Stories in our November issue:
COVER STORY: Stairway to Heaven (PDF file)
Rep. Nancy Pelosi is vying to become Speaker of the House, but the way she's gone about it leads some to question her loyalties. Follow her sensational rise to power since San Francisco's hotly contested 8th congressional district in 1987. (PHOTO: Statue of former Rep. Phillip Burton at the Presidio.)
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Woman in the Shadow of The DaVinci Code (PDF file)
Mentioned in the copyright lawsuit against Dan Brown is the the theologian Margaret Starbird, pictured above at an October lecture in San Francisco. It turns out that her books about Mary Magdalene and Tarot symbols influenced the writing of the blockbuster novel. Now you can hear the story of how this astute researcher and wife of a West Point graduate stumbled upon one of the greatest cover-ups in the history of organized religion.
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Foreign Affairs
Another Apparent Contract Killing in Russia
A popular Russian journalist was shot to death at her apartment in Moscow on October 7th. It wasn't the first attempt on her life, either, which is why everyone suspects the Kremlin had a hand in it.
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EDITORIAL:
On Oct. 17, President Bush signed a bill which attempts sidestep the Geneva Conventions. It also allows law enforcement agencies the power to deny the right of habeas corpus to almost anyone without an American passport or birth certificate in the United States (including tourists). What if other nations follow suit?
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The Nurse in Charge (PDF file)
Top-ranked UCSF School of Nursing celebrates its centennial. Take a rare, closer look with us at the profession and how it's changed since the days of Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War.
NLRB Ruling Deprives Charge Nurses of Union Rights
Local reaction to the NLRB Kentucky River decision and how the new contracts with Kaiser and UC have shaped up in its wake.
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Bitch Magazine Celebrates Ten Years
Andi Zeisler and Lisa Jervis are still getting flak about the title, but they've got 50,000 reasons to stick with it.
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Getting Up Close and Personal at The Ferry Building
When the leaves are swirling, the caffeine levels are dropping, and the fruit bowl is empty, this is the definitely place to go in SF.
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Give The Bell Tower a Ring...
Polk Street establishment attracts business from far and wide despite ineffectual house greeter.
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Mind Over Migraine
An interview with local author and acupuncturist Harriet Beinfield about the treatment of severe headaches using Chinese medicine.
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Fiction..
The classic one-act murder mystery by Susan Glaspell, a founder of the Provincetown Players.
