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  • Looking back on Vietnam

    Salon presents a week-long retrospective on the war and its consequences, at home and abroad.
  • Why they can't all just get along

    In the unfolding telenovella over custody of Elian, the Gonzalezes look more disturbed than the Sopranos.
  • Setting the record straight

    Holocaust denier David Irving loses his London libel suit.
  • "Dead, I can't do anything"

    Francisco Santos, a former kidnap victim of drug lord Pablo Escobar, became a symbol of hope for Colombians weary of violence and fear. But when leftist guerrillas ordered him killed, he had to flee to the U.S.
  • Bracing for Hurricane Elian

    Miami's Cuban-American community prepares for war against hometown girl Janet Reno.
  • Better dead than red, white and blue

    By electing Vladimir Putin president, Russians chose a product of the same repressive police state that has cost millions of lives -- because being a superpower is better than being a Western plaything.
  • Why Elian should stay in the U.S.

    Growing up as "state property" in the Soviet Union convinced me that freedom is as crucial as a father's love.
  • Hunger strike in Jericho

    Fighting Yasser Arafat and a rival branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Sister Maria Stephanopoulos hopes the pope will help in one of the many religious turf wars in the holy lands.
  • Pilgrimage and public relations

    Pope John Paul's historic visit to Israel is supposed to spread a message of peace, but Israeli and Palestinian spinmeisters are standing by to read in support of their causes.
  • Will Taiwan's president-elect defuse tension with China?

    Chinese leaders say no to a proposal for peace talks as equals.
  • Throwing eggs at "Mr. Democracy"

    After losing the election, Taiwanese Nationalists blame their party's leader for betraying the unification dream modern Taiwan has already abandoned.
  • Bush's secret weapon

    Condoleezza Rice discusses her candidate's strong foreign policy convictions, but it's clear she's the brains of the operation.
  • Paranoid city

    Belgrade is gripped by rumors that NATO is about to begin bombing again.
  • The Palestinian verses

    The teaching of lyrical poetry by a former PLO leader throws Israel's government for a loop.
  • Prague's native daughter

    Once her stint as secretary of state is up, will Madeleine Albright give up the perks of Washington life to give her native Czech Republic a boost?
  • A flood of relief

    An international showcase of aid in Mozambique could mean a long-term boon for the impoverished country.
  • The Elián González of the Himalayas

    The 14-year-old Karmapa faces Chinese vengeance, accusations of espionage and the political intrigues of Tibetan Buddhism.
  • Persian pop vs. the revolution

    Iran's strict laws have created two cultures: The official and the real.
  • Iran on the cusp of change

    Salon's coverage of the elections in Iran, the reform movement and the evolution of culture under the mullahs.
  • A California lawsuit makes Paris tremble

    Did the toughest corporate raider in France play the stooge for a bank gone wrong?
  • Iran votes for change

    Undaunted by jail, dissident journalists have fueled the nation's hunger for reform.
  • Iran's chess war

    The intellectual pastime is the latest symbol in the struggle between the country's democratic reformers and Islamic clerics.
  • Iran's revolution may be in jeopardy

    Will the overwhelming number of young voters tip the scales in the elections? Or will their apathy prove a greater threat to reformers than the mullahs?
  • "An avalanche is coming!"

    As Iranians surge to the polls, a new generation of liberal reformers is expected to be swept into office. But it's not yet time to declare the mullahs powerless.
  • "Good Friday is dead"

    Britain is to blame for greatest crisis in Northern Ireland since the cease-fire began.
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