Finally, the Games
But the preliminaries have been a distraction: a discouraging combination of skulduggery on ice, personal tragedy, mishaps and mayhem

With Blades Drawn
The coming showdown between Kerrigan and Harding adds a squalid new dimension to women's figure skating


And You Thought Those Royals Were Naughty ... (Chronicles)

Extra! Read All About Whitewater! Or Not! (Chronicles)

Famine -- and Feast (The Budget)
Clinton's $1.5 trillion budget restrains defense and domestic spending but lets entitlements roam free

Health Report (Chronicles)

Informed Sources (Chronicles)

Inside Jerusalem (Chronicles)

It's a Wonk Thing -- You Wouldn't Understand (Chronicles)

Lost in the Fun House (Scandals)
A Navy judge blasts the Chief of Naval Operations as the last cases in the Tailhook investigations flame out

Make Big Bucks the Natural-Di$Aster Way (Chronicles)

News Flash! Politicians Cover Their Rears! (Chronicles)

Putting Out Fires with Gasoline (Chronicles)

The Week February 6-12 (Chronicles)

This Time We Mean It (Policy)
Nato's Pull-Back-Or-We-Bomb Ultimatum to Bosnia's Serbs looks genuine, but will it help end the war?

Under the Gun in Sarajevo (Policy)

Winners & Losers (Chronicles)

Zhirinovsky Beat (Chronicles)


Almost Halfway Home / (Middle East)
Israel and the P.L.O. settle more terms of self-rule, but Palestinians in the territories are unimpressed

Clinton to Tokyo: No Deal (Diplomacy)
The U.S. tells Japan it must get serious about opening up its markets

Spoiling for a Victory (South Africa)
Mandela launches a campaign to mobilize black voters and win not just big -- but really big


Dispatches the Ultimate Health-Care Story (Chronicles)

Public Eye Now for the Skate-Off

The Political Interest
From Sarajevo to Needle Park

Time (Contents)
Magazine Contents Page FEBRUARY 21, 1994 VOL. 143 NO. 8

Time (Masthead)
Magazine masthead FEBRUARY 21, 1994 VOL. 143 NO. 8

A Very Messy Divorce
John Sculley parts ways with Spectrum, leaving a trail of mutual recrimination


Albee Is Back (The Arts & Media Theater)
After years of literary exile, an autobiographical stunner

Battle Fatigue (The Arts & Media Music)
Fed up with her temperamental shenanigans, the Metropolitan Opera fires soprano Kathleen Battle

Closing the Last Chapter (The Arts & Media Books)
With unsentimental passion and chilling clarity, a surgeon reflects movingly on life's final mystery: death

Furthermore (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)

Possessed By the Flesh (The Arts & Media Books)
In a claustrophobic novel, the hero -- and the reader -- are captive to an erotic obsession

The Man Behind the Monster (The Arts & Media / SHOW BUSINESS)
Debonair and demonic in Schindler's List, Ralph Fiennes wins Oscar's notice, and everyone else's

The Young and the Restive (The Arts & Media Cinema)
Winona Ryder, an up-and-doing spirit in a down-and-out milieu, brightens the twentysomething angst of Reality Bites


Milestones


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