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Beyond the nightly news

Cover Story | COVER STORY: 20 questions (and answers) that could cause you to see the Iraq war effort and occupation differently than if you relied on big network coverage

In this issue: "Beyond the nightly news," Oct. 11, 2003

Features

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Off-season blues

National |  At least a handful of teams played the "what-if" game during the first round of Major League Baseball's playoffs, which-for the most part-ended over the…

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California dreaming?

National |  CAN NEW LAWS KEEP SPAMMERS from driving people nuts with junk mail? California will find out next year, when strict penalties for unsolicited ads take effect.

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Damage control

National |  CALL IT HONOR among thieves. Several operators of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, made notorious by millions of online music pirates, announced an ethics code-of…

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Bits & Megabytes

National |  The heavily hyped Segway scooters hit a speed bump. Every unit sold-all 6,000 of them-was recalled after three people were injured. Apparently, the futuristic…

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Alpha outreach

International |  EVANGELICALS ARE POISED TO take over the Church of England. That's the bottom line in British religion researcher Peter Brierley's annual Religious Trends…

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Repeat performances

National |  REV. ALVIN O. JACKSON IS FACING THE MUSIC again. He is pastor of National City Christian Church in Washington, D.C., and holds the top elected post of…

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Skipping stones

National |  REMEMBER AMINA LAWAL, THE 31-year-old single mother in Nigeria who last year was sentenced to death by stoning on an adultery charge? An Islamic Court in…

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Just right

National |  Sometimes sports franchise owners seem like Goldilocks when trying to find the right coach for their team. The New York Mets decided flamboyant manager Bobby…

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Around the horn

National |  While watching Marc Bulger play well in his stead, one-time Super Bowl MVP quarterback Kurt Warner admits he's been thinking about moving on from the Rams…

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Rubber-stamping Islamic chaplains?

National |  CHAPLAINCY: A suspicious and tangled trail of schools and accrediting agencies surrounds the case of James Yee-detained on suspicion of espionage-but the…

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American Muslim Council founder arrested at airport

National |  The American Muslim Council's founder, Abudurahman Alamoudi, is a naturalized and politically well-connected U.S. citizen who came to the United States from…

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Beneath the radar

National |  WASHINGTON: As the press focuses elsewhere, President Bush's faith-based initiative is quietly gaining momentum

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Squeezing Lemon

National |  TEN COMMANDMENTS: A three-decades-old high court ruling-Lemon vs. Kurtzman-used to guide lower courts on permissible religious expression in the public square…

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truth on terror

National |  WASHINGTON: Middle East scholar and new Institute for Peace director Daniel Pipes stirs controversy by pointing out terrorism's militant Islamic roots

Dispatches

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Quick Takes

'Ingrained' no more Don't tell Italians that they can't legislate morality. Long known as having Europe's worst highway-safety records, Italy reduced its road…

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Quotables

This barbaric procedure will finally come to an end. U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) after the House last week voted 281-142 to ban partial-birth…

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Blogwatch

Making enemies into friends Denizens of the blogosphere have long been trying to answer 20 and more questions on Iraq. Steven Den Beste, known for lengthy,

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The Plame game

WASHINGTON: Veteran journalist explains the swirling White House/CIA "leak" scandal spawned by one of his columns

Reviews

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Better get used to it

Culture |  Critics of new films about Christ are really objecting to the Bible

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Proud defender of the American 'waterfront'

Culture |  MAN KNOWS NOT HIS TIME: Farewell toex-communist-turned-patriot Elia Kazan-and to other notables who passed away

Voices

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Something to scream about

Evangelicals and conservatives show unusual unity

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'Build your own theology'

A look at what happens when a church drifts away from God's love

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An idea, not an ethnicity

Rejoicing in the hundreds of millions of children of Abraham

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Mailbag

Both/and Regarding the Pryor vs. Moore debate ("Political suicide?" Sept. 13): It isn't either/or, but both/and. Justice Moore is concerned about judicial…

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