The Christian Science Monitor back issues from July 2005:
Political Bias in College Classes.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: The Monitor's View Debates on intellectual diversity, academic freedom, and support for pluralism routinely convulse college and university campuses like periodic tremors along a geologic fault line. This is a normal and healthy trait of higher education. But ...
China's Subsidized Shopping.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: The Monitor's View One good buying spree deserves another, and since Americans are snatching up Chinese goods with gusto, what's wrong with China using profits from those billions in sales to, say, buy a large US oil company? Not much, if it were strictly a ...
Museums by the foot; Art institutions are expanding gallery space and providing better amenities, but are they also taxing visitors' endurance?(FEATURES)(ARTS)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Kim Campbell Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NEW YORK -- If you've been looking for a way to get a workout and enjoy fine art at the same time, lace up your sneakers and head to a museum. Cultural buildings in the United States are being ...
Tug of war over Stratford mission.(FEATURES)(ARTS)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Gregory M. Lamb Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor STRATFORD, ONTARIO -- Each spring when the snows of another Canadian winter recede, Stratford, Ontario, springs to life again like Brigadoon. The busy commercial city of 50,000, about midway between Detroit ...
From Asia, two unusual stories; Avant-garde styles shape 'The World' and 'Tropical Malady.'.(FEATURES)(ARTS)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: David Sterritt Film critic of The Christian Science Monitor Asian imports are having a strong week on American screens with "The World," a Chinese drama, and "Tropical Malady," from a Thai filmmaker. "The World" seems like a grandiose title, but it's really ...
Movie Guide.(FEATURES)(ARTS)
Jul 01, 2005 ... NEW RELEASES The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Not rated) Director: Jacques Audiard. With Romain Duris, Aure Atika, Jonathan Zaccaie, Linh Dan Pham. (107 min.) Sterritt **** Inspired by the 1978 thriller "Fingers," this superbly acted thriller focuses on an ...
From amateur to Pops star in just 60 days.(FEATURES)(ARTS)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Liza Weisstuch Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor If at first you don't succeed, wait a year and audition again. That was the philosophy of Frances Botelho-Hoeg, an amateur singer who beat out hundreds of competitors in a contest to sing with the Boston Pops ...
Tuning in: What's On TV this week.(FEATURES)(ARTS)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: M.S. Mason Saturday July 2 Time Warp Trio (NBC, 10:30 a.m.): Joe, Sam, and Fred travel through time to learn about history via a magic book. Buried among the jokes in the animated series are plenty of interesting factoids that will help prompt an interest in ...
'Deep impact' on life itself; Bringing a spiritual perspective to daily life.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jul 01, 2005 ... In the United States, the Fourth of July is known for its pop, bang, and sizzle, but this year pyrotechnics of different proportions will usher in Independence Day. That morning at 1:52 a.m. EDT, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will hurl an 816-pound projectile to intercept with ...
A childhood longing for secret places.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Robert Klose The only lament I have ever had about my old house here in Maine is that it lacks for secret places. I didn't feel this loss at first, when I lived alone. But when I adopted a 7-year-old boy back in 1993, his activities pointed out for me the importance of ...
Now you know.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Quick! What state in the continental US is the farthest north? On most maps, it sure looks as though it's Maine - but it isn't. The Northwest Angle of Minnesota is the only part of the lower 48 states that juts above the 49th parallel. "The angle," as locals call it, was created by an 1818 ...
Mebbe gonna hafta get useta 'gotta'.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Ruth Walker What a relief to be able to cross something off my list of worries: I've decided that "gonna," "gotta," and similar colloquial forms, known as "reductions" or "elisions," are not necessarily threats to civilization as we know it. I've been ...
How can the West help Africa? A global Q&A.(WORLD)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Saturday, 10 cities around the world will host some of pop music's biggest names as part of the "Live 8" concert series (www.live8live.com). Organizer Bob Geldof hopes large turnouts will pressure the Group of Eight (G-8) industrialized nations, meeting in Scotland next week, to help put ...
How Iran's reformers lost their political way.(WORLD)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor TEHRAN, IRAN -- The Nobel Peace Prize winner could not be more emphatic about the election that swept Iran's hard-liners into the president's office a week ago. "Nothing has changed in Iran," says ...
