Opinion: Stem Cells, Tom Cruise and Yoga: Thursday’s Page

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Thursday’s musings:

James Traub:The Bosnia Excuse
France is using the U.N. debacle to shirk its peacekeeping duty in Lebanon.

Patt Morrison: We can all just get along without this
Why a satire about the 1992 riot crashed and burned at the box office.

Eve Conant: Yoga Goes to War
Sailors and soldiers are seeking enlightenment in uniform. Are tow-truck drivers and Wall Street traders next?

Jonah Goldberg: Wal-Mart Drives Democrats Batty
The left’s dunderheaded broadsides at the nation’s biggest employer.

Editorials

Never Enough on Stem Cells
Scientists should stop trying to appease religious conservatives about research those critics will never support.

Shocking Honesty vs. Tom Cruise
Megastar receives that rarest of Hollywood artifacts — a very public dismissal.

Muddling Mullahs
Trying to decode Iran’s puzzling response to the nuclear ultimatum.