Salon Newsletter -- Tuesday June 3, 2003

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            Today in Salon -- Tuesday June 3, 2003

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 NEWS AND POLITICS
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"Simmons says"
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/06/03/drug_laws
Weary opponents of  New York's draconian drug laws just got reinforcements -- some of hip-hop's biggest stars.
By Michelle Goldberg


"Crime and punishment (and sports)"
http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/kaufman/2003/06/03/punishment
Chicago is ready to come down hard on the next jerk who runs onto a playing field. Good idea. Now, who else deserves some discipline? 

By King Kaufman


""1:30-1:45: Rewind Ace Ventura""
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/06/03/graham
Democratic hopeful Sen. Bob Graham keeps an incredibly detailed daily log. His rivals say it's weird, and they plan to use it against him.

By Jake Tapper

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 OPINION
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"The world press on the missing WMDs"
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/06/03/world6_3
Pravda: "If people are killed in a war which is unjustifiable under international law, the act is a war crime."
Compiled by Laura McClure

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 TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS
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"Lawyers against Linux"
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/03/sco_linux
Armed with old patents, a software company launches a billion-dollar suit
against the open-source operating system's biggest backer,  IBM -- and only
succeeds in underscoring Linux's strength.
By Farhad Manjoo

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 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
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"Letters"
http://www.salon.com/ent/letters/2003/06/03/fifties
Are the '50s dead? Readers respond to Laura Miller's essay about "Far From Heaven" and "Down With Love."


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 LIFE
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"The computer or the cradle"
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/06/03/shapiro
As a novelist and new mother I despaired: How could my book be a serious work of literary fiction and contain the word "poopy"?

By Dani Shapiro

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 WIRES
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http://www.salon.com/wires/index.html

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