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
Think small
If, whenever you ponder the immense problems of the African continent, you don't think about the role of microenterprise and microfinance, it could be that you're just not thinking small enough. ...
Ethical chic
Some medical ethics experts are complaining that the government is ignoring ethical issues in its plans to deal with a potential bird-flu epidemic. The spokesman for the group? Princeton ethicist ...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Finishing well
As the 33rd anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision looms later this month, it's worth remembering that life for not only the very young but also the very old is under attack. So I...
Marvin Olasky
DQ country
Once upon a time I thought that IQ was the most important attribute of human beings. Three decades ago I became a Christian and began to understand the centrality of what could be called SQ, spiri...
Mailbag
Thumbs up I enjoyed the Narnia movie ("Narnia unleashed," Dec. 10). I was disappointed that Lucy and Susan didn't have the delightful spring romp with Aslan after his resurrection, but I wa...
Notebook
Money
A happy new year
When President Bush gave a major speech in North Carolina early last month touting the strength of the U.S. economy, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wasn't buying it. "Platitudes and...
Sports
An epic, and tragic, season
For the Indianapolis Colts, it must have felt like this day would never come. Sometimes teams as dominant as the Colts don't need 16 games to prove they're playoff material. The Colts started the ...
Culture
Movies & TV
Munich
No one's right. No one's wrong. Can't we all just get along? It's disheartening to realize that the most serious work in recent years (or, perhaps, ever) of one of the world's most talented...
Movies & TV
Kong
Peter Jackson knows how to produce a spectacle-and no word better describes King Kong than spectacle. But this surprisingly violent film is not for young children-the action is graphic and contain...
Movies & TV
Brokeback Mountain
Pundits are hailing Brokeback Mountain (rated R for explicit homosexual and heterosexual sex, male and female nudity, and bad language) as having the potential to do for homosexuality what Guess W...
Notable CDs
Notable CDs
STYLE Rocking post-punk character sketches, largely of the disaffected youth who comprised this band's original audience. WORLDVIEW That Bob Geldof's grandstanding do-goodism has its roots ...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Speed trap In a hurry? Not on one Swiss ski slope. Grindelwald, a Swiss Alpine ski resort, has enacted a 30 kph (19 mph) speed limit on one of its intermediate slopes. Resort officials say ...
Quotables
Quotables
"The notes said they weren't suffering, they were just going to sleep." Peggy Cohen, daughter of Fred Ware Jr., 59, one of 12 who died from carbon monoxide poisoning after explosions trappe...
The Buzz
The Buzz
IRAQ Election winners raced to construct a coalition capable of governing Iraq ahead of a nasty bout of violence that killed at least 130 Iraqis and five U.S. soldiers in a day on Jan. 5. A suicid...