Table Of Contents

10 QUESTIONS: OPRAH 8

LETTERS 13

NOTEBOOK

JUSTICE REVISITED: New hope for detainees; Medicare's poison pill; Athens' woes 17

MILESTONES 23

IN THE ARENA 25

COVER STORY

The Enemy Within Attacks on American troops are growing bigger, bolder and better organized. TIME goes inside the insurgents' world to learn how a diverse opposition plans to drive the U.S. out of Iraq 28

THE POSTWAR'S BLOODIEST CLASH: A fierce fight in samarra yields two very different body counts 37

A Free-Lance Peace Plan Palestinian and Israeli non-officials try their hand at a road map, but will anyone in power actually follow it? 38

NATION

DEAN'S FEBRUARY PLAN: The well-heeled front runner gambles on a national strategy to flatten the opposition 40

THE I-270 SHOOTING GALLERY: Investigators are on the trail of a sniper who's haunting drivers in Columbus, Ohio 43

CASE OPENED: The brutal murder of maryland prosecutor jonathan luna is as puzzling as any case he pursued 44

BUSINESS

Prizefight Disney chief Michael Eisner has survived many a corporate battle. But what if the challenge comes from a guy named Disney? 46

BOEING'S WOES: A new CEO takes over a company wounded by slumping sales and scandal 49

EDUCATION

Rough Kids Why are some school districts seeing a rash of violent behavior by the very young? 52

SCIENCE

AIDS in China Dr. David Ho crusades to head off a health disaster 54

BOOK EXCERPT

Progress Paradox Why, if we're doing better, do we feel worse? 66

ARTS

Box-Office Gifts The Lord is back, along with a brilliant Ben Kingsley and a saintly Julia Roberts 68

DESIGNING WOMEN: Painter John Currin knows how to sell his vision of art and trash 79

AS TIME GOES BY: Singers like Rod Stewart and Mandy Moore try to find new life in old standards 81

YOUR TIME

HEALTH: Virtual colonoscopy offers a new screening tool 85

TECH: Sprint and Verizon join Nextel in "push to talk" service, instant messaging out loud 86

LIFESTYLE: Judging cashmere; teeny rental cars; stiller redux 89

PEOPLE: Gwyneth's bundle; hanks' travels; questions for hef; mtm 91

ESSAY: Joel Stein on Rush Limbaugh and why he sees everything in black and white 92

COVER: A member of a six-person cell, photographed in Baghdad Sept. 20, 2003. The man, holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, declined to give his name but said his group was prepared to use force to persuade the U.S. to leave Iraq. Photograph for TIME by Yuri Kozyrev