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Looking to "Survivor's" Cindy and North Korea's Kim Jong-il for lessons on how to lose big, lose early and lose often

Arts & Entertainment

Incalculable pain

The Pentagon is underreporting the number of American soldier casualties in Iraq, say House Democrats

News

It's a McWorld after all

A writer and a photographer visit 30 families around the world to show us what the world eats -- and how industrial food is creeping into every corner of the globe

Books

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The war on terror: Miami

The shooting of Rigoberto Alpizar wasn't just a horrible mistake. It was also a major setback for sane airport security

Tech & Business

The Fix

Jackson losing Neverland? TomKat welcoming baby boy? Plus: Paris sings and Mike Wallace has some questions for President Bush

Arts & Entertainment

Mission to be decided

Now that so many Americans -- even Democrats! -- seem to agree that we should withdraw from Iraq soon, it's time to figure out how

Opinion

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"

Forget the scary hype: This magical movie, based on C.S. Lewis' beloved novel, is as familiar and comforting as a favorite sweater

Arts & Entertainment

"Brokeback Mountain"

Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger play two cowboys in love in this mainstream movie that is not nearly as brave as it might have been

Arts & Entertainment

"Memoirs of a Geisha"

Pile into the rickshaw for a slooooooow ride: This very serious, very long, very pretty picture never really gets moving

Arts & Entertainment

"Mrs. Henderson Presents"

Bring on the naked girls. This movie about a wartime London topless show is all facade -- and what a facade!

Arts & Entertainment

The politics of injustice

The testimony of one bogus witness put Larry Fowlkes away on murder charges for 45 years. Will presidential hopeful Gov. Mark Warner set him free?

News

After Murtha

Can Democrats criticize Bush's war while taking a united stand on what to do next?

News

Should we stay or should we go?

Surprisingly, a bipartisan consensus is emerging for bringing home our exhausted troops, yet President Bush clings to his chimera of total victory. Inside the escalating debate over Iraq

News

The party lines

21 leading Democrats who voted for the Iraq war resolution -- and what they're saying now

News

Red, white and blue -- and inky

The measure of patriotism, the price of war, and pleasure of the twilight, this week in Table Talk

Since you asked ...

My husband is a high-achieving alcoholic, seven years sober. Should we finally tell the kids?

Life

Speaking truth to power

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, playwright Harold Pinter condemns the Bush administration's assault on human dignity

Opinion

A playwright speaks out

In a fierce critique of U.S. foreign policy, Nobel winner Harold Pinter asks, "How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer?"

Books

The Fix

Nicole dumped? Brad refused? Trump a breast man? Plus: Kate Moss plays blame game.

Arts & Entertainment

A victory for Mumia

A court rules that Mumia Abu-Jamal can appeal his murder conviction on three separate grounds

News

Condi's trail of lies

Condoleezza Rice's contradictory, misleading and outright false statements about the U.S. and torture have taken America's moral standing -- and her own -- to new depths

Opinion

Imagine all the people

Howard Cosell, Jerry Lee Lewis, David Crosby, Kate Millett, Timothy Leary, Geraldo Rivera and others recall their encounters with John Lennon, who died 25 years ago today

Arts & Entertainment

Beyond the Multiplex

The most important political documentary of the decade suggests that terrorism is a dark fantasy -- and there's no such thing as al-Qaida

Arts & Entertainment

Since you asked ...

We're married, but do we have to live together?

Life

Tom the Dancing Bug

"Intelligent Design to the Rescue" -- or, "Hey, Are Those Designer Genes?"

Comics

The mafia, the coup and the murder

The authors respond to David Talbot's review of "Ultimate Sacrifice"

Books

The Fix

Kidman's sister slips up. Spears' husband blowing through the bucks? Plus: Oprah's "Color Purple" getting big green

Arts & Entertainment

Love your enemies

Peace activist Tom Fox has lived in Baghdad by the words of Jesus. Now he faces murder by terrorists. Was his mission in vain?

News

Coach

Afraid he'd blow it, my ex-husband didn't want to coach our daughter. He changed his mind -- and we all won

Mistress of horror

With her creepy, suspenseful stories of desperate people in tight situations, Rachel Ingalls could be the next Patricia Highsmith

Books

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