A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
'God save the United States'
"This honorable court" is confronted again with abortion, the practice supposedly settled in 1973 with the high court's Roe vs.
'Please forgive me!'
Editor's note: The following is a portion of the statement of Brenda Pratt Shafer, R.N., for a March 21, 1996, hearing of the Subcommitt...
Yearnings
Choice precedes reason every time
Reno's Raiders
"Negotiating" on the one hand, ordering a predawn raid on the other, Janet Reno burns friends and colleagues but delivers Castro's prized possession, Elián Gonzalez. And what will the Republicans do about it now? Most likely, the same thing they've done
Reno's reporters
The press tries to justify administration's handling of Elián case rather than scrutinize it
Notebook
Culture
Culture
A god in their own image
Sekhmet, with the body of a woman and the head of a lion, is the Egyptian goddess of fertility. When Texas oil heiress Genevieve Vaughan visited Egypt with her husband, she came across a statue of...
Culture
Bestsellers
Scoring system:10 points for first place, 9 for second, down to 1 for tenth, on the lists of the American Booksellers Association (independent, so...
Culture
The Movies
U-571 $20.3 million 1 week in release $20.3 million to date ...
Dispatches
Quotables
Quotables
The boy stays, the dream endures, the American story continues. And if Mr. Castro doesn't like it, well, I'm afraid that's really too bad. Former speechwriter for President Reagan, Peggy No...
The Buzz
The Buzz
Elián described as sad After the raid Two homeschoolers from Muscle Shoals, Ala., got a glimpse of Elián Gonzalez that news cameramen only dreamed of in the days following the Easter weekend...