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Vol. 158 No. 25
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NATION
Rough Justice (Nation/The Law)
The Attorney General has powerful new tools to fight terrorism. Has he gone too far?

Just A Few Questions (Nation/The Interviews)
The Attorney General wants 5,000 Arabs here to come in for a chat. Is this the way to fight terrorism?

A Beating On The Way Back Home (Nation/The Law/Detained)

Israeli Jews In The Dragnet (Nation/The Law/Detained)

Lost In Translation? (Nation/The Law/Detained)


SOCIETY & SCIENCE
Reinventing The Wheel (Technology)
Here "it" is: the inside story of the secret invention that so many are buzzing about. Could this thing really change the world?

Back In The Fast Lane (Sports)
Erik Schlopy had to quit the U.S. ski team to become a better skier. Odd decision. Good choice

Just Cloning Around (Science)
A biological baby step sparks a political backlash


PERSONAL TIME
Why Movies Make Readers (Personal Time/Your Family)
When a book becomes a movie, a child's relationship to the page does not have to suffer. Quite the opposite

In Brief (Personal Time/Your Family)

A Better Way To Give A Heart (Personal Time/Your Health)
Most Americans say they want to donate their organs when they die, but few actually do. Here's one solution

Your Health (Personal Time/Your Health)


TIME BONUS
The TIME/CNN 25 Most Influential (TIME Bonus Section/Your Business/Leadership)

Where Are The Bargains Now? (TIME Bonus Section/Your Business/Forecast)
TIME's board of money managers sees POCKETS OF VALUE in a stock market that still looks expensive by many traditional measures

Suddenly Loyalty Is Back In Business (TIME Bonus Section/Your Business/Management)
Amid the slump, smart companies are boosting profits by cultivating loyalty among workers and customers alike

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WORLD
Hunting Osama (World/The War)
U.S. forces' top goal remains getting al-Qaeda leaders. Smoking them out is not proving easy

Where Did All The Taliban Go? (World/The War/Melting Away)

Inside The Battle At Qala-I-Jangi (World/TIME Exclusive/Qala-I-Jangi)
From a ruined 19th century fortress, correspondent ALEX PERRY records the crushing of a Taliban revolt

Inside The CIA's Covert Forces (World/TIME Exclusive/Qala-I-Jangi)
Death of a young american

How Do They See Us Now? (World/Public Opinion)
Arab media have moderated their anti-U.S. vitriol. But the propaganda war is far from won

Learning To Live With Fear (World/The War/Danger: Afghanistan)

Who's More Arrogant? (Essay)
In Islam vs. the West, what's needed is an examination of conscience on both sides


BUSINESS
Power Failure
As Enron crashes, angry workers and shareholders ask, Where were the firm's directors? The regulators? The stock analysts?


THE ARTS
Survival Of The Fittest (The Arts/Books)
Mario Vargas Llosa's harrowing novel about the brutal reign of the Dominican strong man Trujillo

Drollery And Decolletage (The Arts/Cinema)
The Affair of the Necklace is a delightful trifle

Victory In The Trenches (The Arts/Cinema)
Soldiers, peacekeepers and journalists all come together in the emotionally potent No Man's Land

As Good As Yesterday? (The Arts/Music)
Two of rock's great old war-horses charge off in new directions

G'bye, Garth (The Arts/Music)
He says this album is his last. Is it a fitting epitaph?

Battlefield Promotion (The Arts/Television)
As viewers go for familiar comforts in uncomfortable times, TV's least-cool hit moves up in the ranks

The Royal Physician's Visit (The Arts/Short Takes/Books)
Per Olov Enquist

Ocean's Eleven (The Arts/Short Takes/Cinema)
Directed by Steven Soderbergh

Treasury Of The World (The Arts/Short Takes/Design)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Art Official Intelligence: Bionix (The Arts/Short Takes/Music)
De La Soul

Walking With Prehistoric Beasts (The Arts/Short Takes/Television)
Discovery, Sunday, Dec. 9, 7 p.m.