COVER

A Terrible Beauty (BUSINESS)

An obsessive focus on show-ring looks is crippling, sometimes fatally, America's purebred dogs

NATION

The Once and Future Hillary (The White House)

Belying rumors of self-doubt, the First Lady reappears, unapologetic and as feisty as ever

WORLD

Allied in Failure (Bosnia)

Western impotence over Bihac is the culmination of two years of ineffectual wrangling among Washington, its European partners and the U.N.

Fire in the Caucasus (Russia)

Yeltsin's ultimatum to breakaway Chechnya prompts fears of a homegrown Afghanistan war

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Chin Music (Medicine)

Doctors warn that relentless blows to the head may be giving football players lasting brain damage

SOCIETY

TECHNOLOGY

Terror on the Internet

A pair of electronic mail bombings underscores the fragility of the world's largest computer network

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

BUSINESS

Going Up, Up in Arms (Trade)

To buttress industry at home and policy abroad, the U.S. becomes the arms merchant to the world

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

MUSIC: Born Again (The Arts & Media / MUSIC)

Years after Prince suppressed it, his fabled Black Album appears

BOOKS: Flack Attack (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)

A political novel finds the humor in going negative

CINEMA: Funny Girl (The Arts & Media / CINEMA)

How does a Dorothy Parker biopic manage to be witless?

BOOKS: Hurricane Camille Blows Again (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)

Camille Paglia's latest collection is a scrapbook -- a book of her scraps with those stodgy old feminists -- and one blistering read

I Like New York in Yule (The Arts & Media / SHOW BUSINESS)

With Rockettes, stores and Scrooges, Manhattan evokes the ghosts of Christmas past

MUSIC: The Shock of the Old (The Arts & Media / MUSIC)

Conducting an orchestra playing original instruments, John Eliot Gardiner finds the revolutionary in Beethoven

Tim At the Top (The Arts & Media / SHOW BUSINESS)

With a No. 1 movie, a No. 1 TV show and a No. 1 book, Tim Allen is having an unbeatable year

CINEMA: Wild Child or Wise Woman? (The Arts & Media / CINEMA)

In Nell, Jodie Foster gives a fierce, beautiful performance as someone who grew up in isolation and speaks her own dialect

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