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LETTERS 4

TO OUR READERS 19

CHRONICLES 21

MILESTONES 27

THE PRESIDENCY: Whitewater Runs Deeper 30

New questions arise about the Clintons' land deal

THE POLITICAL INTEREST: How to Heat Up a Scandal 34

The worst thing is the sense we've been here before

HEALTH CARE: Emergency? What Emergency? 35

An uncrisis is the latest threat to the Clinton plan

DIPLOMACY: New Worlds to Conquer 38

Clinton takes his glad-handing abroad. But to what effect?

Yeltsin Interview: Changing tactics but sticking to reform 40

SCIENCE: Marching Orders from Washington 44

The White House tries to focus research on helping industry

SPACE: Hubble's Sharper Eye on the Universe 46

New pictures prove that astronauts make good optometrists

EDUCATION: Does Anybody Want This Guy? 47

Swarthmore tries sending a problem student to Columbia

INTERVIEW: An Inside Look at the Paramount Brawl 48

Embattled chairman Martin Davis speaks

COVER: Treachery on Ice 50

Any illusions about the decorous world of figure skating are trampled as police arrest three men, including Tonya Harding's bodyguard, in the attack on star Nancy Kerrigan

Skating's Road to the Top: It requires plenty of sweat and tears, but most of all money 55

Skater Oksana Baiul, Ukraine's pride and joy 56

SOCIETY: Boarders No More 58

Hospitals fight the plague of abandoned babies

THE ARTS & MEDIA

Television: A year after leaving the game, programming whiz Brandon Tartikoff steps up to the plate again 60

A bristling battle royal on Masterpiece Theatre 62

Cinema: To tell the truth, Debra Winger cannot tell a lie 63

Madeleine Stowe is sharp as a laser in Blink 64

Art: Soviet paintings, as only Stalin could love them 65

Books: A Babel of sounds and furies from William Gaddis 67

Memoirs from columnists Art Buchwald and Pete Hamill 68

The Soloist plays a melancholy theme 70

Music: What would the jazz stars of yore say about US 3? 71

A wizard's brew from the magical duo Dead Can Dance 71

PEOPLE 73

ESSAY 74

COVER: Photo illustration. Photograph by Merlin A. Summers.

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