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High-speed Net access that's out of this world
Mark Compton
John Koehler retired from a career at Hughes Electronics and the CIA to build fast Net connections on satellites already in orbit.
“20th-Century Dreams” by Nik Cohn and Guy Peellaert
Charles Taylor
The writer-and-artist team's new bout of cultural nausea is like a tabloid that might be sold at the Whitney Museum.
Webmaster Borges
Douglas Wolk
The greatest influence on the Argentine writer was a phenomenon invented after his death.
A peace that's about to explode
Laura Rozen
As more than 10,000 NATO troops prepare to leave Bosnia, the Clinton administration is simply hoping stability will last until Election Day.
Thank heaven for little girls
Stephen Lemons
Underage-looking aspiring starlets are lining up for the chance to make $2,000 a day in the flourishing imitation child-porn industry.
McCain's world order
Jake Tapper
The iconoclastic presidential candidate offers a five-point foreign policy plan and picks up a surprising endorsement.
“Would God forgive Lenin?”
Jeffrey Tayler
In a lonely tower above the mean streets of Krasnoyarsk, a wanderer encounters the fervent heart of Russia's abiding faith.
Bradley bores but scores in Boston
Michael Joseph Gross
Beantown finally gets a visit from a candidate who knows his foreign policy inside and out.
Bathtub revolutionary
Tom Bradley
An American creative writing teacher in China torches his students' work in the tub rather than hand it over to "the leaders." Was it piety, or the fantasy of a heroic reception back home?
The vice president's stiff comedy
Daniel Kurtzman
Al Gore's problem is not that he lacks a sense of humor -- he's just not showing it.
An unnecessary crock: Michael Lind's “Vietnam: The Necessary War”
Judith Coburn
For some thinkers, that ol' international communist conspiracy will never die.
Fear and loathing in Latvia
Rolf Potts
Between the fistfights and the Finnish girls, it's hard to get any writing done.
What's luck got to do with it?
Jon B. Rhine
Is good fortune happenstance or the cosmos' great equalizer? Ask Nicholas Rescher. Better yet, ask Denise Rossi.
Bush channels Reagan on foreign policy
Mark Dennis
With his first major speech, the GOP front-runner sought to put a string of gaffes behind him.
Stressed-out at 33,000 feet
Mary Racana
Can you be sure the pilot on the plane you're boarding isn't depressed? Can the airlines be sure?
I sold commie posters to a future Supreme Court justice
Jock O'Connell
Long ago His Honor paid 10 bucks for a Bolshevik broadsheet. I wonder where it's hanging now.
Boris goes off
Laura Rozen
Although Russian President Yeltsin left early, the OSCE meeting provided evidence of the West's growing sentiment that human rights are as sacred as national sovereignty.
A sexy librarian named Natasha and other surprises of the New Russia
Rolf Potts
I journeyed 5,000 miles to learn that God is in the weiners and William S. Burroughs is a cult star.
The great railway bizarre
Rolf Potts
Taiga forests, first class follies and a Slavic Lolita in short-shorts enliven the train journey that has no end.
Plague of penis-slashing cuts across planet
Hank Hyena
As the millennium approaches, male members are being abbreviated in record numbers.
The Trans-Siberian Toilet War
Rolf Potts
Left behind for a surmised breach of lavatory
protocol, our correspondent and his two companions lead a desperate,
paranoid, all-out car chase in an attempt to cut off the train at Ulan Ude.
The kingmaker speaks
David Weir, Fred Branfman
Pat Choate, the man behind the strategy to craft a left-right-center coalition with Pat Buchanan out front, reveals the plan to seize the White House next year.
Stranded in Siberia
Rolf Potts
At an obscure border town, our
correspondent discovers the biggest obstacle in negotiating the next
4,000 miles: The train has left without him.
Bush gets an F in foreign affairs
David Corn
The Texas governor who would be president can't identify the leaders of Chechnya, Pakistan or India. Has he been taking lessons from Dan Quayle?
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