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“An opportunity and a test”
Salon Staff
The full text of President Bush's remarks on the Middle East.
Random numbers
Christopher Dreher
If you think bestseller lists are based on solid facts, guess again. But
a new technology is promising to improve the hot-book scorecard.
Will Congress tackle pay-for-play?
Eric Boehlert
Radio-station owners are shocked -- shocked!-- as the music industry's payola scandal widens. Record-label execs aren't buying it (and neither should you).
On bended knee
Heather Havrilesky
Pro-marriage revivalists praise matrimony as the way and the light. But are they bowing to a false god?
Airplanes don’t get no respect
Patrick Smith
The glamour of the jet age is gone, and that's a shame. It's time to bring back the wonder.
Closed doors, closed minds
David Horowitz
If you don't believe American campuses are dominated by the left, try finding a registered Republican teaching in the social sciences.
The battle for indie radio
Jesse Walker
After seven years of bitter infighting, the dissidents have retaken control of Pacifica, the venerable left-wing radio network. Now comes the hard part.
My All-Star teams
King Kaufman
The Midsummer Classic comes along at the perfect time to start arguing
about who makes it and who doesn't.
Spelunking the empire of death
Christopher Ketcham
In the catacombs beneath Paris, a legendary trespasser enacts the theater of psycho-terror.
Before Baghdad burns
Laura Miller
The author of a new book on Iraq cautions that a U.S. invasion to get rid of Saddam Hussein could be even more dangerous than his weapons of mass destruction.
“How to Lose Friends and Alienate People” by Toby Young
Michelle Goldberg
A would-be member of the media elite describes his hilarious misadventures trying to succeed in the shallow, celebrity-obsessed world of glossy magazines.
Pac-Man
Chris Green
With its canary-yellow Everyblob hero, its masterfully simple design and its abstract realm where even death was a cheerful event, Pac-Man brought video gaming out of the bars and into the malls.
Still-life in prison stripes
Salon Staff
Why is anyone surprised when the Tyco CEO who moved his company's headquarters to Bermuda to avoid taxes tries to evade taxes on pricey art?
“Windtalkers”
Stephanie Zacharek
John Woo's ultraviolent paean to the Navajo "code talkers" who fought with the Marines in World War II takes his Hollywood dream to new heights.
“Pot Planet” by Brian Preston
Douglas Cruickshank
A marijuana connoisseur travels around the world seeking out the people who grow, smoke and worship weed -- and the people who try to stop them.
The zealots behind President Bush’s U.N. family planning sellout
Michelle Goldberg
A small band of antiabortion extremists says the U.N. agency supports Chinese infanticide. The rest of the world says they're wrong, but the White House is listening.
“The Fall of Berlin 1945” by Antony Beevor
Allen Barra
A historian describes Germany's fall to the Soviets in 1945, when civilians suffered the full fury and horror of war.
“I have the American dream licked”
Amy Benfer
The nation's most heavily armed rocker extols his new book, "Kill It and Grill It," blasts hippie environmentalists, praises Rush and says the success of "The Osbournes" reveals the soullessness of mankind.
Kieslowski’s “Three Colors”
Jonathan Kiefer
Just when it seemed that European cinema had become fossilized, the great Polish director created the slickest -- and loveliest -- concept album in art-film history.
Fine diving
Laurie Essig
Young anarchists with guts of steel raid dumpsters for edible "trash." The idea? Divert waste to end wastefulness.
A mysterious hand blocks FBI reforms
Eric Boehlert
An anonymous Republican senator is using an arcane procedure to block a reform bill. Is the GOP taking revenge for the Dems' rejection of Pickering?
“The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)”
Andrew O'Hehir
A dazzling Arctic surprise: Daring camerawork, magnificent vistas and grimy realism fuel this film version of an ancient Inuit legend.
Be creative — or die
Christopher Dreher
A new study says cities must attract the new "creative class" with hip neighborhoods, an arts scene and a gay-friendly atmosphere -- or they'll go the way of Detroit.
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