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King Leer
Charles Taylor
Two new books plumb the troubled life and inimitable genius of Groucho Marx.
Attack of the killer nasties?
Leah Kohlenberg
The American Medical Association recently urged the FDA to tighten its control over antibacterial products. So what's stopping it?
Race and silence in Central Park
Jonathan Foreman
The media's refusal to acknowledge the incident's ethnic dimension keeps hidden the kind of behavior many black and Latin women must confront all the time.
Do-it-yourself giant brains!
Andrew Leonard
From punch cards to Linux, hackers love to tinker and share. Even Bill Gates can't stop them.
Cruel and unusual punishment
Fiona Morgan
The Supreme Court has gone too far by banning prayer from school football games.
Parlez-vous Universal?
Gregg Kilday
French media giant Vivendi takes over Universal Pictures. Cue the Jerry Lewis flicks?
Constipation = civilization
Andreas Killen
In "Inner Hygiene," professor James C. Whorton reminds us that some of our great thinkers, from Martin Luther to Ben Franklin and beyond, have been afflicted with clogged bowels.
Andre the Giant bombs the world!
Stephen Lemons
From London to L.A., Tokyo to Philly, guerrilla artist Shepard Fairey's ironic, iconic postering blitz featuring the long-dead WWF star has become a global phenomenon.
Great escapists
Michael Sragow
"Chicken Run" creators Nick Park and Peter Lord talk about animating with emotion, Mel Gibson's patriotic rooster and finding an idea with legs, er, drumsticks.
It’s payback time
Cathy Young
In "The War Against Boys," author Christina Hoff Sommers claims that unfair programs to empower girls have taken a toll on boys.
Deadly prose
Porter Shreve
At the Second Great Obituary Writers' Conference, members of the dismal trade talk shop, network and listen to presentations such as "How many ways can one say 'died'?"
Backlash in blue?
Salon Staff
Readers respond to Bruce Shapiro's indictment of the NYPD's handling of the Central Park attacks.
“Jesus’ Son”
Andrew O'Hehir
Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Denis Leary, Holly Hunter and Jack Black lead an all (indie) star cast in a barbiturate-driven noir.
Do mothers still want to rule the roost?
Salon Staff
"I, too, have been guilty of maternal chauvinism"
The blues according to Peter Guralnick
Alex Halberstadt
For decades his writing has celebrated traditional blues music, but it's his brilliant Elvis biography that has made him almost a household name.
School for scandal
David Downie
A Parisian course teaches the fine art of seduction to lame wannabe Lotharios.
Has “don’t ask, don’t tell” created more “lesbians”?
Salon Staff
"A weapon to get rid of troublesome females"
The war on information
Ted Oehmke
Congressional anti-drug legislation could make it illegal to give life-saving advice about ecstasy.
Slaves of a different color
Stephan Talty
Historians mostly ignore the fact that some white people, too, were enslaved before the Civil War.
The agony after ecstasy
Liz O'Brien
I took the drug for nearly a year to lift myself to euphoria. Then I crashed hard.
Courtney Love does the math
Courtney Love
The controversial singer takes on record label profits, Napster and "sucka VCs."
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