A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Gunpoint evangelist
An unlikely instrument of God's grace-off-again, on-again youth group member, with a criminal record, no job, and on the verge of losing an apartment-points a suicidal gunman to Christ, even as he looked down the barrel of a semiautomatic Ruger.
God's instruments
He put them to glorious use at Wedgwood
Supermarket market
Bidding for groceries, building a better Net, giving AOL a run for its money, and taking classifieds online
What's to celebrate?
China communist regime celebrates its 50-year reign of terror, with applause from Americans
People-count politics
World population is crossing the 6-billion mark, and population-control groups are pushing hot-button issues of "scarcity" and "choice" like never before
Notebook
Culture
Culture
The necessity of truth
Ever since Alexis de Tocqueville, foreign observers have consistently noted that the United States is one of the most religious countries on the face of the planet. Year after year, Gallup polls r...
Culture
The Movies
Double Jeopardy $23.7 million 1 week in release $23.7 million to date ...
Movies & TV
TV: The limits of V-chips
The opening scenes of Harsh Realm's pilot are intensely violent-this could be the most violent network television series ever. For that reason alone, Harsh Realm is objectionable. The West Wing, o...
Culture
Can we recapture the ivory tower?
Universities, to most Americans, are ivory towers. Academics are thought of as pursuing their lofty ideas, in sublime indifference to ordinary life. Students put in their time at college before ve...
Culture
Go for the moon
Out of this world Robert Bigelow may be the craziest thing to hit Las Vegas since Howard Hughes locked himself away in a hotel room and wouldn't come out. Now Mr. Bigelow wants to offer a honey...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
News & Reviews
Bauer denies wrongdoing as ex-aides charge appearance of impropriety with young campaign aide No fire, but how thick the smoke? It was easy to find the location of GOP presidential candidate...
Quotables
Quotables
Granted, I could go out and lose everything gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood. Professional golfer John Daly, after two years on the wagon, telling...