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This week Joe Klein puts the nine announced Democratic candidates for President on the couch and offers a prescription for fixing the party's chronic election woes. From his days covering politics for Rolling Stone, New York, Newsweek and the New Yorker to his best-selling work of fiction--as Anonymous, he wrote Primary Colors, the scaldingly funny roman a clef about Bill Clinton--Joe has emerged as one of America's premier political journalists. I'm thrilled to have him at TIME, even if he occasionally questions the wisdom of hitting the road for another round of motel rooms...
...Bark started six years ago as a newsletter to fight for a leash-free park in Berkeley, Calif., but it has turned into the New Yorker for dog lovers. With 75,000 subscribers and the motto "Dog is my co-pilot," the magazine has featured writers such as Amy Tan, Peter Mayle and Lynda Barry, and has run a long article on canine blood banks and a regular column on animal behavior called "Both Ends of the Leash." And then there's the four-year-old Animal Fair, a lifestyle magazine that claims a circulation...
This year the three finest living baseball writers--Pulitzer prizewinning journalist David Halberstam, lifelong baseball scribe Roger Kahn and Roger Angell, a writer and editor at the New Yorker--have each, as if by a common agreement among the game's village elders, produced a new book, making the spring of 2003 quite possibly the all-time greatest single season of baseball writing ever. But it raises the question once again: Why do people who have way more important things to think about think about baseball...
Lucinda Trout is the quintessential New Yorker: put-upon, caffeine-addicted, rent-strapped and desperate to get herself the hell out of the city. A lifestyle correspondent for a Manhattan morning show, Lucinda makes her escape by way of a long-term assignment in Prairie City, a fictional metropolis deep in the semi-rural heart of the Midwest. "Everyone I'd meet in Prairie City would be both interesting and kind," she daydreams, "every conversation meaningful, every gesture sincere, every woman nonanorectic, every man tall and able to fix cars...
...Many readers reacted to our cover showing a red X crossing out Saddam, which echoed our 1945 X-ed-out cover image of Hitler, by asking, Why? "As horrifying as Saddam's regime was," commented a New Yorker, "this war was not the heroic struggle that was engaged in to defeat Hitler in World War II." A Tokyo reader agreed, saying, "To equate the fall of Saddam with that of Hitler is an insult to the millions slaughtered by the Nazis." But one Canadian put it in vivid sports terms: "Comparing Hussein with Hitler is like comparing a minor-league...