A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
NICE TRY
Concerned about scaring off swing voters, Democrats - mostly - put on a friendly face at their national convention
Aborted language
ABORTION: Does the Democratic platform read pro-lifers out of the party?
Science's fairy tales
BIOETHICS: Emotional appeals, sympathetic victims shroud the stem-cell debate
Status symbols
Activists are trying to revoke the tax-exempt status of churches involved in politics-conservative politics, that is
Voices
Mailbag
Ray of hope I read the Summer Books Issue, (July 3/10) as soon as it arrived, and it was right on! As a 16-year-old reading addict, I have been disappointed in my search for outstanding, we...
Joel Belz
Required reading
With Election Day just three months away, some folks are campaigning for stiffer standards at the polls. I couldn't agree more. When my wife and I voted in the North Carolina primary a few days ag...
Andrée Seu Peterson
House of mourning
Thank God for funerals, the one place left where non-churchgoing America comes touching close to truth. I've been to two this month. You hear the best and the worst of theology at funerals. The be...
Marvin Olasky
Glorious Greece
ATHENS - When the apostle Paul came to this city almost 2,000 years ago, he immediately perceived that Athenians were enormously religious. Olympic guests this month will see honor paid to the god...
Hearts of stone
John Kerry says that life begins at conception. He says that while he would not dream of imposing his beliefs on anyone else, he remains at heart a good Roman Catholic and agrees with his church's...
Notebook
Sports
Sports
Au revoir, France? When the Discovery Channel picked up the sponsorship of Lance Armstrong's cycling team, the network thought it had signed onto a possible seventh consecutive Tour de France vict...
Technology
Technology
Spies like us Spyware is catching up with spam as the internet's biggest annoyance. Spyware programs monitor internet activity and can display pop-up ads, slow down a computer's speed, and even ch...
Business
Business
Merger brews As North American beer sales remain flat, two leading breweries are teaming up to better position themselves in the growing overseas markets. Adolph Coors Co. of Golden, Colo., and Ca...
Culture
Culture
Virtual smite
If you've ever had the urge to hurl a big ball of holy smite at your enemies, now's your chance. Eternal War: Shadow of Light-the latest addition to video games aimed at Christians-allows players ...
Movies & TV
Knowledge in jeopardy
The long-running game show Jeopardy! ended its season with a loud bang. Ken Jennings, who is being called the Michael Jordan of game shows, won again for the 38th straight day, winning a record to...
Notable Books
Best-selling books
1. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown Plot: A curator at the Louvre is murdered, but before he dies leaves clues that send his granddaughter (a police cryptologist) and his colleague (a Harvard p...
Movies & TV
Bourne again
The Bourne Supremacy (rated PG-13 for violence and intense action, and for brief language) is the sequel to 2002's surprisingly successful The Bourne Identity. Both are based on Robert Ludlum's no...
Movies & TV
Coughing up a hairball
Some say the old Batman TV show, in which Julie Newmar's Catwoman was a favorite nemesis, was so bad that it was good. The new Catwoman (PG-13) movie, though, does not make it nearly that far. ...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Morbid message Pranksters in Nigeria seem to have accomplished what movie theater managers cannot: They persuaded a large number of people to turn off their cell phones. A wave of fear repo...
Quotables
Quotables
"I think he should be put in a timeout." Twelve-year-old Ilana Wexler, the youngest speaker at last week's Democratic National Convention, on Vice President Dick Cheney's use of an obscenit...
The Buzz
The Buzz
Politics Democrats gathered in Boston last week to nominate John Kerry for president. Although nearly two million fewer viewers watched this year's event, compared to the 2000 Democratic National ...
The Buzz Sidebar
Sister act
Boston's Harvard Club with its 10 squash courts is an unlikely setting for feminists who once went barefoot and bra-less in the park. Aging activists from the National Organization for Women and t...