NATION

Lott's Trial Balloon

Is he statesman enough to sell his plan for a quick Senate decision on Clinton?

BUSINESS

Lean Times on the Farm

If hog prices are so low, why isn't pork cheaper? Struggling farmers want help--and some answers

SOCIETY

PERSONAL TIME

Stealth Tax Hikes (PERSONAL TIME/YOUR MONEY)

Tax cuts got lots of ink, but the overall tab will rise this year; here's why--and what you can do

Try, Try Again (PERSONAL TIME/YOUR HEALTH)

Another year, another chance to make your New Year's diet and exercise resolutions stick

I Get Mail!

And the subjects range from the technologically sublime to the sociologically ridiculous

WORLD

Men Who Would Be Bibi

Other Israeli politicians can't stand Netanyahu, but the voters may still stick by him

In Fighting Trim

In an exclusive interview, Netanyahu describes his fall--and his plan to return

THE ARTS

Fox Gets Superanimated (THE ARTS/TELEVISION)

Don't have a cow, man, but the network that Bart Simpson has called home for the past nine years is now betting its future on three new cartoon series

The Fall of The King (THE ARTS/BOOKS)

Volume II of Peter Guralnick's masterly telling of Elvis' life

The Sopranos (SHORT TAKES/TELEVISION)

HBO, Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.