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NATION: The message on Bush's lips is now, maybe, some new taxes
With the deficit rising and revenues falling, the President calls a budget summit with "no preconditions." But the talks are nearly torpedoed by the brusque remarks of the White House chief of staff. -- Big Bad John Sununu is not much good at making friends, but Bush's right-hand man is a whiz at influencing policy.
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BUSINESS: Hollywood movies are bigger and riskier than ever
As the price of top stars heads for the stratosphere, blockbuster-hungry studios rev up the costliest summer lineup of sequels and action films yet. -- Even once lowly screenwriters are joining the ranks of millionaires. -- A private eye tracks down the loot from defrauded savings and loans.
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INTERVIEW: Olympic medalist Mark Spitz
At 40, he is back in the swim as a contender for the Games in Barcelona in 1992.
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WORLD: Now, the leopard-skin revolutions
Authoritarian regimes in Africa begin to give way to multiparty systems. -- Albania eases its Stalinist grip. -- A Soviet Communist Party official reflects on nationalism's silver lining.
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SAKHAROV: Years of harassment, exile and triumph
A concluding excerpt from Memoirs recounts how his activism infuriated the KGB and led to his exile. -- Was Solzhenitsyn friend or foe? -- Who killed Baikal? -- The case for nuclear power.
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HEALTH: Hard looks at hard-sell diet programs
Congress holds hearings to determine if the behemoth weight-loss industry needs tighter controls. Companies often promise more than they deliver.
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TRAVEL: Oases on the busy boulevards of Paris
Hemingway and Joyce wrote there; impressionism sprang to life there; Robespierre and Lenin plotted there. Where? In the grand and glorious old Parisian cafes, bien sur. The times may have changed, but the moveable feast continues.
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EDUCATION: Fighting failure
A radical proposal: separate classes for troubled black boys. -- Must women's colleges like Mills either go coed or go under?
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VIDEO: After Twin Peaks, will TV ever be the same?
While David Lynch's eerie soap opera has transfixed a cult audience, ratings have dropped. Now TV insiders are assessing the impact of the spring's most talked-about new show.
9 Letters
17 Grapevine
47 Milestones
73 People
78 Cinema
80 Books
87 Show Business
88 Essay
Cover: Photograph by Gregory Heisler