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Where the boys are
Cathy Young
The rise in popularity of women's sports highlights paradoxical intersections between athletics and
feminism.
Generation R.I.P.
Jenn Shreve
The Village Voice pronounces Generation X as dead as Kurt Cobain and as irrelevant as a Cheesy Poof. Plus: Alternative health stories that don't suck.
Don't you know that it's different for girls?
Rachel Lehmann-Haupt
"Coming Soon" director Colette Burson talks about a girl's inalienable right to better sex, the old Hollywood double standard and why the MPAA board has got to go.
No easy answers
Michael Scott Moore
Does the SAT predict anything meaningful about how students will do in college?
“Unvanquished: A U.S.-U.N. Saga”
Douglas McGray
Time hasn't healed the former secretary-general's wounds or lessened his bitterness.
Mario Puzo
Albert Mobilio
His saga of a Mafia family is one of the most familiar stories in American culture, and Don Vito Corleone surely keeps company with Huck Finn and Jay Gatsby as one of the most indelible icons of American fiction.
The education of Alice
Art Levine
Are white supremacists and anti-Semites using the Net to recruit upscale followers?
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Don't give up gay pride to get gay equality; why is Cintra bitter about Clapton auction?
Idea man
Jeff Stark
Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne believes in the thrill of wonder, the miracle of everyday life and the extraordinary sound in his head.
FilmAid
Peter Landesman
When some Hollywood producers tried to bring the cinema -- and a few celebrities -- to an Albanian refugee camp, they found their audience, though appreciative, had more pressing dramas to deal with.
Keeping it (kind of) real
Wes Tooke
Lots of action -- and a little angst -- at ESPN's biggest X Games event ever.
Playing from behind
Steve Kettmann
The trials and tribulations of being a female sportswriter were highlighted by last week's Samantha Stevenson-Julius Erving story.
The big E
Dawn MacKeen
Doctors, law enforcement and ravers are scrutinizing ecstasy's possible long-term effects as the drug pours into the U.S. in record numbers.
Quiin es m
Compiled by Anthony York
Below are nine excerpts from the speeches of Al Gore and George W. Bush. Which one is which?
Russell Simmons
Jeff Stark
The founder of Def Jam Records brought hip-hop culture into the
American mainstream, and his empire is growing.
Guns, muskmelon breasts and the Laotian Gandhi
Rolf Potts
An American takes a Mark Twain-like journey by riverboat down the Mekong.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Why Japan doesn't get the Internet (yet); Neil LaBute's violence is shocking, but not surprising.
Private dancers
Annalee Newitz
From North Beach bars to the Mitchell Brothers' high-priced flesh emporium, she went in search of women to dance in her lap.
Scenes from the Web's callow youth
Scott Rosenberg
"Home Page" documentary offers 1996's look and feel, but not much in the way of insight.
“Rebels in White Gloves: The tie-dyed debutantes of Hillary's graduating class
Liesl Schillinger
The times were turbulent, and these decorous young ladies weren't about to be left behind.
Alternative juju
Jenn Shreve
Unconventional remedies are ripe for journalistic inquiry, but are weeklies up to the job? Plus: The secrets of mosquitoes, Osama bin Laden's hiding place and Internet IPOs revealed!
I'm not Hillary
Jake Tapper
What do Tipper Gore, Laura Bush, Ernestine Bradley and Cindy McCain have in common? See above.
Some enchanted evening
Todd Gottlieb
A romantic traveler meets his destiny -- and a beautiful Romanian named Anika -- for one brief night in Barcelona.
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