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TO OUR READERS 4
LETTERS 6
CHRONICLES 11
MILESTONES 19
COVER: What Has George Done? 20
Stephanopoulos says he was "blowing off steam," but was the President's trusted aide trying to get a potentially pesky Whitewater prober dismissed? Is this obstruction of justice?
Clinton's Shadow: The young master of the White House
The Administration: More loopy management in Washington
The First Couple: Taxing questions
HEALTH CARE: A Bloody Clash of Egos 28
Five legislative committees vie to craft a historic medical bill
EDUCATION: Do Teachers Punish Blacks More Often? 30
Charges of discrimination rock the Cincinnati school system
PUBLIC EYE: Beauty and the Breast 31
The torture of the push-up bra and other indignities
MEXICO: Death of a Candidate 32
An assassin's bullets shake the country's confidence
NORTH KOREA: War Talk 60
Pyongyang plays brinkmanship over nuclear inspection
RUSSIA: Kremlin Hangover 62
Rumors of Yeltsin's drinking give Moscow a case of coup jitters
CRIME: Dances with Werewolves 64
Is America's fascination with serial killers only breeding more?
BUSINESS: Is Bill Gates Too Powerful? 67
Microsoft's founder is reaching for the skies
ENVIRONMENT: Where Did All the Fish Go? 70
Depleted seas threaten fishermen and, ultimately, consumers
& Ocean Boom Boxes: A project may deafen some whales
RELIGION: Why Was Christ Crucified? 72
A top scholar finds mixed motives for a most vexing question
SCIENCE: Reverse Racism in the Classroom 74
Some black-studies courses tout the powers of a skin pigment
SOCIETY: Silence Really Does Equal Death 76
Many deaf people don't know about AIDS. It's killing them.
THE ARTS & MEDIA
Music: Bonnie Raitt has a sultry sound in her new album and a clear-eyed take on life as a onetime hard-living rocker
78
Cinema: Anna Paquin, the actress you should have bet on 80
Germinal is a minor work on a huge canvas 80
Classical Music: Look out, rap, here comes Gregorian chant
82
Placido Domingo in a triumphant new Otello 82
Books: Dwight MacDonald was a brilliant gadfly 83
Theater: Carousel tarnishes Broadway's Golden Age 85
PEOPLE 87
ESSAY 88
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