Table of ContentsYankee Against the Grain A lyrical show highlights the landscape mastery of Fairfield PorterLove Means Never Having to Say Mid-Life Crisis The Silence of the Psychopaths The Barefoot Bride: Julia's Got a LovettHEALTH REPORT Spectator The Great TV Violence Hype The networks' new parental advisories are almost pathetically beside the pointNo Easy Solutions HereClintosaurus RexFuture Shock From IrelandWHY NOT JUST FIRE HIM?BIOGRAPHY OR SOAP OPERA? A forthcoming volume on Teddy Kennedy draws some fire for ''creating'' the thoughts and words of its subjectCivil Wars In the SoulTRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE RENO WAY Clinton's popular, straight-talking Attorney General wants to revolutionize law enforcement, but will the White House let her?Vision Quest For MatronsSnakes or Ladders ! A controversial Supreme Court decision on racial redistricting uncovers a can of worms. Or is it a string of pearls?Is the Symphony Orchestra Dying? Rising deficits and hidebound repertoires threaten the nation's concert ensemblesLAYING HANDS ON AN UNWANTED GUEST Preceded by a decoy, Sheik Abdel Rahman leaves a Brooklyn mosque and surrenders to waiting fedsTIME Magazine Contents Page JULY 12, 1993 VOL. 142 NO. 2 Reaching Out in IowaSEX FOR SALE Pete, We Can Hear You Who's afraid of getting old? With a Tony for Tommy and a terrific new album, Pete Townshend is in his prime.''THOSE KIDS ARE SO EAGER''Bird's Dog How the Small-Business Owner Gets ClobberedNo Loser, He Mississippi Rising Its waters swollen by weeks of rain, the Mississippi overflows its banks and inundates five statesWHERE THE NEW TAXES HIT HOME The poor will benefit, the rich will bear the burden, and everyone will pay a little at the pumpTake Back Your Poor Troubling Topic The Landscaper's Secrets No one missed the victims until a serial killer stumbled into the hands of the lawTokyo's No Star Line-Up On the eve of their economic summit, the world's leaders, suffering from an absence of vision, seem smaller than the problems they faceNEWS DIGEST JUNE 27-JULY 3IT'S NATURE, STUPID In the owls-vs.-jobs conflict, Clinton says it's not just the economy that mattersSPOTLIGHT When Bombs Fall, Polls Rise Singing the Blue Cross Blues The shocking tale of mismanagement and mischief at New York's huge health insurer is far from uniqueWINNERS & LOSERS AFFAIRS OF STATE Broken Spirits Isolated and impoverished, Iraqis must endure Saddam and the U.S. missile attack designed to unnerve himINFORMED SOURCES The Magazining of TV News As daily coverage dwindles, prime-time shows thriveThe Bush Administration: Where Are They Now? Hip-Hop Goes Bebop Rappers and jazz musicians are joining forcesAn Old New Drug for AIDS The notorious sedative thalidomide may give doctors another weapon to fight a modern plagueMAP A Growing Controversy Should researchers stop a study that gives healthy kids a drug to make them taller?DISPATCHES Latter-Day Grunge