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Starvation vacation
Jessie Graham
As I vomited before taking yet another coffee enema, I realized that my quest for enlightenment at the feet of a colon-obsessed guru might be misguided.
A year without hope
Aluf Benn
With Israeli and Palestinian leaders hobbled and Bush fearful of intervening in an election year, there will be no progress toward Middle East peace until at least 2005.
Avenging angel of the religious right
Max Blumenthal
Quirky millionaire Howard Ahmanson Jr. is on a mission from God to stop gay marriage, fight evolution, defeat "liberal" churches -- and reelect George W. Bush.
MetroDaddy speaks!
Mark Simpson
In an interview (with himself) the man who introduced us to the term "metrosexual" explains why it conquered the culture, bemoans his own "lesbosexual" style, and critiques "Queer Eye," Howard Dean and Schwarzenegger.
Letters
Salon Staff
Haven't white Southerners suffered enough? Anyway, slavery is irrelevant to the plot (and geography) of "Cold Mountain." Readers respond to Stephanie Zacharek's review.
Osama bin Laden: Caught by Friendster!
Farhad Manjoo, Katharine Mieszkowski
Google takes over the universe and spam rids the world of porn: Salon's technology predictions for 2004.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
Playoff predictions guaranteed to be just as bad as regular-season picks: Packers win, all other home teams lose.
The 10 best movies of 2003
Charles Taylor, Andrew O'Hehir, Stephanie Zacharek
From the eccentric, intimate "Lost in Translation" to the epic nobility of "Return of the King" to the rough-hewn affirmation of "In America," Salon critics Stephanie Zacharek, Charles Taylor and Andrew O'Hehir list 2003's best films.
The return of the Internet
Farhad Manjoo, Katharine Mieszkowski
In 2003, Howard Dean scored big with the Web, while India took advantage of online communications to grab thousands of white-collar jobs from the West. The Net, it turns out, still matters.
God is not a right-wing zealot
Leslie R. Guttman
The Rev. Albert Pennybacker is a Bible Belt preacher with a drawl who's urging people to support "basic religious values." But he's no Jerry Falwell clone.
Judge says Pentagon can’t force anthrax vaccine on GIs
Eric Boehlert
The surprise decision means President Bush may have to sign a special order to force wary soldiers to take the controversial vaccine.
The “Jewsploitation” craze
Baz Dreisinger
Jonathan Kesselman's "The Hebrew Hammer" is the manifesto for a hip, hype-driven "new Jewishness." But here's a news flash: American Jews aren't actually black, and anti-Semitic stereotypes aren't automatically funny.
Video gaming and its discontents
Jane Pinckard
Was 2003 the year of the great online multiplayer gaming flameout, or the year when a whole new approach to computer games finally gained real momentum?
Being a girl
Natalie Pearson
Searching for a father figure, I finally found a man I could trust. He lavished attention on me -- it just wasn't the right kind.
SCO, open source and the world
Sam Williams
While a small Utah company launches a frontal assault on free software, the rest of the globe is saying: Gimme some of that!
“Lord of the Rings” is for boys …
Stephanie Zacharek
A New York Times critic falls for lazy gender-typing.
Using Hillary against Howard
Josh Benson
Dean-bashers say Sen. Clinton's hawkish talk about Iraq this week was a rebuke to the Democratic front-runner. At least they hope it was.
Coffee-table cornucopia
Laura Miller, Kerry Lauerman
With the aid of our last-minute holiday gift book guide, fill your loved ones' stockings with Gary Larson, exotic scents, mosque architecture, the moons of Jupiter and the jolliest Santa of them all -- North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il!
How Saddam should have died
Ferry Biedermann
The head of the captured dictator's tribe is embarrassed by Saddam's failure to die like a man -- but other Iraqis say if they could get their hands on him, he'd be lucky if they just drank his blood.
What did Bush know and when did he know it?
Eric Boehlert
9/11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean's suggestion that the administration could have prevented the terror attacks may signal a new, aggressive approach.
“Calendar Girls”
Stephanie Zacharek
Helen Mirren and a cast of middle-aged Yorkshire roses doff their Laura Ashley duds for charity. It's a sweet, sexy fable, even if it runs out of oomph too early.
“Mona Lisa Smile”
Stephanie Zacharek
Those costumes! Those actresses! All those daring and unconventional ideas! Oh, wait -- this beautiful, mindless '50s women's-college flick doesn't have any of those.
The greatest week in rock history
Eric Boehlert
Thirty-four years ago this week, the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Temptations, Santana, Crosby Stills and Nash, and Creedence Clearwater
all shared top billing on the Billboard album chart. There's never been another lineup quite like it -- and there will never be again.
‘Joice to the world
Anne Lamott
On a visit to San Quentin, I learned that no one is beyond the reach of divine love -- despite society's way of stating the opposite.
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