When real news sites--including Fox--start using in-link ads, spokespeople start talking their ways out of corners. The five lamest Charlie Brown cartoons. Santa Claus has been unseated from the number-one spot, replaced by defense contractor Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks. The Forbes Fictional 15. Help Leslie
Iraq Study Group's draft report says it's time to work with Iran and Syria, still no timetable on troop withdrawal. Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army seen as heroes in the aftermath of last week's horrific violence in Sadr City. Few answers in
Last-minute Thanksgiving reservations, last-minute turkey wines. Fast wines are the vinous correlative of everything else that is going to hell in our culture. You've heard of "slow food," well, welcome to "slow wine." Shortage of compassionate sommeliers strikes restaurant world. Outrages abound!
Bush may so love social-security reform, he's willing to bargain for it. London police wooed by Scientologists. Saudi Arabia threatens to cut diplomatic strings with Britain unless slush-fund investigation stops. Have Swiss banks given up the info? After CNN anchor Nancy Grace harshly cross-examines mother
Anti-Syria Lebanese minister gunned down, shots fired at another minister as well. Heard this before? Syria, of course, is blamed, though not by Bush, who needs to play nice. Maoists agree to lock up guns, for now, so Nepalese can vote on whether to retain the monarchy. Relief operations
The life and times of G. Robert Crowningshield, who established the diamond grading system--and made it that much harder for you to propose. Equally misguided, however, is the claim made by many champions of religion that secularists lack the will to combat evil because they are moral relativists who
When Katrina washed out New Orleans courthouse evidence rooms, authorities later had no choice but to let many arrestees walk. Proof that you can't sue your movie studio and get away with it: Peter Jackson will not be directing The Hobbit. Mp3: Cary Grant sings the FCC regulations.
After almost 25 years of silence, Iraq and Syria restore their diplomatic ties. Leaked documents show over a third of the West Bank land upon which Israel settlements have been built is privately owned by Palestinians. Polygamists find mainstream acceptance, at least in Utah. Caliente Hot Springs Motel no longer
If Shakespeare were alive, he'd be worth many millions--or he wouldn't be published at all. Marines' Iraqi translator remembers dying friends and threatened families, failed by the system, not the soldiers. The Army says it's not searching for a truth serum. The
"Most Americans don't understand something equivalent to the Marshall Plan has been accomplished in Iraq," says Army official. Newark's mayor leaves his battle pad; "a good story, but it's bullcrap," says Amiri Baraka. Robert Birnbaum in today's Digest
