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Teresa Santiago was ready to jump ship to another presidential candidate. But was she ready to commit political espionage?
By Dave Eggers
April 23, 2004
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Dick Benjamin wasn't just smart. He might have been the smartest presidential candidate -- ever! But how could he get the word out?
By Dave Eggers
April 21, 2004
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Glenn Close seemed nice enough. But the hundreds who gathered to see the prospective presidential candidate couldn't help wondering what, exactly, was she doing there?
By Dave Eggers
April 12, 2004
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It's presidential primary season, and every candidate has been tortured, shot or mutilated!
By Dave Eggers
April 8, 2004
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It was fascinating, this process, thrilling and so quick --
who knew manipulating political reporters would be so easy?
By Dave Eggers
March 16, 2004
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Edward Longshanks fought fires, but was Edward Longshanks a firefighter? He was not. Edward Longshanks was a fixer. He was a cleanup man. He was a slate cleaner. He was an operative.
By Dave Eggers
March 12, 2004
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She has a donated castle and an army of volunteers wearing T-shirts saying "I Drank the Kool-Aid." So what is Rebecca supposed to do now?
By Dave Eggers
March 10, 2004
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The students show up en masse -- some fainting, some drooling -- at Rebecca's campaign headquarters. What, she wonders, could they possibly want?
By Dave Eggers
March 5, 2004
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Rebecca continued a few more steps, keys in hand, and felt the line compress around her. She was surrounded. She wanted to scream. They were going to mug her.
By Dave Eggers
March 3, 2004
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Rebecca's idea was radical: No money accepted, no money spent -- a campaign of ideas, a campaign of hustle and sweat, brains and legwork.
By Dave Eggers
March 2, 2004
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"You want to win," the kid asked Rebecca, "or are you just doing a Ralph Nader kind of thing?"
By Dave Eggers
February 26, 2004
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If Giacomo didn't know better, he'd be convinced he had feelings for Rebecca, unrelated to this election. But
how?
By Dave Eggers
February 25, 2004
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Rebecca was so appallingly nervous and weird that all who sat witness wanted to douse her with water, throw a Red Cross blanket over her, and lead her to safety.
By Dave Eggers
February 24, 2004
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He was determined to be strong, to go to D.C. with an agenda, and that agenda was to have simultaneous affairs with three or four women in their 40s.
By Dave Eggers
February 20, 2004
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Rebecca noticed Giacomo's eyes were trained on his own reflection. More specifically, on his own ass.
By Dave Eggers
February 19, 2004
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A distinct, unsettling scent: Politicking among the undertakers.
By Dave Eggers
February 18, 2004
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Rebecca Romaine's biggest concern was how to make her farm-bred catfish taste like nothing. Then came a fateful phone call.
By Dave Eggers
February 12, 2004
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Episode 3: "Here we take over," said Sergei, who was now wearing an aviator's scarf. "Here we end this thing. Here we win."
By Dave Eggers
January 30, 2004
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Episode 2: The balloon battle heats up, and Bill Bennett enters the picture.
By Dave Eggers
January 28, 2004
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Introducing Episode 1 of Salon's new political serial.
By Dave Eggers
January 26, 2004
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Dale Peck, the madman critic famous for his trash jobs on Moody, Eggers and Franzen, talks about forgiving his abusive father in his new "fictional memoir" and wonders why we can't all get along.
By Virginia Vitzthum
December 12, 2003
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Dave Eggers introduces Edward Lewis Wallant's "The Tenants of Moonbloom," a lovely allegory of 1950s urban life that might be the greatest New York novel you've never read.
By Dave Eggers
December 8, 2003
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"Zoe Trope," the 17-year-old author of "Please Don't Kill the Freshman," received a huge advance to write a diary of her angsty and erotically charged high school days.
By Whitney Joiner
October 27, 2003
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Is Al Gore going to be the next Phil Donahue? Is the Hulk the hero we all need? And what is all the fuss about bellybuttons on Capitol Hill?
June 19, 2003
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Eggers says "I do," "Millionaire" runner-up Sarah says "I will" to Playboy, and Larry David gets Glicked!
By Karen Croft
April 30, 2003