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STANDOFF 2000: The Cliffhanger
Nancy Gibbs tells the story of Al Gore and George W. Bush's never-ending election night and the constitutional trapdoors that may lie ahead for a country in political limbo

BACK TO SCHOOL: An Electoral College Primer
Why the winner will be chosen by 538 men and women

THE NUMBERS GAME: State by State
Mapping the way America made up its mind
Public Eye: Margaret Carlson urges calm and patience

FLORIDA KEY: The Sunshine State Keeps Counting
The turbulent quest for the State's 25 electoral votes

CAPITOL HILL: The First Lady is a Senator
How Hillary Clinton won her race for Congress

HISTORY: No Surprises
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. on White House history repeating

THE DEBATE: Is the Electoral College Flawed?
Jeff Greenfield argues no; Kevin Phillips says replace it

CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK: Travelling with Ralph Nader
Steve Lopez meets the most vilifed man in the contest Protest
Vote: Barbara Ehrenreich on why she's not sorry

VIEWPOINTS: Unfinished Business
Rosenblatt, Morrow and Krauthammer on the road ahead

A S I A
THE PHILIPPINES: Shifting Tides
The movement to oust President Joseph Estrada is growing

CHINA: Statistical Minds
Citizens are becoming suspicious as Beijing begins a census

E U R O P E
UNITED KINGDOM: Smash and Nabbed in London
How the world's largest diamond heist came unstuck

FRANCE: Where's the Beef?
Handling of the BSE crisis leads to political bickering

SOCIETY
IDEAS: A Hardy Constitution
Australia's chief justice is a fan of the country's "rules"

T H E   A R T S
EXHIBITIONS: Pursuing the delusion of Utopia

MUSIC: PJ Harvey in a New York state of mind

CINEMA: Philip Seymour Hoffman, the prince of perversity

TRAVELER'S ADVISORY

LETTERS

PACIFIC OBSERVED: The legacy of Whitlam's dismissal

NOTEBOOK

MILESTONES

LETTER FROM FLORIDA: Carl Hiaasen on strange doings

PERSONAL TIME

PEOPLE

ESSAY: Christopher Buckley on where America goes next