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FRIDAY
JANUARY 30, 1997
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Television Two-hour "Homicide"; Hank suffers on new "King of the Hill" (01/30/98)
21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
The unholy union of technobabble and marketspeak (01/30/98)
Mothers Who Think A mom's guide to college admissions By Teri Rosen
A mom survives college application hell (01/30/98)
Books Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"The House Gun": From the Nobel laureate, a tale about what happens to an upper-class South African family when a son is accused of murder (01/30/98)
Newsreal Application By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Official Application to Have Sex With the President
(01/30/98)
Media Circus Hollywoodland
By Catherine Seipp
The Great Dog Park Debate is convulsing Los Angeles
(01/30/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
I know what Bill wants: A secret affinity with the man in the White House (01/30/98)
Letters "Eurotrash" Kamiya vs. "Sanctimonious" Ross: Readers vote
(01/30/98)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in music, movies and books (01/30/98)
Music Reviewed by John Milward
Bob Dylan live: Joyous jamming with a road-hardened rock band
(01/30/98)
Entertainment "Great Expectations" Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Exceeding "Expectations": A negative buzz threatens to ruin an enchanting Dickens update
(01/30/98)
Wanderlust Road Warrior By Jenn Shreve
I booked it online: There really are advantages to making your travel plans on the Web
(01/30/98)
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THURSDAY
JANUARY 29, 1998
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Television Kathy Griffin guests on new "Seinfeld"; "E.R." (01/29/98)
Mothers Who Think Pool of memories By Grayson Hurst Daughters
A granddaughter reflects on the pain of getting old and missing the grandmother who didn't
(01/29/98)
Books Reviewed by Paige Williams
"The Other Side of the River": From the author of "There Are No Children Here," a tale about a murder (and racial and class divides) in a small Michigan town (01/29/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Finding the right signature (01/29/98)
21st Is Bill Gates a closet liberal? By Andrew Leonard.
The money trail of his philanthropy suggests just that (01/29/98)
Letters Don't let Clinton off hook for "white lies" (01/29/98)
Media Circus Gossip: Too important to leave to amateurs like Ted Koppel? By Deborah Mitchell
Has the press bottomed out? Editors, gossips face off in N.Y.
(01/29/98)
Music Reviewed by Andrew Hamlin
Hypnotic menace on John Lee Hooker's "Complete '50s Chess Recordings"
(01/29/98)
Newsreal Defending the right to pry By Richard Rodriguez
Why the private life of public people matters
(01/29/98)
Wanderlust America, grow up! By David Downie
How the French and the Italians are viewing the Clinton brouhaha
(01/29/98)
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WEDNESDAY
JANUARY 28, 1998
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Television Harry's pet Pickles beams down on "Third Rock"
(01/28/98)
Gossip: The most dangerous drug of all By Carol Lloyd
Is our addiction to gossip ruining America? (01/28/98)
21st Books Reviewed by Scott Rosenberg
"Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology": Can technology be beautiful? (01/28/98)
Books Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Riven Rock": A thrilling, true historical tale about a socialite who fought to save her schizophrenic husband from a slew of doctors and hangers-on (01/28/98)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Inside the Oval Orifice: At "Semiotics R Us," a blow job is a gift -- not a sexual act
(01/28/98)
Media Circus Have you Yanks gone crazy? By Jurek Martin
Yankees, grow up! A Brit decries the scandalous state of U.S. journalism
(01/28/98)
Mothers Who Think Spice of Life By Chitra Divakaruni
My fictional children: Why I can't write about my kids
(01/28/98)
Newsreal Beat it By Michael Datcher
Domestic violence -- not racism, or drugs -- is the biggest issue facing young African-Americans
(01/28/98)
Letters Women blast Horowitz (01/28/98)
Music Reviewed by Mark Athitakis
Oasis live: The Rutles' finest hour (01/28/98)
Wanderlust Passages By Ralph McCarthy
"From The Broken Bridge": Four views of the expat's life in Japan
(01/28/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Diana is alive and plotting to be king (01/28/98)
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TUESDAY
JANUARY 27, 1998
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Television State of the Union speech; "Buffy"
(01/27/98)
21st Flicks from the underground By David Hudson
Berlin transforms subway tunnels into movie screens (01/27/98)
Ain't nobody's business but his own By Gary Kamiya
The Clinton farce is about to become tragedy. We can't let it (01/27/98)
Do the right thing By Andrew Ross
If the allegations are true, Clinton must go -- fast (01/27/98)
Books Reviewed by Charles Taylor
"The Factory of Facts": A memoir, from the author of "Low Life," about the strangeness of his childhood, which was "translated" from Belgium to America (01/27/98)
The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Plastic surgery: erases your face AND your soul!
