TABLE OF CONTENTS
Letters Keeping Score
National	Global
Sinking Ship Saipan Revisted Feminists vs. Genocide Do-it-Yourself Mug Shots Pardon Our Gloating The Woman Who Roared XX-Rated Rockers Short Takes Calendar	Politics of the Absurd War-Torn Shangri-La Mukhtar Mai Challenging "Machista" On the Right Trek Morocco's Women Clerics ABC is Not Enough Short Takes
FEATURES
Cover Story Crude Awakening | Martha Burk With the Iraq war still raging, threats of U.S. action against Iran mounting, the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and gas prices climbing in the U.S., Ms. magazine's cover story explores why Big Oil has become a feminist issue. Photo: Michael Collopy The Peacemongers | Linda Burstyn Can five Nobel Peace Prize laureates help stop a war? Defending Iran's Women | Nayereh Tohidi Review of Shirin Ebadi's Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope The Ms. Poll: Anti-War, Pro-Feminism | Celinda Lake New polling for Ms. shows that women lead the way in strongly opposing both the Iraq conflict and potential military action in Iran. Thank You, Ms. Thomas | Ann McFeatters In her mid-80s, fearless White House correspondent Helen Thomas still asks the tough questions about war and peace. The Nun's Story | Bill Frogameni It's a too-familiar tale of Catholic Church leaders hindering an investigation of one of their priests. But this time, the victim had been murdered, in a strangely ritualistic way--and she was a Sister.
DEPARTMENTS
Health Wake-Up Call | Nancy G. Klimas, MD. Environment Is Your Lipstick Safe? | Anuja Mendiratta Money The 40 Percent Rule | Martha Burk Technology More Than a Game | Jessica Stites Fiction The Thing Around Your Neck | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Book Reviews Gaiutra Bahadur on Monica Ali's Alentejo Blue Helena María Viramontes on Alicia Yánez Cossío's The Potbellied Virgin William Jelani Cobb on Unita Blackwell's Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom Erin Aubry Kaplan on bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains' homegrown: engaged cultural criticism Margy Rochlin on Denise Mina's The Dead Hour Great Reads for Spring 2006 Backtalk The Wrong Prescription | Donna Brazile No Comment