Time Magazine Masthead May 18, 1992 VOLUME 139 NO. 20

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THE WEEK

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COVER: A Conviction to Die

If Roger Keith Coleman is electrocuted next week, the system, now less responsive to appeals, will have failed him

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THE TWO AMERICAS: Playing by Suburbia's Rules

+ Why are the cities desperate? The middle class has left town

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THE CAMPAIGN: Dueling Images

The race to control the memories of Los Angeles has begun

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THE ADMINISTRATION: Its Bleeding Hearts

A call by some Bush aides for free-market aid to the poor

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THE AFTERMATH: Lessons of L.A.

Why police were unprepared to quell the ghetto's rage

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GERMANY: Well Paid, Well Fed but Angry

Even Europe's most successful country can get the blues

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AMERICA ABROAD: Uncle Sam as Globocop

But will the U.S. follow when the U.N. leads?

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INTERVIEW: Life After Hell

Terry Andersen talks of politics, torture and forgiveness

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BUSINESS: Proud to Be Bankrupt

Chapter 11 has lost its stigma, but is it being misused?

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RELIGION: New England's Hottest Church

Recruits flock in, but critics call it an autocratic cult

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SPORT: Sun, Sea and Software

High-tech seamanship in the quest for America's Cup

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MEDICINE: Reach Out and Cure Somebody

Advances in telemedicine bring top-notch care anywhere

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TECHNOLOGY: Read a Good PowerBook Lately?

Publishers are betting readers will buy words without paper

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CINEMA: Many Scripts, One Legend

Summer films: sequels, stars -- and maybe a sleeper smash; Marlene Dietrich: an appreciation of mystery undimmed

TELEVISION Comedian George Carlin: appalling, invaluable 73

MUSIC The Beastie Boys grow up -- sort of 76

THEATER A charming, old-fashioned musical in Washington 78

CINEMA Night on Earth goes nowhere, slowly 78

BOOKS Margaret Drabble bravely portrays the way we live 79

SHORT TAKES Nureyev debuts as a conductor 81

PUBLISHER'S LETTER 4

LETTERS 8

GRAPEVINE 17

MILESTONES 26

PEOPLE 83

ESSAY 84

Cover: Photograph for TIME by David Burnett -- Contact; Press Images