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SEEN BUT NOT HEARD

Cover Story | Reform-minded rebels of a new kind inside the National Education Association make themselves visible at this month's annual convention. That's about it. The harsh treatment they endured at the hands of a majority shows how difficult a task they face

In this issue: "Public-school reform," July 26, 2003

Features

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Wide-open spaces

National |  The smallest laptop isn't always the coolest. New widescreen laptops are all the rage, promising more desktop room-and a bigger screen for watching DVDs.

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Buzz off

National |  Cell phones offer countless bells and whistles, but South Korea's SK Telecom offers one of the most unique: a ring tone said to repel mosquitoes. For about…

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Bits and megabytes

National |  Japanese phone company NTT DoCoMo now sells a Dick TracyÐ style wristwatch. It sells more for its retro sci-fi look than its technology. The $310 Wristomo…

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Frist's firsts

National |  New U.S. Senate chaplain Barry Black this month delivered his first prayer in Congress. Within the two minutes allowed for each day's opening prayer, he…

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Supreme parents

National |  Remember those liberal judges on the Florida Supreme Court who tried so hard to keep George W. Bush out of the White House? Now they want to keep parents out…

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Blue (Chip) flu

National |  Police officers who are religious believers can't refuse an assignment simply because some aspect of it violates their beliefs. That was the gist of a June…

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Campers' big tent

National |  Ah, summer camp: bonfires, ghost stories, poison ivy-and religious controversy. Should an evangelical organization be allowed to promote its camps and clubs…

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Will it play in Indy?

National |  Indiana governor's race could be an indicator of the political appeal of the president's faith-based initiative

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'Blunderbuss' stop

National |  Another pivotal court case involving religious freedom appears headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. California federal judge Stephen Wilson last month declared…

Dispatches

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Quotables

I just want to say, 'Ahhhhh.' Departing White House spokesman ARI FLEISCHER in The Washington Times on what he planned to do on his first day off the job. Mr.

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Quick Takes

It doesn't matter whether ex-customers are right The retail adage that "the customer is always right" is often hard to live with-so Filene's Basement discount…

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BLOGWATCH

buzz from online journals of politics & culture

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Lonely at Langley

Embattled CIA chief Tenet has one thing going for him: the loyalty of the president

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TOP NEWS

1 which way did they go? The recycled flap over Bush administration intelligence gathering has a way of obscuring real threats coming out of Iraq. Weapons…

Reviews

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BESTSELLERS

Culture |  The Top 5 best-selling hardbacks as measured by placement on four leading lists as of July 7, 2003

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Southward shift

Culture |  As Christianity fades in the West, churches of the "mission field" are rising to defend the faith

Voices

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Making distinctions

Big media specialize in calling falsehood truth-and vice versa

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Mailbag

Ball boys Marvin Olasky's diagnosis of what ails Major League Baseball was brought home to me after my son and I spent the evening watching a local Babe Ruth…

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Everything in its place

The triumph of secularism is its ability to tell society what goes where

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Summerhill revisited

Political power fails and market forces come to rule

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