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A Million Media Minutes Overblown coverage of violent crime helps fuel the press's much-beloved Million Mom March

by Tim Graham

Cover Story Sidebar | Donna Dees-Thomases repeatedly told reporters that she came up with the idea of the so-called Million Mom March from watching TV news coverage of a shooting at a day-care center in California. In many ways, the march is a natural outgrowth of the saturation coverage television news networks now give isolated shootings in the United States. But are these isolated shootings, and is this saturation coverage, representative of reality? In its promotion of the march, Time magazine reported

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The Tales of Tears

by Bob Jones

Cover Story | At the Million Mom March, speaker after speaker urged that maternal lamentation be turned into gun-control legislation. Now that the public-relations glow of the big event has begun to fade, it's a good time to ask: Does lawmaking by anecdote make for sound public policy

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In this issue: "Sad stories, bad laws?," May 27, 2000

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Divided, They Stand

by Edward E. Plowman

National |  Methodist traditionalists hold off liberals for four more years, but how long can the nation's second largest Protestant church group continue to hold…

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Quitters Never Win

by Cal Thomas

National |  Message to Rudy: Your decision on quitting the Senate race is less important than the one on your marriage

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Rough and Tufts

by Bob Jones

National |  Christian student group on liberal campus accorded a little tolerance, but not without a lawyer and a fight

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Dispatches

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The BUZZ

by The Editors

Yes, they mean it Court: is the era of unlimited government over? For the second time in five years the Supreme Court last week ruled that when Congress…

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Quotables

Maybe God put us in this world to help somebody beat this disease. -Roberto Alomar of the Cleveland Indians, referring to the irony of his reconciliation with…

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Reviews

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Video: VIDEORENTALS

by The Editors

Video |  The top 5 videos in popularity as measured by rental receipts for the week ended May 7

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Music: THE MUSIC

by The Editors

Music |  The Top 5 'Heatseekers' albums for the week ending May13, according to Billboard magazine

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Voices

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Too legit to quit

by Joel Belz

Homeschooling is here to stay: Even in its problems there's promise

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High-þying standards

An aviator's salute to an American hero

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Mailbag

The real question A majority of Americans polled want Elián returned "to his father." But Cuban children are considered wards of the state. Castro's…

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Era of the gladiator?

by Marvin Olasky

Moviegoers like action and Stoicism gains traction

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