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NATION: Nelson Mandela arrives in the U.S. and gets a triumphant hero's welcome
| Free at last after 27 years, the antiapartheid leader is seeking money for the cause of racial justice and continued U.S. pressure in South Africa. But Americans want something from him too: a chance to lay eyes on the mythical figure whose plight rekindled the civil rights movement. George Bush is the most courteous of Presidents -- until his evil twin Skippy takes over. Jim Florio of New Jersey has something other Governors lack: the guts to ask for a tax increase and persuade voters to go along.
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WORLD: An awesome earthquake claims at least 45,000 lives in Iran
In one minute, the jolt turns a prosperous agricultural belt into a wasteland of flattened buildings. New players are changing the Soviet political game. Forty years after their war, the Koreans still stare across an armed divide. Is it time for them to reunite peacefully -- and for the U.S. to go home?
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MEDICINE: A losing battle against AIDS
As thousands converge on San Francisco for an international meeting and gay activists protest in the streets, experts warn that prevention efforts are dangerously inadequate.
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BUSINESS: The race is on to invest in Eastern Europe
Bringing money and expertise, Westerners are rushing to take part in the region's future. They will find obstacles as well as opportunities. Las Vegas rakes in the chips.
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ART: Matisse in a domain of purer light and color
Two brief visits to Morocco struck to the root of the 42-year-old painter's development, as can be seen in a radiant show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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EDUCATION: Power to the classroom!
Allowing schools to manage themselves is all the rage, but does it improve learning? Case histories from San Diego, Louisville and Miami illustrate the gains -- and pains -- of local control.
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PROFILE: Sermons that sell
The Rev. Robert Fulghum stresses the obvious -- all you need to know you learned in kindergarten -- in two slim volumes that have sold more than 5 million copies.
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BOOKS: Page turners for beach, grass or hammock
Murder mysteries, international thrillers, short stories and intriguing nonfiction brighten the shelves of summer.
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SPORT: As teen tyros take over tennis, racquet bosses Martina Navratilova and Ivan Lendl try to serve history
The men's circuit has 79 events, and the women's tour 62, but one tournament aces all the rest. At this year's Wimbledon, the dominant players of the '80s -- both Czech by birth and American by choice, both models of dogged diligence -- dodge the steamrolling newcomers of the '90s. Each seeks to enter the record books, and for each, this may be the last best chance.
8 Letters
10 Critics' Voices
13 Grapevine
50 Press
54 Music
64 Cinema
64 Milestones
69 People
70 Essay
Cover: Photograph by Bill Foley