Maria Weiskott, Editor-in-Chief I heard a great piece of advice the other day while watching one of those 'talking head' shows on TV. You know the kind of show I mean. The program has a host, and a panel of guests who...

The house stands as it has For 34 years, nothing moving Behind the 3 identical windows, The 2 larger ones at the bottom. No car has driven up to The white, tree-shaded garage, No wind rustles the trees,...

Justin Wilson admits he's going to have to pay a bit more attention now that Champ Car has adopted the standing start. "I saw the lights go out and I thought, 'I'm meant to do something now,'" he joked after the inaugural race to use...

Tony Stewart was fined $25,000 and docked 25 points by NASCAR on Tuesday for cursing during his television interview after his win at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.Stewart, who had just scored his second victory in three years at his hometown race track, was soaking up the...

In 1980, America dies for its sins (pollution of both landscape and spirit) in a shifting antigen plague leaked from some cavern of government-sponsored biological warfare. But the purge leaves certain issues of good and evil unresolved. In The Stand, Stephen King divides the survivors up like tiddledywinks into two camps, one devoted to good …, the other to the devil. Will it be Walden III or the Fourth Reich? In the panorama of mass disaster—and with such moral freight to consider—Kin...

Stephen King has been writing very good and very scary novels and short stories for a number of years now. The Stand is something of a departure for him. This is not to suggest that it is not good, or, in its own way, scary. But the word which best describes it is one not heard much today outside of English classrooms: epic. Another word should also be resurrected too, this one out of the dusty tomes of Biblical scholarship: apocalyptic…. [He sets the stage] for a conflict, and in reference to that s...