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THE WEEK 14

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COVER: Prime Time Goes Political

It's Murphy vs. Dan (again), as sitcoms get into the )issues as never before. Critics raise anew the question of Hollywood's liberal bias, and they may have a point.

Candice Bergen: She's a beautiful, intelligent career woman, wife and mom -- Murphy Brown should have it so good.

The Culture: It may degrade American history to 'toons, but TV is the arena where American myths compete.

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U.S. POLITICS: A Tight Ship, but Headed Where?

Baker disciplines Bush's campaign, but he still needs a message

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POLITICS: Remember Ross What's His Name?

The noncandidate hints at an October surprise

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THE POLITICAL INTEREST: Less Than the Truth

Clinton's draft dodges play into Bush's hands

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INTELLIGENCE: A Legacy of Contempt

A cautionary tale about the CIA'S responsibilities to Congress

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AFRICA: A Day in the Death of Somalia

At Bardera's feeding center, the lines stretch to despair

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DISPUTES: Who Owns the Kuriles?

Japan makes an offer that Russian nationalists refuse

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EDUCATION: Play School

Kids learn about the real world by creating a miniature one

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SOCIETY: Tragedy in Suburbia

The death of a young mother in a carjacking stuns a town

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RELIGION: Is Jesus in the Dead Sea Scrolls?

New texts could buttress the Gospels -- or undermine them

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PROFILE: She's Got a Mouth on Her

Versatile Whoopi Goldberg launches her own talk show

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AGRICULTURE: California Vineyards in Trouble

Can any good come of a louse in the rootstalk?

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ART: Deadpan Surrealist

Rene Magritte's conundrums are still mind-wrenching

REVIEWS

CINEMA Art precedes life in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives 64

MUSIC Tony Bennett salutes Sinatra his way, and brilliantly 64

BOOKS The tragedy beneath Evelyn Waugh's comic mask 65

Before and After is a slightly too measured novel 66

SHORT TAKES 69

& DEPARTMENTS

PUBLISHER'S LETTER 2

LETTERS 8

GRAPEVINE 13

MILESTONES 21

PEOPLE 71

ESSAY 72

COVER: Photograph for TIME by Firooz Zahedi