COVER STORIES
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EDUCATION:
Academia in the Year 2000
U.S. universities will be more diverse and technologically aware
ALSO: How U.S. Institutions Rate
Pretty well, with foreign students
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NATION:
Better to Mug Than Be Mugged
Clinton and Brown learn a trick or two
Clinton’s Arkansas Scorecard
How he fared as Governor
Russia’s New Best Friends
Bush and Clinton call for aid
Bad News For GoodFellas
Godfather Gotti is guilty as charged
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WORLD:
Germany Flexes Its Muscles
No longer self-effacing, Bonn asserts itself and troubles the neighbors
Carnage in Nagorno-Karabakh
Armenians and Azeris intensify their blood feud
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BUSINESS:
Accountants Under Siege
The profession faces the most serious legal liability crisis in its history
INTERVIEW Governor Lowell Weicker on making tough choices
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MEDICINE Did sex and therapy drive a psychiatrist’s patient to suicide? 61
HISTORY Who killed J.F.K.? And what would he have done in Vietnam? 64
PROFILE Mark Morris, prince of modern dance, returns to his realm
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SHOW BUSINESS The computer wizards are energizing the movies
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CINEMA Tout Hollywood is abuzz about The Player. Now it’s your turn 70
MUSIC Black musicians are putting some soul back into rock ‘n’ roll 71
ART Ceramist Ken Price proves that real sculpture doesn’t have to be big 73
BOOKS A dead man unravels his tale in Graham Swift’s latest novel
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+ TELEVISION Ren & Stimpy breaks up 2.2 million households
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ESSAY Magician James Randi on modern medieval thinking
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DEPARTMENTS
LETTERS 8 PEOPLE 63
GRAPEVINE 19 THEATER 70
SCIENCE 62 MILESTONES 79
COVER Photograph by Richard Laird — F P G International, digitally altered by Joe Lertola
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