Vol. 143 No. 4

COVER

No Holiday on Ice (Cover Stories)
Dreams of gold and glory in figure skating are very elusive. To become a champion, start with talent, money, monomania and a top-ranked coach.

Tarnished Victory (Cover Stories)
Charges and questions swirl around her, but did Tonya Harding know about the plot to maim her rival?

The Odyssey of an Orphan (Cover Stories)

NATION

Bill and Ted's Cuddly Adventure (Chronicles)

Chronicles (Chronicles)

Diagnosing Bill Gates (Chronicles)

Dispatches Industrial Flea Market (Chronicles)

Health Report (Chronicles)

Informed Sources (Chronicles)

Inside Washington (Chronicles)
From the Man Who Brought You Willie Horton . . .

Raw Data (Chronicles)

The Tangled Web (The Presidency)
As Reno chooses a special prosecutor, new questions arise in the Whitewater case

The Week January 9-15 (Chronicles)

Winners & Losers (Chronicles)

WORLD

Bear Hugs All Around (Diplomacy)
In the wake of Clinton's saxophone summitry, his advisers claim that everyone came away happy. But the President's work may have only just begun.

Boris Yeltsin: "May God Help Us" (Diplomacy)

SCIENCE

Don't Tread on My Lab
Researchers brace themselves for a new era of tighter control and stingier funding from Washington

Hubble Out of Trouble (Space)
Super photos prove the repairs were successful

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Crisis? What Crisis? (Health Care)
As medical inflation eases, so does the sense of urgency that Clinton needs to push his revolutionary plan

SOCIETY

Mother-and-Child Reunion
Big-city hospitals have developed inventive programs to solve the tragedy of abandoned babies

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

The Political Interest Where It Hurts

Time (Contents)
Magazine contents page January 24, 1994 VOL. 143 NO. 4

Time (Masthead)
Magazine Masthead JANUARY 24, 1994 VOL. 143 NO. 4

EDUCATION

Semester Break
In a dustup over campus sexual politics, a collegian charged with intimidation is asked to study elsewhere

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Debra Winger: Dangerous Woman (The Arts & Media Cinema)
Hollywood's hardiest risk taker and troublemaker is back, with two powerful performances

For King and Country (The Arts & Media Television)
A wicked British mini-series imagines a political battle royal

Furthermore (The Arts & Media Cinema)

Furthermore (The Arts & Media Television)

Grit in the Windy City (The Arts & Media Cinema)
Actress Madeleine Stowe ignites an ordinary thriller

Icons of Stalinism (The Arts & Media Art)
Soviet Socialist Realism portrayed a godlike Maximum Leader reigning over a communist heaven

Lost Chords (The Arts & Media Books)
A cellist with perfect pitch in a novel of somber dissonance

Magic From a Wizard's Brew (The Arts & Media Music)
Dead Can Dance evokes the mystical and the exotic

Rap's New Jazz Messengers Us (The Arts & Media Music)
3 Takes Fusion Further Than Some Have Ever Dreamed

Return of the Slugger (The Arts & Media Television)
After a respite from Hollywood, programming whiz Brandon Tartikoff swings for the fences again

Speaking in Tongues (The Arts & Media Books)
Nonstop chatter makes light of the law's dark side

The Taut Wire of Childhood Memory (The Arts & Media Books)
Columnists Art Buchwald and Pete Hamill describe how their early lives were seared by the Great Depression

PEOPLE

Paramount Chairman Martin Davis the Odd Man Out (Interview)

TO OUR READERS

To Our Readers

ESSAY

Feminism Confronts Bobbittry