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Code critic
Rachel Chalmers
John Lions wrote the first, and perhaps only, literary criticism of Unix, sparking one of open source's first legal battles.
The name game
Ruth Shalit
Welcome to the vicious world of corporate name-creation, where $75,000 buys you a suffix and competing shops slur each other over the virtues of Agilent and Avilant.
The whole world is watching
L.A. Kauffman
Direct action comes to the WTO, and members debate what the meaning of "non-violence" is.
Star sickness
Mark Ebner, Lisa Derrick
Celebrities speaking out about their afflictions can raise awareness and money.
Second coming
Jonathon Keats
With its hip new edition of the Good Book, Grove Press aims to save the Bible from the fundamentalists.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Will staying unmarried save your relationship? Plus: Camille Paglia sparks new "Sensation" debate; should technology change the way we have children?
Killing a lamb called Dinner
Kimberly French
I raised a lamb, I was going to eat it, so I went to see exactly what happens in between.
Diary of a Viagra fiend
Jayson Gallaway
In which a randy, modern-day Thomas De Quincey confesses: "Hi Ho Silver! I'm the Bone Ranger!"
“Ride With the Devil”
Andrew O'Hehir
Ang Lee's dark and sober fable might be the most interesting and least dogmatic view of the Civil War to wend its way into the multiplexes.
Jim Clark
Larry Kanter
In Silicon Valley -- where newness is next to godliness -- the smart money still bets on capitalism's most successful conceptual artist.
Guarding their silence
Christian Parenti
Prisoners' rights advocates say a code of silence among prison guards led to the acquittal of the officers charged with arranging the rape of an inmate.
“Rich Media, Poor Democracy” by Robert McChesney
Dustin Beilke
A communications authority eyeballs the current media merger mania and offers some hard and fast suggestions for doing better.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Readers debate: Is Oprah good for books? Plus: Stop dissing "chick flicks"; why did A.M. Rosenthal save his scorn for black hatemongers?
Rush to judgment?
Fiona Morgan
U.S., Egyptian officials try to stop the finger-pointing about the Flight 990 crash.
I sold commie posters to a future Supreme Court justice
Jock O'Connell
Long ago His Honor paid 10 bucks for a Bolshevik broadsheet. I wonder where it's hanging now.
Sympathy for the devil
Donna Minkowitz
A writer explains why she reaches out to the people she fears most.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Will the free market reward art and education? Plus: Gauging "the Philadelphia effect"; Americans are fat because we're lazy and eat bad food.
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