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Monitor articles for May 16, 2002

  • A key race in defining Democrats
  • Little fights to maintain a big power
  • A law of their own
  • Letters
  • Remains of the cold war melting
  • The rules of justice are different when the court's on campus
  • We come home to the forest
  • Israel's new West Bank 'border'
  • Oil melts enmity between Syria and Iraq
  • Beef tenderloin and a brouhaha
  • Business & Finance
  • Rebuilding trust in charity
  • Cory Booker, standard bearer of the new politics
  • High 'impac' award goes to French novelist
  • When children feel like parents
  • Egotism fortissimo
  • Lucas improves 'Star Wars' franchise with 'Clones'
  • Lunch money dilemmas: M&Ms or meatloaf?
  • The hut has a life of its own
  • Etc...
  • In colleges, a boost for affirmative action
  • World
  • A circulating beam of light as a way to time travel
  • Reporters on the Job
  • Don't Know Much About ...
  • Flexibility in nuclear pact creates its own limitations
  • In once-brutal war zone, a model arises
  • Show me that again and I'll scream
  • 'Spider-Man' crawls up list of all-time hits
  • USA
  • A consumer's credo: Use it all
  • Keeping College Doors Open
  • Rime of the modern mariner
  • Japan's island of longevity
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