A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Voices
Joel Belz
No preservatives
NOTHING, OF COURSE, IN ALL THE DISMAY AND furor over the Iraqi prison abuses, is so depressing as the thought that we did this to ourselves. If Baathist insurgents had wiped out 50 of our best-tra...
Marvin Olasky
Family dollar
REMEMBER HOW IN THE MOVIE IT'S A WONDERFUL Life a Depression bank run ends George Bailey's honeymoon plans? Using $2,000 he had saved, Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) satisfies the financial needs of saver...
Janie B. Cheaney
Mighty man of valor
THE NEWS OF PAT TILLMAN'S DEATH CAME OVER the internet on a Friday morning and caused a flutter in my heart: Oh, no! News of Mike Kelly's fatal accident in Iraq last year jolted my system in the s...
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Commercial success
The official website for the film Van Helsing is illuminating. Only one link on the main page takes readers to a section about the film itself. It is surrounded by links to the film's many ancilla...
Culture
Pardon the French
The Triplets of Belleville was released in select theaters last year to nearly universal critical acclaim, capped by Oscar nominations for Best Original Song and Best Animated Film. Now on DVD, it...
Culture
Friends like these
Among the networks' woes this year is the loss, at one blow, of nearly all of their hit sitcoms. Friends has ended after 10 years. Frasier calls it quits after 11. HBO's Sex and the City is over. ...
Culture
Best-Selling CDs
1. CONFESSIONS Usher 5 weeks on chart Style Mixed- pedigree R&B (love-man, hip-hop). Objectionable material Booklet photos (Usher in tub...
Culture
Here's hoping
TEN COUNTRIES, MOST OF THEM FORMER satellites of the Soviet Union, joined the European Union: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Cyprus, and Malta...
Dispatches
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The Buzz
Iraq Reporters who flock to the upholstered chairs of the Baghdad Convention Center awaiting the latest casualty stats now have another reason to stay indoors: courts-martial. Spc. Jeremy Sivits w...
The Buzz
Quick Takes
Compound interest A painting that sold for $30,000 in 1950 went for more than $104 million at a May 6 auction in New York. The $104,168,000 price tag for Pablo Picasso's "Garcon a la Pipe" ...
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Blog watch
Up the chain of command As the scandal over the torture of Iraqi prisoners dominated the news cycle, Kevin Drum (washingtonmonthly.com) was wondering how high up the chain of command respon...
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Quotables
"What better place to do this than here, in the middle of hell?" U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Michael Fuller, on making a public profession of faith and being baptized by a Navy chaplain in a bat...
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Mailbag
Other evidence Bob Jones, in the cover story about President Bush's recent press conference defending his handling of Iraq ("Gut check," April 24), did not acknowledge all the evidence in t...