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"Supreme warning" July 05, 2003, Vol. 18, No. 26
Supreme warning
COVER STORY | By Bob Jones
The Supreme Court waited for the last moment before summer adjournment to issue its most controversial cultural and political decisions. It struck down a Texas anti-sodomy law—swinging open the courthouse door to further legal attacks on marriage and community standards—and decided affirmative action and pornography cases. The high court provided a powerful reminder of the high stakes involved in judicial selection. With potentially three openings to fill, President Bush may have an opportunity to rein in judicial lawmaking More >>
 Features
Digital dominance
| by Chris Stamper
If your VCR is gathering dust, it's not the only one.
ER=Emergency relief
| by Mindy Belz
The embattled Franklin Graham sends aid to Iraq despite a welter of hand-wringing over what it will do to Muslim-Christian relations
Games networks play
| by Chris Stamper
Will red-blooded American males watch a cable channel dedicated to video games?
GOOFING OFF
| by Chris Stamper
IRS employees are goofing off online
Report card
| by Jennifer Marshall
Fourth-graders made progress, but eighth-graders plateaued and 12th-graders lost ground in reading
Subsidized radicals
| by Jennifer Marshall
Taxpayers are subsidizing anti-Americanism on university campuses
Testy establishment
| by Jennifer Marshall
Education reformers are increasingly critical of the current teacher-certification system
What a waste
| by Chris Stamper
America Online created a furor with a program available to the public only for a few hours.
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Culture Beat
'Just the way it was' | by Joe Maxwell
Historical novelist JEFF SHAARA speaks with WORLD about bringing history alive—by portraying characters as they were, rather than running them through a modernist grid
BESTSELLERS | by The Editors
The Top 5 best-selling hardback novels as measured by placement on four leading lists as of June 22
BESTSELLERS | by The Editors
The Top 5 best-sellingalbums for the week ending June 14, according to Billboard magazine
Chips off the old block | by Russ Pulliam
Clair Beeås legacy survives intact, and the updated sports-fiction series has a more evident Christian emphasis
Ghostwriters in the machine | by Edward E. Plowman
Ten years ago, WORLD senior writer Edward E. Plowman shook up Christian publishers with a cover article on ethics and ghostwriting in that industry. His conclusion: For ministry celebrities who cede most or all of their prose to ghosts who receive little or no acknowledgment, "book writing" is an exercise in deception. Here is a second short look by the same writer. He found a few changes for good, but some trends a cause for concern
IN THE SPOTLIGHT | by The Editors
Harry Potter used to dominate the New York Times bestseller list
Novel ideas | by Lynn Vincent
Christian publishers expand definition of worthy fiction
Right angles | by Gene Edward Veith
With multiple varieties of conservatism, the right exhibits far more cultural diversity than does the left
Western Culture's Top 50 Books | by Gene Edward Veith
Give yourself an education by checking out these books
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The 51st book | by Joel Belz
I wouldn't subtract from our Top 50 list, so I'll invoke publisher's privilege
God is not boring | by John Piper
His creation rings with wonders that those with imagination present
East of Jerusalem | by Marvin Olasky
The beginning of a non-Western-culture reading list
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