A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
The harvest of abortion
Fetal-tissue research: Making the best of a bad situation, or sliding further down the slippery slope?
Ex-staff sour on Bauer
Angered by his refusal to admit any wrongdoing, former Bauer campaign staffers explain why they left and what gave rise to charges of impropriety with a young aide.
Shrinking to grow large
AOL anywhere, anytime; TV Guide by remote control; and MCI/Sprint link arms in the digital revolution
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Americana music
The guitar player was from Paris, the banjo player from Czechoslovakia. The leaders were a mandolin player from Austria and his wife, a bass player from Bratislava who was singing sweet, expressiv...
Culture
Sleaze TV falters
Last month, Fox cut down (though it didn't eliminate entirely) a scene depicting a homosexual sex act from its series Action. The act involved the show's lead, Jay Mohr, as studio executive Peter ...
Culture
A decade of Dilbert
Cube Nation Dilbert won't go away. He's our Everyman. Scott Adams's creation is celebrating its 10-year anniversary as the icon of a nation of cube-dwellers. Our hero and his menagerie take a d...
Culture
The Movies
Double Jeopardy $13.6 million 3 weeks in release $65.8 million to date ...
Music
Music: Matrimony music
The latest albums by Alison Krauss and Julie Miller come as something of a palliative after the divorce of Amy Grant and Gary Chapman, a tragedy that at the very least has left those committed to ...
Books
Books: Fictional nonfiction
Newspapers and magazines are filled these days with Reagan intimates and historians pointing out the factual flaws in Edmund Morris's Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. Let them take their whacks. ...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
News & Reviews
Man knows not his time Game over Wilt Chamberlain once said, "The world is made up of Davids, and I am Goliath." He was one of the greatest basketball players of all time, but he was a world...
Quotables
Quotables
My advice for you is if you can't afford it, don't buy it. Billionaire Warren Buffett, cautioning kids against credit-card debt. Mr. Buffett made the comment during a conference on finances...