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FRIDAY
Jan. 29, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Intel's
processor-I.D. gaffe shows how badly tech companies want to know who you are
and where you live
(01/29/99)
21st Log
Yahoo buys GeoCities -- pop-up ads and all (01/29/99)
The 21st Challenge No. 18 Microsoft antitrust haiku By Charlie Varon and Jim
Rosenau
What if lawyers argued in haiku form? (01/29/99)
Today in Books:
"It's the Stupidity, Stupid" By Harry Shearer
In this excerpt, Shearer wonders if we should hate the people who hate President Clinton (01/29/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
"The
Tesseract" by Alex Garland: A jigsaw puzzle of a novel in which three interlocking stories lead
to a violent climax (01/29/99)
Today in Entertainment:
"Gloria" A Stone unturned Reviewed by Charles Taylor
"Gloria" proves once again that filmmakers don't know what to do with Sharon Stone (01/29/99)
"Another Day in Paradise" Paradise lust Reviewed by Craig Seligman
Larry Clark's follow-up to "Kids" is less ambitious, less offensive -- and surprisingly funny
(01/29/99)
"She's All That" My fair Laney Reviewed by Mary Elizabeth Williams
"She's All That" is a conventional teen romance, but with a hip-hop heart of gold
(01/29/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Super Bowl Sunday: Seven hours of pre-show leading up to a blowout
(01/29/99)
Ivory Tower Think fast and lie By Katy E. Shrout
One recent graduate offers advice for confused college seniors facing the end
(01/29/99)
Letters Putting a "flesh"-toned Band-Aid on GOP racism. Plus: icky Dick Morris; and is Microsoft's crackdown on piracy justified?
(01/29/99)
Money The Jordan Effect: What's race got to do with it? By Leon E. Wynter
The colorblind world depicted by Madison Avenue isn't our racial reality yet -- but it's a step in the right direction (01/29/99)
Mothers Who Think B-plus By Anne Lamott
Living a double life as studious teenage tennis champ and dope-smoking lost child, I couldn't find peace until I gave up competition
(01/29/99)
Today in Newsreal:
Chasing Monica By Barbara Ehrenreich
The House managers got their wish -- a chance to probe, examine and even "de-brief" the luscious Lewinsky
(01/29/99)
The trickster president By Richard Goldstein
Clinton's enemies have made him a culture hero (01/29/99)
A twisted tale of two brothers By Jeff Stein
A year after the Birmingham abortion clinic bombing, the gay brother of suspect Eric Rudolph still mourns its victims (01/29/99)
Salon Recommends Sticking a fork in director Todd Solondz; all hail
Queen Latifah! Plus: The week's best in books, music, movies and Web sites
(01/29/99)
Wanderlust This Week in Travel
Wanderlust's selective guide to travel-related news from across the globe.
(01/29/99)
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THURSDAY
Jan. 28, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Glory among the geeks By Peter Wayner
For serious programmers, contributing code to Linux pays off not in dollars but in respect (01/28/99)
21st Log Linux got game
(01/28/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Marcel Proust" by Edmund White and "Crazy Horse" by Larry McMurtry: The first two in a new series of brief biographies demonstrate that
bigger isn't always better (01/28/99)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Super Fun-Pak Comix (01/28/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Screen Savers This dream brought to you by Diesel Jeans By David Wallis
Move over, Y2K -- in Matt Groening's brave new world, it's the year 3000 we should be worried about (01/28/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
PBS's new "Mystery!": Mischief in Kenya; Debbie Harry profiled (01/28/99)
Letters Don Imus, Laura Ingraham and other white, media hate mongers; defending Cheryl Mills
(01/28/99)
Media Circus Wills to Sheehy: Your Clinton-incest psychobabble grows tiresome By Susan Lehman
Plus: Gazoongas raise Maxim, Mother Jones searches in vain and other tales of media madness
(01/28/99)
Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts By Sallie Tisdale
"I've got homework, Ma": A California library won its battle against censorship, but does that really mean there will -- or should -- be public access to "everything under the sun"?
