.
Love in the age of irony
Cary Tennis, "Since You Asked" readers
Young men and women talk back to their elders about life, sex and the new rules of engagement.
Bribes, threats and naked readings
Christopher Dreher
In a world where more and more new books get less and less attention, authors will do anything to promote their work.
“Barbershop”
Charles Taylor
Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer trade jabs in a cheerfully old-fashioned comedy about a South Side Chicago haircut joint and the community it anchors.
Before women had pubic hair
David Bowman
Scholar Peter Gay talks about "Exposed: The Victorian Nude" at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Damned if we do, damned if we don’t
Ferry Biedermann
Even in moderate Arab states like Egypt, anti-Americanism burns so hot that the U.S. can do no right.
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