Time Magazine Contents Page

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IDEAS:

The Backlash Debate

Are women unhappy because feminism succeeded -- or because it stalled?

Fighting the Battle from Within

An interview with Faludi and Steinem

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NATION:

Kids with Guns

More teens are armed and dangerous

Baker's Foreign Policy

A great tactician, but where's the vision?

Presidential Air Wars

The campaign TV ads get nasty

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WORLD:

Yeltsin's Competition

Rivals are breathing down his neck

Citizen Gorbachev, Pensioner

Two homes, a car and $60 a month

Extremes in Black and White

South Africa is reforming, but its militants are ready to fight

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BUSINESS:

Foxes in the Hen House?

Private security guards too often victimize those they're supposed to protect

INTERVIEW An innovative judge talks about poetic justice 12

MEDICINE The Tsongas effect: a spotlight on cancer survivors

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SCIENCE Is gorging rodents the best way to test a chemical's safety? 61

PROFILE How an aggressive homeless man took on a town and won

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SHOW BUSINESS Mogul Barry Diller quits while he's ahead -- but why? 64

CINEMA The joyous Mambo Kings is directed by . . . an art dealer?

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BOOKS The chaos, cruelty and corruption of emperor Mao's reign

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Scenes from a rocky marriage, by a former TIME staff member 71

CULTURE Weakened by its own bungling, the NEA is an easy target

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ART Forget the Hollywood version. Here's the real Toulouse-Lautrec 76

ESSAY Richard Brookhiser on Canada's uncertain future 78

DEPARTMENTS

LETTERS 6 GRAPEVINE 19

CRITICS' VOICES 10 MILESTONES 64

COVER Photograph for TIME by Gregory Heisler