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“Everything is Illuminated” by Jonathan Safran Foer
Laura Miller
In hilariously mangled English, a Ukrainian boy describes his efforts to help a young American Jew find the village his grandfather fled in World War II.
Make Olympic skating judges accountable
Kerry Lauerman
Awarding the Canadians the gold was a half-measure, but as long as figure skating is controlled by a bitchy sewing circle it won't be a real sport.
Whisper of death
Michael McColly
Poverty, a rigid class system and conservative Hindu values are quickly turning India into the next South Africa in the global AIDS epidemic.
The saga of Sucks.com
Amy Standen
As the owner of Jennifer
Lopezsucks.com, Microsoft
sucks.com and about 600 similar domains, Dan Parisi is the master of all things sucky. So far the courts are respecting his empire.
Lopezsucks.com, Microsoft
sucks.com and about 600 similar domains, Dan Parisi is the master of all things sucky. So far the courts are respecting his empire.
Georgie Mnemonic
Lance Gould
A new breakthrough technique to help our numero-uno malapropmeister memorize the monikers of other countries -- "Ice" Cuba, "Killer" Wales, "Wig" Guam and dozens more!
Crafting the free-software future
Ed Frauenheim
At VA Linux's SourceForge, thousands of programmers are collaborating for both love and money.
Romance in Romania
Simon Winchester
After the grim plains of Georgia and Ukraine, a kiss disappears in a Rolls Royce.
Kosovo crackdown
Jack Boulware
U.N. vice squad officers are sent home for "inappropriate behavior" with prostitutes.
It’s World AIDS Day … again
Fiona Morgan
Americans with insurance now improve with new drugs, but the disease is on a rampage across the rest of the world.
Rename the eggplant, please
Kenneth H. Cleaver
"Purple power bombs" would be much more market friendly: More excerpts from the corporate correspondence files of Kenneth H. Cleaver.
“Postville” by Stephen G. Bloom
Andrew O'Hehir
After a Hasidic Jewish community moves to Iowa farm country, the startling complications leave even this Jewish journalist scrounging for answers.
Gore: Ready to rumble?
Jake Tapper
In an exclusive interview with Salon, the vice president promises a "very hot and heavy" final campaign stretch.
The Olympics: Monday
Kerry Lauerman
Drug scandals dominate with tales of a doped-up Romanian pixie and and a failed test by Marion Jones' shot-putter husband.
The Olympics: Friday
Alicia Montgomery
Bad-boy swimmer Gary Hall Jr. shares the gold, Marion Jones takes her first steps and American softballers beat voodoo.
The Olympics: Tuesday
Kerry Lauerman
The "Thorpedo" returns, there's no gold-medal repeat for U.S. women gymnasts and the top American rival to Marion Jones is out.
The first weekend
Kerry Lauerman
The "Thorpedo" gets torpedoed, and U.S. gymnastics hopes go tumbling down.
Letters to the editor
Salon Staff
Cintra chews up the Oscars Plus: Should Elian stay or should he go? What's become of Joni Mitchell?
A Black Sea affair
Jeffrey Tayler
On a Soviet cruise ship in 1985, we evaded the KGB agent trying to foil our international interlude. But in the end, we lost, and on a sad Moscow night years later, the truth came out.
Skull wars
Lawrence Osborne
Native American activists battle scientists for bones that may prove they had white ancestors.
Belarus cracks down on bottle traders
J.A. Getzlaff
Customs officials stop empty bottles from crossing borders.
Albanian gangsters kidnapping women and girls to service troops
Hank Hyena
Kosovo has not been part of the Eastern European sex trade that has flourished since the collapse of communism, but the lure of a 45,000-strong army has made it a new business.
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