NATION

Deporting The INS

Granting visas for terrorists after 9/11 could be the last gaffe for the Immigration Service

WORLD

A Land Divided

In a sliver of territory between the river and the sea, borders have rarely been fixed for long

Bibi's Back

Ex-Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu re-emerges to campaign against Arafat and Sharon

On The Mop-Up Patrol

Traveling with U.S. special forces, a TIME journalist lands in the middle of a fire fight

Why Bush Had To Act (The Dilemma)

With his war on terrorism at stake, the President intervenes in the Middle East. But even his advisers don't agree on a strategy

SCIENCE

SOCIETY

RELIGION

SPORT

Knights & Knaves

Will chess go the way of the WWF? This Russian kingpin sure hopes so

BRIEFING

What America Thinks (Notebook)

Six months after the terror attacks, a TIME/CNN poll finds Americans still high on President Bush but unsure about an economic recovery

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Life After Oprah (Essay)

She says she's hanging it up in 2006. Why men are counting the days

BUSINESS

Samsung Moves Upmarket

Once a maker of cheapo gadgets, the Korean giant is churning out cutting-edge stuff that's cool to own

EDUCATION

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Sex, Drinks And Videotape (Scene)

Can't find love the old-fashioned way? At one new bar, high-tech hookups are just a phone call away

Inside The Oscar Wars (The Arts / Show Business)

Covert ops. Big bucks. Malice aforethought. And Russell Crowe. The Oscar campaign is so dirty, it could make a great movie

Oscar By The Numbers (The Arts / Show Business)

Hollywood lives by stats. Or, rather, $tats: weekend grosses, Tom Hanks' take-home pay, Tom Cruise's divorce settlement. Here are our own.

Books: Rocking The Cradle (The Arts / Books)

A novel by two former New York City nannies dishes the dirt on how the wealthy rear their young

The Court (The Arts / Short Takes)

ABC, Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.

SPECIAL SECTION

Sleuths In Suits: Mission: Intelligence (Global Business / Sleuths In Suits)

Since Sept. 11, executives are demanding better information about security risks--and about threats to their competitive edge

Environment: Toxic Trade? (Global Business / Environment)

A Canadian chemical firm says California's pollution controls violate NAFTA rules

PEOPLE

TO OUR READERS

Reporters' Notebook (Reporters' Notebook)

When not tailing Cheney, our journalists pursued stories from the front line in Afghanistan to the cutting edge of consumer electronics in Texas. Their thoughts:

LETTERS