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ROBED RULERS

Cover Story | The Supreme Court waited for the last moment before summer adjournment to issue its most controversial cultural and political decisions. It struck down a Texas anti-sodomy law-swinging open the courthouse door to further legal attacks on marriage and community standards-and decided affirmative action and pornography cases. The high court provided a powerful reminder of the high stakes involved in judicial selection. With potentially three openings to fill, President Bush may have an opportunity to rein in judicial lawmaking

In this issue: "Supreme warning," July 5, 2003

Features

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Games networks play

National |  Will red-blooded American males watch a cable channel dedicated to video games?

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What a waste

National |  America Online created a furor with a program available to the public only for a few hours.

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GOOFING OFF

National |  IRS employees are goofing off online

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Report card

National |  Fourth-graders made progress, but eighth-graders plateaued and 12th-graders lost ground in reading

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Subsidized radicals

National |  Taxpayers are subsidizing anti-Americanism on university campuses

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Testy establishment

National |  Education reformers are increasingly critical of the current teacher-certification system

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Digital dominance

National |  If your VCR is gathering dust, it's not the only one.

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ER=Emergency relief

International |  The embattled Franklin Graham sends aid to Iraq despite a welter of hand-wringing over what it will do to Muslim-Christian relations

Dispatches

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Tango with the trendy

Books and magazines should reject being "slaves to the Next"

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The battle to come

It's not so much a fight over a nominee, but a war of worldview

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Top Story

THE TOP 5 STORIES OF THE WEEK

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Quick Takes

A thin blue blur A Swedish police officer who assaulted a mo-ped driver he had hit with his car-and handcuffed a man suffering from a stroke-is not guilty of…

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Quotables

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Culture |  Harry Potter used to dominate the New York Times bestseller list

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'Just the way it was'

Culture |  Historical novelist JEFF SHAARA speaks with WORLD about bringing history alive-by portraying characters as they were, rather than running them through a…

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Ghostwriters in the machine

Culture |  Ten years ago, WORLD senior writer Edward E. Plowman shook up Christian publishers with a cover article on ethics and ghostwriting in that industry. His…

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Novel ideas

Culture |  Christian publishers expand definition of worthy fiction

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BESTSELLERS

Culture |  The Top 5 best-selling hardback novels as measured by placement on four leading lists as of June 22

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BESTSELLERS

Culture |  The Top 5 best-sellingalbums for the week ending June 14, according to Billboard magazine

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Western Culture's Top 50 Books

Books |  Give yourself an education by checking out these books

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Chips off the old block

Culture |  Clair Beeås legacy survives intact, and the updated sports-fiction series has a more evident Christian emphasis

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Right angles

Culture |  With multiple varieties of conservatism, the right exhibits far more cultural diversity than does the left

Voices

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Mailbag

flagrant behavior The flagrant behavior of the Senate Democrats does not surprise me. What does is the inconsequential response of the Republican leadership-a…

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God is not boring

His creation rings with wonders that those with imagination present

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East of Jerusalem

The beginning of a non-Western-culture reading list

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The 51st book

I wouldn't subtract from our Top 50 list, so I'll invoke publisher's privilege

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