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Editors’ pick
Salon Staff
From John Lennon to Japanese cultists to dental-floss revolutionaries: Our pick of the best Salon People stories of the year.
“O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Charles Taylor
Dogpatch rapture! The new film from the Coen brothers turns the Depression into a crackpot American fairy tale.
A chromosome carol
Amanda Fazzone
Last week's No. 1 movie wants to know "What Women Want." How about a film that doesn't reduce women to empty thought bubbles?
The best of Brilliant Careers 2000
Salon Staff
Twelve profiles selected from the many fine ones published in Salon People this year -- to keep you in good company over the holidays.
A preppy pantheon
Whit Stillman
The film director and author of "The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards" picks five essential books for the Bass Weejuns set.
Clergy asks Clinton for a final act
Anthony York
Religious leaders call for clemency for thousands of imprisoned nonviolent drug offenders.
The media moves in
Eric Boehlert
As the press begins to recount ballots in Florida, the Republicans cry foul.
Pro-choicers already on the defensive
Jake Tapper
Possible Cabinet appointment for pro-life Gov. Tommy Thompson has
abortion-rights groups worried.
Who are you calling “sister”?
Janelle Brown
To break through the glass ceiling, women's online communities -- like Webgrrls and DigitalEve -- need to work together.
Music 2000
Joe Heim
Call it the year of the dogs: Woof-woof. Still, there were 25 records worth listening to again and again.
“The Collapsible World”
Read by Anne N. Marino
In this debut novel, a young mapmaker and her stripper sister lose their way after their wayward mother and junkie father split.
Steven Soderbergh
Stephen Lemons
It's been a very hot year for the director of New York Film Critics Circle favorites "Traffic" and "Erin Brockovich." Next year may be hotter still.
Being Frosty Jr.
David Vernon
My father was the voice of the cartoon snowman, and I melted with humiliation.
Hillary’s book deal blues
Anthony York
The Congressional Accountability Project asks Sen.-elect Clinton to give up her $8 million advance and just collect royalties.
Melody Maker, R.I.P.
Cath Carroll
When the music mattered: A former writer for the New Musical Express looks back at the overheated world of the British music weeklies.
A Christmas miracle
Virginia Vitzthum
For a man alone for the holidays, a Christmas trick is the gift that keeps on giving.
Gwen Ifill
Robert Margolis
The host of PBS's "Washington Week in Review" and correspondent for "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" is a fan of civil conversation, good writing and the Washington Mystics.
Stop the madness
Maura Kelly
Admissions officers at top-rated colleges prescribe time out for burnout.
Warming to malaria
Arthur Allen
With fears mounting that global climate change may cause the dreaded disease to spread, scientists turn their attention to vaccine research.
And the winner is: Al Gore
Joan Walsh
Defeat brings the vice president's best face forward -- and rescues him from an ungovernable Washington.
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