A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Faith at gunpoint
By life and by death, powerful messages and images of faith emanated from Littleton and neighboring communities in the southwestern quadrant of Denver's suburbs last month.
For the record: Timeline of tragedy
By most accounts, the deadly rampage at 1,900-student Columbine High School began about 11:15 a.m. on April 20-Hitler's birthday, as har...
Gunman's family: 'What happened'?
Pastor Don Marxhausen of St. Philip's Lutheran Church officiated at a private service for Dylan Klebold attended by 13 relatives and fri...
Notebook
Culture
Culture
The youth anti-culture
Attempts to understand the Colorado school massacre in purely secular terms fall painfully short: Would a kind word have helped the Trenchcoat Mafia? Did they have a bad self-image? Would anger-ma...
Music
Music: Before the music died
Recently, the promoters of the Milwaukee Metalfest-"North America's Premiere Heavy Metal Festival"-announced the bands for this year's edition of the weekend-long event: Morbid Angel, Cradle of Fi...
Books
Books: Tribute and confession
It's a question that can't remain academic forever: How will we respond when things get tough? News of the terrible school shooting in Littleton, Colo., brings back thoughts of Ben Strong, the sen...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
News & Reviews
MGM hopes to put the basketball diaries out of bounds Double dribble After the Littleton massacre, MGM tried to close the book on The Basketball Diaries and its classroom shoot-'em-up by pul...
Quotables
Quotables
Part of growing up is learning how to control one's impulses. Hillary Clinton, as the president stood nearby, in a speech advocating more gun control in response to the Colorado school shoo...
The Buzz
The good old days
The last musical superstars The British are invading again. Thirty-five years after the Beatles came to America, A Hard Day's Night (Miramax; rated G) is coming back to theaters in a remastered...