Table of Contents

10 QUESTIONS: Rodney Dangerfield on respect, pot, and sex at 82 8

LETTERS 12

NOTEBOOK: An Oregon lawyer caught up in the net of terrorism; Kerry moves to the center 17

MILESTONES: A defrocked priest; the Duke of Devonshire 23

IN THE ARENA: Joe Klein on how Bush is blinded by righteousness 25

NATION

Embryonic Rebellion Why states are revolting against the President's stem-cell policy 49

COVER

Inside the Scandal What went wrong and who's to blame for turning Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison into a house of horrors 26

Brute Behavior Why did they do it? Psychologists have a disturbing answer for why U.S. soldiers acted so badly 38

The Stress Matrix Intelligence interrogations are never pretty. What works, what doesn't and where to draw the line 44

BUSINESS

American Cheers Up With cost cutting and counseling, the world's angriest airline tries to fly right 53

SOCIETY

Oregon's Trail As Massachusetts struggles with gay marriage, an Oregon county has already redefined wedlock 56

L.A. Story Editor John Carroll has given the L.A. Times a prizewinning makeover 64

Cooking 101 Bypassing college, students are going to culinary schools to learn how to feed a nation hungry for fine dining 67

ARTS

Updating Superman The original superhero gets in touch with his dark side 70

BOOKS: Another Kennedy tell-all; Kent Haruf returns to small-town life in Eventide 74

FILM: Kids in peril; the Olsen twins grow up 76

YOUR TIME

HEALTH: Kids and hypertension; the side effects of spanking 81

TECHNOLOGY: Sony's new luxury electronics; a smarter sneaker 82

STYLE: Sacred themes in tees and 'zines; party-planning books 85

PEOPLE: A first look at Be Cool; a Lennon-Jagger coupling 87

ESSAY: Nancy Gibbs on the painful images of Abu Ghraib 88