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Independence Day is a national holiday, but personal associations -- from heroism to heroin -- are what give it meaning.
By Cary Tennis
June 30, 2000
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Readers reflect on the legacy of Vietnam Plus: Can Ritalin be lethal? Darva Conger should keep her clothes on.
May 2, 2000
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He goes out with a bang, while a reporter is left to whimper.
By Jake Tapper
April 29, 2000
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Daniel Ellsberg reflects on the role the Pentagon Papers played in ending the war, and says he wishes he'd released them years earlier.
By Daryl Lindsey
April 28, 2000
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Frances FitzGerald, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Fire in the Lake," says Americans still get Vietnam wrong because we can't stop looking at our collective American navel.
By Fiona Morgan
April 28, 2000
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Meeting is still on -- for now.
By Jake Tapper
April 28, 2000
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How wizard Walter Murch created a soundtrack of horror for Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now."
By Michael Sragow
April 27, 2000
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From POW to family man: McCain takes his wife and son back to the "Hanoi Hilton" and the site of his plane crash.
By Jake Tapper
April 27, 2000
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The mysteries of a fleeting romance in Hanoi: He put his chicken in my soup. How should I respond?
By W. Madrigal
April 27, 2000
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John McCain's first order of business: Honor the remains of more American soldiers.
By Jake Tapper
April 26, 2000
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Of his former captors, he says, "I've been able to go on and have a wonderful life, and they've had to stay in Vietnam."
By Jake Tapper
April 25, 2000
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Author Todd Gitlin, filmmaker Freida Lee Mock and journalist Andrew Lam on the lasting effects of the war.
By Fiona Morgan
April 25, 2000
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Salon presents a week-long retrospective on the war and its consequences, at home and abroad.
By Fiona Morgan
April 24, 2000
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In Puerto Perdido they're still talking about the double death of Captain Hook, going buggy with machetes and the penalty for unholy hanky-panky.
By Carlos Amantea
March 10, 2000
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John McCain's first wife won't say a harsh word about the man who dumped her. Is she a spineless wimp or a quiet hero?
By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
March 6, 2000
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Readers clash over McCain's use of "gook" Plus: Splitting up siblings heartbreakingly common; the thrill of
playing God with a Sim family.
Letters to the editor
February 19, 2000
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Is onscreen love colorblind? Plus: An unintended message on George W.'s Web site; dog breeding is un-American!
Letters to the editor
February 16, 2000
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Stuck in a speeding Vietnamese cyclo, far from the city, I noticed headlights close behind. Was this a setup, or was I going to get my lemon grass beef after all?
By Lori Makabe
February 2, 2000
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In a recent episode of "Jane Fonda's Life," a chauffeur introduced her to a new fella: God.
By Lance Gould
January 27, 2000
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For some thinkers, that ol' international communist conspiracy will never die.
By Judith Coburn
November 24, 1999
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A historian exposes the unpredictably diverse feelings of ordinary soldiers, but fails to learn from their words.
By Annie Murphy Paul
November 15, 1999
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"All we had was prayer. And I did a lot of that."
By Austin Bunn
November 11, 1999
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The stylish, almost hallucinatory war movie promotes director David O. Russell from indie grunt to Hollywood sharpshooter.
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 1, 1999
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In Vietnam, a woman-to-woman massage can be a therapeutic experience -- and then sexual intrigue appears.
By Yvonne Shafir
October 1, 1999
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Wandering off the Vietnamese budget travel trail in search of authenticity, our correspondent finds that authenticity isn't all it's cracked up to be.
By Rolf Potts
July 27, 1999