COVER

Road to Haiti (Cover Stories)

With Clinton's blessing, Carter cuts a deal with the junta, avoiding an invasion and much bloodshed. Now the problem will be getting out

The Carter Connection (Cover Stories)

Clinton at war has the countenance of Clinton at peace. Or is that Carter?

NATION

Besuboru Like It Oughta Be (Chronicles)

Unlike its American cousin, Japanese major league baseball (pronounced besuboru) has two weeks left in its season. Last week's highlights:

They Call Him Flash Panetta (Chronicles)

Leon Panetta's anticlimactic though long-awaited shake-up of White House personnel finally took place last week. How long awaited?

WORLD

Remember Sarajevo? (Bosnia)

Winter is coming, the pain and diplomatic absurdity go on -- and the outside world is far away

SCIENCE

One Less Missing Link

Bones from the Ethiopian desert prove that human ancestors walked the earth 4.4 million years ago

HEALTH & MEDICINE

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Re-Enter the Dragon (Controversy)

Unable to endure a soft leadership, the Ku Klux Klan splinters

BUSINESS

EDUCATION

Beyond the Sound Barrier

Deaf Americans are proud that one of their own is Miss America. But can her example apply to them?

LAW

Questionable Judgment (Justice)

A new book says the American jury system is in deep trouble. The O.J. trial is offering a glimpse of why

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BOOKS: Catch-23 (Arts & Media / BOOKS)

Joseph Heller resurrects Yossarian and Minderbinder, three decades after the fiction

BOOKS: Cops with Machisma (Arts & Media / BOOKS)

Three gritty tough-girl mysteries show how far female thriller writers have moved from old-fashioned teacup rattlers

SHOW BUSINESS: The Magical Mst Tour (Arts & Media / SHOW BUSINESS)

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 cutups, those demolition demons of bad movies, throw a kooky party for their fans

SHOW BUSINESS: Voila! Cirque du Soleil (Arts & Media / SHOW BUSINESS)

Cirque du Soleil, which reinvented the magic of the big top, brings dazzling theatricality to two glamorous shows in Las Vegas and California

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