Vol. 142 No. 2
COVER
Laying Hands on an Unwanted Guest
Preceded by a decoy, Sheik Abdel Rahman leaves a Brooklyn mosque and surrenders to waiting feds
Truth, Justice and the Reno Way
Clinton's popular, straight-talking Attorney General wants to revolutionize law enforcement, but will the White House let her?
Why Not Just Fire Him?
NATION
Dispatches Latter-Day Grunge (The Week)
Health Report (The Week)
Informed Sources (The Week)
Love Means Never Having to Say Mid-Life Crisis (The Week)
News Digest June 27-July 3 (The Week)
Snakes Or Ladders ! (Politics)
A controversial Supreme Court decision on racial redistricting uncovers a can of worms. Or is it a string of pearls?
The Bush Administration: Where Are They Now? (The Week)
The Silence of the Psychopaths (The Week)
When Bombs Fall, Polls Rise (The Week)
Winners & Losers (The Week)
WORLD
Isolated and impoverished, Iraqis must endure Saddam and the U.S. missile attack designed to unnerve him
Tokyo's No Star Line-Up
On the eve of their economic summit, the world's leaders, suffering from an absence of vision, seem smaller than the problems they face
SCIENCE
In the owls-vs.-jobs conflict, Clinton says it's not just the economy that matters
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Should researchers stop a study that gives healthy kids a drug to make them taller?
An Old New Drug for AIDS (Medicine)
The notorious sedative thalidomide may give doctors another weapon to fight a modern plague
SOCIETY
No one missed the victims until a serial killer stumbled into the hands of the law
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
The networks' new parental advisories are almost pathetically beside the point
Time Magazine Contents Page JULY 12, 1993 VOL. 142 NO. 2 (Contents)
BUSINESS
Singing The Blue Cross Blues
The shocking tale of mismanagement and mischief at New York's huge health insurer is far from unique
Where the New Taxes Hit Home (The Economy)
The poor will benefit, the rich will bear the burden, and everyone will pay a little at the pump
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
A forthcoming volume on Teddy Kennedy draws some fire for "creating" the thoughts and words of its subject
Civil Wars In the Soul (Reviews Books)
Clintosaurus Rex (Cinema Reviews)
Future Shock From Ireland (Music Reviews)
Hip-Hop Goes Bebop (Pop Music)
Rappers and jazz musicians are joining forces
Is The Symphony Orchestra Dying? (Music)
Rising deficits and hidebound repertoires threaten the nation's concert ensembles
No Easy Solutions Here (Reviews Television)
Pete, We Can Hear You (Show Business)
Who's afraid of getting old? With a Tony for Tommy and a terrific new album, Pete Townshend is in his prime.
Reaching Out in Iowa (Music)
The Magazining of TV News (Television)
As daily coverage dwindles, prime-time shows thrive
Vision Quest For Matrons (Reviews Theater)
Yankee Against the Grain (Art)
A lyrical show highlights the landscape mastery of Fairfield Porter
SPECIAL SECTION
Its waters swollen by weeks of rain, the Mississippi overflows its banks and inundates five states