COVER

ASIA

Looming Large

Taufik Kiemas, husband of Indonesian President Megawati, might be the country's most powerful man

BRIEFING

Person of the Week (Notebook)

Jean-Marie Messier sent water utility-turned-media giant Vivendi into a tailspin

Milestones (Notebook)

The world says goodbye to slugger Ted Williams and crooner Rosemary Clooney

SPORTS

The Ichiro Paradox

Japan's baseball giant might turn his nation's clubs into farm teams for U.S. majors

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Dreamland

Longing ponders the divide between love and suffering

Country Boy

Da Chen comes of age as China does the same

TRAVEL

Hot Spot

Sulawesi's reefs are being dynamited to death

Detour

Diving 'The Wall' off Selayar Island