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THE WEEK 20

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COVER: Fire Storm in Waco

After 51 days, self-styled messiah David Koresh finally realized his biblical vision; for him and 85 of his followers, the world did end in blood and fire.

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The First Tragedy: Were agents sent into a deathtrap?

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Cult of Personality: The mystery of Koresh’s allure

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Paths to the Inferno: How three fire victims got there

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THE POLITICAL INTEREST: A Faltering Start

What has Bill Clinton got to show for his first 100 days?

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BOSNIA: Will Anyone Come to the Rescue?

Clinton is pondering whether the West should use more muscle

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SOCIETY: A Gay “Friend of Bill” Ponders a Rift

Marchers in Washington try to nudge, not rile the President

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BUSINESS: Steve Wynn

This casino owner is on a mission to gentrify gambling

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MONEY ANGLES: How Not to Get Burned

What you shouldn’t do with your investment dollars

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LAW: Ivan Boesky’s Latest Raid

The former Wall Street tycoon targets his ex-wife’s millions

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SCANDALS: The Money Vanishes

A shadowy banker’s downfall exposes Serbia’s chaos

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ENVIRONMENT: Clinton’s Green After All

A pledge to curb global warming reassures the Earth Day crowd

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SCIENCE: When Did Man Come to America?

Millenniums earlier than once thought

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ART: Forging a New Iron Age

A look at the 20th century pioneers of welded metal sculpture

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DESIGN: New Age Gothic

Thoughtful Fumihiko Maki wins architecture’s top prize

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PROFILE: Renaissance Jester

In a toxic age, writer Paul Rudnick dares to celebrate life

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THEATER: Along Comes the Spider

The grim, brilliantly hallucinatory Kiss of the Spider Woman

REVIEWS

TELEVISION A series on dancing missteps 74

Home Improvement closes the gender gap 74

THEATER On Broadway, Tommy is gloriously hyperkinetic 76

BOOKS Moping and mawkishness take over in For Love 76

Thomas Keneally’s novel is a romance of the Outback 79

SHORT TAKES 81

DEPARTMENTS

PUBLISHER’S LETTER 4

LETTERS 13

GRAPEVINE 19

MILESTONES 25

PEOPLE 83

ESSAY 84

Cover: Photomontage: Explosion of Waco compound for TIME by Shelly Katz — Black Star; David Koresh from Nine Network Australia

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