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Columns & Sections

Alaska Scapegoat Ranch
Scapegoat John Walker Lindh: The 2002 Season Portends Well
by Wilkins Micawber, prop.

Book Review
An Uneasy History, A Kesey Past
A Peace to End All Peace
by David Fromkin
From Beirut to Jerusalem
by Thomas L. Friedman
reviews by David A. James

Calendar of Events

Cartoon
Ted and Frank in the Garden of Eden
by Dan Darrow

Editorial
We're Not Dead Yet

Firebreak
column by
J.D. Ragan

Letters to the Editor
Chip & Fran Funk
Judy Johnson

Kate Ragan

poetry
"Wintering Over at Spinach Creek"
by Doreen Fitzgerald

The Postal News
The Best of the Ester Republic
public announcement
The Ester Republic's Third Annual Birthday Bash: The Terrible Twos Are Over!
public announcement
The Local Et Cetera Rides Again
public announcement

The Stork Report
Latté
by D. Helfferich

Pulling the Scales
The Murkowski Scale of Spilled Oil
by S.A. Tyre

Ray's View From the Lump

Victuals & Drink
Eggnog
by George Sherrod

Video Dreamland
Bridget Jones' Diary
Memento
The Dress Code
Along Came A Spider
Just Visiting
Planet of the Apes
America's Sweethearts
Angel Eyes
A Knight's Tale
movie reviews by Thela Clayton

Delayed Double Mondo Again
FEATURES

Alaskans in Paris
by John McWhorter

There are grizzly bears in Paris, but if that's not your cup of tea, the Jardin des Plantes can introduce you to mushrooms and cheese molds, and then there's the sewers, and there's always McDonalds.

Living Concious of Your Conciousness
photos and story by Monique Musick

Our most defining characteristic, our conciousness, is the most difficult to describe.

New Year's Party at the Eagle
photos by Ruben Clayton

Philippines: Contrasts In and Out of Cebu
photos and story by LJ Evans

Cebu is a bustling city of about a million people, but Pong-ol Sibuguay, where LJ spends about half her time, is a little village up a spectacular mountain drive at an elevation of 1500 feet. LJ also describes Merina's death.

Turkey Travel: Bin Laden Got the Movies
by C.P. McRoy

Holiday travel post-9/11 just ain't what it used to be...

Unrest at Green Peace Lodge
by Susan Farnham

The Maoists in Nepal are becoming increasingly aggressive, and an incident at Green Peace Lodge, to the west of Pokhara, disrupts the normal quiet.

War on Two Fronts
by J.D. Ragan

As a result of the 2000 presidential elections, we now have a minority president who is waging a war against the majority of the American people at the same time that he is waging war in Afghanistan.

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