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A cheap sleep in San Francisco
Donald D. Groff
Our expert offers tips on top budget hotels in San Francisco and Alsace, airlines' emergency ticket-fee waivers and Maine's coastal treasures.
Vive la diffirence
Sarah Vowell
A melting pot of several stories, "Summer of Sam" is a sprawling urban epic from Brooklyn's native son.
Promotional intelligence
Annie Murphy Paul
When the two scientists who invented the concept of emotional intelligence loaned the idea to New York Times science writer Daniel Goleman, they never dreamed it would become a cottage industry.
Force of nature
Steve Chapple
David Brower, the grand old man of the environmental movement, talks about the Sierra Club, why conservationists shouldn't compromise and why tree-huggers should lighten up.
Antiques Netshow
Janelle Brown
Snooty Sotheby's dives into an online auction world shaped by scrappy eBay. How will its objets d'art fare amid the Furbys?
Toto, I'm not Dave Kansas anymore
James Poniewozik
So what's wrong with Web journalists becoming stock tycoons?
Fighting fear with fear
Chris Colin
In "The Culture of Fear," Barry Glassner says we scare too easily. But does he have to be so scary about it?
Is Tiger Woods' dad a racist?
Susan Zakin
The reporter to whom he told his Scotland joke, which has enraged Golf World magazine, says he's no Fuzzy Zoeller.
The making of Henry Louis Gates, CEO
Craig Offman
When a trio of scholars decided to partner with Microsoft to create a pan-African encyclopedia, was it a match made in progressive corporate heaven or the founding of an ivory-tower gulag?
The Web's plagiarism police
Andy Dehnart
An online service claims it can identify purloined papers. So why'd it nail my thesis?
Jar Jar Binks on the cover of Rolling Stone?
Bill Wyman
The magazine turns out to be the only institution in the world that thinks Jar Jar is hip.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Schoolyard cowboys don't know guns aren't toys; don't let a man (even Updike) pick the best romances.
Office 2000 rolls out with a bash
Scott Rosenberg
Microsoft weaves more of the Web into the latest update of its applications suite -- and celebrates its launch in style.
Kamasutra U
Carol Lloyd
In Lee Siegel's outrageously inventive new novel, sex manual marries academic farce with orgasmic results.
Advertising stole my humanity!
Jenn Shreve
Capitalism is out of control with sexist ad execs, mix tapes by irrelevant hippies and the inevitable, horrible cloning of "The Bridget Jones Diary."
America threatened by outbreak of taste!
James Poniewozik
Post-Littleton, post-Jenny, post-"I'm Proud to Be a Prostitute," the media, willing or not, are getting classy. Spare us.
“Star Wars” lovers call for Jar Jar's head
David Cassel
Get that Gungan out of the galaxy, cry fans annoyed by the character's cloying subservience and pidgin English.
A baffling man
Vince Passaro
Although David Foster Wallace doesn't act the way an author should, his brilliant new book is filled with desperation, loneliness and addiction.
Dr. Laura targets the new Sodom: Libraries
Patrizia DiLucchio
In her crusade for filtered Net access, the talk-radio moralist goes
after sex educators, the American Library Association and porn.
Out of the darkness
Patricia Weaver Francisco
In "Working with Available Light," a husband explores the bond men and women share in the aftermath of rape.
I think therefore I tickle
Jose Klein
In his new book, "The Ticklish Subject," renegade philosopher Slavoj Zizek offers a mind-searing, polyvalent glimpse into the heart of modern freedom.
Size matters
Joyce Millman
In her engaging memoir "Wake Up, I'm Fat!" Camryn Manheim of "The Practice" reveals how she learned to throw her weight around.
Northern exposure
Steve Burgess
Farley Mowat may be a Canadian national treasure, but that hasn't stopped his critics from savaging his credibility.
The literature of exhaustion
James Poniewozik
Fast Company isn't just a magazine -- it's the workaholic bible for manic white-collar types too wired -- and scared -- to slow down.
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