A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
'I FULLY UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES'
President Bush makes his case for staying the course in Iraq-even as his critics and political opponents successfully begin planting doubts in the minds of voters about staying the course in Washington
Painfully unaware
ABORTION TRIAL: Fetal-pain expert testifies on the "excruciating" partial-birth procedure as the government defends its ban against the industry's lawsuit.
Remembering Rwanda
AFRICA: Ten years ago, the United Nations failed to act as Hutu extremists killed 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates.
Rwanda: 10 years after genocide
Rwanda is still struggling to recover from the 1994 genocide as it prepares to mark the slaughter's 10th anniversary in a series of ceremonies across the small nation.
Voices
Andrée Seu Peterson
One-track minds
A GUY GOES TO SEE A PSYCHIATRIST AND THE psychiatrist shows him a series of pictures to ascertain his mental health. He holds up a tree and says, "What do you see?" The man replies, "Sex." He show...
Marvin Olasky
Mind stretchers
AS THE NEW BASEBALL SEASON BEGINS, I'VE grouped some of the books read over the past four months into-what else?-innings. The creation/evolution debate of course comes first. Species of Origins: A...
Joel Belz
Costs of a cause
IT'S ONE THING TO RANT AND RAVE AT CONGRESS and the Bush administration for the federal government's humongous deficits and their collective inability to live within what seems to be an ample annu...
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Brother against Brother
THE FIRST TIME CAROL Rodriguez entered the Cross Church in Fresno, Calif., she was an infant. Today, she is president of the church board. A member for more than 40 years, she has never known anot...
Culture
Laws of the land
REV. DEREK ANUNCIATION is a patient man. Or an extremely determined one. Every Sunday for more than two years, the pastor of Praise Christian Center in Huntington Beach, Calif., has conducted wors...
Culture
Age limits
Previews make it look a lot like Big, but it is possible to identify some differences between 13 Going on 30 (rated PG-13 for some sexual content and brief drug references), the first starring veh...
Culture
Sad swans
The Swan is a reality show that does not stop at taking ordinary people and putting them in the Hollywood spotlight. This reality show from Fox actually changes ordinary people until they fit Holl...
Culture
Best-selling CDs
CONFESSIONS, Usher 1 week on chart Style: Mixed-pedigree R&B (love-man, hip-hop). Objectionable material: Booklet photos (Usher in tub, shirtless Usher with topless girlfr...
Culture
Colorful fall
CULTURAL CRITICS HAVE LONG LOOKED FOR lessons in the fall of the Roman Empire. But far more significant to the United States is the fall of the Roman Republic. Rome became ruled by an all-commandi...
Dispatches
Quotables
Quotables
Strong. Real strong. Juan Morin's description of his 6-year-old niece, Ruby Bustamante, who survived for 10 days by eating ramen noodles and drinking Gatorade after surviving a car crash th...
The Buzz
The Buzz
POLITICS: In only the third prime-time press conference of his presidency, President Bush last week defended U.S. efforts in Iraq and his administration's actions prior to the 9/11 terrorist attac...
The Buzz
Not-so-silent Cal
TWENTY YEARS OF CAL THOMAS NEWSPAPER COLUMNS? Some liberals might think that's cruel and unusual punishment. But it was 20 years ago this month that Mr. Thomas started writing his commentaries. No...
The Buzz
Blog Watch
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN As everyone in Washington focuses 20/20 hindsight on the Bush administration's actions prior to Sept. 11, 2001, Gregg Easterbrook (tnr.com/easterbrook.mhtml) explored w...
The Buzz
Mailbag
DRAW TOGETHER After the attacks in Spain, the note from an al-Qaeda ally linking Spain with the United States constituted an attack on the United States and on our president ("Waving the wh...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Electronic appeal Lee Alaban of Port Macquarie, Australia, used technology to appeal to the conscience of a thief who stole her car last month. Knowing her son's cell phone was in the sedan...