An e-mail conversation about the news of the day.

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• Is it possible to make art of any kind out of 9/11? 
  Ron Rosenbaum Sept. 10, 2002
  
• To what extent do the personal relationships between leaders influence history? 
  Michael Alan Lerner July 15, 2002
  
• How a "ball breaker" gets downgraded to a "pain in the neck." 
  Melinda Henneberger July 1, 2002
  
• The 9th Circuit thumbs its nose at the Supremes with its pledge ruling. 
  Dahlia Lithwick June 19, 2002
  
• "Do you realize that almost the entire New York Times business section today is about crime?" 
  Kurt Andersen June 3, 2002
  
• "Boutique Basketball Inc.—a league for every niche." 
  Alexander Wolff May 20, 2002
  
• Forget Letters to a Young Contrarian, how about Letters to a Young Free-Lance Writer? 
  Jim Holt May 6, 2002
  
• Digging into a Slate reader's responses. 
  James Fallows April 30, 2002
  
• "May there be a Jerusalem next year." 
  Natalie Angier April 15, 2002
  
• "I would recommend this job to anyone who fears that they have too many friends." 
  George Rush March 25, 2002
  
• Modernist drivel and pimpled plastic couches in the "Home" section. 
  Fareed Zakaria March 11, 2002
  
• The British horror of Britishness. 
  Anne Applebaum March 4, 2002
  
• A peace plan for Northern Ireland. 
  Margaret Carlson Feb. 25, 2002
  
• The desolate irony of Daniel Pearl's last story. 
  Katie Roiphe Feb. 19, 2002
  
• Are the Winter Games more spiritual than the Summer ones? 
  Seth Stevenson Feb. 11, 2002
  
• "Was Bush's bellicose rhetoric mere posturing or real policy change?" 
  Joe Klein Jan. 28, 2002
  
• Does "reducing" nukes mean putting them in storage? 
  Stuart Taylor Jr. Jan. 7, 2002