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COVER: A profile in recklessness, Hart is back and the Democrats are stuck with him

His return was daring political theater, but it enraged party leaders, threw the race into chaos and vaulted the former Colorado Senator to the head of the presidential pack in a TIME poll. Can he survive without money, organization or further apology? -- Interviews with both the candidate and his long- enduring wife Lee reveal the tears behind the public smiles. See NATION.

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WORLD: Roh wins in South Korea, but the opposition vows to overturn his election

Confounding predictions of a neck- and- neck race, the ruling party candidate handily wins a five- year presidential term amid charges of fraud. -- Facing the worst riots in 20 years, the Israeli military comes down hard on Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza. -- Reagan' s quest to secure new aid for the contras gets an inadvertent boost from Nicaragua' s Ortega brothers.

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IMAGES: 1987' s best pictures star Ron and Mikhail, a raging bear and two Jessicas

Some of the year' s most unforgettable photographs focus on a superpower summit, a stock- market panic and a congressional probe into a scandal that shook a government. Others are on a more human scale: a Pontiff embracing a young AIDS victim, a preacher fallen from grace, a wide- eyed little girl rescued from a well in Texas. All are presented in a 24- page portfolio.

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Economy & Business

For U. S. banks, abysmal loans add up to dismal profits and 200 closures. -- Pennzoil gets $3 billion. -- Boesky gets three years.

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Religion

Uproar over the Catholic bishops' statement on aids education and condoms. -- Methodists debate the Trinity and homosexuality.

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Books

The late Primo Levi' s last work calmly but eloquently preserves the memory of Nazi evil. -- A Len Deighton novel without suspense.

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Music

Pianist John Jarvis uses rock overtones and country twinges to bring a welcome whiff of down- home to the New Age fad.

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Living

Hotels are hiring concierges to help them compete in personal services, and - increasingly women are filling the hectic, lucrative jobs.

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Science

Long a window on the world to armchair travelers, the National Geographic Society prepares to celebrate its centennial.

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Law

With five special prosecutors breathing down its neck, the Administration argues that independent counsel are a little too independent.

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Cinema

Robin Williams shines in -- and talks about -- Good Morning, Vietnam, a comedy that unleashes its star' s gift for mimicry and satire.

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Cover: Illustration by David Levine