NATION

Now It's Her Turn

This week Paula Jones' lawyers will offer a peek into their trial strategy. Does she have a chance?

Purloined Papers?

Someone snatched highly classified documents. Was it a bold piece of espionage or just a snafu?

Hizzoner The Hall Monitor

Mayor Giuliani is determined to make New Yorkers more civil. Then he might come after the rest of us

WORLD

Can This Man Fix China?

Premier-designate Zhu Rongji is abrasive, demanding and by all accounts the best man to steer his country through Asia's financial crisis

SCIENCE

DNA Therapy

The new, virus-free way to make genetic repairs

SOCIETY

The Best Of Est?

Werner Erhard's legacy lives on in a kinder, gentler and lucrative version of his self-help seminars

TECHNOLOGY

Bill Gates Diary

HE MEETS SENATORS, EATS PIZZA, PUTS ON TUX, HOBNOBS WITH STARS, VISITS A SCHOOL, MISSES HIS DAUGHTER--AND HIS E-MAIL

BRIEFING

Red-Light TV (Notebook / The Scoop)

Playboy Finds an Internet Precedent to Hop After

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Beyond The Pale (The Arts / Spectator)

Right-wingers say Barnes & Noble is selling child porn. They have a point

BUSINESS

Palm-To-Palm Combat

The industry smirked at the idea of Palm's scaled-down computer. Now Microsoft, Philips and other giants are piling into the market

LAW

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Cinema: Tale Of Two Bills (The Arts / Cinema)

Blurring fact and fiction is old hat, but when Travolta and Clinton face off in Primary Colors, the film reflects our times

Cinema: True Colors (The Arts / Cinema)

Mike Nichols gives a controversial novel a vibrant new life on the big screen

Music: Heading For The Light (The Arts / Music)

Madonna, her baby on her mind, rejects her old ways and embraces mysticism and electronica

Music: Down In The Groove (The Arts / Music)

Soul-rockers Rebekah and Billie Myers make pop that mixes genres and breaks boundaries

Books: Once on This Island (The Arts / Books)

Part family saga, part social history, a lush novel explores the fertile landscape of Puerto Rico

PEOPLE

LETTERS

ESSAY