Vol. 141 No. 18

COVER

"Oh, My God, They're Killing Themselves!" -- FBI agent Bob Ricks

Feb. 28: Sent into a Deathtrap?

In the Grip of a Psychopath

Last Letters From David

Paths to The Inferno THE SINGLE MOTHER

Paths to The Inferno THE WANDERING SISTERS

Paths to The Inferno THE EMBITTERED DEPUTY

NATION

An Irregular Guy (The Week: Nation)

Apocalypse, on Location (The Week: Nation)

Clinton Suffers His First Big Loss (The Week: Nation)
G.O.P. filibuster kayoes stimulus bill; will investment tax credit fall next?

Dying for A Living (Grapevine)

Elvis Has Left The Supermarket (Grapevine)

Gang Summit (Grapevine)

Indecent Exposure (The Week: Nation)
The Navy takes a heavy rap in the Tailhook report on sexual harassment

Most Remember; Some Begin to Deny (The Week: Nation)
Around the world, Holocaust memories stir deep feelings

Mystery of The Moneybags (Scandals)
The collapse of a shadowy financier's bank exposes the chaos engulfing Serbia

Pallid Plan for Schools (The Week: Nation)
Clinton's education program turns out to be 1990-vintage George Bush

Rough Runoff (The Week: Nation)

Separate And Unequal (Grapevine)

The Rest of That Controversial POW Report (Grapevine)

The Talks Before the Talks (Grapevine)

Vox Pop (Grapevine)

WORLD

Back on Track (The Week World)

Crowning Blow (The Week World)

Da, Da, Nyet, Da (The Week World)
That's what Yeltsin wants from Russia's voters to save reform

Do Something . . . Anything (Bosnia)
Clinton is under mounting pressure to stop the killing, but there is no easy or politically popular way to do it

Eight Ways to Say Yes (The Week World)
Italy's government falls victim to popular calls for a cleanup

Marching to Somalia (The Week World)

New Foes in Bosnia (The Week World)
U.S. Mulls Next Move Now Croats and Muslims wage war; end to arms embargo may be sought

No Smoking Gun (The Week World)
A Russian report on American POWS may have been real but not right

The Plot Thickens (The Week World)
The Hani murder investigation points to a right-wing conspiracy

SCIENCE

Coming to America
When did the first settlers migrate from Asia to the New World? Archaeologists now say it may have been tens of thousands of years earlier than once thought.

Not Just Hot Air (Environment)
Clinton promises to curb global warming. Now he has to figure out how to do it, which won't be easy.

HEALTH & MEDICINE

From Red to Green (The Week Health & Science)
Gorbachev gets a new job, and it may be even harder than his last one

Here Comes RU 486 (The Week Health & Science)
U.S. approval of the French abortion pill moves closer -- but slowly

Latest Teen Excuse (The Week Health & Science)
Maybe it's the hormones that make kids stay up late and sleep all day

Relentless Ddt (The Week Health & Science)
Years later, residual amounts of the pesticide may trigger breast tumors

SOCIETY

A Grateful Grad (The Week: Society)
Billionaire John Kluge gives $60 million to his alma mater, Columbia

Fantastic Voyage (The Week: Society)
A century-old goal is finally achieved on the high seas

Home Alone Too (The Week: Society)

Not Marching Together
David Mixner worked with Bill Clinton in antiwar days and raised $3.5 million from gays for his campaign. Now he wonders if he's still an F.O.B.

STYLE & DESIGN

From The Sublime To the Meticulous (Design)
Japan's Fumihiko Maki, the greatest living modernist, wins architecture's de facto Nobel Prize

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Money Angles
A Primer on Market Pitfalls With rates as low as 2%, investors are scrambling. Some advice: Watch out.

The Political Interest the First 100 Days
Surefooted during the campaign, Clinton shows signs of losing his intuitive touch in office. What's gone wrong, and can he regain the initiative?

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Time Magazine masthead May 3, 1993 VOL. 141 NO. 18 (Masthead)

BUSINESS

Bad Day at Jones Day (The Week: Business)
A record payment gets the law firm off the hook in the S&L debacle

Splitting Differences (The Week: Business)
Washington and Brussels move cautiously ahead on trade

Tasting A Bit of a Microchip Dip (The Week: Business)
Computer king Intel's stock reels as a competitor copies its leading product

The Great Casino Salesman
Steve Wynn is on a mission to gentrify gambling and make it just one more middle-class leisure pursuit

The Week Business (The Week: Business)

What's in A Name? (The Week: Business)
A Supreme Court ruling on customer lists could cost the IRS billions

LAW

Battling Boeskys
Penniless (he says) and barred from Wall Street, Ivan Boesky pulls a raid on his ex-wife's fortune

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Along Comes the Spider (Theater)
The Broadway season's last, best musical is the grim, brilliantly hallucinatory Kiss of the Spider Woman

Deep In The Outback (Reviews Books)

Prime-Time Power Trip (Reviews Television)

Rituals And Rhythms (Reviews Television)

Rocket From A Bygone Era (Reviews Theater)

Short Takes (Reviews)

The Iron Age Of Sculpture (Art)
A show looks at some 20th century sculptors who changed the material and nature of the art

The Misery Artist (Reviews Books)

PEOPLE

Laughing on The Inside Too (Profile)
In a toxic age, writer Paul Rudnick brings the bright light of his wit to subjects comic and tragic

TO OUR READERS

From the Publisher (From The Publisher)

ESSAY

Holocaust:
Memory And Resolve