CAMBODIA: A Vote in Vain
Strongman Hun Sen may have outmaneuvered his election rivals yet again, with help from some unlikely sources

VIETNAM: This Land is My Land
Reforms begin to forge a rural class structure, provoking violent disputes between peasants and landlords

Icon: A martyred priest continues to draw worshippers

PAKISTAN: Karachi's Father Teresa
Abdul Sattar Edhi brings charity and hope to a violent city

COVER: May The Best Drug Win!
The Tour de France is in a shambles and the I.O.C. is red-faced. What can be done to stop substance abuse?

A History of Dishonor: Since the 1960s, some of the world's top athletes have faced disgrace over drug use

EUROPE: Yeltsin's Time Of Troubles
Russia's President interrupts his vacation and fires his spy chief

MIDDLE EAST: All In The Family
With King Hussein's health in question, Jordan ponders the royal succession

AFRICA: Money For Nothing
South Africa's new government suffers some of the same corruption within its ranks as the old one

BUSINESS: A New Kind Of Marketplace
In the information age it's tougher to distinguish between product and service, buyer and seller

Dividing Rolls: VW gets the factory, but rival BMW gets the brand

BUSINESS: Unbundling Telebras
Latin America's largest privatization turns a stodgy Brazilian giant into a dozen would-be dynamos

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SPORT: Sprinting Into Surgery
As Australian Rules football speeds up, the stresses on players are often more than their bodies can bear

An Athletic About-Face: Olympics boss Juan Antonio Samaranch provokes rage by seeming to endorse drug taking in sport

CINEMA: Shockers
Sex, drugs and Woop Woop: the latest crop of Australian films test the boundaries of taste and tolerance

Q & A: Christos Tsiolkas

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