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"Supreme warning" July 05, 2003, Vol. 18, No. 26
ROBED RULERS
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
Chris Stamper
National | If your VCR is gathering dust, it's not the only one.
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ER=Emergency relief
Mindy Belz
International | The embattled Franklin Graham sends aid to Iraq despite a welter of hand-wringing over what it will do to Muslim-Christian relations
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Games networks play
Chris Stamper
National | Will red-blooded American males watch a cable channel dedicated to video games?
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GOOFING OFF
Chris Stamper
National | IRS employees are goofing off online
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Report card
Jennifer Marshall
National | Fourth-graders made progress, but eighth-graders plateaued and 12th-graders lost ground in reading
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Subsidized radicals
Jennifer Marshall
National | Taxpayers are subsidizing anti-Americanism on university campuses
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Testy establishment
Jennifer Marshall
National | Education reformers are increasingly critical of the current teacher-certification system
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What a waste
Chris Stamper
National | America Online created a furor with a program available to the public only for a few hours.
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Dispatches
Quotables
The Editors
Quotes
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Tango with the trendy
Marvin Olasky
Books and magazines should reject being "slaves to the Next"
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The battle to come
Cal Thomas
It's not so much a fight over a nominee, but a war of worldview
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Top Story
The Editors
THE TOP 5 STORIES OF THE WEEK
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QuickTakes
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Reviews
'Just the way it was'
Joe Maxwell
Culture | 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
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BESTSELLERS
The Editors
Culture | The Top 5 best-selling hardback novels as measured by placement on four leading lists as of June 22
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BESTSELLERS
The Editors
Culture | The Top 5 best-sellingalbums for the week ending June 14, according to Billboard magazine
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Chips off the old block
Russ Pulliam
Culture | Clair Beeås legacy survives intact, and the updated sports-fiction series has a more evident Christian emphasis
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Ghostwriters in the machine
Edward E. Plowman
Culture | 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
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
The Editors
Culture | Harry Potter used to dominate the New York Times bestseller list
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Novel ideas
Lynn Vincent
Culture | Christian publishers expand definition of worthy fiction
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Right angles
Gene Edward Veith
Culture | With multiple varieties of conservatism, the right exhibits far more cultural diversity than does the left
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Western Culture's Top 50 Books
Gene Edward Veith
Culture | Give yourself an education by checking out these books
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Voices
The 51st book
Joel Belz
I wouldn't subtract from our Top 50 list, so I'll invoke publisher's privilege
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God is not boring
John Piper
His creation rings with wonders that those with imagination present
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Mailbag
Guest Columnist
East of Jerusalem
Marvin Olasky
The beginning of a non-Western-culture reading list
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