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The greatest show on earth
Andrew O'Hehir
It's World Cup time again -- when more than a billion people will be enthralled not just by the joy of victory and agony of defeat, but also by the mystery and despair that is championship soccer.
Taming the bear
Suzy Hansen
Strobe Talbott says Clinton deserves much credit for Russia's warming to the West -- and recalls a drunken Yeltsin calling for pizza in his underpants.
Bravo, Jimmy Carter
Ben Corbett
His visit can't end Castro's tyranny, Cuba's poverty or the Bush administration's lame policies, but he's the first American politician who has tried to give to Cuba, not just take.
Death rattle?
Laura Miller
Sept. 11 may have been the last gasp of militant Islam -- but while it's dying, it could strike again and again.
Bush’s hatchet man in the State Department
Ian Williams
While Colin Powell tries to present a kinder, gentler America to the world, his hard-line underling John Bolton is pushing an America-
The Israeli “art student” mystery
Christopher Ketcham
For almost two years, hundreds of young Israelis falsely claiming to be art students haunted federal offices -- in particular, the DEA. No one knows why -- and no one seems to want to find out.
The New York Sun’s not-so-bright debut
Eric Boehlert
Its support for Israel is unwavering -- but New York's just-launched paper is a little shakier when it comes to editorial fundamentals.
Gore Vidal
Gary Kamiya
Congress should investigate how much the Bush "oil junta" knew in advance about Sept. 11. This and other bombshells from American literature's leading provocateur.
The real war on terrorism
Mark Scheffler
Robert Young Pelton, author of "The World's Most Dangerous Places," says the U.S. military has killed "thousands and thousands" of people in Afghanistan, al-Qaida is a myth and the WTC was brought down by a "Mickey Mouse" outfit.
Sharon tests Bush
Aluf Benn
By pushing the limits of what the president will accept, Sharon is buying time to complete his military strategy. But is he digging his own political grave?
Hezbollah: Lebanon’s paper tiger
Paul Wachter
Despite recent attacks, the militant group that drove Israel out of Lebanon is not likely to launch a full-scale attack from the north.
Her father’s keeper
Suzy Hansen
Laura Blumenfeld, author of "Revenge: A Story of Hope," talks about tracking down the Palestinian who shot her father.
“My son was killed because of the occupation”
Flore de Prineuf
Israel's Women in Black say the blood of their children is on Sharon's hands.
The Palestinians’ true cause
David Horowitz
The Mideast blood bath is not about land -- it's about religion. The Israelis' great crime? They're Jews.
Bush’s foreign policy catastrophe
Gary Kamiya
The bumbling and arrogance of the administration has made the Middle East -- and the world -- a more dangerous place.
Betraying Afghanistan, again
Anthony York
"Taliban" author Ahmed Rashid says the Bush administration is risking the success of its war on terror by scheming against Iraq's Saddam Hussein while Afghanistan is still in ruins.
Of hatred and innocence
Uju Asika
Filmmakers B.Z. Goldberg and Justine Shapiro discuss their Oscar-nominated "Promises," a wrenching and intimate portrait of the children of Jerusalem.
Denis Halliday
Hadani Ditmars
The former head of the U.N.'s humanitarian program in Iraq says an American invasion would be an international crime -- and would make the U.S. even less safe.
“Jerusalem Calling” by Joel Schalit
Suzy Hansen
A disillusioned young Israeli living in the U.S. warns the American left that it's too reluctant to criticize religious fundamentalists -- including George Bush.
Scott Ritter
Asla Aydintasbas
The controversial former chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq says Saddam's weapons of mass destruction are largely disarmed, the "Iraqi threat" is built on a framework of lies and President Bush has betrayed the American people.
Planning for martial law?
Dave Lindorff
Civil libertarians say the Bush administration may give the military scary new police powers in its secret planning for a bunker-based, post-disaster shadow government.
When in doubt, nuke ’em
Robert Scheer
The Pentagon's secret plan to fight terror with nuclear weapons shows just how dangerous this administration is.
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