Time Magazine Contents Page
THE WEEK 18
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COVER: America's Big Drag
The recession may be over, but the U.S. economic engine remains stalled. What can be done to get it back in gear?
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The Two Plans: Judging the Bush and Clinton proposals
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Currency Commotion: The British pound takes a violent thrashing and so do hopes of a united Europe
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U.S. CAMPAIGN: Countdown Mentality
Is Clinton making a mistake by sitting on his lead?
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THE POLITICAL INTEREST: Bush as Mr. Scrooge
The best way to discourage good people
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PERU: Guzman's Turn to Lose
The Shining Path revolution is decapitated -- but not defeated
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AMERICA ABROAD: Iraq -- It Could Be Worse
If Saddam goes, watch out for a new nightmare
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FORMER SOVIET BLOC: Counterreformation
How conservatives are thwarting free-market democracy
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THE BALKANS: An Ever Greater Serbia
Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo expect to hear the guns next
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SCIENCE: Beyond Pluto
Astronomers spot the distant breeding grounds of comets
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ENVIRONMENT: Alaska's Billion-Dollar Quandary
How should the Exxon Valdez settlement money be spent?
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MEDICINE: The Glue of Life
Adhesion science offers a fresh approach to curing disease
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PROFILE: A Maverick Lion in Winter
Author Gore Vidal wittily decries the decline of America
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ART: The Masterly Matisse
A sublime exhibit defines the artist for a whole generation
REVIEWS
TELEVISION Privacy takes a beating in the love shows 70
CINEMA Last of the Mohicans is a deliriously energetic film 72
BOOKS Kissinger: a full and critical measure of the man 72
SHORT TAKES 75
DEPARTMENTS
PUBLISHER'S LETTER 4
LETTERS 8
GRAPEVINE 17
MILESTONES 33
PEOPLE 77
ESSAY 78