(01/28/99)
Today in Newsreal:
No apologies
By Debra Dickerson
How I learned to fight for my country, proudly
(01/28/99)
The dark prince By Joshua Micah Marshall
House managers are hoping that deposing right-wing whipping boy Sidney Blumenthal will expose a hidden world of presidential dirty tricks. Don't bet on it
(01/28/99)
Urge Strap-on epiphany By Virginia Vitzthum
In becoming the penetrator, a woman learns to see sex -- and the world -- through male eyes (01/28/99)
Wanderlust "My Mexico" By Diana Kennedy
Mexico's foremost food writer celebrates the culinary traditions of Campeche
(01/28/99)
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WEDNESDAY
Jan. 27, 1999
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21st Microsoft has your number By Andrew Leonard
Will Office's new registration scheme stop software pirates or hassle users? (01/27/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Mike Musgrove
"Afterwards, You're a Genius: Faith, Medicine, and the Metaphysics of Healing" Reviewed by Chip Brown: A journalist heads for the Hamptons to expose a New Age healing
racket and finds himself turning into a believer
(01/27/99)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
The evil that roomates do
(01/27/99)
Today in Entertainment:
American Squirm By Sarah Vowell
Canuck yuks: When it comes to American humor, Canada is comedy central
(01/27/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
All-star lineup sings the blues on PBS's Muddy Waters tribute
(01/27/99)
Today in Ivory Tower:
Camille on Campus By Camille Paglia
Warning! Mentorship land mine ahead! Female graduate students should steer clear of cozy relations with their academic advisors -- whether they are affectionate men or bitter women
(01/27/99)
Ivory Tower Saturday night fever By Mindy Hung
Stomach flu, a batch of pot brownies and the '60s drug myth: Why one woman can't seem to take any of it seriously
(01/27/99)
Letters Bret Easton Ellis: More de Sade than Stein? Readers fire literary
cannons at Keats and Ellis
(01/27/99)
Today in Media:
Revolt of the elitists By James Poniewozik
Two new media studies amplify the death cries of the literate overclass
(01/27/99)
The man without principles By James Poniewozik
The career of the great German cultural critic Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a case study in the virtues of intellectual inconsistency
(01/27/99)
Mothers Who Think The cruelest cutback? By Fiona Morgan
Caesareans are on the cutting edge of controversy, but polarized doctors, bureaucrats and feminists in the fray haven't agreed yet on their common enemy -- HMOs (01/27/99)
Newsreal Down for the count By C.D. Ellison
Now that the Supreme Court barred census "sampling," what are Republicans going to do to correct the scandalous undercount of minority voters? (01/27/99)
Wanderlust Deep in the heart of Thailand, Texas By Roger Beaumont
Wild-eyed expats swap yarns and squander fortunes in Bangkok's Lonestar bar (01/27/99)
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TUESDAY
Jan. 26, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Have my shoe talk to your refrigerator By Janelle Brown
Neil Gershenfeld foresees a world in which computers get smart by infiltrating the physical world
(01/26/99)
21st Log
What is Netscape on? (01/26/99)
Today in Books:
Two nations under God By Carol Lloyd
American spirituality is torn between hellfire fundamentalism and New Age navel-gazing -- and sometimes they're hard to tell apart
(01/26/99)
Give me that Prime Time religion By Mark Schone
In his new born-again book, Deion Sanders asks not what he can do for Jesus, but what Jesus can do for him
(01/26/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Anderson Tepper
"The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness" by Wole Soyinka: The Nobel Laureate reflects on the potential for healing the wounds
of Africa
(01/26/99)
Brilliant Careers Citizen Nader By Karen Croft
Air bags. Clean air. The Freedom of Information Act. He has never had much of a personal life, but Ralph Nader has deeply affected American public life
(01/26/99)
Left Hook By Joe Conason
The GOP's next nightmare: Clintonomics: Once impeachment dies, the right faces an even bigger challenge from Clinton's radical proposals to change economic policy
(01/26/99)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
The One-Up Man
(01/26/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps & Flats
Reviews of new CDs by The Magnetic Fields, Nancy Wilson, and Newtown Neurotics (01/26/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Remembering Tammy Wynette; Hank Hill's shame: Bobby plays soccer (01/26/99)
Letters Urban sprawl, overpopulation and global warming! Oh my! (01/26/99)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Truth in advertising: The downfalls of Miller Lite's "Dick" and Spin's Michael
Hirschorn show marketing can still explode when you defuse it (01/26/99)
Mothers Who Think A sense of threat By Jane Lazarre
Despite a lifelong love affair with death, getting breast cancer makes it clear that it is a very different love that I truly crave (01/26/99)
Today in Newsreal:
Witness for the prosecution? By Nicholas Confessore
Witness for the prosecution? Dick Morris, conspiracy theorist, could find a way to hurt the president again
(01/26/99)
Endgame? By Joshua Micah Marshall
Republicans ratchet up the rhetoric while looking for a way out
(01/26/99)
Impeachment notebook By Joshua Micah Marshall
Jesse Helms snores, Al Franken gets tossed, House managers look overmatched
(01/26/99)
Wanderlust Hurricanes and hope in Honduras By Rachel Louise Snyder
As the storm-battered Central American country rebuilds, dreams take root (01/26/99)
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MONDAY
Jan. 25, 1999
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21st Addicted to eBay By Stephanie Zacharek
The auction site is the perfect place for Web users to get back in touch with the world of things and stuff
(01/25/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Sarah Blustain
"The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy" by David Klinghoffer: The conservative child of secular Jews traces his path to religious
fundamentalism
(01/25/99)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
Did we say impeachment had lost momentum? Sorry! (01/25/99)
Today in Entertainment:
On Television By Joyce Millman
Movin' on down: Eddie Murphy's "The PJs" puts TV's underrepresented blacks back in the ghetto
(01/25/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
"Dilbert": From cube to tube; an "X-Files" mythology marathon (01/25/99)
Ivory Tower The Big Lie By Michael O'Donovan-Anderson
Why have today's students become a bunch of grade-grubbing morons? (01/25/99)
Letters Theories on DeLay's ascent to power; Paglia's punk trivia knowledge (01/25/99)
Today in Mothers Who Think:
Raging hormones By Celeste Fremon
When I gave birth at nearly 40, I never considered the fact that 12
years later my son and I would both be having hot flashes
(01/25/99)
Drama Queen Winners
Wherefore art thou, wierdo? Drama Queen Call for Entries: No doctor, just strange love
(01/25/99)
Newsreal Months of sleaze By Jeff Stein
In an interview, senate minority leader Tom Daschle says that's what Monica Lewinsky's return to Washington could herald (01/25/99)
Wanderlust A passion for Pelago By Tanya Shaffer
An unlikely village hosts a Rainbow Gathering meets Burning Man meets rave music festival in Italy
(01/25/99)
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FRIDAY
Jan. 22, 1999
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Today in Entertainment:
"Playing by Heart" Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Heartburn: Playing by Heart's" trite take on love and relationships leaves a bad aftertaste (01/22/99)
"My Name Is Joe" Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
Life is bittersweet: British filmmaker Ken Loach returns to working-class Glasgow in his dark masterpiece "My Name is Joe"
(01/22/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
The Golden Globes: More fun than a barrel of Oscars; De Niro
talks shop on "Actors Studio"
(01/22/99)
21st The unbearable realness of virtual being By Andrew
Leonard
"My
Tiny Life" is the best book yet on the meaning of online life
(01/22/99)
Today in Books:
Great American novelist By Jonathan Keats
It's time to add Bret Easton Ellis to the canon (01/22/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Jerome Perzigian
"The Haunted
Wood" by Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev: A historian and a journalist penetrate the secret files of Stalin's
foreign intelligence -- and come away with unfiltered tedium (01/22/99)
Today in Ivory Tower
Ditching school By Eli Lehrer
Why would Marc Weiss, a tenure-track professor at Columbia University, give it all up to coordinate tour bus parking?
