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TO OUR READERS 4

LETTERS 12

CHRONICLES 21

MILESTONES 26

BOSNIA: The Debacle of Bihac 28

A humiliating failure for the U.N. and the Western allies

U.S. Policy: A mess in Washington too 303

Letter from Sarajevo: Not just Side A and Side B 333

RUSSIA: A Mini-Afghanistan? 36

The perils of ethnic revolt

HAITI: The Stench of Evil Is Fading 37

Bad as life still is, Aristide has brought a new sense of hope

Guns and Magic: U.S. troops adopt some unusual tactics 383

WHITE HOUSE: The Once and Future Hillary 40

The First Lady reappears, unapologetic and as feisty as ever

THE POLITICAL INTEREST: Reinventing Clinton 42

The Democrats' centrists have the ideas the President needs

TRADE: Going Up, Up in Arms 46

America has become the No. 1 weapons salesman in the world

SOCIETY: The Return of the Orphanage 58

The foster-care crisis -- and Newt Gingrich -- revive an old idea

PUBLIC EYE: Revenge of the Jenny Craig Eight 62

Sex discrimination is headline news -- when it happens to men

COVER: That's No Way to Treat a Dog 64

Decades of bad breeding have saddled a quarter of America's purebreds with hereditary illnesses that cripple and even kill -- and the nation's canine establishment is much to blame

MEDICINE: Down and Out in the N.F.L. 71

The vicious hits in football may be causing lasting brain damage

TECHNOLOGY: Lobbing E-Mail Bombs 73

Computer vandals strike terror on the Internet

ON THE MONEY: Bailouts for Everyone! 74

Maybe brokerages should reimburse all customers for losses

THE ARTS & MEDIA:

Show Business: With a No. 1 TV show, book and movie, Tim Allen is a nice guy who is finishing first 76

At Christmas, Manhattan is the center of the world again 82

Theater: From a British troupe, a hypnotic As You Like It 84

Books: A political novel finds humor in mudslinging 86

Camille Paglia vamps and tramps 90

Cinema: How can a Dorothy Parker biopic be witless? 90

Jodie Foster gives a fierce performance in Nell 92

Music: With Duets II, Sinatra again woos the kids 92

Prince's legendary Black Album finally surfaces 94

Beethoven's nine, as his audiences would have heard them 99

PEOPLE 101

ESSAY 102

COVER: Photograph by Renee Lynn -- Tony Stone Images

INSET: Photograph for TIME by Aaron Rapoport -- Onyx

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