Table of Contents

10 QUESTIONS: Bill Gates on dropping out of college, caller ID for e-mail and how he's spending his children's inheritance 8

LETTERS 9

NOTEBOOK

Greenspan's tough economic advice; discount airlines team up against the big guys 15

MILESTONES: Martha Stewart gets a break; Baltimore Ravens star Jamal Lewis gets arrested 22

IN THE ARENA: Joe Klein on election-year sensationalism 25

NATION

No Gay Honeymoon As thousands of same-sex couples tie the knot, the President presses for a constitutional ban on gay marriage 26

The Miracle Worker How Kerry's blunt, tough-minded campaign manager got him back on track 34

Bush in High Gear His team is launching an elaborate ground and air re-election plan with $140 million behind it 39

WORLD

Aristide Is Out Now that Haiti's President has departed, can any successor bring peace to this poor and war-torn nation? 42

INNOVATORS

Moving Ahead Meet the masterminds behind the Toyota Prius and quantum teleportation 63

SCIENCE

OUT OF THE BLUE: An asteroid appears and triggers a scare 69

COVER STORY

The Other War The U.S. is struggling to pacify Afghanistan, root out the Taliban and catch Osama bin Laden. A special TIME investigation 46

ARTS

Starsky & Hutch Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson dish on their comedic chemistry 70

Making Fun of Work New reality shows on TV entertain you with other wage slaves' travails 74

THEATER: A fresh Fiddler 76

BOOKS: Edwidge Danticat 79

YOUR TIME

LIFESTYLE: Schindler's List on DVD; cold-brewed coffee 81

HEALTH: Squeezing away heart pain; the case against bed rest 82

MONEY: Is there an election effect on the market? Cheap DSL 84

PEOPLE: Howard Stern is out; Bryce Dallas Howard is in 87

ESSAY: Andrew Sullivan on the re-electability of wartime leaders 88

COVER: Photograph for TIME by Robert Nickelsberg