In this issue
Edition: Asia
Vol. 176, No. 23

COVER
Time Frames
By NANCY GIBBS
The end of history? More like the start. The 21st century runs on fast-forward,
and the only way to keep up is to stop and figure out what really happened

2000: A Nation Divided
By DAVID VON DREHLE
The 36-day battle over the Florida ballots was only the first test of faith in
our officials and institutions

Ground Zero: Out of the Ashes
By MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
After nine years, construction of the new World Trade Center finally takes off

The Men Who Stole the World
By LEV GROSSMAN
Four young programmers nearly brought down the entire entertainment industry.
Then they disappeared

Instant Icons: Life After the Headlines
By ERIC DODDS AND DAN FASTENBERG
They became famous overnight not for glamour or riches or simply being famous
but for the explosive public issues they represented. Caught up in forces larger
than themselves, they gave a human face to confounding situations like Iraq,
Katrina and Cuba

ESSAY
The Tick, Tick, Tick of the Times (Tuned In)
By JAMES PONIEWOZIK
After 9/11, the shock wore off. But the news ticker kept cable's pulse pounding

Where Is Our Deliverance? (Viewpoint)
By JOHN MCWHORTER
Black America expected more from Obama, but the radical agenda of the Struggle
is obsolete

My Continuing Education (In the Arena)
By JOE KLEIN
No columnist nails every call. Here's one I got wrong 窶・and why I should have
known better

TO OUR READERS
The Long View
By RICHARD STENGEL
The news cycle propels us ever forward. But at the end of an extraordinary decade,
TIME looks back at the stories that mattered most

LETTERS
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