Arts & Entertainment:
The ballad of Luther and Johnny By Sarah Vowell
In the jungles of Southeast Asia, 12-year-old twins lead a band of rebels. My twin sister and I got into trouble a lot, too. (03/01/00)
Who really killed the video star? By Andy Dehnart
It took 18 years for MTV to air 1 million videos. How long will the next million take? We do the math. (03/01/00)
Sharps & Flats By Joe Heim
Message to Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan: You are not God. (03/01/00)
Blue Glow By Joyce Millman
Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, March 1, 2000 (03/01/00)
Books:
The empty man By Chris Lehmann
Is lots and lots of money all there is to George W. Bush? Molly Ivins says yes, Elizabeth Mitchell says no. (03/01/00)
Carrying justice By David Moberg
Why is the job of overturning wrongful death penalty convictions being left
to a handful of students and academics? (03/01/00)
"Scandalmonger" by William Safire By Katharine Whittemore
The pundit and language columnist crafts a potboiler of sleaze and slander in the republic's infancy. (03/01/00)
Comics:
Keith Knight One black male, four white
police officers, 41 shots
(03/01/00)
Health & Body:
The chemical knife By Kevin Giordano
Will Tennessee be the next state to approve castration for sex offenders? (03/01/00)
Letters:
Letters to the editor
Are impoverished children doomed? Plus: John Stossel's journalistic integrity; having a gas with flatulism story. (02/29/00)
Media:
Election-free TV By Sean Elder
The Big 3 networks are giving the candidates about 30 seconds of air time an evening. Hell, most ads are longer than that. (02/29/00)
Mothers Who Think:
Fear with a shot of vanity By Pia Hinckle
Marketers capitalize on the insecurity and ignorance of new parents. (03/01/00)
We obsess, therefore we buy By Karen Karbo
Parenting manuals multiply along with parental insecurities. (03/01/00)
News:
Diallo is a martyr, but the cops aren't murderers By Stanley Crouch
Racism didn't kill the African immigrant, but his death has forced the police and the community to reckon better with one another. (03/01/00)
A tale of two killings By Jesse Drucker
Did politics play a role when Rudy Giuliani demanded a federal civil rights suit against the killer of Yankel Rosenbaum, but opposes one in the Diallo case? Ya think? (03/01/00)
Hitler's apologist By Heather World
In a London courtroom, Holocaust denier David Irving gets to argue the details of the persecution of the Jews against the world's leading experts. (03/01/00)
Politics 2000:
Bush has a Tuesday sweep By Anthony York
The front-runner wins the trifecta and regains the momentum from McCain -- again. (03/01/00)
Bush strikes back By Daryl Lindsey
McCain's insurgency may play well with the Yankees, but down here south of the Mason-Dixon line, it's solid Bush country. (03/01/00)
No upset.com this time By Alicia Montgomery
Northern Virginia's newly wealthy tech belt didn't provide the bounce McCain needed to overcome Bush's entrenched power in Tuesday's primary. (03/01/00)
People:
This Walls can talk By Amy Reiter
Walls vs. Drudge, dish diggers duke it out. Also, the pants off her back: There's nothing Jessica Simpson's mom wouldn't do for her daughter. Plus: Who's gonna talk about Cody? Kathie Lee to leave "Live." (03/01/00)
Lust and bullets at Rumba Beach By Carlos Amantea
If Chaucer had retired to a trailer in Margaritaville, would he spend his evenings watching Fellini movies? He might. (03/01/00)
Technology:
Should your boss know about those visits to the shrink? By Thomas Scoville
Employers sniffing through medical records, would-be forgers having UPS deliver your signature -- Simson Garfinkel reveals a world rife with privacy violations in "Database Nation." (03/01/00)
StopDrLaura.com By Donna Ladd
Gay activists go after Paramount, demanding that it cancel plans for a TV show starring the talk-radio moralist. (03/01/00)
Travel & Food:
"Bruce Chatwin: A Biography" By Jonathan Miles
A superb portrayal of the restless and randy travel writer brings us as close
to his hidden heart as we're likely to get. (03/01/00)
Swedish telecommunications company goofs By J.A. Getzlaff
Mock hijacking of bus goes haywire. (03/01/00)
