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THE WEEK

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COVER: Nightmare in the Balkans

What began as a local tragedy has grown into an international disgrace as thousands die in the middle of Europe

Slobodan Milosevic

His dream of Greater Serbia makes him the central villain in Yugoslavia’s war

Diplomatic Impotence

First the hand wringing, now sanctions, but even that isn’t likely to end the fighting

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U.S. POLICY: Too Much Carrot, Not Enough Stick

Was George Bush once too eager to help Saddam Hussein?

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REFUGEES: Turn Around and Go Home

Why Washington doesn’t welcome the Haitian boat people

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U.S. POLITICS: Dial D for Democracy

How Perot’s notion of electronic town meetings would work

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THE PRESIDENCY: Graying, but Ready to Charge

Nearing 68, Bush talks about his health and how he stays fit

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THE CAMPAIGN: Clinton’s Forgotten Childhood

What the candidate’s troubled upbringing says about him today

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INTERVIEW: Goodbye, Mr. Smith

Three Congressmen tell why they are calling it quits

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EDUCATION: Revolution in the Classroom

Grading the Whittle plan for a profitmaking school system

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BUSINESS: Your Office Aboard the Airplane

Phone, fax, conference, order — all from your seat aloft

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ENVIRONMENT: Brazil’s Dirty Secrets

The Earth Summit host country is no ecological saint

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HEALTH: Smart Pills and Think Drinks

They promise to boost the brain, but is it dumb to try them?

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TELEVISION: A Tougher Game Under New Rules

What’s behind the networks’ fall schedules

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LIVING: Playing Hard to Get

It can be easier to buy an assault rifle than a nicotine patch

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PROFILE: Milestone for McCartney

At fifty, Paul celebrates babies, ballads and happy endings

REVIEWS

BOOKS The amazing story of physicist Stephen Hawking 88

Clockers delivers the grit 89

CINEMA Harrison Ford enlivens Patriot Games, fortunately 89

In Zentropa, the European cinema comes alive again 90

MUSIC Wilson Phillips gets personal in its second album 91

Kathleen Battle and Wynton Marsalis go Baroque 93

SHORT TAKES 95

DEPARTMENTS

LETTERS 15

PUBLISHER’S LETTER 20

GRAPEVINE 23

PEOPLE 97

ESSAY 98

Cover: Executed Croat lying in a street in Vukovar

Photograph for TIME by Christopher Morris — Black Star