Who Lost the WMD?
As the weapons hunt intensifies, so does the finger pointing. A preview of the coming battle

How Much Diversity Do You Want From Me? (Essay)
If affirmative action means having to speak for your minority, it's asking a lot

How The Supremes Redeemed Bush (In The Arena)

The War That Never Ends (Iraq/Occupation)
As each day passes in Iraq, more coalition soldiers die. How much of the killing is organized, and can the U.S. stop it?

A Yea For Gays
The Supreme Court scraps sodomy laws, setting off a hot debate

Bush's Brigadier of Bucks
How Jack Oliver, a little-known 34-year-old from Missouri, is managing the most formidable cash machine in American political history

It's No Big Deal


The IRS Takes on Saddam's Kin
TIME exclusive: Under interrogation, the dictator's half brother and financial mastermind, Barzan Tikriti, speaks out against the regime he served and gives U.S. investigators leads on where to find what may be billions of dollars in assets he helped hide


Will This Experiment Work?
A biotech executive with a rare gene for profitability wants to discipline an often rowdy industry

Doing Business in a Box
Many donors to USAgain think they're giving to the poor, but the firm sells the clothes that it collects


Bzzzz ... Slap!
Hot weather is mosquito weather, and this summer ought to bring a storm of the bugs-carrying a nasty virus with them


Ladies Who Lunge (Movies)
Two big chick-flick sequels want to tell us about empowerment. But only one knows what to say

Beyond Nashville's Limits (Television)
With fare like country docu Lost Highway, cable channel Trio builds buzz by catering to critics

How Does it All End Again? (Movies)
With a bang in T3 and an evil virus in 28 Days Later

Life on the Long Gray Line (Books)
David Lipsky spent four years at West Point, studying its fascinating "huah" subculture

Trading Faces (Television)
With a snip here and a nip there, makeover shows tap into the belief that changing how you look can change who you are

A Ritual for All Ages (Religion)
Once marginal, adult Bar and Bat Mitzvahs are enriching the more liberal branches of Judaism

Leaving Your Values Behind (Living)

What a Way to Go (Living)
Death-defying rites are making funerals more personal and — dare we say it? — more fun


Letters (Letters)

California Scheming

Can We Still Be Friends?

Dems, With Sprinkles

How We Rediscovered a Founding Father (To Our Readers)

Milestones

Numbers

People (People)

Performance Of The Week

Shooting Up Legally Up North

The Price Of Peacekeeping? Too High

Verbatim


The Haute Dog Craze

Labor Pains (Your Time/Health)

More Than Just Olive Oil (Your Time/Health)
The benefits of Mediterranean diets are real, but you can't drizzle them on

Prostate-Cancer Prevention — with Risks (Your Time/Health)

Who Needs Med School? (Your Time/Health)

Looking For a Bounce (Your Time/Money)
Wall Street is flogging preferred stocks. Be careful what you buy

Bargains From The Sky

Express Divorce
Splitting up can be faster and cheaper online, but is it the right way for you?

Lights, Camera, Chat

Summer Stats

A Multiracial Primer (Your Time/60-Second synopsis)