A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
He's left & gone away
In the era of Revoltin' Rodman-the flamboyant basketball star known appropriately as "the worm"-the death of Joltin' Joe DiMaggio was big news.
Laying down the law
Russian officials are taking seriously a repressive law against religious minorities, but a few find loopholes
Hollywood heroism
Drama "holds the mirror up to nature"-says newfound movie favorite William Shakespeare in Hamlet-and shows "virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure." WORLD covers movies because, for better
A new kind of revolution
Ex-leftist activist David Horowitz attempts to help conservatives infiltrate the movie industry
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Demoralizing the troops
A Buddhist meditation on GuadalcanalSaving Private Ryan brought WWII back to life on the screen; A Thin Red Line killed it again. Ryan clarified the morality of war, but Line (Fox; rated R f...
Music
Music: The aging divas of rock
At 52 and 53 respectively, Cher and Blondie's Deborah Harry are currently the oldest women to adorn pop radio since rock 'n' roll made an idol of eternal youth more than 40 years ago. Yet, like th...
Books
Books: The fictional Bonhoeffer
This novel about the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is both a very good book and a very bad book. Artistically, the author uses all the techniques of novel writing with considerable skill, creating a...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
News & Reviews
hypocrisy watch Turner: another Schott Ted Turner's reign as the clown prince of tycoons has him in a bases-loaded jam with Major League Baseball. His bizarre, off-the-cuff remarks about pol...
Quotables
Quotables
My action was not kind but it was dignified. I was offended as a woman, as a mother and as a Greek citizen. Anastasia Athini, sentenced last week to seven months in jail for striking the fo...