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Suicide watch on the Net
David Cassel
Suicide watch on the Net: By David Cassel. When chat room participants say they're going to kill themselves, what should service providers do?
Kenneth S.: A man obsessed
Dr. Justin Frank
A Washington psychoanalyst analyzes 'Kenneth S.' and his odd fixation on the president's sex life.
Movie Feature: Princess Charming
Charles Taylor
After years of being the bad girl, Drew Barrymore finally gets the role she deserves.
America's war on children
Joan Walsh
Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West have written a call to arms for American parents. But their big-tent strategy leaves us stranded at the front.
Possessed in Indonesia
Brett Harris
Brett Harris describes a close encounter with a ghost during a stay on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
Bitter fame
Jay Parini
Ted Hughes' long silence about his life with Sylvia Plath was considered by many as a sign that he did not care. But in "Birthday Letters," his book of brilliant, evocative poems about their life together, one begins to understand, for the first time, the nature of their love, and its tragic dimensions.
Newsreal: Is Kaczynski crazy enough to be saved?
Ros Davidson
An expert in mental disability criminal defenses analyzes the trial of alleged Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski and assesses his chances of avoiding the death penalty.
Outing your mom
Kate Moses
Can you survive an insane mother with your own sanity intact? The latest in a spate of mad mom memoirs, Jacki Lyden's "Daughter of the Queen of Sheba" proves you can.
Word by Word: Jesus and the lemon
Anne Lamott
Today's sermon: Even though he himself probably would have driven a 1982 Corolla, the Lord looks out for the rightfully aggrieved owners of decadent, gas-guzzling Jeeps.
Satan goes to Harvard
Mary Gaitskill
In 'Halfway Heaven,' her otherwise acute chronicle of a Harvard student's savage murder of her roommate, author Melanie Thernstrom abandons her painstaking effort to make sense of the killing by resorting to an increasingly popular explanation of heinous crimes -- Good vs. Evil
Classics Book Group
Joyce Carol Oates
An essay by Joyce Carol Oates on Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre.
“She's So Lovely”
Gary Kamiya
'She's So Lovely' is a ridiculously conceived, confusedly
executed, morally repugnant film.
Stephen Levine
Fred Branfman
Suicide isn't painless: Death guru Stephen Levine wants to legalize assisted suicide -- but only for physical reasons. In other situations, taking one's life is just impatient, sloppy, a "shortcut." Fred Branfman interviews the popular author
The Awful Truth: Show Us Your Ugly Pancreas
Cintra Wilson
When performers reveal just a little more of themselves than you want to see.
Johns of the world, unite!
Tracy Quan
You have nothing to lose but your shame.
In fact, you deserve protection like any other
consumer.
Chick Corea
Andrew Gilbert
Andrew Gilbert reviews Chick Corea and Friends' new album "Remembering Bud Powell".
SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
Douglas McLennan
Pianist David Helfgott has brought
thousands of new fans to classical music. So why
are the critics trashing him?
SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
Andrew Ross
Why should the special prosecutor keep bashing his head against a wall in Little Rock when he could be enjoying the sun in Malibu?
Tipper Gore turns down the volume
Lisa Crovo
Onetime "values" crusader staying closer to the genteel Veep-wife script
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