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  <title>Read My Vote: No New Taxes</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  In  the cyberfuture, all the middlemen will lose their jobs. Or so goes the theory. Insurance agents, music label executives, car dealers, and even university administrators will be annihilated as consumers turn directly to the infinitely efficient Web to buy and sell goods and services. Such "disintermediation" is supposed to transform politics, too, as voters cashier the thousands of middlemen--senators, council members, commissioners--who represent them. Once again, the theory is that the efficient Web will let voters cast their ballots directly on all the issues.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/64662/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Rachel Zimmerman</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 1999 03:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title> My Day as a Murder Suspect</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  I like to think of myself as a responsible, upstanding guy (even though I sell advertising for Slate). So it was a bit of a shock yesterday to find myself detained as a suspect during a manhunt for a killer.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/45728/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Cyrus Krohn</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 5 Nov 1999 03:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Heart of Glass</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The New Northwest's distinguishing feature isn't rain or money or coffee. It's Chihuly. Not "Dale Chihuly." Not "glass art by Dale Chihuly." Chihuly is all you need to say, whether you're talking about a particular glass piece ("a Chihuly") or evoking the movement, the institution, the aesthetic, and the regional identity epitomized by the Northwest's (and the glass world's) most famous artist. Not since Bernini decked Rome with fountains, or at least not since the Wyeths became Maine's official art family, has an artist so exemplified the spirit of a city or region--and it took three generations of Wyeths. Chihuly's work doesn't say anything outright about us, but he's the best mirror we've got for divining what we've come to today.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/30161/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Eric Scigliano</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 1999 03:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>House Calls</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  You never know you belong to a demographic until you start to spend money. Last year I finally had enough to buy a new car and bought a Jetta, which seemed terribly original. Then I drove around Seattle and saw streets filled with 30ish former rebel girls in their ... black Jettas.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2142/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=6469" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=6469" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Claire Dederer</author>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 1998 03:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Cruising the Cybermansions</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  A virtual tour of the new Seattle wealth.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2141/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 1997 03:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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