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Go home, Kenneth Starr
Suzi Parker
The independent counsel has shined a surreal spotlight on Little Rock.
Helen of Troy is in my taxi
Rolf Potts
Rolf Potts discovers the ambiguity of language and love in the Philippines.
Battling stag/nation
Jill Priluck
Radical hag Mary Daly stands up to Boston College for forcing coed classes.
The madness of love
Sean Elder
Richard Thompson's songs reflect the dark passion of an unclassifiable musical genius.
Pop culture studies turns 25
David Jacobson
When Ray Browne founded the first department to study "Star Trek" semiotics and cartoon aesthetics, he expanded the boundaries of academic study forever.
Ground zero
Ellen Meloy
A writer discovers the resiliency of life in the atomic testing grounds of the American southwest. An excerpt from Ellen Meloy's "The Last Cheater's Waltz.
A nose for things
Debra Fay Holton
My mother was tidy and crisp, which is why Janine's vacant mother and messy house were just what I was looking for.
Backstage on “The Beach”
Rolf Potts
A backpacker's quest to storm Leonardo DiCaprio's movie set ends in an epiphany that won't play in Peoria.
Brief reports and tidbits from the Info-Sphere
Salon Tech Writers
Slate rejoins the Web - "Felicity" points to the Web - Blurred lines in Times' Amazon story - Tabloid sues Florida citrus growers over talking ham sandwich! - Gassie: Microsoft's full of Be-S
Mammary dreams
Steve Erickson
Behind men's moral outrage at Clinton's behavior seethes the fear that his compulsion is just one step beyond our own.
Korea’s no-man’s-land
Rolf Potts
Rolf Potts describes a visit to Korea's DMZ, one of the planet's oddest tourist attractions, where visitors can pick up everything from propaganda to perfume.
Seven deadly sins: Stalking Kurt Vonnegut
Dan Stern
A young writer attempts to turn his literary hero into a neighborhood pal.
Storming ‘The Beach’
Rolf Potts
When he tries to infiltrate a movie set on a heavily guarded Thai island, Rolf Potts embarks on a rollicking post-modern travel adventure, somewhat starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Sex and fate in Macau
Rolf Potts
Inspired by a sidewalk fortuneteller, Rolf Potts tries his luck at an erotic cabaret in this Portuguese colony, which will soon be transferred to Chinese rule.
Only the nearly perfect need apply
Jennifer King
With medical schools rejecting the vast majority of their applicants, what's an aspiring Hippocrates to do?
Impeachment diary II
Anonymous
While senators basked in the glow of Friday's bipartisan trial accord, both sides were already plotting to renew the war.
Back from the brink
Joshua Micah Marshall
A Senate compromise on the impeachment trial ends the partisan bickering, for now.
Keep it alive
Christine Schomer
In 1998, 'The Cruise,' a single documentary about one man's life on the edge, saved the spirit of independent film. By Christine Schomer.
Forever young
Joan Walsh
The appeal of My Twinn dolls is not that they let parents hang on to their kids' childhood. It's that they let kids hang on to their childhood.
Star quality
Debra Ollivier
Just as its enigmatic author predicted, nothing in the universe can be the same for those who love 'The Little Prince' -- but why?
If you film it, they will come
Steve Rushin
If you film it, they will come: A passionate sports fan begins his cross-country pilgrimage with a visit to Iowa's Field of Dreams. Excerpted from "Road Swing," by Steve Rushin.
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