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LETTERS 4

TO OUR READERS 9

CHRONICLES 13

MILESTONES 19

COVER: Man with a Vision 23

Bold, brash, sometimes a bit goofy, Newt Gingrich is ready to

emerge this week as America's pre-eminent political leader.

An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how he plans to turn

Washington upside down

The Newt Channel: TV talk with a conservative edge

CRIME: The Abortion Wars Escalate 34

A lone gunman goes on a bloody rampage in a Boston suburb,

killing two and wounding five

Fortress Mentality: A Nevada clinic is built like a bunker

INTELLIGENCE: Why Woolsey Didn't Work Out 36

The CIA director never seemed to stop playing defense

THE PRESIDENCY: The Barber's Tale 43

What if the Democrats had retained Milton Pitts?

MEXICO: The Peso Heads South 44

A bright star among emerging economies suddenly goes dim

NAFTA: Does the peso's crash mean Perot was right?

On the Money: Don't Bail Out Now

Mexico is still a good bet for American investors

RUSSIA: Who's Minding the Kremlin? 50

Doubts swirl around Boris Yeltsin as Chechen fighting goes on

ALGERIA: Commandos to the Rescue 54

How a crack French team ended a deadly hijacking

SCIENCE: Dinosaur Doomsday Revisited 59

New theories try to explain what happened after the comet hit

MEDICINE: Starving Cancer Cells 60

A way to attack tumors shows promise in animal tests

TECHNOLOGY: Why Your New Computer Doesn't Work 61

Will a record Christmas for PC sales also bring record returns?

& PRESS: Chasing the News -- and Making It 62

The National Enquirer's O.J. coverage stirs controversy

THE ARTS & MEDIA

Cinema: With a fetching performance in Little Women, teen

dream Winona Ryder shows her radiance as an actress 64

Dumb and Dumber is low comedy of the highest order 66

Art: The legacy of Delacroix's mission to Morocco 68

Television: A sitcom set in Washington stars Delta Burke 70

Books: Carl Sagan surveys what's up with the universe 71

A chilling new legal thriller from Richard North Patterson 71

OBITUARY: John Osborne, the theater's first angry man 75

PEOPLE 77

ESSAY 78

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