(01/27/98)
Letters The Clinton crisis: Is Salon scandalmongering?
(01/27/98)
Mothers who Think "Mama, you're Old Spice!" By Ariel Gore
Spice Girls, aka the anti-Christ (01/27/98)
Media Circus The $17.6 billion touchdown By Steven Stark
Why we'll be paying for macho TV execs' exorbitant football deal
(01/27/98)
Newsreal The grand inquisitor By Bruce Shapiro
Is Grand Inquisitor Starr's peeping-Tom reign about to end?
(01/27/98)
Music Reviewed by Paul Festa
John Dowland: I take back what I said about the Brits
(01/27/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Time of death -- lunchtime!
(01/27/98)
Wanderlust
By Tracy Johnston
Paradise found: An unspoiled oasis in the Egyptian desert
(01/27/98)
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MONDAY
JANUARY 26, 1997
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Television Who'll join Whoopi on the new Hollywood Squares?
(01/26/98)
Right On! by David Horowitz
We believe you, scumbag: Why does president Clinton still get a pass from America's feminists? (01/26/98)
Is Clinton a sex addict? by Laura Miller
Salon asks two leading sex therapists if americans should consider their president a very sick man.
(01/26/98)
Media Circus Mommy leerest by Gary Kamiya
Monica Lewinsky's mother's gushy book on The Three Tenors' sex lives
(01/26/98)
21st by Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Take the 21st Challenge: Haiku error messages. With results of Challenge No. 3.
(01/26/98)
Books Reviewed by Allen Barra
"Night Train," by Martin Amis: From the well-known British novelist, a change-up: a slim detective novel set in the United States.
(01/26/98)
Mothers Who Think Femmes fatale by Margaret Talbot
Are women more violent than men?
(01/26/98)
News Snowblind by Tomas Jacobsson
The IOC thought it would be really cool to make snowboarding an Olympic sport. The really cool snowboarders liken the idea to working with the Mafia
(01/26/98)
Letters Another presidency ripped to shreds
(01/26/98)
Music by Natasha Stovall
16 Horsepower: hellfire-and-brimstone pop
(01/26/98)
Wanderlust Neglected classics by Pete Hamill
The best Mexico travel book: Erico Verissimo's extraordinary "Mexico" deserves to be republished.
Plus: Excerpt from "Mexico" By Erico Verissimo
(01/26/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
The global economy made sleazy (01/26/98)
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FRIDAY
JANUARY 23, 1997
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Television Bail on Denver's Superbowl humiliation with MTV's "Celebrity Deathmatch Deathbowl"
(01/23/98)
21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Microsoft spins, Netscape liberates, Wired ... synergizes?
Mothers Who Think Can this marriage be saved? By Camille Peri and Lori Leibovich
bell hooks, Lillian
Rubin and Clinton biographers analyze the First Couple (01/23/98)
Books Reviewed by Megan Harlan
"Notorious Victoria": A biography of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president and the first to operate a Wall Street brokerage firm (01/23/98)
Today in News:
Salon exclusive By Jeff Stein
Convicted assassin: "I wanted to shoot the CIA director" (01/23/98)
Kenneth Starr -- Is a crazed sex cop running
the U.S.?
By Jonathan Broder (01/23/98)
If Clinton falls, will he take the Democrats
with him?
By David Corn
Democrats won't feel too kindly toward their president in his latest hour of peril. but they still need him -- and so do the republicans (01/23/98)
Media Circus Penisgate
By Christopher Hitchens
Don't cry for the president -- he's a hypocrite and a scoundrel
(01/23/98)
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
Arc of a diva: "The American Opera Singer" celebrates Madonna's pre-feminist forebears (01/23/98)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in music, movies and books (01/23/98)
Music Reviewed by Terri Sutton
Freakwater: Finally, some devious alternative country music
(01/23/98)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
Pixie dust Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Oscar and Lucinda: A shimmering romance starring Ralph Fiennes as a misfit Australian gambler
(01/23/98)
Spice hurl Reviewed by Lori Leibovich
The Spice Girls' tasteless debut
(01/23/98)
Wanderlust Mondo Weirdo By Tim Wall
Bad trip: The pilots locked themselves out of the cockpit!
