Time Magazine Contents

THE WEEK 28

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COVER: The Other Side of Ross Perot

Behind the undeclared presidential candidate's carefully cultivated image lurks a more complicated picture that voters are just beginning to discover

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THE POLITICAL INTEREST: Green-Eyed Monsters

Jackson and Cuomo work overtime to torment Clinton

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U.S. POLITICS: The Incredible Shrinking President

Quayle emerges as the White House's point man

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HUGH SIDEY'S AMERICA: Revolution on the Farm

After 150 years, John Deere's steel plow is fading into history

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SOCIETY: Rx for Domestic Violence

The A.M.A. pushes doctors to join the fight against battering

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ESPIONAGE: The Chess Game Continues

The Kremlin is still scrambling to snatch Western secrets

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AMERICA ABROAD: End of Empire -- for Good

Convulsions have always followed imperial disintegration

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PROFILE: Symbol of the New Ireland

Mary Robinson's confidence recharges her country's spirit

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BUSINESS: McDonald's Stunning Social Success

The Golden Arches bring opportunity to America's forgotten

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MARKETS: Electronic Exchanges Come of Age

Computer systems revolutionize global trading

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HEALTH: Is Your Fish Really Foul?

The most virtuous of foods may be full of contaminants

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TELEVISION: What Americans Never See

A rich smorgasbord of international fare in Banff

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MUSIC: Jazz Classics for Modern Ears

A digital wizard brings the 1920s and '30s into the CD age

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INTERVIEW: A Conversation with Kate

Katharine Hepburn eats our correspondent for lunch

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CULTURE: The Latin Legacy

Carlos Fuentes celebrates Hispanic culture

REVIEWS

BOOKS David McCullough's Truman is rich and sweeping 80

Joan Didion turns her deadly gaze on the 1980s 81

ART Drawings by "the squinter," a 17th century master 81

MUSIC Messiaen's powerful Turangalila is recorded anew 82

SHORT TAKES 85

DEPARTMENTS

LETTERS 10

PUBLISHER'S LETTER 23

GRAPEVINE 27

- MILESTONES 34

PEOPLE 87

ESSAY 88

Cover: Photograph for TIME by Harry Benson