To recommend Christiane Amanpour's show on religion is like recommending the phone book as the best book to read on the Arab-Israeli conflict. I was driving and heard the first few minutes, and it was sufficient for me to turn the dial to Mr./Ms. Potato Head's happy hour of news. She started her program by saying something like "the same Shari`ah has been dominating in the region for more than a thousand years" or words to that effect. I do enjoy the decline of CNN: not only is it bad politically, but it is most boring. If I have a choice, I watch Fox News--for entertainment value.