Vol. 144 No. 24

COVER

A Terrible Beauty (BUSINESS)
An obsessive focus on show-ring looks is crippling, sometimes fatally, America's purebred dogs

NATION

Forewarned Is Forearmed (Chronicles)

Health Report (Chronicles)

Just Wondering (Chronicles)

Neither Rain Nor Sleet Nor Rampant Inflation (Chronicles)

Now Showing (Chronicles)

Poorly Treated Guest of the Week (Chronicles)

The Once and Future Hillary (The White House)
Belying rumors of self-doubt, the First Lady reappears, unapologetic and as feisty as ever

The Really Big Chill (Chronicles)

The Week November 27-December 3 (Chronicles)

Time on Capitol Hill Gatt and You (Chronicles)

Winners & Losers (Chronicles)

WORLD

A Letter From Sarajevo (Bosnia)
One Thousand Days of Solitude

Allied in Failure (Bosnia)
Western impotence over Bihac is the culmination of two years of ineffectual wrangling among Washington, its European partners and the U.N.

Fire in the Caucasus (Russia)
Yeltsin's ultimatum to breakaway Chechnya prompts fears of a homegrown Afghanistan war

Getting the Hang of It (Haiti)
Despite huge problems, a newly molded Aristide has given his country what it never had before: hope

The Power of American Magic (Haiti)

Who Can Tell What Washington Wants? (Bosnia)

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Chin Music (Medicine)
Doctors warn that relentless blows to the head may be giving football players lasting brain damage

SOCIETY

The Storm Over Orphanages

TECHNOLOGY

Terror on the Internet
A pair of electronic mail bombings underscores the fragility of the world's largest computer network

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Public Eye Female Chauvinist Pigs?

The Political Interest
Reinventing Bill Clinton

Time (Contents)
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Time (Masthead)
Masthead December 12, 1994 -- Vol. 144 No. 24

BUSINESS

Going Up, Up in Arms (Trade)
To buttress industry at home and policy abroad, the U.S. becomes the arms merchant to the world

No Pain, Just Gain (On The Money)

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Born Again (The Arts & Media / MUSIC)
Years after Prince suppressed it, his fabled Black Album appears

Flack Attack (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)
A political novel finds the humor in going negative

Frank & Co. (The Arts & Media / MUSIC)
Duets II pairs Sinatra with wannabes and some winners

Funny Girl (The Arts & Media / CINEMA)
How does a Dorothy Parker biopic manage to be witless?

Hurricane Camille Blows Again (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)
Camille Paglia's latest collection is a scrapbook -- a book of her scraps with those stodgy old feminists -- and one blistering read

I Like New York in Yule (The Arts & Media / SHOW BUSINESS)
With Rockettes, stores and Scrooges, Manhattan evokes the ghosts of Christmas past

Something to Sing About (The Arts & Media / THEATER)
A very traditional British cast finds rapture in As You Like It

The Shock of the Old (The Arts & Media / MUSIC)
Conducting an orchestra playing original instruments, John Eliot Gardiner finds the revolutionary in Beethoven

Tim At the Top (The Arts & Media / SHOW BUSINESS)
With a No. 1 movie, a No. 1 TV show and a No. 1 book, Tim Allen is having an unbeatable year

Wild Child or Wise Woman? (The Arts & Media / CINEMA)
In Nell, Jodie Foster gives a fierce, beautiful performance as someone who grew up in isolation and speaks her own dialect

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ESSAY

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