(01/23/98)
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THURSDAY
JANUARY 22, 1998
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Television Lifetime airs Cher-Demi Moore abortion drama (01/22/98)
Mothers Who Think Let's talk about race By Sallie Tisdale
Should the U.S. apologize for slavery? Only if we ever want to have a real conversation about racism (01/22/98)
Books Reviewed by Sarah Vowell
"No Lease on Life": One woman's chronicle of a day in the life of New York's East Village, where druggies and creeps (and good humor) abound (01/22/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
The new European currency (01/22/98)
Letters Are Jews sacrosanct in Hollywood? (01/22/98)
Media Circus An ABC of ethical conflict By Doug Ireland
Did Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz compromise himself when he accepted a freelance gig with ABC?
(01/22/98)
Music Reviewed by Douglas Wolk
Charming Hostess: Melting-pop music by eclectic all-female band
(01/22/98)
Today in News:
Newsreal Clinton: His nine lives aren't used up yet By Alexander Cockburn
The president's latest "end" is greatly exaggerated
(01/22/98)
JFK wannabe
By Camille Paglia
Salon's columnist comments on the sexual
politics of the Clinton White House.
(01/22/98)
What's on the
tapes
By Jonathan Broder
Details of the sex tapes that
may sink the president.
(01/22/98)
Beyond the Beltway
reactions By Andrew Ross
Did he or didn't he? Salon asked five intelligent observers to give us their
thoughts on the latest unholy mess in the White House
(01/22/98)
21st Let's get this Straight By Scott Rosenberg
The Web is falling! The Web is falling! When it comes to new media, the New Yorker remains hopelessly out of the loop (01/22/98)
Wanderlust Passages By Christopher Hunt
"Waiting for Fidel": Dancing through Cuba
(01/22/98)
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WEDNESDAY
JANUARY 21, 1998
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Television "Babylon 5" debuts; "Chicago Hope" does Hitchcock
(01/21/98)
21st The mayor of cyberville By Mary Elizabeth Williams
A conversation with Echo founder Stacy Horn (01/21/98)
Books Reviewed by Lori Leibovich
"Selling 'Em By the Sack": The story of the man who invented the fast food restaurant and made
the hamburger America's own "ethnic" food (01/21/98)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
The ballad of Kath and Nigel (Part 3): How Kath lost her virginity on a cold tile floor
(01/21/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
Sex tips for boys: Why the voice of male sexuality is a soprano (01/21/98)
Mothers Who Think Time for one thing By Lori Leibovich
The cellulite closet: The rear-end minimizing, jiggle camouflaging, ego-boosting powers of a good pair of black pants
(01/21/98)
Newsreal Revolutionary suicide By Scott Corey
Kaczynski is no nutcase, he's a political prisoner
(01/21/98)
Newsreal The Clinton crisis By Andrew Ross
We're about to witness either the end of the president -- or of his enemies (01/21/98)
Letters Leave the damn kids at home (01/21/98)
Music Reviewed by Mark Athitakis
June of 44: Brainy, intense math rock (01/21/98)
Wanderlust How to buy a Turkish rug By Laura Billings
A priceless encounter
(01/21/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Fertility goddess (01/21/98)
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TUESDAY
JANUARY 20, 1998
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Television Cute, horny teens debut in "Scream" writer's new series
(01/20/98)
21st Education in the ether By Vicky Phillips
The classical ideal of learning thrives in Net-based classrooms (01/20/98)
Books Reviewed by Elizabeth Judd
"Bad Chemistry": From the respected short-story writer, a thriller about the role that smart drugs may have played in a suburban murder (01/20/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
The sexual symbolism of Ted Kaczynski's crimes (01/20/98)
Letters Getting personal about Woody Allen
(01/20/98)
Mothers who Think "NYPD Blue" in a family way By Joyce
Millman
What started out as a cop show has become a meditation on the
challenges, nightmares and blessings of parenthood (01/20/98)
Media Circus Sam and Cokie trade deck chairs on ABC's Titanic By Eric Alterman
Sam and Cokie, ace reporters? ABC News' pathetic ploy
(01/20/98)
Newsreal Where's the beef? By Erik Marcus
The Texas cattlemen's lawsuit against Oprah Winfrey could have a profound effect on the safety of the nation's food supply
(01/20/98)
Music By Gavin McNett
Bronze those blue suede shoes: Carl Perkins dies
(01/20/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
Time of death -- lunch time!
