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Slate is now making money. (Also discussion of how being an arm of Microsoft helps, general analysis of the economics of web publishing.) … gulfstream/1130
Jacob Weisberg is the new editor of Slate. gulfstream/774
(Last letter: Bush says (in relation to stem-cell research) “no human life should be exploited or extinguished for the benefit of another”; how … gulfstream/748
The excerpts used in an English exam taken by New York's public-school high-school seniors have been “extensively altered,” etc. I don't think … gulfstream/813
Who Slate staffers are voting for. Interesting: Christopher Hitchens (what is he going on about?), Steven Landsburg (idiot—but thinks he’s … gulfstream/1597
Weirdness: Slate asks its contributors who they intend to vote for; in reponse, Christopher Hitchens says many garbled things, including “I do … gulfstream/1603
Anne Applebaum is really really good. (So is her Slate colleague William Saletan.) gulfstream/552
A thrilling mix-up in the Washington D.C. Democratic Mayoral primary: incumbent Anthony Williams for some reason failed to get his name on … gulfstream/916
Surprising: positive story about Wal-Mart in Boing Boing, from a writer who worked undercover as an associate. Sounds as though he might’ve started … gulfstream/2581
Slate is running an amazingly supportive and amazingly uncritical piece on the Marines who pilot UAV’s in Fallujah, calling in air strikes. … gulfstream/1617
Zac Unger, a firefighter who last year wrote a terrific Slate diary on his job, is this week writing about the birth and first days of his … gulfstream/951
Review of Joseph Stiglitz’s Globalization and Its Discontents. Stiglitz is an ex-chief economic adviser of the World Bank and a Nobel laureate; … gulfstream/859
Don’t trust Islamists? (A surprisingly one-sided piece for Slate.) gulfstream/1482
Long Tail doubters: Slate says Anderson is overreaching; the WSJ says his data is bogus. I’m still pretty skeptical of this (previously); whatever the … gulfstream/2127
Book review: Authenticity: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life. Authentic, in this sense, seems to mean stuff you couldn’t possibly … gulfstream/1280
CD of poets reading their own poems. (An Atlantic Monthly article links to some similar recordings, including Sylvia Plath reading “Lady Lazarus.”) … gulfstream/1203
L.A.’s D.A. wants to put Winona Ryder away for three years: “an exposé conducted by the entertainment tabloid Extra, Celebrity Justice … gulfstream/934
Slate has some doubts about the viability of Catholic planned city Ave Maria—shared beliefs won’t be enough, the author says, you need shared culture … gulfstream/2021
Slate’s “Field Guide” to the 2004 presidential candidates. gulfstream/1262
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The final revisions were astounding. "Look at this," said a colleague, an editor who greatly admired Bellow's novels but disliked him personally. He was … fortune
Most of us are not Patrick Henry and would be willing to lose a great deal of freedom in order to save our lives. This is especially true when the freedom … fortune
My cell door slammed open at 6:30 this morning as always. I walked to the chow hall with Eddie and Stan. My table was full, so I sat down at Stan's table. … fortune
Then De Carli notes that a girl was recently arrested for simply eating fries in the Metro. Souter asks, "Where?" "In D.C.," replies De Carli. "I … fortune
The rationale [behind the attorney-client privilege] is that it is in society's interest for people to seek advice from lawyers in order to make sense … fortune
Harper's is edited by Lewis Lapham, a WASP fond of literary essays on subjects such as kissing. -- Bruce Gottlieb http://slate.msn.com/code/Explainer/Explainer.asp?Show=7/1/1998&idMessage=1948 fortune
The least I could do is come up with a better Secret Service code name. Ever since four years ago, when I was put on the spot and told "two syllables" … fortune
You show me a kid who's not sneaking into R-rated movies and I'll show you a failure in the making. The future C.E.O.'s of America are all sneaking into … fortune
But absolutism is also a great weakness, because it puts you at the mercy of your own logic. Opposition to stem-cell research is the reductio ad absurdum … fortune
[A]nyone depressed over his weight became a "gentle giant" and every binge drinker was the life of the party. ... As the Portraits accumulated over weeks … fortune
It's as if I asked you, 'What kind of movies do you like?' Tell me two or three good movies.' And you say, 'I like movies with good acting. I like movies … fortune
But the most important reason why Fox clings to its façade is the nature of its audience. Fox's viewers want a conservative news network but don't want … fortune
Ad for 'Sleepy Hollow': "'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made ..." The full sentence: "'Sleepy Hollow' … fortune
So I know, thanks, before you tell me, that a documentary must have a "POV" or point of view and that it must also impose a narrative line. But if you … fortune
Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment, say, carried … fortune
Toward the end of his half-hour with Rafal, a cellular phone went off somewhere in the room--a big taboo at a serious music event--and it wasn't just … fortune
Here is an important new development in the Washington press corps' perceptions game. Often in the past, when chasing some alleged miscreant, the press … fortune
