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TO OUR READERS 4

LETTERS 10

CHRONICLES 21

THE ADMINISTRATION: Cooking Up a New Menu 30

Will the G.O.P. self-destruct? The Democrats dream on

FOREIGN POLICY: Helmsmanship 34

A Foreign Relations chairman who shoots from the lip

THE POLITICAL INTEREST: Jesse and Bill on Hafez 37

A shared mistrust, but differences on how to deal with Syria

ARMS CONTROL: Secret Mission to Kazakhstan 38

Project Sapphire funnels high-grade uranium into the U.S.

LAW: Term Limits Come to Judgment 41

The grass-roots movement gets its day in the Supreme Court

SOCIETY: The Abortion Pill Reaches the U.S. 45

Clinical trials begin in Des Moines, Iowa, and other cities

COVER: A New Generation of Leaders 48

If Americans could have sent no one to Congress in the last

election, they would have. What does it take to be a leader in

a nation that doesn't want to be led?

- The Fifty: TIME's roster for the 21st century 51

Where Are They Now? The magazine's choices in '74 and '79 68

The Real Points of Light: Redefining leadership 76

BOSNIA: Full-Scale Futility 78

No one has figured out how to stop the Serbs or the war

RUSSIA: Red Army Blues 80

Scandal plagues Moscow's military and the man who leads it

ITALY: Can Berlusconi Remain in the Saddle? 81

The Prime Minister is formally placed under investigation

MIDDLE EAST: The Fallout from Bloody Friday 82

So much for the notion of Palestinian unity

MEXICO: Dead End 84

The investigation of a murdered politician goes nowhere

THE ARTS & MEDIA:

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Art: The paintings of Poussin challenge modern eyes 86

Television: What if the Nazis had won the war? 90

Cinema: To Live is visually ravaging, emotionally relentless 90

Tommy Lee Jones plays the horrifically fascinating Ty Cobb 92

The offbeat, bracing Beans of Egypt, Maine 92

Red is a fine conclusion to Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy 93

The Professional slices and dices -- people and film history 93

Theater: Julie Harris stars in a revival of The Glass Menagerie 94

Brilliant acting is the reason to see the tepid Vita & Virginia 94

Books: The collected stories of Louis Auchincloss 96

Witty faux film criticism from Libby Gelman-Waxner 102

Music: Lost tapes document the great Sviatoslav Richter 103

PEOPLE 105

ESSAY 106

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