(01/20/98)
Wanderlust
By Steve Van Beek
First descent in China: Rafting where no human has been before
(01/20/98)
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MONDAY
JANUARY 19, 1998
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Television Ally dumps male model; two-part "Buffy" (01/19/98)
21st By Andrew Leonard
The return of the electric sheep: New "Blade Runner" game reviewed (01/19/98)
Free at last? By Christopher Hitchens
Indonesia's economic crisis is good news. It may help end one of the worst ongoing cases of human rights abuses in the world: the repression of East Timor
(01/19/98)
Mothers Who Think Drama Queens
Time bandits: How is it that children have such a highly attuned sense of picking the worst possible moments to remind you of the true nature of parenthood?
(01/19/98)
Newsreal The odd couple By Richard Rodriguez
The anti-communist pope and the last Marxist hero may have more in common than the West thinks
(01/19/98)
Media Circus Outlaw justice By Joe Conason
Michael Kinsley's weird soft spot for Matt Drudge
(01/19/98)
Today in Books:
The Second Annual Salon Book Awards
Salon salutes our favorite books of 1997 (01/19/98)
Readers' Choice Poll
How Salon's readers voted on the books of 1997 (01/19/98)
Books Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
"A Prayer for the City ": A breathless book about Realpolitik in Philadelphia, where the author had access to Mayor Ed Rendell's reform attempts
(01/19/98)
Letters No sympathy for flying toddlers
(01/19/98)
Music Reviewed by Donna Gaines
Doo-wop divas: The golden age of girl groups (01/19/98)
Olympics bound By Gina Arnold
A trip to Japan rekindles a life-shaping obsession
(01/19/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
A nation of Gordon Geckos (01/19/98)
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FRIDAY
JANUARY 16, 1997
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Television Masterpiece Theatre's "Reckless": A dangerous romantic triangle
Plus: Buffy hosts "SNL" (01/16/98)
21st Let's Get This Straight By Scott Rosenberg
Microsoft -- along with the rest of the computer industry -- knows what's best for you
Mothers Who Think Nursing the Muse By Lori Leibovich
Poetry is a matter of life and death to Belle Waring (01/16/98)
Books Reviewed by David L. Ulin
"The Deep Green Sea": A Vietnam vet returns to Ho Chi Minh City seeking closure, and finds love with a much younger woman (01/16/98)
Newsreal The end By Jonathan Broder
Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with President Clinton next Tuesday will likely sink the Middle East peace process altogether (01/16/98)
Media Circus Hollywoodland
By Catherine Seipp
I never said that! And certainly not in that tone of voice!
(01/16/98)
Sexpert Opinion By Susie Bright
BUST-ing out: The straight girl sex revolution has come! (01/16/98)
Letters Dead fans heap more abuse on Sarah Vowell (01/16/98)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in music, movies and books (01/16/98)
Music Reviewed by Jack Skelley
Rhino's one-hit wonders: Wild Cherry, David Essex, Gary Glitter and more! (01/16/98)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
Yucky Woody Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
Yucky Woody gives his hard-core fans the final finger
(01/16/98)
"Kundun" Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Scorsese's exquisite Dalai Lama biopic
(01/16/98)
Wanderlust Salon's daily travel section
Bad trip By Dawn MacKeen
Tale of a flight from hell
(01/16/98)
Remembering an Everest hero By Suzette Lalime
Death of an Everest hero: Anatoli Boukreev
(01/16/98)
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THURSDAY
JANUARY 15, 1998
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Television "Prey": New species of human debuts on ABC sci-fi thriller (01/15/98)
Mothers Who Think Spice of Life By Chitra Divakaruni
Fear of flying with children: Plane truths (01/15/98)
Books Reviewed by Laura Green
"My Sister Life": A detached memoir, from a young novelist, about her sister, who left home at age 14 and became a prostitute near a Navy base (01/15/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
God-man to the rescue? (01/15/98)
Letters In defense of I.F. Stone (01/15/98)
Media Circus Magazine won't let princess rest in peace By Deborah Mitchell
Did Elle publish a fake conversation with Di and Dodi?
