NATION
The Arianna Sideshow (Nation/Campaign 2000)
The activist and socialite has plans for two "shadow conventions" she hopes will roil the Establishment. What are they really about?
Wrong Guy, Good Cause (Nation/Campaign 2000)
Protesting the death penalty
Summertime and School Isn't Easy
As the school calendar continues to grow, will the lazy, hazy days of summer be no more?
All Schoolwork but No Homework (Nation/Variations On A Theme)
WORLD
Arafat's Long Journey
He has remade his cause. On the brink of history, he now worries about a legacy
Spy Games
Arafat as Israeli target
Indian Stunners
The once demure subcontinent has a new and fast-growing export: beauty queens
The Business Of Beauty
Bottling Ancient Secrets
BUSINESS
Taps for Napster?
Record companies want to kill the music pirates' favorite site. This week they tell it to the judge
Next Up: DVDs (Business/At The Movies)
The Revolution In A Box
Manufacturing meets the Internet in a new technology that could make factories obsolete
It's Ron Sommer Calling--Again (Business/The Telephone Business)
SOCIETY & SCIENCE
Breaking the Olympic Habit (Viewpoint)
The payoff scandal is bad, but the real shame of the Games is drug use
License to Drink (Behavior)
Can boozers learn moderation? A tragedy rekindles debate about a controversial program
Red Bull (Trend Alert)
Two-Faced Woman (Crime)
In search of the American Dream, thousands came to Big Sister Ping. The feds think she's a big crook
THE ARTS
Goodbye to All That (The Arts/Interview)
This week, after 15 years, Kathie Lee Gifford leaves Regis Philbin. It's the end of life as we know it
The Girl on the Bridge (The Arts/Short Takes/Cinema)
Directed by Patrice Leconte
The Wind Will Carry Us (The Arts/Short Takes/Cinema)
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Joao Voz e Violao (The Arts/Short Takes/Music)
Joao Gilberto
Kina (The Arts/Short Takes/Music)
Kina
Media Fun House, Manhattan public-access cable, Saturday, (The Arts/Short Takes/Television)
1:30 a.m. E.T.
Silent mysteries (The Arts/Art)
The quiet, marvelous paintings of Chardin capture things as they really are, making him the genius of the 18th century bourgeois imagination
A Painstaking Fantasy (The Arts/Cinema)
A digital filmmaker moves up the evolutionary ladder from dinos and toys to "real" human beings
Making Faces (The Arts/Cinema)
For monsters, monkeys or five Eddie Murphys, who you gonna call? Rick Baker
Hawaii's Man Of Steel (The Arts/Music)
A new CD unearths the joyous island sound of virtuoso guitarist King Bennie Nawahi
Raekwon (The Arts/Q&A)
The Peacock In Shackles (The Arts/Television)
With no oxymoronically named reality TV in its pipeline, NBC casts a ravenous eye at the Dutch Chains of Love
PERSONAL TIME
Ginseng Surprise (Personal Time/Your Health)
An independent report finds that what's listed on a supplement's label is not always what's inside
Your Health (Personal Time/Your Health)
The ABCs of ETFs (Personal Time/Your Money)
Exchange-traded funds are becoming popular. Here's what you need to know about them
In Brief (Personal Time/Your Money)
I'm a Web Zombie (Personal Time/Your Technology)
The 24-hour-a-day webcast of Big Brother has me hooked on the lives of 10 strangers. Help!