Lance Armstrong's final race may be his hardest; The cycling legend's quest for an unprecedented 7th victory in the Tour de France begins Saturday.(WORLD)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Peter Ford Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor PARIS -- Just one more race. That's all Lance Armstrong has left in his storied cycling career. But with retirement a month away, Armstrong's final ride in the saddle could be his toughest. Standing in ...
Israel confronts its extremists; In the second day of clashes with protesters, the Israeli army Thursday declared Gaza a closed military zone and forcibly removed about 150 Jewish extremists.(WORLD)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Joshua Mitnick Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor NEVE DEKALIM, GAZA -- In a surprise evacuation that served as a precursor to Israel's planned evacuation of Gaza this summer, Israeli forces overwhelmed some 150 diehard opponents of the withdrawal Thursday ...
Reporters on the Job.(WORLD)
Jul 01, 2005 ... * Disengagement Glimpsed : The closure of the Gaza Strip Thursday was triggered by a group of Israeli activists who had set up camp in an abandoned seaside hotel (see story). Correspondent Joshua Mitnick had been following the group for two weeks, and went to interview the occupants of the ...
Charges of corruption dog two Southeast Asian democracies; Filipino President Arroyo rebuffs calls for her resignation. Her husband went into exile Thursday.(WORLD)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Simon Montlake Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor BANGKOK, THAILAND -- Fresh allegations of election graft are hounding the leaders of two of Southeast Asia's more robust democracies. In the Philippines, President Gloria Arroyo faces calls to ...
Letters.(OPINION)(Letter to the Editor)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Bolton nomination: Do Americans want UN reform? In response to the June 22 article "Bush faces hard choices over Bolton": What is concerning to me in the Bolton nomination is the absence of any recognition of the damage to the US image in the world today. This ...
The real meaning of July 4: Power belongs to the people.(OPINION)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Derek Maul TAMPA, FLA. -- As an American by choice rather than birth, I must confess to my growing concern that the 1776 declaration may not mean what it once did to those keepers of the trust who inhabit government today. July 4 serves as a frank invitation ...
Is it too early to say 'no more Iraqs' ?(OPINION)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Daniel Schorr WASHINGTON -- V-E Day plus 60 years ... Vietnam plus 30 years ... now Iraq ... One stares at the calendar and searches for lessons to be learned. One lesson is the danger of falling into the "analogy trap" ... making new mistakes while trying to ...
Give our warriors a raise!(OPINION)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Jeffrey Shaffer PORTLAND, ORE. -- I should have written this column a long time ago. It's embarrassing to admit, but I allowed myself to believe that a preposterous situation was normal until a voice in my head suddenly exclaimed, "Hey, wait a minute!" Our ...
Rehnquist's court, but liberals gain; The just-finished term yielded a string of rulings that set back conservatives.(USA)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Warren Richey Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- If constitutional interpretation were race-car driving, the US Supreme Court term that ended this week would be notable more for applying the brakes than hitting the accelerator. Two key ...
NASA bombs a comet - for science; Researchers hope impact will provide vital clues to the solar system's history.(USA)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Peter N. Spotts Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Hours before July 4th skyrockets burst into sparkling showers, NASA plans a celestial display of its own. Around 1:52 a.m. East Coast time, a dishwasher-size projectile from the agency's Deep ...
Mood in Mid-America.(USA)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Mark Sappenfield Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor GOODLAND, KAN. -- Around here, Ivan Parks and his wife are almost synonymous with summertime celebrations. Their Sno-Cones have been the salvation of overworked high-school football teams up in Nebraska and ...
A church's struggle over gay marriage; The United Church of Christ - famous for setting precedent - considers backing same-sex marriage at its national synod.(USA)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Jane Lampman Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor As a federal constitutional amendment on marriage garners growing public support, one American Protestant church could soon go against the grain. During its national synod, which begins Friday in ...
Costs of care for veterans: high and rising; A $1 billion shortfall in veterans' healthcare serves as a warning of the price to come, when troops return home.(USA)
Jul 01, 2005 ... Byline: Brad Knickerbocker Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be much on the minds of their countrymen this Independence Day weekend. Marching in town parades. Lauded in speeches. But the pride and the ...