(01/15/98)
Music Reviewed by Jerry Dannemiller
The gloomy-Gus-with-open-wounds role has always suited Mark Eitzel, and on
"Caught In A Trap," he seems all too eager to carry a few more sad
sacks on his back
(01/15/98)
Newsreal The worst show on earth By Ros Davidson
Inside the crumbling ruins of Ted Kaczynski's mind
(01/15/98)
21st Clone wars By Andrew Brown
A review of Gina Kolata's "Clone" and Lee
Silver's "Remaking Eden" (01/15/98)
Wanderlust Passages By Richard Sterling
"Luzviminda": A tale of lust and illusion
(01/15/98)
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WEDNESDAY
JANUARY 14, 1998
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Television TV Murphy Brown meets real-life cancer survivors
(01/14/98)
21st Let a hundred modems bloom By Andrew Leonard
As the Net grows in
China, the authorities keep looking for ways to control it (01/14/98)
Books Reviewed by Peter Kurth
"Preston Falls": This powerful novel of yuppie disillusionment is about a fading, flabby New York PR representative and his family (01/14/98)
The Salon Interview By Chris Haines
Gore Vidal: The author talks from his Italian villa about history, his next novel and why he'd be a better president than his cousin Al Gore (01/14/98)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Truly, madly, deeply (mostly): A pattern of prenuptial panic attacks convinces Nigel that he's a sex maniac
(01/14/98)
Media Circus Cult of personality, without the personality By Tom McNichol
Follow the Maximum Leader! N. Korea's new spin doctors off to shaky start (01/14/98)
Mothers Who Think From liposuction to labiaplasty By Lori Leibovich
American women are getting nipped, tucked and sucked in record numbers. What does it mean for feminism?
(01/14/98)
Newsreal Dream girls By Jonathan Broder
Why women's figure skating is becoming America's biggest spectator sport
(01/14/98)
Letters Camille Paglia is a hair salon bimbo (01/14/98)
Today in music:
Interview: Victoria Williams By Meredith Ochs
Victoria Williams muses about career ups, personal downs and her new album
"Musings of a Creekdipper" (01/14/98)
Sharps Reviewed by Natasha Stovall
Victoria Williams very much believes in the running
commentary of everyday life, and "Musings" is her personal radio
broadcast (01/14/98)
Wanderlust Nagano: Not ready for prime time By Eric Gower
Hundreds of thousands of athletes and fans are about to descend -- so where's the Olympics fever?
(01/14/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
We smoke, you choke, get used to it (01/14/98)
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TUESDAY
JANUARY 13, 1998
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Television "X-Files" hits the road
(01/13/98)
21st Parental advisory warning By Cynthia Joyce
Dos and don'ts of
getting mom and dad online (01/13/98)
Books Reviewed by Charles Taylor
"Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65": The second volume of the author's magisterial history of the Civil Rights Era has intelligence and moral sympathy to burn (01/13/98)
The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Wedding for Godot: Of cold feet, angry Gods and the uniting of souls forever
(01/13/98)
Letters Deadheads rise up against Sarah Vowell
(01/13/98)
Mothers who Think Face-off By Anne Levine
What do you do when your mother won't let you see her grow old? (01/13/98)
Media CircusThe People are always wrong By David Futrelle
Ed Koch jazzes up and dumbs down democracy on the new, improved "People's Court"
(01/13/98)
Newsreal The court of St. Paula By Jonathan Broder
The man behind Paula Jones: "It's not political"
(01/13/98)
Music Reviewed by Pete Golkin
With this long-delayed collection, one could argue that the late bluesman
Jimmy Rogers' only error was in working among too many legends
(01/13/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
(01/13/98)
Wanderlust By Jeffrey Tayler
Nigerian nightmare: A death-defying bus adventure
(01/13/98)
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MONDAY
JANUARY 12, 1998
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Television Finally, a new "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (01/12/98)
21st Satire By D.T. Max
Air Microsoft: The sky's the limit for Bill on a buying spree (01/12/98)
The Salon Book Classics Group The case of the wimpy heroine By Carol Shields
Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" presents her readers with the challenge of loving a doormat
(01/12/98)
Right On! By David Horowitz
In praise of William Jefferson Clinton : Rub your eyes in disbelief, but David Horowitz thinks the Man from Hope has helped bring this nation back together again
(01/12/98)
Mothers Who Think
By Polly Shulman
See you later, lunar crater: In kids' books, the time for rhyme is prime
(01/12/98)
Newsreal Lord of the dance By William O. Beeman
The Iranian president's carefully choreographed, subtly spoken interview with CNN carried a huge message to the United States, and to his own people
(01/12/98)
Media Circus How I learned to stop worrying and love Gloria Allred By Frank Sanello
She may be the queen of overexposure, but the feminist attorney is on
the side of the (loudmouthed) angels
(01/12/98)
Books Reviewed by D.T. Max
"Paradise": From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, a sometimes mystical tale about the residents of a small, all-black Oklahoma town
(01/12/98)
Letters Phillip Nobile: I.F. may not have been a spy, but he was a Stalinist
(01/12/98)
Music Reviewed by Gavin McNett
As the outtakes and B-sides of "Naked Baby Photos" show, Ben Folds Five have
always been charismatic and generally appealing, but not always totally
likable (01/12/98)
Wanderlust Salon's daily travel section
Road Warrior By Dawn MacKeen
Frequent flyer guru Randy Peterson shares his secrets
(01/12/98)
Tip of the Week
Hong Kong's new electronic travel card
(01/12/98)
Informed Sources
Online ticketing vs. travel agents: Which is better?
