Friday, Aug. 27
News & Politics
Got guilt? Dairy workers grub for minimum wage in sickening manure pits -- so American consumers can have cheap milk and cheese
By Rebecca Clarren
King Kaufman's Sports Daily Olympics: Americans shouldn't feel guilty about rooting for the USA. Plus: More announcers, good and bad. And: Weird women's water polo coverage
Opinion
Four more years? William Kristol, Dick Armey, Paul Weyrich and others tell the president how he can retake the White House
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What a shock! The Pentagon high command clears the Pentagon high command of any wrongdoing in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal
By James P. Pinkerton
Arts & Entertainment
The Fix The reviews are in for Vince Gallo's notorious "The Brown Bunny"; Mike Wallace accepts TLC apology for handcuffing; and Maureen Dowd's huge book advance, revealed
"Hero" It took the slow boat from China, but Zhang Yimou's dazzling martial-arts epic has finally come to American movie theaters. It was well worth the wait
By Charles Taylor
"Suspect Zero" Ben Kingsley plays a mad killer in this cheap thriller for the expensively educated
By Stephanie Zacharek
Life
The unwelcome wagon Mrs. Tony Soprano, Bebe Neuwirth and a horde of other New York women tell Bush to take a hike
By Rebecca Traister
Letters Britney: Manipulated doll or dedicated young professional? Readers discuss Rebecca Traister's article about the soon-to-be Mrs. Federline
Since you asked ... My British lover is waffling. Should I put the hammer down?
Table Talk Agree or disagree with this week's advice?
Books
Last of the great literary modernists Jorge Luis Borges went from being an unknown middle-aged librarian to one of the 20th century's most influential writers. So why do so few people read him now?
By Allen Barra
Table Talk
From nest to grave What Table Talkers are saying this week about a veteran's odyssey, "Goodnight Moon," and what the stork really brings
Salon Blogs
Scott Rosenberg President Bush complains about "shadowy" independent smear groups -- but the shadows are all on his side of the political fight
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Comics
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