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Letters to the editor
Salon Staff
Barney Frank clarifies he's no big fan of Steve Forbes Plus: Women should deal with sexism in college -- just like men do! Geek sex -- a waste of marketable energy?
Laughter after irony
Christopher Kelly
Are new movies like "Holy Smoke" and "American Beauty" reinventing screen comedy?
Whose vast conspiracy is it, anyway?
Gary Kamiya
There was a plot to get President Clinton, argues Jeffrey Toobin. It just wasn't the one you think.
Maxed out
Evan Wright
Max Hardcore and other XXX pornographers awakened something dark in me. Or perhaps it was already there.
Eli
Cynthia Durcanin
As Havana waits for Castro's demise, even his enemies are appalled by the way Miami's Cuban exiles have used the motherless boy for their own political ends.
Whip me, spank me, gentrify me
Annalee Newitz
A strange new romance is brewing between bourgeois taste and S/M styles.
“Mr. Death”
Andrew O'Hehir
An idiosyncratic documentary examines the life of Fred Leuchter, a man who built a better electric chair -- and denied the Holocaust death camps.
In all the hoo-ha about Elian we have forgotten the Smalls!
Dorothy Nixon
Who could forget those darling fugitives from Canadian cultural protectionism?
Wake me when I'm vested
Sean Elder
So, do I have this right? Time Warner's old-growth deadwood mixed with AOL's deadwood.com yields -- a shiny new three-wood?
King of “Kings”
Michael Sragow
With dark horse Oscar candidate "Three Kings" trotted out for another showing, director David O. Russell talks about Michael Jackson, visual studies and George Clooney's Cary Grant turn.
Men in tights
Gillian Andrews
In the latest p.c. backlash, students named Little Hitler and the Beetle don spandex and pummel each other with sleds.
No sex please, we're geeks
Paulina Borsook
They've got money, power and huge hard drives, so why aren't Silicon Valley's finest getting any?
“Punch” Bradley, “Judy” Gore and the injustice being done John Rocker
Camille Paglia
How about those Titans? Duchess Hillary sheds crocodile tears; McCain's creepy; Monica acquires rueful thoughtfulness; and you just can't beat that androgynous Hayley Mills in "The Parent Trap."
Unhand that butler!
David McDonough
Ask Jeeves and its new agent, Mike Ovitz, claim that their butler isn't Bertie Wooster's.
Real Life Rock Top 10
Greil Marcus
What's at stake in the 2000 elections?
Michael Alvear
Rosa Parks, David Duke, Steve Wozniak, Camille Paglia, Al Franken -- and dozens more -- talk about what inspires and frightens them about the political year ahead.
Descent of the divas
Damien Cave
Gay men once worshipped some of the most over-the-top female entertainers, but the deification of the flamboyant, the bitchy and the damaged has become an anachronism.
Babatunde Olatunji: Delivering the cure
Mike Thomas
A strange stranger in a strange land, decades ago Baba introduced millions to the medicine of drumming. Now 72, he's still got the beat.
Soaplands and love hotels
Roland Kelts
Weaving kitsch, honesty and lather, sex in Japan is as complex as the country itself.
Y2blecK
Jenn Shreve
Why some people still yearn for the apocalypse. Plus: A beer-soaked argument for the re-segregation of baseball and an absurd portrait of two macho men duking it out in court.
Women learn best from women
Joyce Hackett
What message does a male-dominated faculty send to female students?
Ghetto trippin'
Eric Boehlert
The obituaries called Curtis Mayfield a major influence on hip-hop. Too bad his followers didn't learn a thing.
“Galaxy Quest”
Stephanie Zacharek
A sweet-spirited and clever film for anyone who's ever been a sci-fi nerd -- or laughed at one.
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