(01/22/99)
Justifying J-school By Orville Schell
The dean of UC-Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism responds to a recent article critical of institutions like (and including) his
(01/22/99)
Letters Stanley Crouch's almost-brilliant career. Plus: love for Lamott; hate for Hitchens; money for Mars
(01/22/99)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
Check mate: What I teach my daughter about sex
(01/22/99)
Mothers Who Think Momcat By Anne Lamott
Believing in a radical Christian Scientist named Lee
(01/22/99)
Money E-commerce: Don't believe the hype! By Heather Chaplin
Online shopping leaves me frustrated, bored and feeling like a schmo (01/22/99)
Today in Newsreal:
Unequal rights for haters By Ishmael Reed
White hate groups and their friends get a free pass from the media, while black haters are routinely savaged (01/22/99)
Black like me By Joan Walsh
The smearing of White House lawyer Cheryl Mills raised my nationalist ire -- but I'm white (01/22/99)
Ask Pat Robertson By James
Poniewozik
The reverend says his call to halt impeachment was just "political analysis." Here's a look at some of his other pearls of worldly wisdom (01/22/99)
Stalking the president By Mollie Dickenson
Linda Tripp could help Julie Hiatt Steele -- and President Clinton -- refute Kathleen Willey's charges
(01/22/99)
The tide turns -- again By Joshua Micah Marshall
A week into the impeachment trial, Senate Republicans may be looking for a way out that doesn't embarrass their colleagues in the House (01/22/99)
Salon Recommends A 100 best-books list to top all others;
(01/22/99)
Wanderlust This Week in Travel
Wanderlust's selective guide to travel-related news from across the globe
(01/22/99)
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THURSDAY
Jan. 21, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Floppy with your Frappuccino? By Deborah Claymon
Starbucks, flying under the radar with Circadia Coffee House, woos the tech crowd (01/21/99)
21st Log Ion Storm exposé sparks online storm
(01/21/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Gary Krist
"Be Cool" by Elmore Leonard: Chili Palmer, the Miami loan shark turned Hollywood bigwig, is back
in Elmore Leonard's welcome return to the "Get Shorty" formula (01/21/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Screen Savers Teacher's pet By Chris Lee
"Rushmore" director Wes Anderson talks about his first "collaborative" writing effort, his recent pilgrimage to the home of Pauline Kael and New York telephone booths (01/21/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Corleone family values: "Godfather II"; Clooney in trouble on "ER" (01/21/99)
Mothers Who Think Girly girl By Mona Gable
If you spent your girlhood learning to toughen up, what happens when your daughter is the sensitive type who makes flower stews?
