Previously published Slate articles made new.

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• Mad About Mad Cow Will U.S. beef-eaters panic?
  Dec. 26, 2003
  
• No Child Left Behind Strom Thurmond's illegitimate daughter.
  Dec. 18, 2003
  
• Capital Punishment Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan faces corruption charges.
  Dec. 17, 2003
  
• Shape Up and Ship Out The best way to pack and ship your holiday packages.
  Dec. 10, 2003
  
• Best College System? 
  Dec. 9, 2003
  
• The Queen and the Damned Phil Spector faces murder rap.
  Nov. 20, 2003
  
• The Curse of Shrum John Kerry's worst enemy.
  Nov. 12, 2003
  
• Spit Take The return of the spat-upon Vietnam vet myth.
  Nov. 11, 2003
  
• Feuding Wins Championships 
  Nov. 3, 2003
  
• Why Bob Graham Didn't Have a Prayer 
  Oct. 7, 2003
  
• Elia Kazan Rests in Peace 
  Sept. 29, 2003
  
• Liberté, Fraternité, Segway 
  Sept. 26, 2003
  
• Telemarketers Hang Up the FTC 
  Sept. 24, 2003
  
• Waging War on Wesley Clark 
  Sept. 22, 2003
  
• An Unlikely Hero 
  Sept. 10, 2003
  
• Miguel, Ma Belle The racial ugliness under Miguel Estrada's now-withdrawn nomination.
  Sept. 4, 2003
  
• When To Cancel Armageddon Calculating the odds of asteroid impact.
  Sept. 3, 2003
  
• The Cruelest Month 
  Aug. 19, 2003
  
• Can Fox Sue Franken? 
  Aug. 12, 2003
  
• Know Your Digital Parasites 
  Aug. 12, 2003
  
• The Movie Arnold Doesn't Want You To See 
  Aug. 7, 2003
  
• Summer of Decalogues When is a Ten Commandments display unconstitutional?
  July 25, 2003
  
• Who's Your Daddy? How to identify Saddam's sons.
  July 23, 2003
  
• Letters to the Summer Tenants Renting to the wrong people.
  July 21, 2003
  
• The Saddam Sweepstakes 
  July 10, 2003
  
• The Passing Strom 
  June 27, 2003
  
• Martha in Chains 
  June 4, 2003
  
• Moving Out of Spin City 
  May 19, 2003
  
• Ray of Gloom 
  May 15, 2003
  
• Could Jayson Blair Be Sued for Fraud? 
  May 12, 2003
  
• How To Watch the Masters on TV 
  April 11, 2003
  
• A Pulitzer for the King 
  April 7, 2003
  
• Will the Supreme Court Kill Affirmative Action? 
  April 1, 2003
  
• How Do You Pronounce "Qatar"? 
  March 20, 2003
  
• Does Brainwashing Work? 
  March 14, 2003
  
• Is Torture Legal? 
  March 4, 2003
  
• The New York Times' Oscar Prediction For the fourth straight year, the paper has no idea who's going to win anything.
  Feb. 10, 2003
  
• Stealth Affirmative Action 
  Jan. 20, 2003
  
• The Folly of Cutting Dividend Taxes 
  Jan. 3, 2003
  
• Can Bill Parcells Save the Dallas Cowboys? 
  Jan. 3, 2003