COVER

Can Bush Find An Exit? (Cover Story)

The President is about to get a very public intervention from the Baker Commission. Will Bush listen to an old family friend, or will stubbornness prevail?

ASIA

Capitalism Comes to Afghanistan

The commercial landscape is rife with risk, but hardy entrepreneurs and multinational giants are betting that the Afghan economy will rise from the ashes

BRIEFING

Add Soap, Spin (Notebook)

An Indonesian mining company blamed for a disastrous flood of mud in Java tries a novel way of cleaning up its image