COVER

Baby Huey on the ATTACK (Cover Stories)

As the dean of the nasty commercial, Floyd Brown has you-know-who in his sights

Bill Clinton : Beginning Of the Road (Cover Stories)

To discover the real Bill Clinton, look not at Yale or Oxford, but at the thick forests and fertile plains of his native Arkansas

Clinton's Second Chance (Cover Stories)

Fashioning an all-Southern, baby-boomer ticket and offering a retooled economic program, the Democratic candidate readies himself for a grueling, down-and-dirty fall campaign

NATION

Fall of The Mighty (The Week: Nation)

The law snares an S&L swindler, an ex-envoy and a careless airline

Swabbing The Deck (The Week: Nation)

The Navy gets a squeaky-clean new boss -- and another black eye

WORLD

B.C.C.I. Hits Home (The Week World)

A Saudi bank roils the markets after its top officer is indicted

Debt Bomb Defused? (The Week World)

Brazil and banks reach a pact to end the crisis in Latin America

End of The Gold Rush (The Week World)

Canadians haul in their nets as a two-year cod-fishing ban begins

The Party on Trial (Russia)

Yeltsin's democrats are asking a constitutional court to outlaw the Communist Party once and for all

WAR & TERRORISM

Guns Now, Butter Later (The Balkans)

Relief flights are bringing aid, but that is not enough to assuage the anger building in Sarajevo

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Drug Danger (The Week Health & Science / Et Cetera)

Drug Danger

Red Light? Or Green? (The Week Health & Science)

Two court decisions go in opposite directions on environmental hazards

SOCIETY

Big League Shuffle (The Week: Society)

Baseball's boss rearranges old rivalries and makes new enemies

Losing An Edge (The Week: Society)

Japan, Germany and Switzerland begin to outpace the U.S.

Paying The Price of Freedom (Culture)

The Kirov Opera barnstorms the U.S. as its chief, Valery Gergiev, confronts the dilemma of the arts in post-Soviet Russia: how to survive without subsidies

Presumed Innocent (The Week: Society)

A trial ends with a nanny's tenuous triumph and a baffling whodunit

Was Huck Finn Black? (The Week: Society)

A Twain scholar says a loquacious 10-year-old inspired the character

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Ross Perot's Days At Big Blue (U.S. Politics)

As a young and ambitious IBM salesman, he alienated many of his colleagues with his sharp-elbow tactics

BUSINESS

EDUCATION

Welcome to The Donors Club

A businessman pledges a gift of $100 million, and an ecstatic college offers to change its name to his

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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