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NATION: From stock markets to supermarkets, high anxiety rules the day as politicians bicker and the economy nose-dives
The oil shock threatens to bring on a widespread recession. -- Washington's budget mess tarred everyone who took part in it and gave President Bush his worst setback. -- Can Dick Darman find a way to fix the fiscal fiasco he helped create? Maybe government is dead after all.
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THE GULF: As the waiting game continues, coalition partners bend a bit
The alliance wonders whether force will be used. -- Among the Arabs, even some who condemn Saddam oppose the foreign presence. -- Another day, another rumor in Baghdad.
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WORLD: An ode to a new Europe fills the air
With Germany united and an arms pact in hand, East and West can begin discussing a new security organization. -- Why so many Indians are committing suicide over caste politics.
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LAW: Mr. Souter goes to Washington
% The Justice-to-be sails through the Senate and prepares for the Supreme Court. But is he ready to be one of the capital's most eligible bachelors?
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RELIGION: At last, legal rights for Soviet believers
A historic religious-freedom bill passed by the Soviet parliament gives millions of worshipers new opportunities -- along with scarcities and sectarian strife.
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PROFILE: Author-screenwriter Carrie Fisher
Princess Leia is soaring with a hit movie of her best-selling book Postcards from the Edge and a hot new novel, Surrender the Pink, that takes her out of drug rehab into romance rehab.
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VIDEO: What is TV doing to our children?
Congress has passed some mild kidvid reforms. But parents and psychologists are grappling with a larger issue: the alluring tube is changing the whole way youngsters grow up.
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ART: Mexico at the Met, the biggest show ever
"Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries" is the appropriate name for a magnificent exhibit at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Beginning with a five-ton stone head from 1000 B.C., the show presents more than 300 startling objects. The riveting display moves the viewer through the Olmec, Maya, Toltec and Aztec eras; the days of the Spanish conquista; and into the early 20th century and the works of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Frida Kahlo and Rufino Tamayo. Designed to illuminate Mexican culture for North Americans, it succeeds splendidly.
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SPORT: Trouble in the locker room
More than a decade after winning equality of access to athletes, some women sportswriters face renewed hostility and harassment. A TIME veteran of the access wars offers her view.
8 Letters
16 Interview
24 Critics' Voices
27 Grapevine
71 Cinema
71 Milestones
84 Books
90 Press
94 Living
98 Ethics
100 Essay
Cover: Movie still of Harold Lloyd in Safety Last, from The Bettmann Archive