G-8 Needs an Identity Check.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: The Monitor's View More than 30 years ago - before the G-8 summit turned into a spectacle of protesters, police, media, and heads of government with a vast entourage - finance officials from a clutch of six industrialized countries met under the moniker of the "library ...
Justice O'Connor's Long Shadow.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: The Monitor's View Before the president proposes a Supreme Court candidate to replace Sandra Day O'Connor, he might want to recall key lessons of her 24 years on the bench. Merely by being the first woman on the court, she furthered the idea that a greater ...
Before computers, there were these humans... Looked on as drudges, human computers spat out calculations for decades.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book Review)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Gregory M. Lamb For two centuries they were the blue collar workers of science, mental laborers who could grind out logarithms as efficiently as other factory workers turned out pins. A large percentage of them were women. Though male scientists deemed creative ...
An Ohio printer turned literary star; How William Dean Howells became one of Boston's elite.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book Review)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Robert Manning When, in July 1871, a Princeton University professor asked William Dean Howells for biographic information, Howells responded: "I was born at Martin's Ferry, ... Ohio on the 1st of March 1837 .... I learned the printing business in my father's ...
A tiny town in Alaska is her world; A small-town obit writer meditates on the interesting lives of those around her.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book Review)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Francine Kiefer When I worked for a metro newspaper in California, a friend once remarked that he regularly read the obituary page. Because he was a senior citizen, I assumed he was on the alert for friends and acquaintances. How wrong I was! He loved to read ...
A political thriller by Caspar Weinberger? Reagan's Defense secretary tries his hand at fiction.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book Review)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Brad Knickerbocker A few pages into "Chain of Command," I thought to myself, "Oh no, a poor man's Tom Clancy, and I've still got 350 cliche-laden pages to go." But after a few more rat-a-tat chapters (typically just two or three pages apiece), I was hooked ....
The life of 'the man of a thousand faces'; A new biography examines the talent - and torment - of Alec Guinness.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book Review)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Tony Vellela In the early days of his career, legendary stage and screen actor Alec Guinness played the lead in a 1938 experimental production of "Hamlet" at the Old Vic. One critic praised the novice, noting: "This young actor is obviously not trying any of the things ...
Bush faces tough choice to fill Supreme Court vacancy; Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is the name mentioned most often, but his selection would not please Bush's conservative base.(WEB)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Linda Feldmann Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- For social conservatives, long active in Republican politics, the moment of truth has finally arrived: a chance to move the US Supreme Court to the right, particularly on abortion, gay rights, and ...
Sandra Day O'Connor announces retirement; Conservatives hope to use opportunity to shift Supreme Court further to the right.(WEB)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Warren Richey Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- The retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor, the nation's first woman Supreme Court justice, presents President Bush and his social conservative supporters with the best opportunity in 14 years to ...
The unity that is already European; Bringing a spiritual perspective to daily life.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jul 05, 2005 ... The French voted "non," the Dutch, "nee." In response to these referenda results, the European Union (EU) has agreed to pause for reflection on its journey toward a constitution. In the meantime, the British government - about to take over the EU presidency - has announced an aim to push ...
Flower power: Press your own bouquets; Collecting, pressing, and arranging flowers was very popular in the 1800s. Today, the Victorian-style art is making a comeback.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Lesley Bannatyne World-famous 19th-century musician Clara Schumann pressed flowers between the pages of her diary. She collected delicate blossoms, tiny twigs of deep-green pine, and feathery ferns. She carefully labeled each one so she could recall the people and events ...
Aceh works to recover jobs washed away.(WORLD)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Scott Baldauf and Andy Nelson BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA -- The rain is falling furiously on the tin roof of Alamsyah's scrap-wood house. He is quiet, staring out a window, his mind racing in a hundred directions. What does he do if the nearby river overflows its ...
Ahead of G-8 summit, protests in high gear.(WORLD)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Peter Ford Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor PARIS -- Gleneagles, a luxury hotel set amid fabled golf links deep in the Scottish countryside, is a good place to get away from it all. The Group of Eight (G-8) leaders of the world's most ...
