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Salon Issue 12
April 22, 1996

Newsreal:

April 26, 1996: Mud sport: Book publishers pile on Bill and Hillary.
April 25, 1996: Mayday! Is Bob Dole's last mission doomed?
April 24, 1996: Take Your Daughter to Work -- give your son the shaft.
April 23, 1996: Salon exclusive -- The FBI's blown Unabomber evidence.
April 22, 1996: Lebanon eyewitness -- Israel's barrage backfires.

Media Circus:

April 26, 1996: All menu, no food: The Web's review-of-review syndrome.
April 25, 1996: Gary Kamiya reviews the New Yorker's "Black in America."
April 24, 1996: Tina Brown and Henry Louis gates kick it at New York bash.
April 23, 1996: A NY Times sportswriter's strange syndrome.
April 22, 1996: Camille Paglia on the triumph of the media elite.

Sneak Peeks:

I was Amelia Earhart By Jane Mendelsohn
Ashes to Ashes By Richard Kluger
The Woman who Walked into Doors By Roddy Doyle
Dead Meat By Sue Coe
The Song of the Dodo By David Quammen

Table Talk: Should a 6-year-old be charged with attempted murder?

New reader poll: Would you turn your brother in for money?

Getting over it By Laura Miller
Author Lillian Rubin on why some transcend childhood trauma -- and some don't.

The Salon Interview By Dwight Garner
Can Al Sharpton grow up?

Why your computer keeps crashing By Doug Fine
An inside look at high-tech hype.

TV's "Profit" By Joyce Millman
Monster in the box.

MOVIES:

Flirting With Hollywood By Cynthia Joyce
A chat with "Flirting with Disaster" director David O. Russell.

Cheap Thrills By Mary Elizabeth Williams
"Mystery Science Theatre 3000" on the big screen.

MUSIC:

The Birth of a Crossover Star By Lori Leibovich
Country-folk neo-traditionalist Gillian Welch's dazzling debut.

Roots Music with an Electric Shimmer By James Marcus
Los Lobos gets wild and crazy on "Colossal Head."

Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
The very last word about postmodernism.

Verbivore By Richard Lederer
Unscramble the anagrams to reveal the names of five Shakespearean characters. The first correct reply wins a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.

The 5-minute mystery solution "Booked for Murder."

COMICS:

Tom Tomorrow: This Modern World.
Carol Lay: Story Minute
Keith Knight: The K Chronicles
Ruben Bolling: Tom, The Dancing Bug



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