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PUNTING ON THE PLEDGE

PUNTING ON THE PLEDGE

Cover Story | Liberals discover judicial restraint and join a unanimous Supreme Court in deciding . . . to decide another day . . . on the politically volatile issue of the Pledge of Allegiance

'Unmistakable hostility'

Cover Story | Senator: "Some courts, led by the U.S. Supreme Court, have demonstrated a clear and unmistakable hostility toward religious expression in the public square"

In this issue: "One nation under God," June 26, 2004

Features

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9/11 panel: Stick to what you know

National |  The panel investigating the Sept. 11 terror attacks wrapped up its final hearings on June 17 and revealed its findings that al-Qaeda originally planned…

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Cartoon Christians

National |  Movie review

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An emotional note

National |  Movie review

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The least of these

National |  ABORTION: As technology advances fetal viability, will it also advance the case for protecting thousands of unborn babies at earlier gestational ages?

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Technology

National |  Path tracker A revolution in web marketing is underway, one in which ads are targeted to people based on their surfing habits. Some call it a way to tailor…

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Business

National |  Share the wealth When Enron collapsed, more than 20,000 participants in the company's 401(k) plan had invested nearly two-thirds of their assets in company…

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The summer sport of politics: Veepstakes

National |  Edwards, runner-up to Kerry in the primaries, emerges as the favorite for VP

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One step forward, one step backward

National |  IRAQ: Even as violent militants use terror and chaos to impose their will on post-Saddam, post-occupation Iraq, humanitarian workers and Iraqis of goodwill…

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Mis-State-ment

National |  TERROR: Fixing State Department's messed-up terror report misses the bigger issue

Crude and rude
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Crude and rude

National |  ECONOMY: OPEC pushes down gas prices for the first time in 2004, but other complex factors are at play-and experts predict they'll drive prices back up

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The O.J. decade

National |  MEDIA: From the slow-speed chase to nonstop coverage, the O.J. Simpson murder trial was first in a long run of made-for-TV justice

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Upright and locked

National |  HOMELAND SECURITY: Air marshals look just like other professional law-enforcement agents, and that's the problem

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Sports

National |  Say 'om' Once Phil Jackson was a coach who could do no wrong. What else do you call someone who wins the championship in nine of his 13 years as a head coach?

Dispatches

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The Buzz

CHURCH/STATE When a unanimous court preserved the Pledge of Allegiance on a technicality, what could have become a landmark decision turned out to have very…

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Quick Takes

Fault finder » Former hostage Nobutaka Watanabe has found the people responsible for his abduction-and it's not his former captors in Iraq. Mr. Watanabe, a…

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Culture Beat

Cartoon Christians

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Quotables

"A badge of honor." » Former President Bill Clinton, in an interview last week with CBS' 60 Minutes, on how he views his impeachment and his pride in…

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Cinderella for guys

Reviews

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Cinderella for guys

Television |  Review

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Best-Selling Books

Books |  1. DaVinci Code Author: Dan Brown Plot: A curator at the Louvre is murdered, but before he dies leaves clues that send his granddaughter (a police…

Voices

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Mailbag

Suffering soldiers » It was indeed a pleasure to read your May 29 cover story ("No greater love"). Besides the nearly 800 servicemen who have died fighting…

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Long, twilight struggle

Although unsatisfying, a tie in a political battle is better than a loss

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Ty that binds

Remembering an uncle who revealed the wonders of this wide and marvelous world to his nephew

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Bad hearing aides

It's not that they won't hear the polls; they simply can't

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Heavenly free-fall

What would happen if we trusted enough in God to plunge into a certain kind of self-forgetfulness?

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