Vol. 143 No. 15

COVER

Attack of the Data Miners (Cover Stories)
High-water pants alert! The quants have arrived, but does anyone know what they're talking about?

How the Big Game Began (Cover Stories)

The Secret Money Machine (Cover Stories)
Seven years after the crash, Wall Street has become a cyberwonderland that could be riskier than ever

What's Going Down (Cover Stories)
It's perverse: the better the economic news, the more the markets dive. How long can the little guys keep their cool?

NATION

And In Local News ... The four top stories on assorted world newscasts for March 29, 1994 (Chronicles)

Blame It on Cain's Mom (Chronicles)

Clintonophobia! (Politics)
Just who are these Clinton haters, and why do they loathe Bill and Hillary with such passion?

Downsizing the FBI Way (Chronicles)

Giving to America's Not-So-Neediest (Chronicles)

Health Report (Chronicles)

In the Spotlight (Chronicles)

Informed Sources (Chronicles)

Milestones (Chronicles)

Milestones (Chronicles)

Milestones (Chronicles)

Milestones (Chronicles)

Milestones (Chronicles)

Milestones (Chronicles)

Milestones (Chronicles)

Milestones (Chronicles)

None Dare Call It Kafkaesque (Chronicles)

Playing By the Numbers (The White House)
From health care to Whitewater, the Clinton Administration relies heavily on polling

Pop Quiz (Chronicles)

Rich Man, Poor Man (Labor)
The reformist Teamster boss has a real estate horde that strains his blue collar image

Shut Up, Ruth (Chronicles)

Sure Things (Chronicles)

The Week March 27 -April 2 (Chronicles)

Tomorrow's Assignment: Duck! (Chronicles)

Winners & Losers (Chronicles)

Zhirinovsky Beat (Chronicles)

WORLD

Breaking Point in Zululand (South Africa)
With free elections threatened by civil war, the government declares a state of emergency and sends troops into Natal

Knight Of The New Right (Italy)
Media mogul Silvio Berlusconi rides into power with the help of neofascists

Mr. Inside Steps Forward (Mexico)
Smart but woefully short on charisma, replacement candidate Zedillo vows to protect the Salinas legacy

Still Punishing the Victims (Haiti)
A wavering U.S. policy has wrought little except greater disparity between Haiti's rich and poor

Well, Maybe a Nuke or Two (Diplomacy)
Acknowledging that North Korea and Pakistan have nuclear weapons, the U.S. redraws its line in the sand

SCIENCE

Lucy's Grandson
A fossil skull implies that humanity's earliest known progenitors belonged to a single, long-lived species

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Parents: Can the Juice! (Health)
Pediatricians report that too much of a good thing can prevent children under age two from growing

When Is Crib Death a Cover for Murder? (Medicine)
Waneta Hoyt grieved the loss of her five children. Now, 23 years later, she is charged with killing them.

SOCIETY

Sorry, Wrong Apartment (Crime)
A misguided drug raid frightens a retired clergyman to death

RELIGION

Is There a Place For God in School?
As crusaders probe for loopholes in past rulings, the Supreme Court revisits the issue of church and state

SPORT

Men Will be Boys
They won two Super Bowls together, but Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones couldn't coexist in Dallas

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

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LAW

Building A Better Thug? (Prisons)
Incensed over muscle-bound ex-cons, Milwaukee wants to ban pumping iron among its prisoners

Doubts On Death Row
Amid charges of racial bias and irregularities in the jury room, a former Marine is executed

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Fascism, Fury, Fear and Farce (The Arts & Media / THEATER)
Eugene Ionesco's absurdist comedies transmuted a century of dictatorship and evil into profound nonsense and guffaws

Furthermore (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)

Furthermore (The Arts & Media / TELEVISION)

How The World Works (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)
Henry Kissinger's Diplomacy silences all doubt that he is among this century's most profound thinkers on international affairs

It's A Wonderful Life (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)
A biography details Steve Ross's rise from undertaker to mogul

Middlemarch Madness? (The Arts & Media / TELEVISION)
PBS imports a fine British adaptation of a classic

Mourning John in Song (The Arts & Media / THEATER)
Yoko Ono writes a musical about random violence

Nice Guys Finish First (The Arts & Media / CINEMA)
The studios score big with a crop of feel-good sports movies in which happy endings are never in doubt

Return of The Rude Boy (The Arts & Media / MUSIC)
Elvis Costello shakes off the cobwebs on his new album

Soft Songs, Hard Truths (The Arts & Media / MUSIC)
Whether Cassandra Wilson sings pop or Prince -- its jazz

World Music's Next Big Beat (The Arts & Media / MUSIC)
In Deep Forest, Pygmy singing meets techno-pop

TO OUR READERS

To Our Readers

LETTERS

Barbaric Ritual? (Letters To The Editor)

Correction (Letters To The Editor)

Early Man's Movements (Letters To The Editor)

Hard Times for Hillary (Letters To The Editor)

Judging the First Lady (Letters To The Editor)

Serious Make-Believe (Letters To The Editor)

The Tehran Connection (Letters To The Editor)

ESSAY

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