(01/21/99)
Media Circus Wall Street Journal personals work! By Susan Lehman
A Page 1 feature about a filthy-rich businesswoman was "a giant, high-class singles ad." Plus media news and notes from all over
(01/21/99)
Letters Horowitz's redbaiting fails to impress; more ways "need
sensitive" students get screwed
(01/21/99)
Today in Newsreal:
The war against sprawl, I
By Rob Gurwitt
Al Gore's "smart growth" plan is a no-brainer? Think again
(01/21/99)
The war against sprawl, II By Susan Zakin
It's owls against developers in Arizona's Oro Valley
(01/21/99)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Round-the-world coach flight a failure! (01/21/99)
Urge Confessions of an office pervert By Angie Monroe
In satisfying her own nasty desires, one woman discovers the key to worker productivity (01/21/99)
Today in Wanderlust:
Can this planet be saved? By Don George
Mark Hertsgaard discusses his new book about the human toll of global environmental devastation
(01/21/99)
Earth odyssey By Mark Hertsgaard
Excerpt: A visit to Bangkok reveals the economic temptations and environmental troubles of the Technological Age
(01/21/99)
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WEDNESDAY
Jan. 20, 1999
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Today in 21st:
A corporate game of Internet Monopoly By Scott Rosenberg
@Home's purchase
of Excite poses a new challenge to AOL and leaves Microsoft on the
sidelines -- for now (01/20/99)
21st Log
Microsoft does it again
(01/20/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Mark Luce
"Word Virus: The
William S. Burroughs Reader" Edited by James Grauerholz and Ira Silverberg: Beneath Burroughs' fedora, and beyond the tales of junk and
lechery, lies the work -- and, yes, moral sensibility -- of a real writer
(01/20/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Chasing TV By Robin Dougherty
No longer television's unsung hero, "Sopranos" creator David Chase
talks about his mother, American entertainment and the mob mentality of the
networks
(01/20/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
A Richard Pryor
tribute; the music of the Mississippi
(01/20/99)
Ivory Tower In the letters of my name By Isaac Zaur
Seduced by bad romantic verse, an editor of a college literary journal sets out to find his poetic stalker
(01/20/99)
Media Unspun
By Steve Erickson
A battle for the soul of America: It's time for the American people to realize that the Clinton trial isn't really about Clinton -- it's about democracy
(01/20/99)
Mothers Who Think Wild Thing By Polly Shulman
Better ead than uck: New ABC books are breathing life into an old genre by making letters vanish, get lost and pop up in unexpected places (01/20/99)
Ask Camille The glories of male football and the limpness of female pornography
(01/20/99)
Today in Newsreal:
We interrupt this impeachment ... By Joshua Micah Marshall
Two years in a row, Clinton's State of the Union address proves he won't follow the Presidential Tragedy script (01/20/99)
Reactions to the president's speech In five key policy areas, experts discuss what effects Clinton's proposals would have on the actual problems he identified as priorities (01/20/99)
Dear Henry By Sean Wilentz, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and C. Vann Woodward
Historians talk back to House impeachment managers (01/20/99)
What might have been By Joan Walsh
It's hard to watch this president perform so well, knowing that he has already undermined his -- and our -- hopes for any real legislative success (01/20/99)
Diamond in the Ruff By Harry Jaffe
The president's lawyer, a lone figure in his wheelchair in the well of the Senate, could not have been a more effective defender (01/20/99)
The State of the Union Prepared text of President Clinton's State of the Union address (01/20/99)
Letters Gone with congressional
geezers! Plus: I hate Anne Lamott;
medical school dorks
(01/20/99)
Wanderlust Sex and fate in Macau By Rolf Potts
Inspired by a sidewalk fortuneteller, a traveler tries his luck at an erotic cabaret in this soon-to-be-transferred Portuguese colony (01/20/99)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
The Y2K bug hits the big time (01/20/99)
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TUESDAY
Jan. 19, 1999
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Today in Entertainment:
Sharps & Flats
Reviews of new CDs by Smog, Peter Himmelman, XTC (01/19/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Clinton's awkward State of the Union address; will Felicity
do it? (01/19/99)
Today in 21st:
There goes the neighborhood By Janelle Brown
Are free Web page companies like GeoCities truly "building communities"?
(01/19/99)
21st Log
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ---
Bowie loves MP3 (01/19/99)
Brilliant Careers The bull in the black-intelligentsia china shop By Amy Alexander
He calls Toni Morrison a fraud, Afrocentrists "lost" and gangsta rappers "the scum of the earth." But actually, critic Stanley Crouch is a sweetheart
(01/19/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Scott Sutherland
"Toyer" by Gardner McKay: Playing casting director (and editor) for this unevenly paced,
Hollywood-ready thriller provides most of the debut novel's fun
(01/19/99)
Letters Giuliani's ego vs. clean subways; Tom
Brokaw's comprehension gap (01/19/99)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Magazine racks: Esquire, Cosmo, Self and Men's Health show us their tits (01/19/99)
Mothers Who Think The bento chronicles By B.J. Singer
An expatriate mom in Japan learns that a dewhiskered Hello Kitty rice ball in her child's lunch could forever condemn her as a rotten mother (01/19/99)
Newsreal Clinton's Star Wars sequel By Christopher Hitchens
The president pays off the military by funding a notorious boondoggle
(01/19/99)
Story Minute By Carol Lay (01/19/99)
No news
Wanderlust Teaching the cannibals to dance: Part Two
By Craig Nelson
A mock battle culminates in a transcultural two-step -- and an unexpected gift (01/19/99)
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MONDAY
Jan. 18, 1999
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Today in 21st:
The telephone toll By David Brake
For European Net users saddled with high phone rates, the meter is always running
(01/18/99)
21st Log
Y2K problems? Call out the National Guard (01/18/99)
Today in Books:
It keeps right on a-hurtin' By Charles Taylor
In his masterful account of Elvis Presley's decline, Peter Guralnick
has written an American tragedy with a rock 'n' roll beat
(01/18/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Tony Scherman
"Chasin' the
Devil's Music" by Gayle Dean Wardlow: Essays, articles and interviews by a Mississippi blueshunter who
proves that Robert Johnson never met Satan at the crossroads
(01/18/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Fool for love By Charles Taylor
Dino De Laurentiis' much-maligned "King Kong" improves on the
original by making it a comedy of epic sexual frustration
(01/18/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Robin Williams guests on "L.A. Doctors"; Rick Schroder goes bad
in TV movie (01/18/99)
Right On! Betty Friedan's secret Communist past By David Horowitz
Why has this feminist icon continued to cover up her years as a party activist?
