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WORLD: Armed and audacious, Saddam Hussein takes Kuwait -- and no one knows how to stop him

Saddam's move is an unexpected test of whether nations will pay the necessary price to assure peace and stability in the post-cold war world. -- Tough international action is needed to make sanctions against Iraq stick. -- Oil shock? Is another one forthcoming? -- Iraq's dictator seems capable of doing anything to get his way.

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NATION: Washington's fear of making hard choices wrecks the budget summit

After 11 weeks of meetings between the President and Congress, the essential ingredients of a deficit-cutting plan have not even been discussed. -- Congress takes a knife to the Pentagon's shopping list. -- America's poor are tired of living with other people's trash. Now they're fighting back.

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BUSINESS: Public outrage rises over the S&L mess

The bailout reaches its first anniversary with a price tag that has climbed to $500 billion, and seems out of control. -- GM's new Mr. Big takes the wheel. -- Rollerblades inspire rhapsodies.

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PRESS: Life at the Washington Post after Ben Bradlee

Critics claim that under Bradlee's successor, Leonard Downie Jr., the paper that broke the Watergate scandal has lost its acerbic flair. -- Israel pays reporters to write progovernment stories.

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SPORT: The forced abdication of King George

Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent has succeeded where Yankee fans have failed: he got George Steinbrenner to give up running the worst team in the majors.

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SHOW BUSINESS: Where stagestruck kids start

Theme parks may be better known for flume rides and cruise ships for bingo, but from Disney to Opryland to Hersheypark, they are becoming the summer theaters of the '90s: the places where growing numbers of tyro thespians, crooners and tap dancers get their first experience performing before live audiences.

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ENVIRONMENT: Tempers go volcanic in Hawaii

Clean, limitless geothermal power is being touted to solve the state's energy problems, but opponents claim that tapping it will endanger the islands' precious rain forests.

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EDUCATION: World without walls

Learning a foreign tongue -- and culture -- is fun at one of 10 extraordinary summer language villages run by Minnesota's Concordia College.

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ART: Modernist painters who looked to the past

A first-rate show in London assesses the classical revival that followed World War I, in which artists from Picasso to Matisse to De Chirico used tradition to temper innovation.

4 Letters

7 Interview

13 Grapevine

61 Medicine

61 Religion

65 People

69 Behavior

71 Books

73 Music

73 Milestones

76 Essay

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