(01/12/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
The Voice of His Generation (01/12/98)
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FRIDAY
JANUARY 9, 1997
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Television "Homicide": Is Bayliss really gay? Plus new "X-Files" (01/09/98)
21st By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau
Take the 21st Challenge: Caller IQ and other premium phone services
Plus: Results of Challenge No. 2
(01/09/98)
Mothers Who Think Hot Flash By Dawn MacKeen
Bad news for G.I. Jane? Should the armed forces be segregated? (01/09/98)
Books Reviewed by Dan Cryer
"Charming Billy": A lovely novel that investigates the late Billy Lynch, a sweet raconteur whose wake is the occasion for a reunion of friends (01/09/98)
Newsreal Slaughter of the innocents By Erik Marcus
The killing of 1.3 million chickens in Hong Kong is child's play compared to the massacres that occur on American farms every day (01/09/98)
Media Circus Uncle Sam to Unabomber: Crazy or not, we're coming to kill you
By Bruce Shapiro
Janet Reno's bloodthirsty cry: Hang crazy Kaczynski!
(01/09/98)
Sound Salvation By Sarah Vowell
I'll be Grateful when they're really Dead (01/09/98)
Letters Readers respond to Army's rightward march (01/09/98)
Salon Recommends Our critics pick the best in music, movies and books (01/09/98)
Music Reviewed by Jack Skelley
Philip Glass' enlightened "Kundun" soundtrack (01/09/98)
Entertainment Salon's weekly guide to movies and television
The Boxer Reviewed by Charles Taylor
His own man: Daniel Day-Lewis is magnetic as a former IRA prisoner
(01/09/98)
Wag the Dog Reviewed by Andrew O'Hehir
Lights, camera, WAR! De Niro and Hoffman in wicked satire on politics as showbiz
(01/09/98)
Wanderlust Mondo Weirdo By Sharon Boddy
A book-lover's heaven in Wales
(01/09/98)
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THURSDAY
JANUARY 8, 1998
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Television "Seinfeld": Elaine's romance with Puddy spins out (01/08/98)
Mothers Who Think The Forgiven Part 2 By Michelle Goldberg
What do you call someone who befriends the man who tortured, raped, killed and cannibalized her daughter? Crazy? Or a saint? (01/08/98)
Books Reviewed by Sarah Harrison Smith
"Landscapes of the Heart": From the well-known novelist, a memoir that follows her from a Southern childhood through years in New York and France (01/08/98)
Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
Boss-chokings decline sharply (01/08/98)
Letters Paglia's Kennedy smear
(01/08/98)
Media Circus Sleaze, smears and spleen: A Novak way of knowing By Eric Alterman
Robert Novak has exhumed a slanderous lie that I.F. Stone was a Communist spy
(01/08/98)
Music Reviewed by Dawn Eden
Return of the Zombies: Most anticipated reissue since Beatles' "Anthology"
(01/08/98)
Newsreal The man who would be God By Jonathan Broder
Political uproar over Dr. Seed, the human clone scientist
(01/08/98)
21st Live! From my bedroom By Simon Firth
"Homecam" operators broadcast their daily lives to Web voyeurs (01/08/98)
Wanderlust Passages By Michael Wood
"In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great": Tracking Alexander the Great through the Hindu Kush
(01/08/98)
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WEDNESDAY
JANUARY 7, 1998
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Television "Ellen" spoofs Lilith Fair
(01/07/98)
21st Apple's profit and gloss By Scott Rosenberg
Steve Jobs offers a Macworld progress report -- with some glaring omissions (01/07/98)
Books Reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
"Starting Out in the Evening": A lovely book about art and the intellect, featuring three characters -- an aging novelist, his daughter and a worshipful young student (01/07/98)
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
High (in)fidelity: He loves the right one -- so why does he want the wrong one?
