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Holiday of horror

by Mindy Belz

Cover Story | 3/27: Suicide bomber Abdel-Basset Odeh paced outside the lobby of a hotel in Netanya where over 250 Jews were gathering for a Seder marking the beginning of Passover. When he detonated the explosives strapped inside his shirt, the attack killed 26 and wounded 125. Hamas claimed responsibility. 3/28: Ahmed Hafez Saadat, a Hamas militant, opened fire inside a Jewish settlement near Nablus, killing four Jewish settlers. 3/29: 18-year-old Ayat al-Akhras walked into a supermarket in Jerusalem

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'Martyrs by the millions'

by Mindy Belz

Cover Story | Holiday suicide attacks by Islamic militants, Israel's military response, and Arafat's praise of the "martyrs" push the Middle East toward total war-and pull the United States into the middle

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In this issue: "Guns & Poses," April 13, 2002

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Good and growing

by Lynn Vincent

National |  Wal-Mart becomes the world's largest company, tax cuts help raise incomes, and other business news

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Dispatches

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The Buzz

by The Editors

L.A. TIMES SPOTLIGHTS COLSON'S RELIANCE ON GHOSTWRITERS Seeing ghosts Ghostwriting and celebrity-author marketing practices are in the spotlight again. The…

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Quotables

He was a shadow of himself. -Los Angeles Lakers basketball coach Phil Jackson, after his former player, Michael Jordan, scored a career-low two points in a…

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Top News

by The Editors

Scoring system:5 points for news stories appearing on the front page of The Washington Post, 3 for stories on the next two pages of the "A" section, and 1…

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Flash Traffic

by The Editors

Political buzz from Washington

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Quick Takes

by The Editors

LICENSE TO KILL The Netherlands became the first country to legalize mercy killings as the country's notorious euthanasia law went into effect this month.

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'Breaking faith' update

by Lynn Vincent

Campus Crusade suspends speaker after scandal report

[http://www.worldmag.com/2002/04/breaking_faith_update]

Reviews

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Hope and hoops

Culture |  Coaches and players overcome adversity to make it into this year's NCAA Final Four

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Lights out in an empty room

by Gene Edward Veith

Culture |  Can the decadent art world be brought back to life?

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The Music

by The Editors

Culture |  The Top 5 CDs for the week ending March 30, according to Billboard magazine

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Voices

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Mailbag

Chew on that For years our liberal culture has used the military as a testing ground for politically popular ideas and concepts, like women in combat and the…

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Why so pushy?

by Joel Belz

We shouldn't "respect" people so much we show them no respect at all

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I was a ghost

by Marvin Olasky

But it wasn't a deathly experience

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Very great guilt

by Andrée Seu

Forget the settlement, where's the repentance?

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