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2002 Stories by John Powers

• Eyes Wide Open

  published May 30, 2002

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• Shark Jumping in America

  published May 30, 2002

  Power does not interest me. After victory, I want to go back to my village and just be a lawyer again. --Fidel Castro, 1957 What... More >>

• The Good, the Bad and the Rest of Us

  published May 16, 2002

  A couple of weeks ago on Meet the Press, Tim Russert leaned his gargantuan ego toward the camera and asked Benyamin Netanyahu, “Why is th... More >>

• 'This Is a Town Where . . .'

  published May 9, 2002

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• Welcome to the Jungle

  published May 2, 2002

  I want to go through the whole thing again. And it’s 7 minutes past 11 here in the East. I know at the top of the hour a number of peopl... More >>

• Kama Sutra Journalism

  published April 25, 2002

  Flipping channels the other night, I blundered upon Real Sex, the popular HBO series whose sniggering raciness always makes me want to trade in... More >>

• The Man Who Isn’t There

  published April 18, 2002

  “When I first started working,” says Vincent (Aurelien Recoing), the wayward businessman at the heart of the mesmerizing new psychologic... More >>

• March Madness

  published April 11, 2002

  Traveling in Poland a few years ago, I went to Zamenhofa Street to see the monument dedicated to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The memorial is... More >>

• It Ain’t Cool

  published April 4, 2002

  The other night my wife was grimly washing the dishes. When I asked what was wrong, she smashed a plate on the floor with both hands and... More >>

• Winona Forever

  published March 28, 2002

  Let me begin with a confession. Winona Ryder once leaned over a table and said to me, ”Did anyone ever tell you that you look just like Stev... More >>

• Walk Like a Man

  published March 21, 2002

  Milking the final droplets of the Letterman-to-Nightline hysteria -- which even had Newt Gingrich writing letters to the editor -- Larry King... More >>

• Great Expectations

  published March 14, 2002

  Portraits by Slobodan Dimitrov "YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE?" LAUGHS DIRECTOR Alfonso Cuarón. "Teen movies." We're sitting in the Four... More >>

• Visible Men

  published February 28, 2002

  Near the beginning of MTV’s Be Heard: A Global Discussion With Colin Powell, a beaming Norwegian girl asked the secretary of state how he fel... More >>

• Naturellement

  published February 21, 2002

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• Davos, American Style

  published February 7, 2002

  Have luncheon there this afternoon, all you jobless. Why not? Dine with some of the men and women who got rich off of your... More >>

• Under the Lava Lamp

  published January 31, 2002

  “The Congo is a remarkably beautiful place,” purred wry Aaron Brown last week, introducing a report on the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo, ... More >>

• Pure War

  published January 24, 2002

  A couple of weeks ago, the History Channel reran an old episode of Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War. I hadn‘t seen Vietnam footage for a lon... More >>

• Rank and Yank at Enron

  published January 17, 2002

  When the Houston-based energy giant Enron filed for Chapter 11 on December 2 -- ravaging most of its employees, even as its bosses rolled in... More >>

• The Crash of Civilizations

  published January 3, 2002

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