(01/18/99)
Ivory Tower Darwinian admissions By Megan Olden
Are selective universities turning a blind eye to some students
in need? (01/18/99)
Mothers Who Think Great expectations By Joanna Scott
Faced with the cruel suspense of an endangered pregnancy, a novelist found that her greatest comfort came from hearing stories, especially the scary ones
(01/18/99)
Letters Readers defend Ebonics, Mumia; why Yoga is for sissies; Pam Grier vs. Sigourney Weaver (01/18/99)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
(01/18/99)
Wanderlust Teaching the cannibals to dance By Craig Nelson
An adventurer journeys farther than expected into a land of penis gourds and pig sacrifices
(01/18/99)
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FRIDAY
Jan. 15, 1999
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Today in Entertainment:
"In Dreams" Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
The dying game: With echoes of "The Silence of the Lambs," "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Psycho," Neil Jordan's often captivating "In Dreams" is less than the sum of its parts
(01/15/99)
"The Faculty" Reviewed by Charles Taylor
It may lack the emotional intensity of old-school horror flicks like "Carrie," but "The Faculty" is still bloody good fun (01/15/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Everything you always wanted to know about underwear on A&E
(01/15/99)
Today in 21st:
Card bards By Robert Rossney
Legend of the Five Rings isn't
just a card game -- it's a whole new kind of storytelling
(01/15/99)
The 21st Challenge No. 17 Results By Charlie Varon and Jim
Rosenau
The e-mail lifeline -- summing up the year (01/15/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Yunah Kim
"Double Billing" by Cameron Stracher: Underwhelming yarns of plantation life among the hypocrites and
social misfits of a big-name Manhattan law firm (01/15/99)
Ivory Tower Only the nearly perfect need apply By Jennifer King
With medical schools rejecting the vast majority of their applicants, what's an aspiring Hippocrates to do?
(01/15/99)
Letters Why go to Mars? Plus Julie Hiatt Steele, Paglia's politics and deer hunting
(01/15/99)
Mothers Who Think That one ridiculous palm By Anne Lamott
Of Catholic friends, atheist parents and the lily pads of faith
(01/15/99)
Money Help! I have portfolio deficit disorder! By Daren Fonda
My life fell apart after I discovered I could my check my stock's earnings and losses online -- whenever I wanted (01/15/99)
Today in Newsreal:
Impeachment diary III By Anonymous
In the absence of real action, Senate insiders give the House Boyz low grades, rue the end of bipartisan cooperation and spread a whole lotta rumors about Trent Lott. (01/15/99)
American gerontocracy By Christopher Shea
Is the mental capacity of the aged leaders judging President Clinton a fit subject for commentary? (01/15/99)
Cracks in the bipartisan façade By Joshua Micah Marshall
As House Republicans tried to depict their impeachment vendetta as a brave civil rights struggle, the important action was
all taking place off-camera (01/15/99)
Counting the dead children By Jeff Stein
Critics blast U.S. sanctions that kill Iraqi babies, but leave Saddam fat and happy
(01/15/99)
Salon Recommends Salon's editors recommend the best in books, games and film
(01/15/99)
Wanderlust This Week in Travel
Wanderlust's selective guide to travel-related news from across the globe
(01/15/99)
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THURSDAY
Jan. 14, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Why we just might get fast Internet lines in our homes
before we're all dead (01/14/99)
21st Log Prank takes down anti-impeachment site
(01/14/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Sylvia Brownrigg
"Original Bliss" by A.L. Kennedy: Deserted by God, a lonely Glaswegian finds improbable romance with a hardcore porn addict in A.L.
Kennedy's new novel (01/14/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Screen Savers Penned in By Paul Sherman
Sean Penn talks about the hurly-burly of Hollywood and why, despite his recent spate of great films, he wants
to quit acting -- again (01/14/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Osama bin Laden interviewed on ABC terrorism special (01/14/99)
Mothers Who Think Second Thoughts By Sally Tisdale
Fourteen years after he graduated, Michael Backman lied his way back into high school because he wanted
to try again -- not at school, but at everything wrong that followed
(01/14/99)
Media Circus
By Susan Lehman
Of Fallowships, Flynt, Republican phone sex and demon goddesses of love
(01/14/99)
Letters "Killing History" stirs up readers; "Thin Red Line" defended
(01/14/99)
Today in Newsreal:
Letter from occupied New York
By John Leonard
With City Hall behind barricades, Mayor Rudy Giuliani is getting ready to take his show on the road
(01/14/99)
Michael Jordan's final act By Dan Brekke
The legend is leaving at the top. That's why we need him to stay
(01/14/99)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling (01/14/99)
Urge Bonfire of the porn queens By Benjamin Weissman
Trapped between a silicon breast and a hard place, the Adult Video News Awards struggle to boost their legitimacy (01/14/99)
Wanderlust Beijing's Backingham Palace By Mary Elizabeth Williams
From back rubs to bowling to B-movies, this Chinese spa has it all
(01/14/99)
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WEDNESDAY
Jan. 13, 1999
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Today in 21st:
The tortured soul of the Silicon Valley CEO By Janelle Brown
Tech-business thrillers put Gates, Jobs on the couch (01/13/99)
21st Log
Id's Carmack loves, hates the Mac
(01/13/99)
Today in Books:
The making of an American historian By Carol Lloyd
After 12 years, two children, three jobs and a decade in the Yankee limelight, British-born journalist Harold Evans unveils a tribute to his adopted country
(01/13/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Sally Eckhoff
"The Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean: A handsome man with no teeth and a flower that looks like a flying
frog lures a writer into the mysterious swamplands of Florida
(01/13/99)
Today in Entertainment:
American Squirm By Sarah Vowell
The greatest degeneration: Did the heroes of World War II really know what they were fighting for?
