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"Northern light" September 20, 2008, Vol. 23, No. 19
Northern light
COVER STORY | By Mark Bergin
Months and months into our long presidential campaign, a small-town hockey mom turns establishment politics on its head. Those who know her best say Americans have only seen the beginning of Alaskan toughness More >>
 Features
'Locavores' rising
Susan Olasky
Lifestyle/Technology |
The Slow Food movement gains adherents
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Aftershocks
Tom Pfingsten
China |
World attention turns to Beijing but Sichuan quake victims struggle
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Cleaning up the mess
Lynn Vincent
Disaster |
Gulf Coast storm survivors have different idea of devastation since Katrina
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Election investments
David Bahnsen
Personal Finance |
The market already is calibrating itself to a new presidency
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He who hesitates ...
Marvin Olasky
Health |
Some 32,000 Americans kill themselves in a typical year
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High pressure system
Jamie Dean
Politics |
What will it take for McCain ticket to weather the general campaign?
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Houses of God
Human Race
The Editors
Let's make a deal
Jill Nelson
Middle East |
Iraq holds the main stage but dealmaking is breaking out across the region
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Looking ahead
The Editors
News to watch in the weeks to come
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Parting ways
Rusty Leonard and Warren Cole Smith
Charity |
With United Way scandal, cracks in century-old cooperative become gaps
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Russian reprise
Mindy Belz
International |
Do Putin and Medvedev have their eyes on other prizes?
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Shades of 1828
Marvin Olasky
Politics |
This isn’t the first time cultural differences have loomed large
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The other candidates
Jamie Dean
Politics |
Third-party contenders appear ready to fight on
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The weathermen
Mark Bergin
Campaign Issues |
Obama and McCain both think they can curb climate change
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Culture Beat
Puerile and Pro-Life
Kenan Minkoff
South Park crudely slays liberal views
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A world apart
Sam Thielman
Fringe has all the strangeness of a J.J. Abrams series
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Belief matters
Stan Oakes
“Moral freedom” may leave nothing left to lose
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Burn After Reading
Megan Basham
Joel and Ethan Coen take their misanthropy to another level
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Doubter's prison
Marvin Olasky
Faith is reasonable, say authors J.P. Moreland and Klaus Issler
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Glen again
Arsenio Orteza
Campbell successfully covers a surprising list of songs
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Ireland and beyond
Arsenio Orteza
Faith of Our Fathers celebrates a religious heritage
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Teenage trash
Megan Basham
Struggling CW tries to sell sex again with its new 90210
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Western ties
David Tubbs
Jay Winik captures the splendor and sordidness of the “old order”
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Notable CDs
Various ensembles
Four new or recent classical CDs reviewed by Arsenio Orteza
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Notable books
Jennifer Haigh
Four recent novels of mystery and misery reviewed by Susan Olasky
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Departments
The Buzz
Quick Takes
Quotables
Sports
Mailbag
Thoughts
Unscripted moment
Joel Belz
The Palin nomination was so rewarding because it was so unexpected
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Interfaith liberals
Gene Edward Veith
Denver may be a signal of things to come
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A family affair
Andrée Seu
The Pents’ crazy chronicle is a story of God’s faithfulness
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If not college, what?
Janie B. Cheaney
Often-lucrative alternatives to the four-year degree abound
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Introvert’s dilemma
Tony Woodlief
Christ gave all despite His discomforts
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Robust public square
Mindy Belz
And one where a few household rules apply
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War of the centuries
Marvin Olasky
We need to understand the strong historical memory of Muslims
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