Monday, Oct. 14, 1991

Time Magazine Contents Page

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CINEMA: Portrait of an Artist

Actress Jodie Foster boldly crosses a new threshold: now she's a first-class film director

18

NATION: Rubbergate

Congress halts the bouncing checks, but other perks remain

34

WORLD: One Army Coup Too Many

The Western hemisphere vows to restore democracy in Haiti

42

BUSINESS: The Stubborn Slump

Beset by the '80s debt binge, the U.S. economy can't get rolling

INTERVIEW Veteran prosecutor Linda Fairstein on convicting rapists 11

RELIGION Has Christian Science embraced apostasy for $90 million?

57

EDUCATION Do poor kids deserve poor schools? 60

ENVIRONMENT Ways to restore what man has plundered 62

MEDICINE Halcion has been banned in Britain. Is the sleeping pill safe? 65

TELEVISION Now, it seems, everyone can have a talk show

79

PRESS A Young-Turk Tory takes over a once liberal magazine

82

HEALTH Don't look for the Fountain of Youth in a jar 83

MUSIC Heavy metal's raunchy rebels storm the pop charts

85

BOOKS Examining crime chronicler Joe McGinniss's techniques

86

NOBELS Nadine Gordimer talks about the role of a writer in a

repressive society 91

ESSAY Charles Krauthammer on Bush's fondness for dictators

93

DEPARTMENTS

LETTERS 4

GRAPEVINE 17

MILESTONES 65

COVER Photograph for TIME by Gregory Heisler