(01/13/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Battle of the bios: Noel Coward vs. Andre the Giant; "60
Minutes II" premieres
(01/13/99)
Today in Ivory Tower:
Camille on Campus By Camille Paglia
The disintegrating public schools: As academics allow our state education to languish, private parochial schools may lead to more cultural divides
(01/13/99)
Ivory Tower Bad chemistry By Lori Gottlieb
When your lab partner is an obsessive compulsive, not even the data is safe
(01/13/99)
Mothers Who Think Time for one Thing: Marked-down memories By Grayson Hurst Daughters
Trolling for thrift store bargains is one way to salvage the musty scent of youth (01/13/99)
Today in Newsreal:
Starr's lowest blow By Bruce Shapiro
In indicting Julie Hiatt Steele, the independent counsel continues a pattern of bullying women (01/13/99)
Impeachment diary II By Anonymous
While senators basked in the glow of Friday's bipartisan trial accord, both sides were already plotting to renew the war (01/13/99)
Ebonics II By Lee Hubbard
Oakland students' test scores are among the lowest in the state, but Oakland teachers press ahead with Mumia Abu Jamal teach-in. (01/13/99)
Letters It's 17 below in Minnesota; plus, Rigoberto Menchú's legacy
(01/13/99)
Wanderlust New York serenade By Pico Iyer
An ex-Gothamite returns for five days -- and finds that attitude has its charms (01/13/99)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
(01/13/99)
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TUESDAY
Jan. 12, 1999
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Today in Entertainment:
Never forget By Samuel G. Freedman
Playwrights Alfred Uhry and David Mamet revive the specter of
antisemitism and tap into American Jews' nostalgia for a clear-cut enemy (01/12/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Hank Hill, volunteer firefighter; mom leads a witch hunt on new
"Buffy" (01/12/99)
Today in 21st:
21st Ethics of the cross hairs By Andrew Leonard
On your computer screen, which is worse -- blasting an alien or shooting a deer?
(01/012/99)
21st Log
The truth about Chinese movie-title translations (01/12/99)
Brilliant Careers American Amazon By Cynthia Joyce
For 20 years, Sigourney Weaver has defined the take-no-prisoners heroine
(01/12/99)
Today in Books:
Colson Whitehead's alternate New York By Laura Miller
His brainy, gritty first novel about a black elevator inspector, "The Intuitionist," is a formidable literary debut.
(01/12/99)
Excerpt
An excerpt from Colson Whitehead's "The Intuitionist" (01/12/99)
The Salon Interview Going up By Laura Miller
"The Intuitionist" author Colson Whitehead talks about elevator
codebooks, too many "Good Times" jokes and the lost legacy of the black
intellectual novel (01/12/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Tom LeClair
"Mosquito" by Gayl Jones: A beer-drinking, African-American, female Tristram Shandy must
carry this novel by the National Book Award nominee
(01/12/99)
Left Hook By Joe Conason
The vendetta continues: Ken Starr is squeezing witnesses in an attempt to affect the outcome of President Clinton's trial in the Senate
(01/12/99)
Letters Apple's paradigm shift; plus, a defense of J-school (01/12/99)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
The century of the trial: Clinton's Senate trial is just the latest episode in the long-running series of American Solomania (01/12/99)
Mothers Who Think What I learned from my breakdown By Faulkner Fox
How a week at a yoga retreat saved me from the perfect parenting frenzy (01/12/99)
Newsreal Tainted witness By Murray Waas
The Arkansas trooper who corroborated David Hale's story received payments from the American Spectator
(01/12/99)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Big Hit
(01/12/99)
Wanderlust Cold front
By Mona R. Washington
An ugly encounter on a Viennese metro colors a winter's day (01/12/99)
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MONDAY
Jan. 11, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Joining the mod squad By Todd Levin
A gray-market "mod chip" supercharges a Sony PlayStation -- but how does it make you feel?
