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Articles in Dec 24, 2001 issue of Insight on the News

• Wildlife follies in Montana and topless haircuts in Arkansas
• House of Saud: a house of sand: as internal dissension festers in the kingdom of Arabia, the Saudi royal family straddles the fence between Osama bin Laden/al-Qaeda and the U.S. war on terror
  by Tony Hays
• Lone voice confronts the Peltier myth
  by John Elvin
• Defense first: the national-security team is devoted to dismantling the failed defense policies that came back to haunt America on Sept. 11
  by J. Michael Waller
• History goes uncensored: higher education `plums' new lows in chronicles of classroom bloopers
  by Jennifer Harper
• Focused on terror, U.S. Cannot lose sight of religious liberty
  by Christopher H. Smith
• White put politics before prosecution: critics of departing U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White say she buried the Teamsters scandal and other cases out of concern that the political fallout would hurt her career
  by Kelly Patricia O'Meara
• One Librarian heeds the call to combat
  by John Elvin
• Friendship with first family fortifies franks
  by Jaime Dettmer
• News from Europe: musical about Diana flops; dress for success; `shopping boyfriends'
  by Stephen Goode
• Speaking from behind the veil: a foreign-aid worker's latest book explores the roles and worldviews of rural Afghani women who lived in the shadow of the fundamentalist Taliban regime
  by Diana Ray
• Did you know?
  by John Elvin
• Partisanship rears ugly head
  by Jennifer G. Hickey
• Columbine `Memorial' languishes as parents sue over artwork: Columbine High School officials have rejected some 100 ceramic tiles painted in memory of the victims of the 1999 shootings. Now parents are suing to reinstate the designs
  by Valerie Richardson
• Campbell was beacon of light in darkness of leftist faculties
  by Thomas Sowell
• A letter from the editor
  by Paul M. Rodriguez
• But will the war be on the test? Complaining that the system measures performance by standardized-test scores, teachers are struggling to fit the war in Afghanistan into the crowded curricula
  by Timothy W. Maier
• Website spews hate for Reagan, other conservatives
  by John Elvin
• The enviros: some notes for the record
  by Ralph De Toledano
• No holds `Barr'-ed as Georgia democrats hope to oust key GOP congressman
  by Hans S. Nichols
• Good Work: a trio of psychologists attempt to define good work in difficult times
  by Rex Roberts
• Mark my words … I mean what I say
  by John Elvin
• Federalization of airport security bogging down
  by Sean Paige
• Children's right to be in a family: Advocates of a new global charter believe it's time to revive discussions about the `real' rights of children
  by Cheryl Wetzstein
• Media elites drive wedge between Bush, Powell
  by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
• Redistricting results leave GOP hoping to make gains
  by Hans S. Nichols
• Family matters: how readers react to Bill Bennett's Broken Hearth may determine whether the family can be fixed
  by Suzanne Fields
• Wallis finds faith in battling poverty: editor and author Jim Wallis puts politics aside while ministering to the needs of the lost, left out, hopeless and hungry. He's trying to get America to do the same
  by Stephen Goode
• Forest service fingered for fudging on visitor numbers
  by Sean Paige
• In Idaho, the loggers are losing: Idahoans have watched their lumber industry grind to a halt as environmentalists use the courts to stop logging in national forests. Meanwhile, locals struggle to earn a living
  by Valerie Richardson
• Symposium
  by Thad E. Hall