Anti-Chavez leader under fire; Maria Corina Machado is due in court Wednesday on treason charges.(WORLD)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Mike Ceaser Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor CARACAS, VENEZUELA -- Maria Corina Machado doesn't hesitate when asked her feelings about the possibility of going to prison for up to 28 years for "treason to the nation" and conspiracy. "I'm scared, ...
Africa looks East for political role models; As Asia becomes a bigger player in Africa, some leaders are copying its vision of 'state' before 'individual.'.(WORLD)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Abraham McLaughlin and Ryan Truscott JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, AND HARARE, ZIMBABWE -- When Zimbabwe's most prominent gadfly, Archbishop Pius Ncube, recently compared his country's president to Pol Pot, the Cambodian dictator responsible for some 2 million deaths in ...
Reporters on the Job.(WORLD)
Jul 05, 2005 ... * Dinner and TV: Monitor photographer Andy Nelson wasn't too surprised, given Acehnese hospitality, to be invited to stay the night by one of the families in this installment of our series, "New Foundations: Two Indonesian Families Rebuild." What he didn't anticipate were the ...
Korean trial puts spotlight on Enron-style corruption; The former head of Daewoo was indicted Friday on charges amounting to $70 billion in accounting fraud.(WORLD)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Donald Kirk Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA -- As Kim Woo Choong awaits trial in one of history's biggest corporate scandals, prosecutors face a nagging question. Should they make an example of Mr. Kim, whose Daewoo group collapsed under ...
Letters.(OPINION)(Letter to the Editor)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Running national labs takes professional management The June 30 Opinion piece, "Los Alamos to Kyoto's rescue," reveals to those of us who have worked at Los Alamos, as well as at Sandia National Laboratories, that the authors are clueless about the situation. ...
Why not an Obama-Romney match-up in 2008?(OPINION)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Godfrey Sperling WASHINGTON -- It's early - but presidential political talk already is all around us. So I ask myself a few questions about the emerging presidential prospects: Will the current favorite of most Democrats, Hillary Clinton, get the party's ...
Sudan: What's wrong with this picture?(OPINION)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: G. Jefferson Price III KHARTOUM, SUDAN -- There's something wrong with this picture. Here in Khartoum, a building boom is under way with plenty of air-conditioned office buildings, wide, freshly paved boulevards, new cars, and a new enormous shopping mall. ...
Senate pact shapes high-court fight; Whether or not the 'Gang of 14' remains unified is a key factor in the fight to replace outgoing Justice O'Connor.(USA)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Gail Russell Chaddock Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- The decision of 14 senators - whether to hold or abandon an agreement to keep the wheels of the judicial appointments moving - is emerging as the wildcard in the looming confirmation fight ...
Noncitizen soldiers: the quandaries of foreign-born troops.(USA)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Patrik Jonsson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor RALEIGH, N.C. -- Stuck in the Iraqi desert, fighting a war for a country not yet his, US Army Sgt. Leopoldo Escartin and other troops at Camp Dogwood hung a bit of home outside their desert-tan tent: the ...
Political factors for Bush as he picks a nominee; His choice for a new Supreme Court justice could help define his legacy.(USA)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Linda Feldmann Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- In a presidency most noteworthy for its wars, George W. Bush now faces a defining moment on a different battlefield: the judiciary. Whomever he nominates to replace the retiring Sandra ...
US lawsuits pursue lost art; Is that a Nazi-plundered masterpiece in your museum? It may not be there for long.(USA)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Randy Dotinga Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor SAN DIEGO -- Growing up as a young boy in Germany, Claude Cassirer had a front seat to the sophisticated culture of prewar Berlin. He'd sit in his grandmother's parlor, soaking in the conversation, the fine ...
Couriers skid across Jersey; Bike messengers love their underground image, but their Olympics is becoming more mainstream.(USA)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Aaron Clark James Newman looks like a statue. He is leaning so far over the handlebars of his single-speed, fixed-gear bicycle that his body is nearly parallel to the ground. Gaze fixed straight ahead, he glides through the center of a boisterous, heavily tattooed crowd ....
The imprint that O'Connor leaves on the high court; The first woman justice, now retiring, has often cast the decisive vote in big cases.(USA)
Jul 05, 2005 ... Byline: Warren Richey Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON -- In 1981, when Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman appointed to the US Supreme Court, she was by no means the most qualified individual in the country for the job. She was not a ...