(01/11/99)
21st Log
Haiku error messages surface in Microsoft courtroom! (01/11/99)
Today in Entertainment:
On Television By Joyce Millman
Married... with hitmen: HBO's wily new series "The Sopranos"
depicts the midlife anxieties of a devoted husband, father and Family man
(01/11/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Blondie is still a group: The reunion on "The American Music
Awards" (01/11/99)
Right On! I, Rigoberta Menchú, liar By David Horowitz
How left-wing propagandists, a fellow-traveling Nobel committee and a corrupt media perpetrated a monstrous hoax
(01/11/99)
Today in Ivory Tower:
Is history dead? By Sean McMeekin
Cultural studies scholars are ravaging the
facts to suit their bassackward theories (01/11/99)
Historians who know fact from fiction By Sean McMeekin
Despite what the cultural studies boosters might have you think, there are serious contemporary historians who do empirical research (01/11/99)
Mothers Who Think Drama Queen: The worst toys ever
This month's finalists battle the most nefarious play-pretties
that ever tots have touched
(01/11/99)
Newsreal Working class hero? By Micah L. Sifry
Jesse Ventura will have to reconcile his millionaire libertarian views with his blue collar support (01/11/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Adam Hochschild
"The Rape of
Nanking" by Iris Chang: A young author documents the horrifying Japanese occupation of
Nanking in World War II, nearly forgotten by the West
(01/11/99)
Letters Of declarations of culture war and the gentlemanly art of
erotic
spanking (01/11/99)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
(01/11/99)
Wanderlust Behind the red curtain By Jeffrey Tayler
A
night at the official Communist Party hotel in China leads to everything
but a good night's sleep
(01/11/99)
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FRIDAY
Jan. 8, 1999
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Today in Entertainment:
"The Thin Red Line" Reviewed by Charles Taylor
The big dead one: What was supposed to be Terrence Malick's long-awaited comeback is instead a clichéd, self-indulgent throwback to the '70s
(01/08/99)
"Affliction" Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Nick Nolte sears as a cop trying desperately not to become his
father in Paul Schrader's masterful new film (01/08/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Eddie Murphy's controversial cartoon; "Homicide" race riot
(01/08/99)
Today in 21st:
Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
So iMacs have fun
new colors. What's so revolutionary about tinted plastic?
(01/08/99)
21st Log
Bill Gates vs. the MechWarrior clans (01/08/99)
Today in Books:
Kissing the cowboys goodbye By Randall Osborne
Writer Pam Houston talks about dangerous love and the unnavigable gap between men and women (01/08/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Norah Vincent
"Mara and Dann: An Adventure" by Doris Lessing: A dystopian vision of our planet undergoing another ice age
thousands of years in the future, as seen through the eyes of two young
children (01/08/99)
Ivory Tower Advice from a J-school dropout By Lea Aschkenas
When it comes to breaking into print, getting a graduate degree in journalism may be an exercise in exalted futility
(01/08/99)
Letters We're here! We're fat! Get used to it! Plus: Steve Jobs, the marketing guy and newly minted Mayor Jerry Brown
(01/08/99)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
The year in sex: Last year, cigars and scandals -- this year, the Million Mistress March!
(01/08/99)
Money Consumer retorts By Heather Chaplin
The motto of the consumer warrior must be: Never surrender, never apologize and never forget there is no rational justification for $28 bank charges (01/08/99)
Today in Newsreal:
The culture of prosecution By Bruce Shapiro
President Clinton is the victim of a tough-on-crime mentality that has trivialized the rights of the accused (01/08/99)
Back from the brink By Joshua Micah Marshal
A Senate compromise on the impeachment trial ends the partisan bickering, for now
(01/08/99)
That wasn't foreplay, that was a four-poster! By Lori Leibovich
A renowned defense lawyer talks about some of the weird arguments the president's lawyers may make if it comes to cross-examination
(01/08/99)
Salon Recommends An article exposes why women's mags are all the same; plus Salon's editors recommend the best in books, music and film
(01/08/99)
Wanderlust This Week in Travel
Wanderlust's selective guide to travel-related news from across the globe
(01/08/99)
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THURSDAY
Jan. 7, 1999
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Today in 21st:
On to Mars? Rebecca Bryant
A grass-roots movement burns to put human beings on the Red Planet -- soon (01/07/99)
21st Log ABC has more fun with
Chinese movie titles
(01/07/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Norah Vincent
"A Return to Modesty" by Wendy Shalit: A thoughtful and original meditation on gender issues, from a young
writer who seeks to find common ground between feminists and conservatives (01/07/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Screen Savers On his own turf By Cynthia Joyce
Director-writer Paul Schrader talks about his acclaimed,
modestly budgeted "Affliction" and the pleasures of working the fertile
emotional territory the big studios can't touch (01/07/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
Impeachment trial coverage begins; Greene stalked by nutty Dr. Lee on "ER" (01/07/99)
Mothers Who Think Word by Word, by Anne Lamott
Sleeping in: No one tells you that the profound tiredness you feel in your child's first year of life doesn't go away with the 2 a.m. feedings
(01/07/99)
Media Circus
By Susan Lehman
"Firing Line" ceases fire; U.S. News on hiring spree; Brill bashing on the rise and other news from the Media Circus
(01/07/99)
Letters An adoptive mother sides with nature over nurture; the possible roots of Barr's racism; Ph.D.s' find happiness outside the ivory tower
(01/07/99)
Newsreal Impeachment diary By Anonymous
A senior Senate aide keeps busy by dishing the dirt on dealmaking, perjury and free food
(01/07/99)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Honoring Bill Clinton (01/07/99)
Urge The gentlemanly art of spanking By Carson Fitzgerald
When women turn the other cheek, what are they asking for? (01/07/99)
Wanderlust Mother load By Tanya Shaffer
An invitation to stay with a woman's family in West Africa opens the door to more than her home
(01/07/99)
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WEDNESDAY
Jan. 6, 1999
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Today in 21st:
Five fruity flavors By Janelle Brown
Happy days are here again, at Macworld (01/06/99)
21st Log
R.I.P., Hayes modems
(01/06/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Caroline Knapp
"Reporting Live" by Leslie Stahl: A straightforward, fact-laden account of Washington's shifting
journalistic and political cultures, from the "60 Minutes" reporter
(01/06/99)
Today in Entertainment:
Sharps & Flats
Reviews of "Streetcar" opera, Silver Jews, Black Crowes and more
(01/06/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
New episodes of Al Franken's newsmagazine spoof "Lateline"
(01/06/99)
Ivory Tower Bartering brains for bread By Mark Luce
Can the institutions of higher learning escape the long arms of their corporate sponsors?
