A cheat sheet for the news.

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• A Fitting Memorial The growing popularity of the memorial T-shirt.
  Jenn Shreve Aug. 26, 2003
  
• Scare Tactics Why are Liberian soldiers wearing fright wigs?
  Mark Scheffler Aug. 1, 2003
  
• Celebrity Dating Are Demi and Ashton for real? And everything else you need to know about Hollywood mating rituals.
  David Plotz July 3, 2003
  
• Stop That Book Why do publishers "embargo" books like Hillary Clinton's new memoir?
  Jen Bluestein June 9, 2003
  
• A Guide to Iraq's Shiite Clerics 
  Avi Zenilman May 15, 2003
  
• Filibusted Pirating the Senate.
  Brandt Goldstein Feb. 13, 2003
  
• Hidden Treasures What's so controversial about Picasso's Guernica?
  David Cohen Feb. 6, 2003
  
• Marching Orders Goose-stepping, the dance craze of tyrants.
  Mark Scheffler Jan. 29, 2003