A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
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Histories, mysteries
Here is but a very thin line between fact and fiction--as these three very different volumes demonstrate only too well. Anonymous Tip is fiction that reads like fact. A taut legal thriller-...
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Rule, Brittania
Americans tend to be suckers for an English accent. Anglophiles will find something more in four films that run the gamut of the English empire. The latest of the Jane Austen books translat...
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Sinful governments
It is a curious phenomenon: Despite living in mankind's deadliest century, some people still have trouble believing in the existence of sin. Yet what better symbol of evil is there than Auschwitz,...
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There is no right to die. Supreme Court Justice ANTONIN SCALIA, speaking Oct. 18 at Catholic University's School of Philosophy. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that will decide ...
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Unfinished business Even though President Clinton didn't use the campaign to lay out his vision for four more years, last week provided a glimpse of the agenda for special prosecutors durin...