NATION
Soaked By Congress (Special Investigation/Big Money & Politics/Who Gets Hurt?)
Lavished with campaign cash, lawmakers are "reforming" bankruptcy--punishing the downtrodden to catch a few cheats
Mothers Against Guns
The Million Mom March on Washington this Sunday is inspired by women like these, forever scarred by gun violence
The Trouble with Tony (Nation/Campaign 2000)
Coelho is Al Gore's right hand. But he has legal woes, and his roughshod ways may hurt the Veep
Social Security (Nation/Campaign 2000)
The Dangers of Being Specific
Diamonds Are for Bush (Nation/Campaign Diary)
Baseball is George W.'s great passion. It's what he is most confident about. And it's a key to understanding him
Was Lincoln a Racist? (Dividing Line)
A noted black author argues that he was, but no one seems to be listening
THE ARTS
Saving Tom Hanks (The Arts/Cinema)
Shedding pounds and pounding the surf to film an island survival tale
I Dreamed Of Africa (The Arts/Short Takes/Cinema)
Directed by Hugh Hudson
Timecode Directed By Mike Figgis (The Arts/Short Takes/Cinema)
Emotional (The Arts/Short Takes/Music)
Carl Thomas MY NAME IS JOE Joe
Rated X Showtime, May 13, 9 p.m. E.T. (The Arts/Short Takes/Television)
Dirty Blonde (The Arts/Short Takes/Theater)
By Claudia Shear
Larry Brown's Inner Fire (The Arts/Books)
The fireman turned novelist burns with passion for the rootless denizens of his native Mississippi
Matters of Life and Death (The Arts/Books)
Jayne Anne Phillips' MotherKind tells a moving tale of birth and illness without easy ironies or pathos
The Secret Word Is Grouch (The Arts/Books)
A biography of Groucho Marx reveals his sour side
Sonique Boom (The Arts/Music)
A pop star rises, with the Net as her launching pad
Quantum Metaphysics (The Arts/Online)
Can Hollywood's first big Internet production stoke a revolution in the way we see movies?
You Could Call It the Wonk Wing (The Arts/Show Business)
NBC's hit White House series has become a national civics lesson
Human, None Too Human (The Arts/Television)
CBS's biblical mini-series Jesus, reverent of the deity, loses the man
WORLD
Peacekeepers in Peril
In embattled Africa, terror stalks U.N. troops as rebels go on a rampage, this time in Sierra Leone
BUSINESS
A Looney Tunes Cable Clash
How Time Warner stubbed its toe and outraged TV viewers in a billion-dollar battle with Disney
SOCIETY & SCIENCE
Free to be Spree (Sport)
By salvaging his career, the Knicks star leads his league in paradoxes
Quick, Hide the Tanks! (Science)
Amateur sky watchers are tracking U.S. spy satellites on the Web, and some spooks are not amused
TIME BONUS
Of Man's Estate (Time Select/Families)
The right strategy for estate planning can mean huge tax savings and happy heirs
Balancing Tact and Tactics (Time Select/Families)
Catching Teens in Time (Time Select/Families)
It's suicide season in the teenage world. How can you spot a dangerously depressed girl or boy?
PERSONAL TIME
Are We There Yet? (Personal Time/Your Family)
Here's advice from a combat helicopter pilot on how to survive your family's summer vacation
In Brief (Personal Time/Your Family)
Brain Gymnastics (Personal Time/Your Health)
Can a stimulating hobby decrease your risk of Alzheimer's disease? Maybe, but don't count on it
Your Health (Personal Time/Your Health)
Fall of the Mighty (Personal Time/Your Money)
Soros, Buffett, Robertson. They're out of synch with stocks, and you can learn from their errors
In Brief (Personal Time/Your Money)
Chicks That Click (Personal Time/Your Technology)
To find out what teen girls want in a website, I went straight to the source--and got an earful