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COVER STORIES

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TELEVISION

Heeeeeere's Jay!

Jay Leno brings his trademark nice-guyness to a late-night institution

Goodbye, Johnny

Carson rounds off an amazing, influential and unforgettable 30 years

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NATION:

A Policy of Appeasement

Harried by Buchanan, Bush backpedals

What Does Pat Want?

Only the heart and soul of the G.O.P.

Confessions of a Mafia Turncoat

Gotti's former heir apparent fingers him

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WORLD:

Facing a Rare Opportunity

Will the West see beyond the moment and do more to assist Russia?

Carnage in a Disputed Enclave

Armenians slay 200 civilians

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BUSINESS:

The Oil Patch Goes Bust

U.S. energy firms are stuck in a deep -- and perhaps permanent -- slump

INTERVIEW Author Leon Bing talks about gang life in Los Angeles

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SOCIETY What color is achievement? For many young blacks it is white 44

PRESS Anonymous sources topple a Senator. Was it fair? 48

RELIGION Conservatives want to remove Harvard's gay chaplain

49

SCIENCE Russian space gadgetry is on sale, but should the U.S. buy? 54

TECHNOLOGY The Michelangelo virus creates more hype than havoc

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MEDICINE Did an experimental polio vaccine give rise to AIDS?

56

ETHICS What kind of people rescued Jews during the Holocaust?

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THEATER Flawed but fiercely funny works by two promising playwrights 66

BOOKS Barcelona is the biography of a yeasty, civilized city

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SHOW BUSINESS Spike Lee battles to do the right thing by Malcolm X 71

CINEMA Merchant Ivory does thrilling justice to E.M. Forster, again 72

ESSAY Nixon argues that foreign policy should be a campaign issue

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DEPARTMENTS

LETTERS 6 MILESTONES 49

GRAPEVINE 19 PEOPLE 57

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