A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Monster by day, mother by night
As new clouds rain on President Clinton's parade to the Beijing site where hundreds of Chinese students were massacred, Washington hears a new report about forced abortion and infanticide in the countryside.
TIANANMEN SQUARE: Clinton will return to the scene of the crime
The June 25 arrival of President Clinton in China marks the first time in almost a decade that a sitting president has stepped foot in C...
Religion Notes
Symons resigns Catholic bishop Joseph Keith Symons, 65, of the Palm Beach, Fla., diocese resigned this month after admitting he m...
Beyond the pews
SBC affirms marriage blueprint, denounces cultural liberalism, and taps non-Baptist as keynoter
Out of the rubble
Bandaged, bruised teens give thanks to God for preserving their lives in last month's church blast
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Nerds and rednecks
Gen-Xers get their high-school movie From American Graffiti to Dazed and Confused, Hollywood loves movies that spend a night in the lives of future adults. Now GenX gets a shot. Can't Hardly Wa...
Culture
Filtering out morality
The way to keep the Internet safe for children, according to many Christians and cyber libertarians leery of government censorship, is for parents to employ filtering software, which promises to p...
Books
Books: Jesus, King of the Jews
At times, San Antonio pastor John Hagee's Final Dawn Over Jerusalem seems a photographic negative of an anti-Semitic tract. But Final Dawn Over Jerusalem, the current No. 1 bestseller in Christian...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
Polishing the Apple New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has won a three-year court battle with the sex industry. As a result, 150 of the city's 177 adult businesses may be headed for the far ou...
Quotables
Quotables
I may have overreacted. Judge Alexander Hunter, after his decision to jail a prospective juror was overturned. The judge ordered John Wichmann jailed after the man said he didn't like the j...