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Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. 120 No. 6
Read the Cover StoryNATION
Politics Over Reason
Overcoming the Doubts
Soviet Cards
Tilting Back
Beggar's Banquet
Learning the Preferences and Quirks of Power (The Presidency/Hugh Sidey)
Reagan's Bad Boy Slips Again
Off the Beach
Grass Was Never Greener
Refusing to Say Uncle
Trailer for Hitching (Americana)
Condominiums with a View (Americana)
Golden Guns
Ticket to Oblivion (Americana)
WORLD
Talking Under the Gun
(MIDDLE EAST) Congressional Innocents Abroad
Death Struggle in the Desert
Feuding Fathers of Their Country (MBABWE)
New Strongman (PANAMA)
Cooked Goose (SOUTH AFRICA)
Sky Wars (CHINA)
Haute Heist (FRANCE)
Saved but Still Fearful (FALKLAND ISLANDS)
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Soaring Costs
(Medicine)
SOCIETY
Pizza and Punk on Gorky Street
(Living)
PRESS
Shaking Up the Networks
(COVER STORY) Vicarious Is Not the Word
RELIGION
The Politics of Prayer
Up on Arms
SPORT
Coke and No Smile
BUSINESS
A Big Fight over Tiny Chips
(Economy & Business)
Tempest over a Martini Glass (Economy & Business)
Delving Deeper (Economy & Business)
Bad Old Days (Economy & Business)
No Pepsi, Please (Economy & Business / Dividends)
LAW
Pummeled Post
Self-Help Model
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Big Mac
(Cinema)
Machochists (Cinema)
Slaphappy (Cinema)
Are the Stars Out Tonight? (Show Business)
Latins and Literary Lovers (Books)
Blood Relatives (Books)
Editors'Choice (Books)
Best Sellers (Books / FICTION)
Slain Dragon (Theater)
Oedipus Hex (Theater)
When Eden Was in Suburbia (Video)
MILESTONES
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PEOPLE
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TO OUR READERS
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(A Letter From The Publisher)
LETTERS
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ESSAY
An Amendment That Should Not Pass

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TIME.com's Holiday Gift Guide 2009
Norman Rockwell: The Photographs Behind the Art
Ask Your Questions: NPR's Garrison Keillor
Weekly Acoustic News: Thanksgiving Edition
The Gospel of Glee: Is It Anti-Christian?
Can a Good Guy Fix College Football's Worst Thing?
The Road on Film: Beautiful, Bleak