GOOFING OFF

IRS employees are goofing off online

ROBED RULERS

The Supreme Court waited for the last moment before summer adjournment to issue its most controversial cultural and political decisions.

What a waste

America Online created a furor with a program available to the public only for a few hours.

Report card

Fourth-graders made progress, but eighth-graders plateaued and 12th-graders lost ground in reading

Subsidized radicals

Taxpayers are subsidizing anti-Americanism on university campuses

Testy establishment

Education reformers are increasingly critical of the current teacher-certification system

ER=Emergency relief

The embattled Franklin Graham sends aid to Iraq despite a welter of hand-wringing over what it will do to Muslim-Christian relations

Games networks play

Will red-blooded American males watch a cable channel dedicated to video games?

Digital dominance

If your VCR is gathering dust, it's not the only one.