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Rebel from the yeshiva
Suzy Hansen
Director Eitan Gorlin on "The Holy Land," his controversial film about a rabbinical student running wild in Jerusalem, and why some Jews don't like its explosive portrait of late-'90s Israel.
A green revolt against Bush
Glenn Scherer
In an embarrassing rebuke to the White House, a group of Republican and Democratic governors is embracing the Kyoto accords on global warming.
John Bolton vs. the world
Nicholas Thompson
His job is to keep a hawk eye on dovish Colin Powell. And he's helped turn Bush foreign policy into an ideological hammer.
Is Iran next?
Mark Follman
Tehran is a year or two away from acquiring nuclear weapons. Is the Bush administration willing to go to war -- again -- to stop it?
Italy’s sex slaves
Laura Fraser
Young women from Africa and Eastern Europe are lured to Italy with the promise of good jobs
and a new life. But when they get there they are beaten, raped and forced into prostitution.
The world press: Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan
Compiled by Laura McClure
Maclean's: When the Taliban fell, women were supposed to get a better deal. It hasn't happened.
The ballad of Jack and Oksana
Cary Tennis
My friend is married to a beautiful Russian woman, but I see a train wreck in their future.
White-collar sweatshops
Katharine Mieszkowski
"Globalization" is becoming a dirty word to U.S. tech workers, increasingly angry and anxious as their jobs disappear overseas, never to return.
The war off drugs
Nell Bernstein
The success of a California measure that offers drug offenders treatment before prison points a way out of the drug-war stalemate.
The world press on Iran
Mark Follman, Compiled by Laura McClure
The only American battleships left in Iran are 1970s Chevrolet Impalas.
Bush plunges into the Middle East quagmire
Aluf Benn
The president's sudden, passionate intervention surprised everyone. But Israeli officials doubt he's in it for the long haul.
The world press on the missing WMDs
Compiled by Laura McClure
Arab News: Whether or not WMDs are found is irrelevant to the Iraqi people.
Only the flat survive
Katharine Mieszkowski
The mighty Pacific halibut is thriving, even as dozens of other big fish species are being commercially harvested out of existence. How is this googly-eyed monster defying the odds?
Adventures in smog trading
Linda Baker
A world market for buying and selling pollution credits is poised to take off and could be our best chance to stop global warming. Too bad George Bush won't let it happen.
The world press on the missing WMDs
Compiled by Laura McClure
Pravda: "If people are killed in a war which is unjustifiable under international law, the act is a war crime."
The world press on a democratic Iran
Compiled by Laura McClure
Iranian students warn their clerics to wake up "or disappear, as other promised lands, thrones, kings, caliphs and emirs did."
Why America needs the world
Bill Clinton
From the U.N.-led battle against SARS to the French-German-U.S. military mission in Afghanistan, global realities cry out for cooperation.
The world press on the crisis of democracy
Compiled by Laura McClure
Haaretz says freedom is imperiled in Israel, and Arundhati Roy writes it's under siege in the U.S.
Will Bush take real risks for Mideast peace?
Mark Follman
Former U.S. ambassador and diplomat Martin Indyk hails the president's recent engagement, saying he's "becoming -- dare I say it -- like President Clinton."
A Python in the desert
Brian Libby
Monty Python co-founder Michael Palin on eating camel meat, being recognized by Inuit in the Bering Strait, and becoming a sex symbol at 60 in his new travel series, "Sahara."
The world press on the Riyadh bombings
Mark Follman, Compiled by Laura McClure
Saudi Arabia: "We have to face up to the fact that we have a terrorist problem here." Plus reports from Spain, Lebanon, Israel, the Philippines, Hong Kong and the U.K.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
What in heaven's name was Japan Airlines thinking when it ditched the crane? The pilot offers some lessons in airliner art appreciation.
The world press on postwar Iraq
Mark Follman, Compiled by Laura McClure
In Iran, poor villagers say they hope the U.S. will liberate them next. Plus reports from Nigeria, Pakistan, Chile, the Philippines, Egypt, Russia and more.
“House of Fools”
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrei Konchalovsky's first masterpiece in 20 years is a wrenching melodrama set amid the Chechen civil war. And Bryan Adams is in it. Really.
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