Former Rep. Bella Abzug, D-N.Y., died. Obituaries remembered her as a brave, strong-willed feminist and anti-war activist. The spins: 1) She epitomized … fortune
There's a contradiction implicit in O'Connor's view of herself and her view of others. She is deeply impressed by these extraordinary young women yet … fortune
Anyone here been raped and speaks English? -- Question alleged shouted out by an unknown British TV reporter at a Congo airport during the … fortune
He won't garner many delegates during Wednesday night's roll call, but Howard Dean still leads in the hearts of at least one demographic: people with … fortune
At the moment, though, physicists are not doing so well in the simplicity department. Their so-called Standard Model is a stick-and-bubblegum contraption. … fortune
When I first arrived at the penitentiary, because it was my first time in prison, I didn't know anybody and nobody knew me, so they all sat back and observed … fortune
Reserving government contracts for domestic companies violates international law, of course. It seems like just the other day that Donald Rumsfeld was … fortune
God bless that little chowderhead. -- Jack Shafer, refering to Matt Drudge and his willingness to release exit-poll data. http://slate.msn.com/code/PressBox/PressBox.asp?Show=3/7/00&idMessage=4788 fortune
A word about fact checking. Several hindsight artists have been quoted in the press saying that the New Republic's fact checkers should have caught Glass. … fortune
For a long time, the four major fashion capitals had identifiable styles. Milan was known for streamlined clothes and industrial might. (Giorgio Armani … fortune
Chatterbox's Law of Biological Determinism: Conservatives believe that genes determine everything except homosexuality; liberals believe that genes determine … fortune
Neither Spielberg, nor screenwriter David Koepp, nor Michael Crichton, on whose novel the movie is based, have shown any interest in challenging the moralistic … fortune
As they clustered tightly alongside the Kennedys, or took in the scene from Fleet Center skyboxes, it became clear that if the Republicans are the party … fortune
Financial analysts have long recognized that Microsoft's profit really comes from two sources. One is operating systems (Windows, in all its varieties), … fortune
I pushed back my chair (Crazy Legs had recommended standing to help gravity along). Although I was starving, as the countdown began, I looked at the balls … fortune
The American Civil Liberties Union is alarmed, but the ACLU's function, which I admire and support, is to be alarmed before I am, like the canary down … fortune
There are at least three kinds of reasons governments give for limiting people's freedom. First, some acts, like filming child pornography, injure the … fortune
delicious
Can hand sanitizers like Purell really stop people from getting the flu? - By Darshak Sanghavi - Slate Magazine
According to this article, there's surprisingly little evidence that widespread & frequent household use of hand sanitiser helps very much.
A parable about how one nation came to financial ruin. - By Charles Munger - Slate Magazine
Why do so many terrorists have engineering degrees? - By Benjamin Popper - Slate Magazine
The Web site that captures idle chatter. - By Sam Anderson - Slate Magazine
"There are no individuals on Overheard in New York. Everyone gets a generic label: Guy, Kid, Hipster, Hobo, Queer. (Sometimes these are cruel: Anorexic, Fat Guy, Meathead.) As they're depersonalized—stripped of context, body language, tone of voice—the dirty, neurotic, local characters of the city start to seem archetypal; their comments take on universal resonance."
Is it worth it to wash your hands in a public bathroom? - By Daniel Engber - Slate Magazine
it's very important to DRY hands after washing them
The secrets of aXXo, BitTorrent's top movie pirate. - By Josh Levin - Slate Magazine
"You know you're in a universe with a strange moral code when people start complaining that the stolen goods they're in turn stealing weren't stolen properly."
More tiresome demagoguery about candidates' income and property. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
"But this is the time, which boringly occurs every four years, when every politician in the country tries to act as if he or she went barefoot to school."
Why we don't hate Garfield. - By Chris Suellentrop - Slate Magazine
a bit of garfield hate (jim davis calculating, not in it for the love of cartooning, etc.--harsh)
The Party of Lincoln ... - By David Greenberg - Slate Magazine
licoln was a republican/how democrats became the party for blacks over the 30s, 40s, 50s
The real case against a national director of intelligence. - By Duncan Watts - Slate Magazine
Blade Runner, revisited. - By Stephen Metcalf - Slate Magazine
The Web site that captures idle chatter. - By Sam Anderson - Slate Magazine
loving 2005 review of overheardinnewyork
Why does it take hours to evacuate a sinking ship? - By Michelle Tsai - Slate Magazine
Can photographers be plagiarists? - By David Segal - Slate Magazine
A San Francisco museum reinvented. - By Witold Rybczynski - Slate Magazine
The Village Voice fires a famous music critic. By Jody Rosen - Slate Magazine
on Robert Christgau, including nice analysis of his tight review of radiohead's kid a
Dad's Sad, Mad: Too Bad - Why dads don't count when it comes to abortion. By Dahlia Lithwick
Shopping With Betty - Remembering Betty Friedan. By Emily Bazelon
Just Supposin' - In defense of hypothetical questions. By Michael Kinsley
Chris Rock - The William F-ing Buckley of stand-up. By John Swansburg