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The Raw and the Cooked Even a full-blown Portis gnasherfest couldn't get big gorgonzola Mike Eisner to say cheese.
By Douglas Cruickshank [People - 05/08/99]
Illustration by Zach Trenholm
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Sallie Tisdale Zero tolerance for slaughter: If you must tote weapons of destruction, move to another country.
[Mothers Who Think - 05/06/99]
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[People - 05/05/99]
Joe Conason Were they Nazis? The Littleton high school killers' fascination with Hitler and black metal suggest the possible influence of a fascistic youth subculture that has inspired horrific violence elsewhere.
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[Health & Body - 05/01/99]
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[Mothers Who Think - 04/29/99]
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[People - 04/28/99]
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[News - 04/26/99]
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[Media - 04/23/99]
Sarah Vowell I feel fine: If ever there were a place in which apocalyptology could be a viable career, it would be Los Angeles -- a city "unimpressed by time," as Steve Erickson notes in his visionary new novel, "The Sea Came in at Midnight."
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