(01/07/98)
Media Circus Under the Covers By James Poniewozik
The year that was wrapped-up: 1997's wrap-ups, unwrapped (01/07/98)
Mothers Who Think The Forgiven: Part one of a two-part series By Michelle Goldberg
Who would befriend such savage murderers? The victims' parents did.
(01/07/98)
Newsreal When Mr. Bono went to Washington By David Corn
Sonny Bono: The joke who became a Washington good guy
(01/07/98)
Letters Kaczynski deserves to die (01/07/98)
Music Reviewed by Alex Abramovich
Abba's heirs: The new Swede-pop invasion (01/07/98)
Wanderlust The Inuit Olympics By Mary Roach
Head Pulls, Knuckle Hops and other madness
(01/07/98)
The K Chronicles By Keith Knight
Tooth fairy tale (01/07/98)
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TUESDAY
JANUARY 6, 1998
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Television "Biography" profiles Mick Jagger
(01/06/98)
21st Virtual machine dreams By Scott Rosenberg
21st Reviews: Virtual PC software makes your Mac impersonate a PC -- slowly (01/06/98)
Books Reviewed by Etelka Lehoczky
"Clone: The Road to Dolly, and the Path Beyond": From the New York Times science writer, a level-headed look at cloning and its discontents (01/06/98)
Ask Camille By Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia on America's tragicomic dynasty -- the Kennedys (01/06/98)
Letters Herpes fallacies
(01/06/98)
Mothers who Think Time For One Thing By Elizabeth Rapoport
Women are experts at meaningless mea culpas, and if we don't cut it out we're really going to have something to be sorry about
(01/06/98)
Media Circus Sex please, we're Brits! By Sarah Coleman
When it comes to book-cover illustrations, the Brits are fond of the naughty bits
(01/06/98)
Newsreal The army of the right By Jonathan Broder
An army of dittoheads: U.S. military rallies round Rush Limbaugh
(01/06/98)
Music Reviewed by Michelle Goldberg
Free Kitten: Sonic Youth-Pussy Galore-Pavement supergroup
(01/06/98)
Story Minute By Carol Lay
(01/06/98)
Wanderlust Mayan dreaming By Douglas Cruickshank
Mind-bending visions in the Yucatan
(01/06/98)
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MONDAY
JANUARY 5, 1998
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Television Salon reveals "Seinfeld" replacement
(01/05/98)
21st Top 10 new jobs for 2002 By Wendy M. Grossman
New technologies mean new job descriptions. Be the first bot therapist on your block (01/05/98)
Books Reviewed by Sally Eckhoff
"Animal Husbandry": When a TV producer named Jane Goodall loses yet another boyfriend, she searches the natural world for lessons about commitment (01/05/98)
New Year's wish for the Reverend Al By Jim Sleeper
It's the Rev. Al Sharpton's last chance to change his divisive tune (01/05/98)
The Salon Interview Russell Banks By Cynthia Joyce
Hollywood's hottest new property is a writer with a gift for probing the dark truths of ordinary lives (01/05/98)
This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow
(01/05/98)
Media Circus Men's Health By Chris Haines
The straight magazine gay men love to read (01/05/98)
Mothers Who Think Cyberspace: The final dating frontier By Eve Glicksman
A cyber romantic discovers that the Web can bring doctors, bankers, engineers and old college boyfriends to your door. (01/05/98)
Music Reviewed by Gavin McNett
"The Complete Trios Plus" reveal Les Paul as a highly talented and stylish, though fairly conventional, pop-jazz player (01/05/98)
Newsreal Is Kaczynski crazy enough to be saved? By Ros Davidson
Even the defense admits he's the Unabomber. The challenge is to turn him into a human being (01/05/98)
Wanderlust History and hallucination By Jan Morris
Gdánsk stands as a symbol of enduring truth -- and stirring resurrection (01/05/98)
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