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I want kids, but he doesn’t. What could be simpler?
Cary Tennis
Should I break it off now and look for a man who wants to raise a family?
The view from Morocco
Mark MacNamara
An American writer abroad looks at Iraq through the lens of the Middle East and sees a kaleidoscope of hope and failure, promise and despair.
“Head On”
Stephanie Zacharek
The displaced lovers in this vital, moving Turkish-German romance are a little bit rock 'n' roll -- and have their own sense of country.
The moderate who wasn’t there
Steven Hart
Christine Todd Whitman can cry all she wants, but today's GOP is not her party. And she has no one but herself to blame for that.
The value of a life
Linda Reid Chassiakos
Removing a feeding tube for the sake of convenience belies the principles of a humanitarian society -- Terri Schiavo should not be left to starve to death.
From ivory tower to academic sweatshop
Alex Wright
After a few dot-com-era bumps, online education is back and bigger than ever. But so is corporate influence and bottom-line pressure.
Love and rockets
Kenneth Miller
In her new book "Astro Turf," author M.G. Lord explains how a search for her father's secrets led her to unearth the hidden history of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The revolution that failed
Andrew O'Hehir
Quentin Tarantino and the indie rebels who followed him changed Hollywood in the '90s -- but in the end, Hollywood also changed them.
Update on the lonely soldier
Cary Tennis
Remember that soldier in Iraq sitting all by himself wishing the family would write? Response from readers was amazing.
I wish my fiance had never been married
Cary Tennis
I know he loves me, but I can't help comparing myself with his past.
Avoiding accountability?
Dan Glaister
The revelation of Rumsfeld's secret spy network has one congressman wondering what the Pentagon is trying to hide.
Master of the ordinary
Charles Taylor
Haruki Murakami's latest novel unveils a world in which the fantastic is trite and the everyday profound.
“Everyone here has post-traumatic stress”
Jeff Greenwald
As the horror hits home in Sri Lanka, there are too many relief workers and not enough stress counselors.
Is “doggie style” hyphenated?
Daniel Asa Rose
My stint as a copy editor at a skin mag taught me more than I ever wanted to know about the sexual proclivities of the American public.
America’s gentler ally?
Brian Whitaker
The Arab media's reaction to Britain's torture scandal is surprisingly subdued.
When freedom was the “peculiar institution”
Priya Jain
Adam Hochschild talks about how the abolitionist movement caught fire -- from the high seas to the kitchen pantry -- and changed the world forever.
Bones of contention
John Vidal
Anthropologists are in an uproar over the significance of a tiny, ancient skeleton -- nicknamed the "hobbit" -- found on an island of modern-day short people.
We’re in love, but there’s a cultural barrier
Cary Tennis
I'm not Muslim and I'm the wrong ethnicity, so my girlfriend is afraid to tell her family about us.
The exorcist
Rebecca Traister
In his new book, mega-selling self-help author M. Scott Peck asserts that demonic possession is real -- and tells the story of two exorcisms he conducted himself.
“One of the top three or four torture-producing countries”
Andrew Meldrum, Paul Kelso
Activists present new evidence of systematic abuse of opposition members in the run-up to Zimbabwe's elections.
Dead movement walking?
Katharine Mieszkowski
Roiled by harsh internal criticism and confronting four more years of Bush, environmentalists face a dark night of the soul.
Clinging to happy talk
Sidney Blumenthal
Bush says elections will bring democracy to Iraq, but that is as unrealistic as all his other now-disproved rosy scenarios.
Misleading by example
Julian Borger, Richard Norton-Taylor, Suzanne Goldenberg
A watchdog group's report decries U.S. prisoner abuse, saying "the pictures from Abu Ghraib have become the recruiting posters for Terrorism, Inc."
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