NATION

Big Board, Big Payday

As CEO Dick Grasso takes a $140 million cashout, the New York Stock Exchange takes the heat

John Kerry Revs Up

With Dean in the driver's seat, John Kerry tries to gun his engine as the Democratic race blasts off

The End of Limits? (Nation/Fund Raising)

Why candidates in both major parties may forego public matching funds

BRIEFING

Blair's Post-Iraq Tribulations (Notebook)

Despite the prime minister's best efforts to trash claims that he exaggerated Saddam's threat, he may have lost Britain's trust

Questions for Leavitt (Notebook)

At his confirmation hearings, Utah governor Mike Leavitt will have to defend the administration's environmental record. And his own

Small Talk In China (Notebook)

Negotiations over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions produced little cause for comfort

WORLD

That Other War

The Taliban are back — but then, they never really went away. Protected in Pakistan, the fundamentalists have had a busy summer and pose a real threat to the U.S.-backed Afghan government of Hamid Karzai

Terror At A Shrine (Terror/Report From Iraq)

A devastating car bomb at Shi'ite Muslims' holiest place kills an Iraqi leader and further complicates life for the U.S. occupiers

YOUR TIME

Lessons in Style

Back-to-school fashion takes some cues from hip-hop — and the locker room