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By Matthew Cooper, Harry Shearer, Tim Carvell, David Shayne, Christine Brennan, Johnette Howard, Natalie Angier, Jonathan Mahler, Christopher Caldwell, Hanna Rosin, Jennifer Mendelsohn, Daniel Mendelson, Eric Mendelsohn, David Edelstein, Lynda Obst, Nurith Aizenman, Joel Stein, Dahlia Lithwick, Marjorie Williams, Joel Achenbach, David Nicholson, Charles Kaiser, Cynthia Cotts, Dan Kennedy, Emily Yoffe and David Frum
Updated Monday, Jan. 17, 2000, at 7:51 PM ET

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Matthew Cooper, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, is a national correspondent for Newsweek. His Web site is matthewcooper.com. Harry Shearer performs many of the voices on The Simpsons. He is also a weekly commentator on ABC TV's World News Now and has a nationally syndicated radio program called Le Show. Tim Carvell is a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. David Shayne is the associate editor of Mad magazine. Johnette Howard is a sports columnist for New York Newsday. This week she files from Sydney, Australia. Natalie Angier is a science writer for the New York Times and the author of Woman: An Intimate Geography. Jonathan Mahler is a contributing writer at Talk magazine. Christopher Caldwell is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard. Hanna Rosin is the author of God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission To Save the Nation and a contributing editor at the Atlantic. She can be reached at . Jennifer Mendelsohn is a free-lance writer based in Baltimore. Visit her Web site at jenmen.com. David Edelstein is Slate's film critic. You can read his reviews in "Reel Time" and in "Movies." He can be contacted at . Lynda Obst is producer of How To Lose in a Guy in 10 Days and author of Hello, He Lied. Missing Autor Bio Dahlia Lithwick is a Slate senior editor. Marjorie Williams is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Joel Achenbach is a reporter on the Washington Post's national desk. He blogs at www.washingtonpost.com/achenblog. Dan Kennedy teaches journalism at Northeastern University, writes the blog Media Nation, and edits Little People of America's Web site, LPA Online. Emily Yoffe is the author of What the Dog Did: Tales From a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner. You can send your Human Guinea Pig suggestions or comments to . David Frum is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard. He is author of What's Right.

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