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
Andrée Seu Peterson
Guitar lessons
There is a shop on Easton Road advertising guitar lessons for $20 a half hour. For years I have been asking God to let me learn the guitar. I finally realized why it wasn't happening: I wasn't tak...
Mindy Belz
The long defeat
Catherine Ajok alighted from a plane in Uganda last month as nearly reborn as a woman can be in this life. She looked haggard, older than her 26 years, but able to smile in the tempered way of one...
Janie B. Cheaney
Speech impediments
Last June, I commented on a case going forward in our neighbor to the north, where free speech has taken a pounding by the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC). The case named Maclean's magazin...
Joel Belz
God likes big numbers
"God's not interested in numbers. He's interested in doing a whole lot with very little." I first heard a statement like that when I was very young-and I've heard variations on it ever sinc...
The Editors
Mailbag
Modest, but ours After reading your Feb. 28 cover story ("A new breed of homeless"), I was left feeling profoundly grateful for my parents. Instead of becoming enslaved to a big mortgage to...
Marvin Olasky
He's no Teddy Roosevelt
Barack Obama last month enlisted Theodore Roosevelt in his campaign for increased governmental control of health care, arguing that TR "first called for reform nearly a century ago." Google "Theod...
John Piper
Over my dead body, son
Come on, dads, have some courage. Just say, "Over my dead body are you going to wrestle a girl." Of course, they will call you prudish. But everything in you knows better. Yes, I am talking...
Culture
Theater
Jets and Sharks
West Side Story lit up Broadway in 1957. The movie version (1961) won 10 Oscars. The musical included both luminous melodies and a social message about the dangers of urban gangs (born-in-N.Y. "Je...
Notable CDs
Notable CDs
Twenty-one lesser-known Pet Clark songs from the years 1972-2008, five of them written by Clark herself, 11 of them previously unreleased, none of them overexposed, and only a few that feel misbeg...
Notable Books
Notable books
Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews tells the story of Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, two Teach for America alumni who started the KIPP Academies, a promising network of charter middle s...
Movies & TV
Guys and doll
Sometimes the gross out humor in a romantic comedy can be written off as a concession to the men dragged into the theater by female counterparts. In the case of I Love You, Man, it just seems grat...
Movies & TV
Spies like us
In its two-faced soul, Duplicity is a thriller about flirting. Ray (Clive Owen), an MI-6 operative, has a fun encounter with Claire (Julia Roberts), who is CIA, that ends in her bedroom-with him d...
Movies & TV
Heart problem
At the Academy Awards earlier this year, Jack Black explained how he makes the most of the paychecks he earns for his frequent work in DreamWorks' animated movies like Kung Fu Panda and Shark Tale...
Music
Broken strings can be mended
CHARLOTTE-One of a guitar player's worst fears was coming true on-stage for Pierce Pettis. He broke a string in the middle of a song-actually on the opening strum of a song near the end of a 90-mi...
Music
Dylan's drummer
Anyone who saw Bob Dylan perform from 1992 to 1996 will remember the energy and free-flying, shoulder-length hair of the drummer Winston Watson. Now, in Bob Dylan: Never Ending Tour Diaries (Highw...
Books
Darwinian siege
Depressed as income tax time comes? An old but good little book, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs (see WORLD, Nov. 20, 1999), offers great spiritual advice but also do...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Money laundering He's not exactly a golden goose, but something good is coming out of Augie, a 2-year-old greater Swiss mountain dog. Augie's owner, Kelley Davis of Apex, N.C., noticed some...
Quotables
Quotables
"He deserves my silence." George W. Bush, in his first speech since leaving the White House, on why he would not criticize President Obama. "I love my country a lot more than I love politic...
The Buzz
The Buzz
Big dig Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska joined a handful of Republican governors refusing to accept millions in federal funds slated for their states under the president's $787 billion economic ...