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Articles in August 12, 2002, issue of Insight on the News

• Town elects to defy feds and save itself
  by Sean Paige
• Re: plays: a little festival in West Virginia presents big new plays, while a New York theater company stages a rare drama by John O'Hara
  by T.L. Ponick
• Symposium
  by Kathleen B. Deoul
• Rossotti and the IRS continue to raise suspicions of readers
• Pentagon getting set to undergo plastic surgery
  by Sean Paige
• Bush and the GOP gain with black voters: although most African-Americans still describe themselves as Democrats
  by Stephen Dinan
• Media manufacture cloud of suspicion over Hatfill
  by Nicholas Stix
• `Wahhabi Lobby' is revealed as propaganda machine
• On the legislative warpath
  by Jennifer G. Hickey
• Will baseball strike out? Players could stage a walkout in mid-August in a pre-emptive protest against possible work rule changes by the owners at the end of the season
  by Mark Zuckerman
• Arming airline pilots appears to be lesser of two dangers
  by Thomas Sowell
• Media betray truth in their pursuit of political correctness
  by Dean L. Carter
• Tax-code trauma: experts contend that simplifying the U.S. tax code would do more to cut down on corporate-accounting chicanery than the introduction of still more regulations and criminal penalties
  by John Berlau
• Lawyers in paradise: Mississippi has a reputation as a haven for trial lawyers pursuing mega-lawsuits. Businessmen, doctors and insurers are seeking reform, particularly caps on damages
  by Tim Lemke
• Clinton ignored Iraqi links to Oklahoma City
  by Ralph R. Reiland
• A letter from the editor
  by Paul M. Rodriguez
• `Party of Principle' gaining ground: once an afterthought on the U.S. political landscape, the Libertarian Party steadily has increased both in numbers and influence since its founding 30 years ago
  by Dorene Englert
• NPR apology unacceptable to Christian-values group
  by John Elvin
• The high honor of being a homemaker
  by Suzanne Fields
• Color the universe `cosmic latte'
  by Stephen Goode
• PRC arms itself to wage war on U.S.: China's acquisition of cruise-missile weapons systems from Russia poses a clear and present danger to U.S. naval forces—and to the American homeland as well
  by Zoli Simon
• Farrakhan denies he called for an Iraqi victory
  by John Elvin
• America is a nation of laws, but these are ridiculous!
  by Stephen Goode
• Church explores `hard change': seeking to repair its severely damaged reputation and begin the healing process, the Catholic Church takes steps to implement a nationwide policy on sexual abuse
  by Jennifer G. Hickey
• Collectors treasure dot-com stock notes
  by John Elvin
• Will Congress fund school drug tests?
  by Hans S. Nichols
• Can U.S. afford citizen diplomats? When career professionals at the State Department become too precious to do the job, the presidential appointees can shine brilliantly. But, alas, not always
  by Martin Edwin Andersen
• Mark my words … I mean what I say
  by John Elvin
• Boehner holding up vote on union dues
  by Hans S. Nichols
• Antitax activists win pricey victory: Tennesseans have in a long and contentious battle avoided imposition of a state income tax, but the cost of victory is the largest tax increase in state history
  by Tony Hays
• Jacobson converts faith into action; why Jim Jacobson of Christian Freedom International delivers the Word of God and a gospel of self-reliance to Christians persecuted in any corner of the world
  by Hans S. Nichols
• Political data through the ages
  by Hans S. Nichols
• Austria confronts its dark Nazi past: as a government commission prepares to release an inventory of property stolen from Jews by the Nazis, a new tide of anti-Semitism is sweeping the country
  by Kenneth R. Timmerman
• Being fruitful: some evangelicals now view large families as a divine command
  by Robert Stacy McCain