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Prosecutors drop sex case against Bryant

Annan calls for more troops in Sudan

U.S. airstrike in Fallujah kills 17

U.S. clears sale of weapons to Yemen

U.S.: Iran preparing to make nuclear weapons

U.S. spy probe focuses on two lobbyists

Rove: Kerry tarnished Vietnam veterans

AIDS activists disrupt convention event

Cheney says presidential choice is clear

La. lawmaker wants opponent off ballot

Bosnian Serb acquitted of genocide

Hundreds held in Russian school; 2 killed

Talks resume in bid for N. Ireland gov't

Israel warns Syria on deadly bus blasts

Butterfly ballot designer loses election in Florida

Eight killed in Russian school seizure

Cheney to lash into Kerry in N.Y. speech

U.S. to dismiss terror cell convictions

U.N.: increase troops for Sudan now

Bobby Knight's life may be new sitcom


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  Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2004

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George W. Bush's missing year
The widow of a Bush family confidant says her husband gave the future president an Alabama Senate campaign job as a favor to his worried father.  Did they see him do any National Guard service? "Good lord, no"
By Mary Jacoby

 
 


War Room '04
Tony Soprano to Bush: Get out of my city! New poll: Dick Cheney is a drag on GOP ticket. Even conservatives deem Bush twins' dopey speech "a disaster." Grieving father of dead U.S. soldier crashes Grand Old Party


 


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When Washington burned Conventional wisdom says the country comes together during wartime. But that has not always been the case, says historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. -- not even when the British torched the nation's capital
By Jeff Horwitz

Ben Barnes to break silence on "60 Minutes" The Republican campaign gets ready for shock waves, as the former Texas official who says he pulled strings to get George W. Bush into the Air National Guard finally goes public
By Eric Boehlert

King Kaufman's Sports Daily will return Sept. 7


.Books

What to Read Exotic Labor Day destinations: David Mitchell's post-apocalyptic "Cloud Atlas," Arthur Phillips' addictive saga of Egyptology, Michelle de Kretser's tale of murder in Ceylon, Patrick McGrath's yarn of debauchery in the tropics, and John Searles' unputdownable thriller
By Salon's critics


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Jeff Buckley's class act I was such a huge fan of his one album (the newly reissued "Grace") that I was stunned when Buckley showed up in my poetry class. Then I had to read his poem aloud
By Scott Cohen

"Fullerton Road Trick" A poem
By Jeff Buckley

Crank the volume Where are the new Marleys and Lennons?  Download the 25 best protest anthems today -- for free -- including several exclusive to Salon from Rickie Lee Jones, Xiu Xiu, Yuka Honda and more
By Thomas Bartlett


.Opinion

Letters Readers respond to Eric Boehlert's "They Knew How to Win. Does John Kerry?"

Sidney Blumenthal In trying to transfer his heroic, powerful image to Bush, Schwarzenegger reveals the deep anxieties of the GOP


.Life

"Mom, what are asses of evil?" Protesters have taken over my Manhattan neighborhood. But how do I explain their signs -- let alone the dismal state of the world -- to my 9-year-old son?
By Ellen Neuborne

Since you asked ... My boss wants me to leave -- in a nice, quiet way
By Cary Tennis

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Oil, guns and money What's really behind the recent redeployment of U.S. military forces? Making sure no one messes with American access to global energy resources. An excerpt from "Oil: Anatomy of an Industry"
By Matthew Yeomans


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WWBS? (What would Bush say?) The results of our nomination speechwriting contest are in -- and there's no recount necessary


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Tom the Dancing Bug President Kerry: Day One
By Ruben Bolling


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Scott Rosenberg Miami Herald tells staff it's unethical to attend benefit concerts: When will editors accept that reporters are citizens, too?
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