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Fritz the cast
Sarah Vowell
Pop music is the body cast that gets pushed around, but never loses its shape.
Encounter in Samarkand
Karl Taro Greenfeld
Introduction to Beijing
Carrie Kirby
Entertainment: Man with guts
Michael Snyder
An interview with filmmaker John Sayles, director of the spanish-language film "Men with Guns."
Islands only a mother could love
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester visits the heartbreaking Kurile Islands -- ceded to Russia, claimed by Japan and lamented by the lonely soldiers who have to live there.
Newsreal: Turkish delight
Jonathan Broder
Salon has learned of a U.S. arms-for-human-rights deal with Turkey that the Clinton administration thinks is important to preserve Turkey's stability but opponents say it's arming the torturers.
Arigato, Nagano
Cintra Wilson
In her Olympic farewell, Cintra Wilson wallows in weird TV, moons the ski slopes and finds the big heart of Japan
Paging Joe McCarthy
David Horowitz
There's a conspiracy to undermine the government. Sound familiar?
Ice follies
Cintra Wilson
Cintra Wilson watches the ladies' short figure skating program and asks: I sold my soul to the scalpers to watch these mechanized super-chicks kiss ass?
The Christlike and redemptive powers of ice hockey
Cintra Wilson
Rinkside at the Czech-Russia match, Cintra Wilson suddenly understands the Christlike and redemptive powers of ice hockey.
Soba, so good
Koji Yoshii
What food will foreign athletes and spectators in Nagano get if they ask for the local specialty? Buckwheat noodles!
Cold war
Gary Kamiya
Flying away
Gary Kamiya
Is history dead?
Sean McMeekin
Cultural studies scholars are ravaging the facts to suit their bassackward theories.
The Inuit Olympics
Mary Roach
Mary Roach reports on the Inuit Games, an annual competition involving Head Pulls, Knuckle Hops and other daunting competitions 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
From Russia with (forbidden) love
Benjamin Ivry
Several new collections celebrate the contributions of the late Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter.
Newsreal: And the losers are…
Andrew Ross
Salon's first annual Fin de Siecle Awards, given to all those who helped make the world just a little worse than it would have been without them.
Stale Bonding
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor reviews 'Tomorrow Never Dies' directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Pierce Brosnan and Michelle Yeoh.
Traveling mercies
Anne Lamott
When everything in your life goes wrong at once, something big and lovely is about to get born.
Newsreal: Still in the balance
Mark Hertsgaard
The Kyoto treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may be 'historic,' and may even pay political dividends for America's chief negotiator, Al Gore. But the loophole-studded agreement may not be nearly enough to rescue the planet.
21st: E.D., phone home!
Scott Rosenberg
Scott Rosenberg interviews Esther Dyson on Microsoft, intellectual property, the future of Russia -- and why she banished her telephone.
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