Are Lawyers Running America?
Their lawsuits are setting policy on guns, tobacco and now HMOs. Who elected them?

Richard ("Dickie") Scruggs
A Fighter Pilot Goes To Court

In This Episode of Survivor... (Nation/Campaign 2000)
Dubya and Al decide who's exiled and who's Veep. It's all about hanging on

Take Note of Bob Graham (Nation/Campaign 2000)
Could Florida's popular Senator be Al Gore's Veep?

Rick Lazio And The Art Of Fighting Nice (Public Eye)
Is Hillary's rival in peril of pleasing all the people too much of the time?


A Reason to Drink Slowly
A new breed of cult wines is changing the status quo, vexing wine snobs and garnering record prices

No Doctor Required
The FDA may expand the number of prescription drugs it converts to over-the-counter use

Power's Surge
Unexpected brownouts and price hikes are the by-products of deregulation

Chocolate's Darker Side (Business/Annals of Indulgence)


He Builds With A Really Tough Material: Paper (Design/Innovators/Architecture)

Irony Is Dead. Long Live Irony (On The Web) (The Arts/Online)
The snide tradition of disrespecting media and movie stars is thriving on delightfully sardonic sites

Omerta (The Arts/Short Takes/Books)
Mario Puzo

The Wisdom of Crocodiles (The Arts/Short Takes/Cinema)
Directed by Po Chih Leong

Drawn and Quarterly, Vol. 3: (The Arts/Short Takes/Comics)

Country Grammar (The Arts/Short Takes/Music)
Nelly

Riding With The King (The Arts/Short Takes/Music)
B.B. King and Eric Clapton

City of Dreams (The Arts/Short Takes/Online)
www.scifi.com, beginning July 10

Who Killed Atlanta's Children? (The Arts/Short Takes/Television)
Showtime, July 16, 8 p.m. E.T.

Harry's Is Back Again (The Arts/Books)
The hype, praise wizards, can subside. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is worth the wait

All-Around Losers (The Arts/Cinema)
Buck wants Chuck, but you shouldn't want either of them

Portraits of a Vanished Era (The Arts/Cinema)
The upper class suffers swankily in Time Regained

Off to the Races (The Arts/Music)
With the fiercely intelligent CD White Pony, Deftones makes a strong bid to go the distance


Kick the TV Habit (Personal Time/Your Family)
My daughter and I unplugged our set, and we've rediscovered the joys of music, cards and talk

In Brief (Personal Time/Your Family)

Hot-Flash Relief (Personal Time/Your Health)
The list of alternatives to hormone-replacement therapy keeps growing. What's a woman to do?

Your Health (Personal Time/Your Health)

Unmaking Book (Personal Time/Your Technology)
Are hardbound libraries doomed? One look at the new color SoftBook changed my mind

In Brief (Personal Time/Your Technology)

Democrat...or Boss?
Unrest may force Indonesia's whimsical President Wahid to choose between ideals and authority


The Empty Crib (Crime)
How an adoption matchmaker gave hope to 44 couples, then snatched it back

All in the Family Jewels (Sport)
Now that Venus has her own Grand Slam title, the Williams sisters are set to dominate women's tennis

Dueling Darlings (Sport)
Fencing, a staple of old movies and Shakespeare, has found a soft spot among the 'N Sync set

Big Al Can Cut It (Sydney 2000)
Alison Dunlap didn't make it in soccer--but as a mountain biker she could be a world beater

Look Out, It's Voucher Man (Education)
A California tycoon is betting $20 million that he can persuade voters to turn education upside down

Be A Cop. Write Your Own Ticket (Law)
With officers in short supply, recruiters hit the highway

The Spokane Murders (Crime)
Death after death, even a survivor, produced few clues in the hunt for a predator of prostitutes until hard detective work led to a 1977 Corvette


The French Are On A Roll (Time Select/Global Business)
Despite a legacy of government control and fusty leadership, France is starting to thrive in the era of global competition

He's Having A Mall (Time Select/Americans Abroad)
J.W. (Joe) Kaempfer, a Washington developer, is bringing discount culture to the staid commercial enclaves of Europe

Business, Too Close To Home (Time Select/Global Business)
Passing a family-owned firm to the next generation can be emotional and require legal planning and financial finesse

Cooking Up An E-VAT? (Time Select/Global Business)
The European Commission wants to tax things sold on the Web by foreign firms, but can the proposal work in a virtual world?

Focus on Prohibitive Health-Care Costs (Time Select/Global Business)
Government help may be on the way for small-business owners who cannot provide their employees with adequate benefit

Japan's Weird Science (Time Select/Global Business)
Constrained by a system that discourages creativity, inventors struggle to stay on the cutting edge of technological innovation

More Than Hot Air (Time Select/Global Business)
Six decades after the Hindenburg disaster, giant Zeppelins could soon become commercially viable once again

A Good Therapist Might Help (Time Select/Global Business/Business Psychology)

The Big Issues for Small Concerns (Time Select/Politics and Small Business)
Listen up, candidates. Small-business owners hate excessive regulations, taxes, red tape, health-care costs