Peace in 2003

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In this issue

Editorial: Fighting back – to win

Opinion: Why Dufty won
By Tommi Avicolli Mecca

Custodians prevail
Cleaning company hired by Yahoo! harassed its janitors, federal board says
By David Moisl

State pension fund sues brokers
Why isn't the attorney general helping?
By A.C. Thompson

PG&E workers revolt
IBEW rank and file rejects contract
By Savannah Blackwell

The agony of defeat
In District Eight, the progressives lost a race that almost everyone agrees they should have won.
By Savannah Blackwell

Safety on hold
Residential hotel landlords blow off another deadline to install fire sprinklers.
By A.C. Thompson

Hall monitor

Life during wartime

Alerts

Election Analysis
By Tim Redmond

Holiday Event Listings

The write stuff
Rapper J-Live issues a few words, beats, and notes from the underground.
By Mosi Reeves

Film: Double trouble
Charlie Kaufman clones his neuroses in Adaptation.
By Johnny Ray Huston

Film: Wheezy rider
About Schmidt brings Nicholson back in uneasy pieces.

Film: Intensive care
Talk to Her nurses two contrasting love stories.

Film: Meaner streets
Scorsese's epic misfire,Gangs of New York, draws blood.
By Dennis Harvey

Film: 'The Wild Thornberrys Movie'
Safari, so good
By Meryl Cohen

Music: Holiday in Cambodia
Dengue Fever pitch Southeast Asian garage rock this New Year's Eve.
By Will York

Music: Your toast
More live music on New Year's Eve

Art: 'Made in the Good Ol' US of A'
Through Jan. 6, Parlor Projects
By Lindsey Westbrook

Stage: Xmas present
Current events resonate in ACT's otherwise upbeat adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
By Robert Avila

Correct techniques By Mosi Reeves

Last Exit By Derk Richardson

The Litterbox By John O'Neill

Liner notes By Lynn Rapoport

Extreme Measures By J.H. Tompkins

Tiger on beat By Patrick Macias

Script Doctor

Grooves

Local Grooves

2nd time around

Local Live

The Mix

Fall Arts Preview

Ho ho hurry
Shopping options even Scrooge would want to celebrate.
By M.P. Klier

alt.sex.column
Holy moly
By Andrea Nemerson

techsploitation
I was wrong
By Annalee Newitz

culture shocked
Wish upon a tree
By katharine mieszkowski

Dine
Bananarama
By Paul Reidinger

Without Reservations
Good tidings
By Paul Reidinger

Cheap Eats
Space invader
By Dan Leone

Moon Signs
By Sally Cragin

The Blender

In the Public Interest
Credit scam: Why is Congress so intent on helping lenders – and hurting millions of consumers?
By Ralph Nader

Focus on the Corporation
A day at the American Enterprise Institute
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

Media Beat
Baghdad, autumn 2002: city of doom: Bush has left Iraq in a no-win situation.
By Norman Solomon