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COVER STORIES
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WORLD: Soviet Union, 1922-91, R.I.P.
Three republics sign the death certificate and begin to form a new commonwealth
Yeltsin's Co-Founding Troika
Those who helped kill the U.S.S.R.
An Interview with Gorbachev
Though down, he insists he's not out
Despair in Military Barracks
The army is starting to fall apart
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NATION: Putting America First
Why isolationism is making a comeback
Inadmissible Evidence
The story behind Willie Smith's acquittal
"White Person's Town"
A city struggles with its racist past
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BUSINESS: That Was Then, This Is Now
Pinned down by the lingering recession, President Bush embraces a once unfashionable notion: "industrial policy"
66 CINEMA: Who Really Killed J.F.K.?
On Nov. 22, 1963, America's head was blasted open. Director Oliver Stone, Hollywood's most intense interpreter of our time, seeks to prove that the assassination was a military-CIA conspiracy. How real is his movie? And how does he answer critics who accuse him of distorting history?
INTERVIEW Hounded author Salman Rushdie pleads not to be forgotten
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HEALTH A patch that quiets the urge to smoke; Joe Camel woos the young 52
MEDICINE Teaching compassion by turning the tables on doctors
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EDUCATION An assault on tenure for teachers 64
BOOKS Mystic Chords of Memory: how myth is confused with history
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TECHNOLOGY For the smart handyman, now there are smart tools
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LIVING Habari gani to you, as Kwanzaa approaches 81
THEATER Finding all the laughs in dementia and leukemia
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ESSAY Lance Morrow looks at artists, history and the Richard III Effect 84
DEPARTMENTS
GRAPEVINE 15
LETTERS 4 PEOPLE 65
CRITICS' VOICES 12 MILESTONES 82
COVER Photograph for TIME by Sergei Guneyev