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25 most recent entries:

Killing by the numbers

(May 09 2008 11:10 GMT)
In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq?

"Speed Racer"

(May 09 2008 11:01 GMT)
You know a movie's heading nowhere fast when even its monkey doesn't make you laugh.

"What Happens in Vegas"

(May 09 2008 11:00 GMT)
This Ashton Kutcher-Cameron Diaz romantic comedy needs fewer sunsets and more lap dances and tequila shooters.

Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?

(May 09 2008 10:55 GMT)
Hillary's reckless exploitation of racial division could split the Democratic Party over race -- a tragic legacy for the Clintons.

Is everything we know about American history wrong?

(May 09 2008 10:43 GMT)
Forget the Pilgrims. America's roots are older and more twisted, what Tony Horwitz calls a "primoridal slime of false starts and mutations."

I hit my sister in the head with my purse when I drink

(May 09 2008 10:38 GMT)
I feel trapped in wifehood and motherhood and sisterhood; I lash out; I become a monster.

Guns and water coolers in Iraq

(May 09 2008 10:30 GMT)
U.S. soldiers drink water, lots of it, in scorching hot Baghdad. Plus, patrolling the streets with a less than disciplined Iraqi army squad.

TV Daily

(May 09 2008 10:00 GMT)
Friday/weekend: The creators of "Battlestar Galactica" take the show to a whole new level of uneasiness. Plus: What did you think of "Planet of the Apes" on Thursday?

Ask the pilot: What's behind the recent rise in runway near misses?

(May 09 2008 10:00 GMT)
Chances are you've come across one or more recent stories about the marked rise in so-called runway incursions at airports across America. That's a euphemism for when a plane or other vehicle erroneously enters or crosses a runway without permission from air traffic control, setting up a potential collision hazard. In FAA-speak, it is "

WayLay

(May 09 2008 09:29 GMT)
The Thing Under the Futon grapples with fame.

Spurs hold Paul to 35, win

(May 09 2008 09:00 GMT)
San Antonio's big three get together to overcome the Hornets' budding superstar and make it a series.

Double shot of gloom for indie fans

(May 08 2008 20:15 GMT)
Leading film-blogger Glenn Kenny is out at Premiere; Warner Bros. to fold its Picturehouse and Warner Independent subsidiaries.

Building a road from Bollywood to dullsville

(May 08 2008 19:50 GMT)
How can a gorgeous-looking movie about an adulterous interracial affair in 1930s India be so boring? Plus: The amazing Juliet Stevenson, sex symbol at age 51.

A star is born (at age 51)

(May 08 2008 16:23 GMT)
As a married woman meeting her ex-lover 25 years later, Juliet Stevenson transforms a Lifetime-level middle-aged rom-com into delirious comic magic.

Clinton: "I am in this race"

(May 08 2008 11:53 GMT)
Protesters disrupt her fundraiser, money is dwindling -- and undecided superdelegates tell Salon they see the end in sight. But Hillary Clinton powers on.

I don't want to go to my college friend's wedding

(May 08 2008 10:50 GMT)
Can't we just send a gift? It's seven hours away and we really dread going.

The Iraq movie we've been waiting for

(May 08 2008 10:43 GMT)
Nick Broomfield's pulse-pounding "Battle for Haditha" turns the infamous 2005 civilian massacre into a haunting classic about the inhumanity of war.

NCAA academic penalties flunk sniff test

(May 08 2008 10:30 GMT)
The big sports money's in the big conferences and the big classroom underachievers aren't?

Tom the Dancing Bug

(May 08 2008 10:24 GMT)
Nate the Neoconservative: Give me an inch, I'll take your yard.

Addicted to "Intervention"

(May 08 2008 10:22 GMT)
Why can't I stop watching the bleakest show on television? Because it's the only way I've found to cope with my mother dying.

What does Hillary want?

(May 08 2008 10:18 GMT)
What would it take for Clinton to concede defeat? An insider remembers -- and draws lessons from -- the backroom deals that ended another brutal, racially charged Democratic slugfest.

Obama Veepstakes

(May 08 2008 10:04 GMT)
The Illinois senator says, "Yes, we can," but he won't make it to the White House without the right running mate. Which veep would you pick?

TV Daily

(May 08 2008 10:00 GMT)
Thursday: Relive the glory that is "Planet of the Apes." Plus: What did you think of "Top Chef" on Wednesday?

Clinton Veepstakes

(May 08 2008 10:00 GMT)
Should the former presumptive front-runner beat the odds and secure the Democratic nomination, which veep candidate is her key to the Oval Office?

NBA coach caught coaching

(May 07 2008 20:30 GMT)
Mike those guys up long enough, they just might say something interesting.

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