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Articles in July 1, 2002 issue of Insight on the News

• Could the United States learn budgetary lesson from abroad?
  by Hans S. Nichols
• New importance not ideal: a remake of Oscar Wilde's beguiling comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, is just that … too earnest
  by Gary Arnold
• Grading the graders creates uproar
  by John Elvin
• A letter from the editor
  by Paul M. Rodriguez
• Enron money trail remains cold; despite testimony from a litany of federal regulators, high-finance heavy hitters and principals of the former energy giant, billions of dollars remain unaccounted for
  by Kelly Patricia O'Meara
• Activists greening all that glitters
  by John Elvin
• Reviewer turns a deaf ear to evils behind communist rap
  by L. Brent Bozell, III
• Reps. Barr, Linder running gentlemanly race on the up-and-up
  by Hans S. Nichols
• Waves of discontent on the water front: U.S. municipalities planning to turn their water utilities over to foreign multinational monopolies should look to Cochabamba, Bolivia, to see what can go wrong
  by Sheila R. Cherry
• And now, Osama sings his take on `twist and shout'
  by John Elvin
• Reader laments the tragic loss of a favorite writer
  by Paul Goodson
• Audit crisis casts pall over Wall Street; in the wake of Enron and other financial-reporting scandals, investors and regulators are clamoring for government to legislate better bookkeeping practices
  by Jamie Dettmer
• Deciphering tropical cyclones: it's hurricane season, and scientists continue to search for the cold, hard facts about these fearsome storms
  by Lidia Wasowicz
• U.N. treaty's agenda is hidden behind skirt of women's issues
  by Janice Shaw Crouse
• Nudists strut their stuff on lawns but lose spot on beach
  by Stephen Goode
• What's at the heart of FBI failures? Experts contend an FBI culture epitomized by a lack of accountability and risk aversion must be overhauled before the bureau truly can help win the war on terror
  by Martin Edwin Andersen
• Welfare state apparently looking to boost its population
  by John Elvin
• CIA, FBI find plenty of blame to go around
  by Jamie Dettmer
• The sneaky side of Orville Redenbacher
  by Stephen Goode
• Critics aren't high on federal weed; patients, activists and a California politician are taking `pot' shots at the quality of marijuana being grown on government farms for use in medical-research studies
  by Timothy W. Maier
• Did you know?
  by John Elvin
• What the ACLU doesn't want you to know
  by Ralph De Toledano
• Taxpayers getting drilled on Florida lease deal
  by Sean Paige
• River run: Larry Rivers paints with a wry wit on display in a retrospective of his work
  by Stephen Goode
• Mark my words … I mean what I say
  by John Elvin
• Stanford likely smart enough to separate football, religion
  by James M. Newton
• NAS' call to action; nearly 300 academics and others met recently at the annual conference of the National Association of Scholars. Topping the agenda were the dangers of political correctness to the American academy and academic self-absorption in time o
  by Stephen Goode
• Old jerseys are the 'now' thing
  by Eric Fisher
• Connerly leads fight to establish color-blind society
  by Deroy Murdock
• Photo radar catches up with Canadian government
  by Russ Walsh
• Dollars and sense
  by Sean Paige
• When there's no will …: it's never too early for estate planning, especially when adult children are involved
  by Alexandra Rockey Fleming
• Rothman wary of shift in culture; scholar Stanley Rothman says there has been a change in society and a breakdown in the social order that one day will turn around, but he does not know when
  by Stephen Goode
• Those who play by the rules simmer over Hanssen deal
• Defending the homeland
  by Jennifer G. Hickey
• Beyond bobbleheads: sports-related patents have yielded the creative detritus of our athletics-crazed age
  by Patrick Hruby
• Symposium
  by Bob Chase