COVER
Louis Farrakhan: Pride and Prejudice (Cover Stories)
He inspires African Americans, but why does America's most controversial minister poison his message with racist hatred?
NATION
A Cabinet That Sweats Like America (Chronicles)
Down in the Big Queasy (Cities)
The treasury is strapped, business is stalled, crime is up. New Orleans' bon temps have rolled away.
Ducking the Homeless Bill (The Budget)
The White House shies from a fiscal trade-off
Health Report: Feb. 28, 1994 (Chronicles)
If Expense Accounts Could Talk . . . (Chronicles)
Informed Sources: Feb. 28, 1994 (Chronicles)
An Ally By Any Other Name . . . (Chronicles / Inside Washington)
Maybe There's Something in the Juice (Chronicles)
Prestigious Jobs in Magazine Publishing -- No Experience Required! (Chronicles)
The Week February 13-19 (Chronicles)
Vox Pop: Feb. 28, 1994 (Chronicles)
Winners & Losers: Feb. 28, 1994 (Chronicles)
Zhirinovsky Beat: At Home with Russia's Top Ultranationalist (Chronicles)
Exclusive: At Home with Russia's Top Ultranationalist
WORLD
Amid Disaster, Amazing Valor (Somalia)
The untold story of the American troops who turned a calamitous foray in Mogadishu into an extraordinary lesson in military courage
Words Are Not Enough (Bosnia)
Even if the Serbs live up to their promise to pull the guns back from Sarajevo, peace remains out of reach
WAR & TERRORISM
Up From the Depths (Defense)
Why is the Navy off course? Some experts contend that too many recent chiefs were submariners.
SPORT
SPEED SKATING: Finally! (SPEED SKATING)
Finding salvation at the finish line, Dan Jansen, the Olympics' heartbreak kid, is first at last
FIGURE SKATING: High Flyers (FIGURE SKATING)
As a veteran pair triumphs, a new triumvirate emerges
SKIING: Schuuuusss! (SKIING)
In Lillehammer, Alpine skiing kicks off with an unexpected but refreshing American accent
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
The Political Interest Playing Nuclear Poker (The Political Interest)
Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
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Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
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BUSINESS
Take That! and That! (Trade)
With a threat of sanctions, the U.S. tries to tighten the screws on Japan without starting a trade war
The Deal That Forced Diller to Fold
The inside story of how Viacom's Sumner Redstone placed a $10 billion bet against QVC's Barry Diller and finally won the long battle for Paramount
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
BOOKS: A Peeper's Paradise (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)
In The Fermata, Nicholson Baker offers an overextended voyeuristic tease
THEATER: Home Is Where the Art Is (The Arts & Media / THEATER)
South African dissident Athol Fugard happily loses his great theme and sets his sights on a postapartheid world
TELEVISION: Murder, They Wheezed (The Arts & Media / TELEVISION)
Starring in sitcoms may get too strenuous, but in prime time you're never too old to solve a whodunit
BOOKS: Shipwrecked in Vermont (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)
A haunting tale of growing up in, and escaping from, Vietnam
TELEVISION: The Origin of Our Species (The Arts & Media / TELEVISION)
Nova offers a vivid three-part tour of human prehistory