CONGRESS: "Reform, Washington Style" (p. 40). Last week, Rep. John Boehner was elected House majority leader based on his promises to reform the Hill. But only in Washington could an old pro like Boehner, an eight-term congressman with close ties to Washington's K Street lobbying culture, be seen as the fresh face of reform, report White House Correspondent Holly Bailey and Contributing Editor Eleanor Clift. Boehner can make at least one convincing case as a reformer. He's a serious critic of so-called earmarks, the pet spending projects members shamefully slip into giant budget bills in the middle of the night.

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JUSTICE: "Battling the Aryan Brothers" (p. 41). Frustrated officials are now hoping to take down the Aryan Brotherhood en masse, the way prosecutors once did with the mafia, reports Assistant Editor Sarah Childress. Forty alleged members have been charged and prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against at least eight of the defendants, making it one of the largest capital cases in U.S. history. But now comes the next challenge for law enforcement: how to hold a fair trial, while protecting the lives of the judge, jurors, witnesses and lawyers in the courtroom.

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INTERVIEW: Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman (p. 42). Senior Writer Johnnie Roberts talks to Murdoch about launching a CNBC competitor by the end of the year, why you won't see Fox shows on iPods, and how to prevent sexual predators from exploiting MySpace. "We plan to reach out further to school principals, church groups and community organizations to educate them on the safety measures we've developed," he says.

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BUSINESS: "Can Amazon Catch Apple?" (p. 46). Amazon announced it will introduce a service to offer movies digitally; insiders say it also has plans in the works to offer digital music, reports Silicon Valley Correspondent Brad Stone. The biggest challenge: more than 80 percent of all digital music sales occur over Apple's iTunes. Analysts think that its grip will inevitably weaken as a wide range of online music stores and music players hit the market. But first, non-Apple MP3 players, which mostly run Microsoft software, have to improve to pose a solid challenge to the iPod.

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RELIGION: "God's Green Soldiers" (p. 49). Until now, the evangelical movement has emphasized the individual responsibility of Christians to conserve. But this week a coalition of leading evangelicals will issue "An Evangelical Call to Action," asking Congress and the Bush administration to combat global warming by restricting carbon-dioxide emissions, report San Francisco Bureau Chief Karen Breslau and Washington Correspondent Martha Brant. The challenge to the Bush administration -- which rejects mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions as economically harmful -- has caused a major rift within evangelical circles.

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ENTERTAINMENT: "The Truthiness Teller" (p. 50). Senior Writer Marc Peyser looks at the runaway success of Comedy Central's fake news show "The Colbert Report" and its lead funnyman Stephen Colbert -- from how the show made "truthiness" part of the national lexicon, to a reaction from one of the show's most obvious targets, Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly.

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"Turning Fake News Into Real Careers" (p. 57). "The Daily Show," which has helped launch the careers of Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell among others, is starting to gain the upper hand in the talent race over actual network behemoths like "Saturday Night Live" and "Late Show With David Letterman," reports Senior Writer Devin Gordon.

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MOVIES: "Behind Oscar's Door" (p. 61). Each year, on the Monday night before the Oscar nominations are announced, a small band of staff at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences goes into lockdown at the Academy's headquarters in Beverly Hills. This year, Senior Writer Sean Smith spent the night with them. He reports on the behind-the-scenes action, from one insider fretting, "This could be the lowest-rated show in Oscar history," to Academy executive director Bruce Davis explaining, "If it was only about TV ratings, we'd be nominating 'Big Momma's House 2'."

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THE TECHNOLOGIST: "Google and the China Syndrome" (p. 14). There's an emerging consensus that companies need to work together-preferably, with the participation of human-rights groups and the U.S. government-to endorse limitations on their own behavior when it comes to helping China repress its citizens, writes Senior Editor Steven Levy. That won't really solve the basic problem: the biggest country in the world wants to put shackles on the Internet. But it might spare us the spectacle of our brightest corporations' trying to rationalize behavior that is, undeniably, shameful.

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THE TIP SHEET: "How to Pick a Planner" (p. 63). There are more financial planners out there now than ever before, but not all of them are the real deal. Contributing Editor Jane Bryant Quinn offers tips for finding a good financial adviser and getting help that makes sense.

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