Africa Ignores a Mote in Its Eye.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Jul 06, 2005 ... Byline: The Monitor's View This is Africa's week on the world stage. It began Saturday with actual stages in many countries where rock stars played up the continent's needs during the "Live-8" concerts. That was followed by an African summit on Monday and Tuesday, and Wednesday ...
Supporting Suffrage in D.C.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
Jul 06, 2005 ... Byline: The Monitor's View Put aside the image of Washington as the country's power center. Instead, think about the people who actually live there. Unlike US citizens in the 50 states, they have no vote in Congress. This isn't exactly a hot-button issue ...
A clearer picture of the digital camera scene.(FEATURES)(LIVING)
Jul 06, 2005 ... Byline: Gregory M. Lamb Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor This may be the Year of the Digital Camera, when what was a high-tech gizmo only a year or two ago is morphing into an ordinary consumer item. By January 2006 more than half of all American households will ...
The artful dodge of housework; More men pitch in to help around the house these days. But women still do more. Will the load ever balance out?(FEATURES)(LIVING)
Jul 06, 2005 ... Byline: Marilyn Gardner Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor When the subject is housework, Anne Ballentine describes her husband, Jeff, as "awesome." He cleans the downstairs of their home in Whitefish Bay, Wis., while she takes care of the upstairs. He does more than ...
If it's July, it must be time for those golden Rainier cherries.(FEATURES)(LIVING)
Jul 06, 2005 ... Byline: Elizabeth Armstrong Moore Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor PORTLAND, ORE. -- The pickers set out at 5 a.m. Even in July the sky is still dark, the orchards are peaceful, and the ground is damp with morning dew. In that first hour the sun will scatter pink ...
What the heartland can offer those on the coasts.(FEATURES)(LIVING)
Jul 06, 2005 ... Byline: Marilyn Gardner OSHKOSH, WIS. -- On County Highway F west of Oshkosh, Wis., a postcard- perfect scene appears on the horizon. A red barn glows in the afternoon sun, and a silver silo reaches for the sky. Two horses graze in the pasture, while another drinks from a tank ....
'It's all good, boss!'; Ethical lapses in high places stem in part from lack of honest feedback.(FEATURES)(COMPASS)
Jul 06, 2005 ... Byline: G. Jeffrey MacDonald Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor At Enron, as at a host of other firms with recently tarnished reputations, those individuals most disgraced in scandal have been the ones once regarded as the smartest in the room. ...
Role-playing helps kids learn moral complexity.(FEATURES)(COMPASS)
Jul 06, 2005 ... Byline: Susan Llewelyn Leach Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor COLEBROOK, CONN. -- "What are ya doin' on my land?" the man growls from the gloom of the dank woods, his boots crunching along the gravel as he approaches. A child holding a flickering oil lamp stops in ...
A good way to waste time online.(WEB)
Jul 06, 2005 ... Byline: Jim Regan csmonitor.com HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA -- The World Wide Web is many things: teacher, meeting place, entertainer, shopping mall, weather forecaster, news source, etc. But first and foremost, the Web is a productivity sink, where even the best-laid plans for ...
Christian healing: Retooling or renewing? Bringing a spiritual perspective to daily life.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jul 06, 2005 ... Over dinner, a new acquaintance and I got on the subject of alternative healing. She's a massage therapist, and, being interested in non- mainstream remedies herself, was curious to know what other forms of alternative healing I'd consider combining with my own approach to healthcare: ...
The homing pigeon that made itself at home.(THE HOME FORUM)
Jul 06, 2005 ... Byline: Judith Farringer Paul I recently received a note from a friend explaining that the home she and her family had made and lived in for the past 30 years was to be dismantled and removed, all because they had established themselves without the requisite permits. It got me ...
What it's like to live on $1 a day; A Malawi family budgets 16 cents for doughnuts.(WORLD)
Jul 06, 2005 ... Byline: Xanthe Scharff Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor BOWA, MALAWI -- At 8 a.m., after seeing her husband off to work and her children off to school, Selina Bonefesi puts on her entrepreneur's hat. Mrs. Bonefesi has a small business making fritters - fried cakes ...