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MORE COLUMNS FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE

• Quindlen: To Hell With Well Behaved
Women who are interested and involved in politics talk quietly about how no one is chasing their vote. Then they sigh and move on

• Levy: The Trouble With E-Ballots
It's a culture clash between the election world, which prizes reliability, and computer scientists, who obsess over security

• Samuelson: Picking Sides for the News
If it's partisanship that sells, then we'll slowly get more journalism that is more selective and more slanted, less reliable and less honest

WEB-EXCLUSIVE COLUMNS

CHRISTOPHER DICKEY

• DICKEY: DIGGING THROUGH DUSTY SADDAM FILES
Is there credible evidence tying Hussein to 9/11? Absolutely not. Were there good reasons to worry about his links to radical Islamists. Yes, indeed.

• Dickey: Our Terror Stats Can't Be Trusted

ANDY BOROWITZ

• HUMOR: MICHAEL MOORE WINS TOUR DE FRANCE
Cyclist Lance Armstrong cries foul over the filmmaker’s untimely victory

• Borowitz: Nader For President—Of Iraq

GERSH KUNTZMAN

• KUNTZMAN ON UNDECIDED VOTERS
Our columnist tries to grasp why some voters have no opinion in such a pivotal presidential election

• Kuntzman: Why Ladies' Night is All Right

ELEANOR CLIFT

• CLIFT: BUSH IS ON BORROWED TIME WITH IRAQ
Bush treats Iraq like a public-relations problem that can be addressed with the right spin. But that tactic won’t work indefinitely

• Clift: Reagan’s Storybook Life

HOWARD FINEMAN

• BEST ADVICE FOR KERRY—BE INVISIBLE
Bush may self-destruct by the time November election occurs

• How Reagan's Passing Helps Bush

RICHARD WOLFFE

• WOLFFE: BUSH MISSES HIS MESSAGE
Bush needs to spend more time talking about pocketbook politics if he wants to win over voters

• Wolffe: Living Up to the Reagan Eulogies

MICHAEL ROGERS

• PRACTICAL FUTURIST: READERS ON LIFETIME STORAGE
Some wonder why we'd want to remember everything.

• Rogers: Will Telephone Calls Be Free?

WAR STORIES / T. TRENT GEGAX

• WAR STORIES: MILITARY MOONLIGHTING
A former Navy SEAL explains why he chose to work for a private security contractor in Iraq

• Behind the Walls of Abu Ghraib

MARK STARR

• STARR: THE NBA'S RACE RIDDLE
Larry Bird was not out of bounds when he insisted the league needs more white stars

• Starr: The Tale of Tiger’s Slump

MELINDA HENNEBERGER

• VARIA: INSIDE CARDINAL LAW’S NEW POSTING
Cardinal Law’s new posting may not be golden parachute his critics think it is

• Henneberger: Was Iraq a Just War?

MICHAEL ISIKOFF and MARK HOSENBALL

• TERROR WATCH: 9/11 AND AL QAEDA’S ALLIES
The 9/11 commission’s findings about Osama bin Laden’s foreign allies could have significant implications for U.S. diplomacy as well as the race for the White House

• Terror Watch: Probe Into Chalabi Leaks May Widen

PAST COLUMNS

• Sick, and Tired of the Endless Paperwork
We've been charged for seeing doctors we never met, and even the armrests on my wife's wheelchair

• Alter: Reagan's Last Political Gift
These days, a liberal on health issues is a conservative who's been mugged by an illness in the family

• Zakaria: Tackle the Nuke Threat
Bin Laden has called it a 'duty' for Al Qaeda to get a nuclear bomb. But policies to prevent nuclear terror have hardly changed since 9/11

• Quindlen: Personality, Not Policy
The 40th president of the United States undoubtedly had great charm. He also, in the opinion of many, did great harm.

• Spending Summers With 'Super Grampy'
Sharing a house with my grandfather every year isn't easy, but that's not about to keep me away

• George F. Will: Reagan's Echo in History
As the 40th president left office in eventful 1989, because of him the world was ringing with the rhetoric of the third and 16th presidents

HIGHLIGHTS

Table of Contents

•	Dickey: Digging Through Dusty Saddam Files
•	Inside the Politics of the 9/11 Commission
•	Michael Moore Deconstructs 9/11
•	Fareed Zakaria: Is Saudi Arabia Doomed?

SPECIAL SECTION

• People poised to make a difference in the new year. Plus, updates from our nominees for 2003

PERSPECTIVES

""We will continue on this path in fighting the enemies of Allah."
—The Organization of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, in a statement on an Islamic Web site saying that American hostage Paul Johnson had been beheaded

SPECIAL SECTION: ISSUES 2004

Power: Who's Got It Now

•	America's Imperial Anemia
•	Iraq Effect: D.C. Upside Down
•	Nepotism: Another American Tradition
•	The Internet: A Net of Control?

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