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Sons & daughters

Cover Story | Americans who died in Iraq are heroic symbols of sacrifice, but they are also real people to those they left behind

List of soldiers who died in Operation Iraqi Freedom

Cover Story | U.S. Army Capt. James F. Adamouski, 29 Springfield, Va. Spc. Jamaal R. Addison, 22 Roswell, Ga. Capt. Tristan N. Aitken, 31 State College, Pa. Spc. Edward J. Anguiano, 24 Brownsville, Texas Pfc. Wilfred D. Bellard, 20 Lake Charles, La. Spc. Mathew G. Boule, 22 Dracut, Mass. Cpl. Henry L. Brown, 22 Natchez, Miss. Pfc. John E. Brown, 21 Troy, Ala. Spc. Larry K. Brown, 22 Jackson, Miss. Spc. Roy Russell Buckley, 24 Portage, Ind. Sgt. George Edward Buggs, 31 Barnwell, S.C. Sgt. Jacob L.

In this issue: "Memorial Day 2003," May 24, 2003

Features

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Missouri compromised?

National |  David Benke is back.

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Billy Graham, as always

National |  At age 84 and in frail health, evangelist Billy Graham still packs them in.

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Catching the wave

International |  While China worries about SARS, Japan keeps watch for Pana Wave.

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Around the horn

National |  In terms of sports business, the $102 million contract Minnesota Vikings owner Red McCombs awarded to all-everything quarterback Daunte Culpepper may amount…

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Durable power

National |  Rafael Palmeiro wasn't born a power hitter. He just developed into one in his early 30s.

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Atlantic annexation

National |  Just a week after the ACC's 50th birthday, the league is working through an identity crisis: to expand or not to expand?

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Latex lobbyists

International |  Will policymakers allow pro-condom groups to subvert President Bush's $15 billion anti-AIDS program?

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Asexual reproduction?

International |  It could have been a sordid tabloid headline for all the commotion it caused. But the scandalous idea-that dirty health-care equipment, not heterosexual sex,

Dispatches

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Flashtraffic: New point man in Iraq

Rumsfeld's guy is out. Powell's guy is in.

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Flashtraffic: Friends at the top

How close are Vice President Dick Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld?

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Flashtraffic: House tax cut plans

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Flashtraffic: Clinton goes apolitical

Bill Clinton surprised a Syracuse University audience on Mother's Day.

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Shrinking Times

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No answers

Deanna Laney's friends are stunned at what the "wonderful" mother and "devoted wife" allegedly did to her children

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TOP NEWS

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Quick Takes

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Quotables

It's a very unusual experience. Baroness Scotland, a minister in the Lord Chancellor's office in London, on wearing the wig required of officers in British…

Reviews

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Bestsellers

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The Fox hunt

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In the music spotlight: The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions (Chess/MCA)

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Voices

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Prophet or politician?

Advocates and those who govern weigh power and principle differently

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Good, bad, ugly

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Guilty of greed

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Mailbag

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