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View from the Axis

Cover Story | Critics deride the "axis of evil" rhetoric but eyewitnesses know better. In North Korea, evil only begins to describe the everyday horror of life under "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il

Paying a debt to history

Cover Story | Norbert Vollertsen has been haunting the Holocaust Museum in Washington. He cannot get over the photographs. "As a German, I feel especially shocked because of these photos. I feel terribly guilty," he says. "Whenever I'm in the museum, I want to hide," especially when groups of Jewish children brush by him. Born after the end of World War II, in 1958, Dr. Vollertsen is too young to remember it, never mind participate. Yet it is the national memory of a Jewish Holocaust that drives his

Bush the road warrior

Cover Story | George W. Bush may have been expecting a warm welcome in South Korea after his strong words against its communist neighbor to the north. South Koreans took to the streets in protest instead. The president stuck to his guns, offering to talk with North Korea but not to back down from calling the regime part of an "axis of evil." Mr. Bush said, "My vision is clear: I see a peninsula that is one day united in commerce and cooperation, instead of divided by barbed wire and fear. Korean

In this issue: "View from the Axis," March 9, 2002

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A child and a choice

National |  Cleveland parents take the case for vouchers to the Supreme Court, hoping for a landmark ruling

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Silence isn't golden

National |  Confront culture or accommodate it? Religious broadcasters' dispute raises old questions

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New... but improved?

National |  Archivists fight copyright extensions, critics fight an ID chip for humans, and IBM speeds up microchips

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Politics of fear

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Running & running away

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Help wanted

National |  Even with a closely divided House and Senate, both national parties have had trouble recruiting political candidates

Dispatches

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The Buzz

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Flash Traffic

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QuickTakes

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Quotables

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Hypocritical oath

Culture |  Doctors replace Hippocrates with a liberal mission statement

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Bestsellers

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Voices

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Terrifying axis

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Credits are due

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To bow or not

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Mailbag

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Mud bowl

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