Image Control "Hawk and Dove," by MR. FISH. Plus, The Long and Winding Road...to an Exit Strategy and Looking Out for You, Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy in FILTERED.

Unwelcome Advances: It may be clinical when it comes to the governor and messy budgets. BY BILL BRADLEY

Dancing in the Rain: U.S. Iraqis visit the polls twice to vote. BY STEVEN MIKULAN

Post Cards of Intolerance: The Bush administration once again bows to the Christian-inspired attack on gays. BY DOUG IRELAND

Secret Summits: Laura Chick summons Hahn’s challengers to her home for scandal talk. BY JEFFREY ANDERSON

Home With the Homeless: Spending a night with two who helped with the L.A. count. BY CHRISTINE PELISEK

Plus, JEFFREY ANDERSON on the end of Empire, the lucrative DWP contract under fire.

Gen-X on Ice The Weekly’s MARGARET WERTHEIM was the National Science Foundation’s visiting journalist to Antarctica for the 2004–05 season. In the first of two articles on her recent trip, she reports on the daily life and work of a group of young women scientists.

Who’ll Stop the Reign? The Aryan Brotherhood is the most murderous prison gang in the country. Mild-mannered assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Jessner is about to face off against gang leaders with the largest death-penalty indictment in the history of the American justice system. BY MATTHEW DUERSTEN

Dissonance Iraq’s triumph: Lessons from a shaky democracy.
BY MARC COOPER

Powerlines Creating California: Pat Brown knew how to build a great state; Arnold knows how to dismantle it. BY HAROLD MEYERSON

Deadline Hollywood Hollywood reporters and Gatsby envy: Why do journalists lust after the trappings of Tinseltown? BY NIKKI FINKE

A Considerable Town At Sundance, RON STRINGER encounters a self-promoting, filmmaking priest . . . during mass; DAVE SHULMAN watches Dennis Miller and Bill Maher play nice; and PAUL KRASSNER says, "Grammys, Shrammies."

Plus, MARK "THE COBRASNAKE" HUNTER’s Snake Bites.

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