Watch and wait
Election night could provide a quick White House winner, or a flood of mail-in ballots and social division could delay results for weeks
Voices
Mailbag
Article for faith Thank you so very much for your article on China ("How Christianity is changing China," June 24). A family member is in the middle of a six-week stay in a large Chinese ci...
Joel Belz
Syntax matters
"ATTACKS AND COUNTERATTACKS CONTINUED THIS MORNING BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HEZBOLLAH." It was a subtle, but altogether typical, syntax. The arrangement of the words didn't quite say, but ...
Andrée Seu Peterson
God in the shower
The perfection of God's Word is a multifaceted perfection, not a monolithic one. Too rich to be harnessed in a single utterance-God is lord, shepherd, rock, eagle, bear, lion, lamb, king, horn, an...
Marvin Olasky
Deliver us from chaos
Public relations can be practiced in a biblical, honest way. The key is transparency: Don't twist and shout. Lay out the facts. Truly subscribe to John Milton's faith from the 1640s that truth and...
Notebook
Sports
Bad news Bonds
People know Barry Bonds is guilty of using steroids. A Harris poll conducted in mid-June revealed 81 percent of baseball fans believe the Giants outfielder has used steroids while piling up the se...
Money
Crooks in suits
From oil tycoon J.R. Ewing in Dallas to corporate raider Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, businessmen have been Hollywood's stock villains for decades. An occasional doctor, lawyer, mechanic, or teach...
Culture
Notable CDs
Bestselling CDs
Style Coldplay without the guitar, U2 without the "edge." Worldview "I don't want to be old and feel afraid" . . . "Is it any wonder that I feel afraid?" . . . "I don't even k...
Movies & TV
Rough neighborhood
A cleverly animated CGI cartoon with no cuddly animals-score No. 1 for Monster House. A plot that brings to mind both the Encyclopedia Brown mysteries and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark-score N...
Movies & TV
Three's a crowd
You, Me and Dupree is a movie that most WORLD readers will not want to see for at least two reasons. Strike one: As critics have complained, it's sold as a comedy but the laughs are rare. Strike t...
Movies & TV
Call of the wild
There's a poignant moment in Ward Serrill's documentary about a high-school girls' basketball team, The Heart of the Game, when 96-year-old Maude Lepley visits the girls' locker room at Seattle's ...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
My intuition made me do it Perhaps it wasn't his best defense. A German man standing trial for theft in the town of Colberg opted to continue his thieving ways in the courtroom. The German ...
Quotables
Quotables
"I'm proud of our double standard, so guilty as charged." State Department official Nicholas Burns on the U.S. policy of punishing rogue countries like North Korea and Iran for pursuing nuc...
The Buzz
The Buzz
Israel/Lebanon Thousands of Americans descended to a beach in Beirut to board Marine Corps landing craft for evacuation to Cyprus. Luxury condominiums-some complete with indoor car elevator...
The Buzz Sidebar
The return of anti-Semitism
Go to Google.com. Then hit "Google News." Then type in "Ahmadinejad," the name of Iran's radical president. On any given day there is a better than 50 percent chance that President Ahmadine...