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LETTERS 12

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NOTEBOOK

SUMMER TRAVEL: Some passengers are about to get a free pass through airport security gates 17

LIBYA: Did Gaddafi really order a hit on the Saudi crown prince? 18

TV RERUNS: Can you have Sex and the City without the sex? 22

MILESTONES: Terry Nichols is spared; Roosevelt Brown is dead 25

COVER

Faith & Politics How devout do Americans want their President to be? The answer is proving to be a major reason why the 2004 campaign is so divisive 26

CATHOLICS: How Kerry's campaign is dividing the church 34

ABORTION: Does Rome see it as trumping every other issue? 37

NATION

Ronald Reagan Ordinary Americans and the world's power elite streamed through Washington to say farewell to the Gipper in a state funeral fit for a king 38

HUGH SIDEY: A veteran TIME correspondent on board that long flight home with Nancy and the kids 47

WORLD

The Abuse Scandal Leaked memos suggest the Bush Adminstration has been quietly rewriting the rules against torture 49

LETTER FROM BAGHDAD: The perfect gift for a recent university graduate? A ticket out of Iraq 52

BUSINESS

Homemaker in Chief Bob Nardelli lost out on GE's top job, but he's winning raves at Home Depot 55

SCIENCE

Surviving Cancer A new generation of targeted therapies allows patients to live with their disease 58

VIEWPOINT: Dr. Dean Ornish offers a diet everyone can agree on 62

ARTS

Blogger's Revenge Amateur scribblers posting on the Web are becoming the tails that wag the media 64

MOVIES: Are The Stepford Wives and The Terminal as bad as the buzz? 72

YOUR TIME

SPORTS: Kiteboarding; multimedia box scores; Olympic tickets 83

HEALTH: Depressed kids; how women know when it's time to have sex 84

TECH: Wi-fi gets easier; Riddick goes Xbox; ID tags go high tech 86

PEOPLE: Ali G goes to Harvard, and Margaret Cho gets unplugged 89

ESSAY: Christopher John Farley on the soul of Ray Charles 90

COVER: Photo-Illustration. Oval Office: Photograph for TIME by Dirck Halstead