Vol. 143 No. 8

COVER

Pride and Prejudice (Cover Stories)
He inspires African Americans, but why does America's most controversial minister poison his message with racist hatred?

NATION

A Cabinet That Sweats Like America (Chronicles)

Down in the Big Queasy (Cities)
The treasury is strapped, business is stalled, crime is up. New Orleans' bon temps have rolled away.

Ducking the Homeless Bill (The Budget)
The White House shies from a fiscal trade-off

Health Report (Chronicles)

If Expense Accounts Could Talk . . . (Chronicles)

Informed Sources (Chronicles)

Inside Washington an Ally By Any Other Name . . . (Chronicles)

Maybe There's Something in the Juice (Chronicles)

Prestigious Jobs in Magazine Publishing -- No Experience Required! (Chronicles)

The Week February 13-19 (Chronicles)

Vox Pop (Chronicles)

Winners & Losers (Chronicles)

Zhirinovsky Beat (Chronicles)
Exclusive: At Home with Russia's Top Ultranationalist

WORLD

Amid Disaster, Amazing Valor (Somalia)
The untold story of the American troops who turned a calamitous foray in Mogadishu into an extraordinary lesson in military courage

Words Are Not Enough (Bosnia)
Even if the Serbs live up to their promise to pull the guns back from Sarajevo, peace remains out of reach

WAR & TERRORISM

Up From the Depths (Defense)
Why is the Navy off course? Some experts contend that too many recent chiefs were submariners.

SPORT

Finally! (SPEED SKATING)
Finding salvation at the finish line, Dan Jansen, the Olympics' heartbreak kid, is first at last

High Flyers (FIGURE SKATING)
As a veteran pair triumphs, a new triumvirate emerges

Schuuuusss! (SKIING)
In Lillehammer, Alpine skiing kicks off with an unexpected but refreshing American accent

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

The Political Interest Playing Nuclear Poker

Time (Contents)
Magazine Contents Page FEBRUARY 21, 1994 VOL. 143 NO. 8

Time (Masthead)
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BUSINESS

Take That! and That! (Trade)
With a threat of sanctions, the U.S. tries to tighten the screws on Japan without starting a trade war

The Deal That Forced Diller to Fold
The inside story of how Viacom's Sumner Redstone placed a $10 billion bet against QVC's Barry Diller and finally won the long battle for Paramount

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Peeper's Paradise (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)
In The Fermata, Nicholson Baker offers an overextended voyeuristic tease

Home Is Where the Art Is (The Arts & Media / THEATER)
South African dissident Athol Fugard happily loses his great theme and sets his sights on a postapartheid world

Murder, They Wheezed (The Arts & Media / TELEVISION)
Starring in sitcoms may get too strenuous, but in prime time you're never too old to solve a whodunit

Shipwrecked in Vermont (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)
A haunting tale of growing up in, and escaping from, Vietnam

The Origin of Our Species (The Arts & Media / TELEVISION)
Nova offers a vivid three-part tour of human prehistory

PEOPLE

"They Suck the Life From You" (Interview)

TO OUR READERS

To Our Readers

LETTERS

How Do We Fight Xenophobia? (Time Forum)

Some Good May Yet Come of This (Time Forum)

Taking Yes for an Answer (Time Forum)

The Real Crisis Is Selfishness (Time Forum)

The Rift Between Blacks and Jews (Time Forum)

We Need to Do Some Work (Time Forum)

Why Did Blacks Turn on Jews? (Time Forum)

ESSAY

Kicking the Big One