(01/06/99)
Media Unspun
By Steve Erickson
Let the culture war rage: It's time for America to decide what its true values are
(01/06/99)
Mothers Who Think One mother's gain By Maurine
Zarlengo Christ.
After adopting three children, a mother says it's love, not blood,
that makes parents (01/06/99)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Tragicomic Clinton deserves censure, not impeachment
(01/06/99)
Today in Newsreal:
The man Clinton could have been By Jeff Stein
Sen. Tom Daschle, the Democrats' point man on impeachment, is a tough negotiator who could save Clinton from himself (01/06/99)
Lott's losing control By Joshua Micah Marshall
Impeachment proceedings in the Senate could get as ugly as in the House (01/06/99)
Letters Robert Bork vs. Clarence Thomas; Burton's hypocrisy; Camille Paglia, facist Ann Landers? Salon's end-of-the-year issue
(01/06/99)
Wanderlust The men who moil for gold By J. Franklin Pierce
A century after the race for the Klondike gold fields, a hiker traces the argonauts' northward course
(01/06/99)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
The Picasso in my bedroom
(01/06/99)
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TUESDAY
Jan. 5, 1999
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Today in Entertainment:
From Russia, with (forbidden) love By Benjamin Ivry
Several new collections celebrate the contributions of the late Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter (01/05/99)
Television By Joyce Millman
The Keith Olbermann Story, Chapter Three: Our hero is rescued
from Beltway babble by Murdoch's Fox Sports (01/05/99)
Today in 21st:
The ecology of Java By Peter Wayner
It's not just Sun vs. Microsoft anymore -- as the success of little Transvirtual shows
(01/05/99)
21st Log
What's the mother of all inventions? (01/05/99)
Brilliant Careers Machine dreams By Scott Rosenberg
In an industry of clones, Steve Jobs put his smart, stylish,
stubborn stamp on our computers
(01/05/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Michelle
Goldberg
"Fat! So?" By Marilyn Wann:
A cheerful pro-fat manifesto from a writer and zine editor who has
become the Abbie Hoffman of obesity
(01/05/99)
Dear Mr. Blue By Garrison Keillor
Should I wait for my lovable Silicon Valley engineer who's so afraid of the M-word?
(01/05/99)
Letters Laura Tyson on her husband's novel: It's not about Clinton and
me; Plus "Blood Money" and angry Southerners
(01/05/99)
Media Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
The world is ending -- let's get to know our neighbors! As Y2K approaches, the Utne Reader advocates the book group to end all book groups
(01/05/99)
Mothers Who Think My mother's daughter By Kristina Zarlengo
A child of adoption wonders: How much is my nature a product of my
nurturing? (01/05/99)
Newsreal My dinner with Jerry By Joan Walsh
A year after a sharp exchange over rice and beans with Jerry Brown, a reporter reflects that the ex-governor's idiot-savant approach to race may carry Oakland into a multicultural future without rancor
(01/05/99)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
The investment
(01/05/99)
Wanderlust Vive la roller blade!
By Susan Hack
In Paris, Friday night has an all-new rite (01/05/99)
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MONDAY
Jan. 4, 1999
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Ten predictions for 1999 By Janelle Brown, Andrew Leonard And Scott Rosenberg
Jenni in space! Palmagotchi! and other headlines for the new year
(01/04/99)
The boredom trilogy By Charles Taylor
The scenery chews itself in "The Hi-Lo Country," director Stephen Frears' laconic throwback to '70s westerns
(01/04/98)
Television By Joyce Millman
New Rat Pack profile on "Biography"; the first "Ally McBeal" (01/04/99)
Ivory Tower Confessions of a stair mistress By Elizabeth B. Krieger
While other students scarf chips, sling back beers and study, a growing tribe of compulsive exercisers pursues the perfect workout (01/04/99)
Mothers Who Think The baby girl I gave away By Ceil Malek
Putting up a baby for adoption was the first act of my adult life,
but it took me almost 30 years to face what that decision meant for me
and my daughter
(01/04/99)
Newsreal Letter from Havana By Frank Smyth
Gays, Catholics and transvestites find their place in the new Cuba (01/04/99)
Sneak Peeks Reviewed by Scott Sutherland
"Face-Time" by Erik Tarloff: A political roman à clef, written by a former Clinton speech writer,
about a White House staffer whose girlfriend is having an affair with the
president
(01/04/98)
Letters Who's the bigger scumbag: Salon or Rep. Dan Burton, former-Sen. Packwood or President Clinton (01/04/99)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
America -- land of secret irrationality! (01/04/98)
Wanderlust Death in Antigua By Steve Kettmann
A host family's tragedy tweaks the conscience of a traveler in Guatemala
(01/04/98)
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