PIPELINE TO THE PRESIDENT
AFTER ROGER TAMRAZ PUT UP $150,000, DEMOCRATIC PARTY OFFICIALS BATTLED THE CIA AND THE NSC TO GET HIM INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE. GUESS WHO PREVAILED?

THE BUSY BACK-DOOR MEN

SMOKING GUN
A CIGARETTE MAKER FINALLY ADMITS THAT ITS PRODUCT IS DANGEROUSLY HABIT-FORMING. IS THIS THE END OF BIG TOBACCO'S LEGAL INVINCIBILITY?

POPULIST HERO OR BOTTOM FEEDER?

WHY THE SENATE LOVES AN UNDERSTUDY


BIBI'S BLACK DAYS
CRISES AND SCANDAL HAVE PLAGUED NETANYAHU, AND NOW PALESTINIAN TERROR HAS RETURNED

NYET TO A NEW NATO
TWO RECUPERATING PRESIDENTS AGREE TO DISAGREE AND INSIST THEY ARE MAKING PROGRESS. WE'LL SEE


WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS? (Medicine)
AIDS STRIKES THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN IN THE U.S., BUT THEY DON'T ALWAYS GET THE LATEST TREATMENT


BLOODSHED IN THE BANKS (Crime)
FROM EAU CLAIRE TO ORLANDO, ROBBERIES ARE UP SHARPLY THIS YEAR. IS HOLLYWOOD TO BLAME?


FIDELITY = CHASTITY
A DIVISIVE PRESBYTERIAN VOTE OVER GAY ORDINATION MAY HAVE FATALLY WOUNDED A WIDER CHRISTIAN UNITY


THE KINGS OF SWING
PAST MEETS FUTURE AS ARNOLD PALMER IS HOST TO HEIR TIGER WOODS


@THE SUPREME COURT
SOME SURPRISINGLY WIRED JUSTICES HEAR AN ANTIPORN CASE THAT WOULD RESTRICT FREE SPEECH IN CYBERSPACE

WIRED FOR WAR
DIGITAL SOLDIERS WILL MAKE THE ARMY SMARTER AND DEADLIER--IF THE COMPUTERS WILL JUST STOP CRASHING


NOTEBOOK

MCVEIGH: DIARIES DEAREST

MILESTONES (MILESTONES)


STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE
OUTSPOKEN JACKIE ROBINSON PLAYED THE ROLE OF SYMBOL AS WELL AS HE HIT A BALL

BIZ WATCH (BIZ WATCH)

FLYING INTO TROUBLE
WITH ITS TOOTHLESS INSPECTIONS AND DEAF EAR TO SAFETY WARNINGS, THE FAA HAS MADE AIR TRAVEL MORE PERILOUS THAN IT NEED BE


MR. BIG OF THE NEW JIG (The Arts / DANCE)
IRISH-DANCE EXTRAVAGANZAS ARE SELLING OUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY--AND MICHAEL FLATLEY ISN'T SHY ABOUT STEPPING UP TO TAKE THE CREDIT

DESIRE AT FULL STRETCH (The Arts / APPRECIATION)
WILLEM DE KOONING: 1904-1997

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (The Arts / CINEMA)
BRAD PITT AND HARRISON FORD BRING THE IRISH TROUBLES HOME IN A FINE, GROWNUP THRILLER

CROSS OVER, BEETHOVEN (The Arts / MUSIC)
JACKIE O COMPOSER MICHAEL DAUGHERTY BRINGS A POP-CULTURE SENSIBILITY TO CLASSICAL MUSIC

PRIME VINTAGE (The Arts / BOOKS)
A ROBUST NOVEL OF LOVE AND LOSS IN WINE COUNTRY

LIFE AMONG THE RUINS (The Arts / BOOKS)
TWO JOURNALISTS LOOK BEHIND THE SOVIET COLLAPSE AND THE UNRULY EFFORTS TO BUILD SOMETHING NEW


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