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Cover Date: December 31, 1999

• Who mattered and why
• Albert Einstein (1879-1955): Person of the century
• The age of Einstein
• A brief history of relativity
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
• Roosevelt: Captain courageous
• Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
• The liberator of South Africa looks at the seminal work of the liborator of India
• Why all Adolf Hitler's destructiveness is not enough to make him person of the century
• Federal agents are scrambling to stop a new Y2K worry: Terror
• Vermont ruling: A halfway win for gay couples
• Poor grade for vouchers
• The web we weave: Creating a collective mind that thinks faster and faster

Cover Date: December 27, 1999

• A second American century?
• All quiet on the Firing Line
• A hex on your taxes
• The terror countdown
• Keeping his eye on the ball
• Ending the whitewash

Cover Date: December 20, 1999

• The cheshire candidate
• He ain't dumb, he's my president
• The heights of ambition
• Gore in your face
• Enter the big guns
• Bradley's health
• Campaign diary of Steve Lopez: Bradley's soft sell
• Mars reconsidered
• It's still spy vs. spy

Cover Date: December 13, 1999

• Is John McCain's biography enough to take him to the White House?
• Never a scripted politician, the unguarded John McCain warms to New Hampshire, and vice versa
• Bush's new fraternity brothers
• Despite, and because of, violence, anti-WTO protesters were heard
• The mystical power of free trade
• Did somebody say McLiar?
• Richard Posner is one of America's most brilliant jurists. But can he settle the Microsoft case?
• A child who escaped Cuba to the U.S. is fought over by relatives, and politicians, in both countries
• A vivid but uneven portrait of the founder of the Nation of Islam

Cover Date: December 06, 1999

• The second Atlanta fire
• Feeding both sides
• George W.'s rescue squad

Cover Date: November 29, 1999

• The War on ATM Fees
• A Family Secret Kept In the Ivory Tower?
• Rumors of Her Demise
• The Imperial Dragon
• Remote, Controlled
• Rolling In Dough
• The Battle In Seattle
• The Taming of a Senator

Cover Date: November 22, 1999

• Arlington National Cemetery, a no-no
• Arms control bigger than politics
• The Branding of Bill Bradley
• The Real Message of Creationism
• Indignant Sanity: A right-wing convert's different view on race
• Newt: The former Speaker has become obsessed--with his fitness and yours
• The high cost of prescriptions may be the hot issue in this election.

Cover Date: November 15, 1999

• Why Bush doesn't like homework
• Next: the Forbes bump
• Wolf role elicits howls from pro-Gore women
• The feisty McCain has been accused of losing control. But it's more complicated than that
• McCain: He's gaining on George W. Bush in New Hampshire. Here's why effective?
• As the dust settles in a two-man race, the question now is: Does Bush have the brains, McCain the temperament to preside in the Oval Office?
• Washington's refusal to pay its dues is imperiling America's influence at the United Nations
• The wonderful world of democracy

Cover Date: November 8, 1999

• Moving to the Big Citi
• Could a clone ever run for president?
• The buyer's guide to congress
• Eulogy
• Please Don't Leave Me, Don't You Go
• Gore's secret guru
• Pressing the germy flesh
• Firing blanks

Cover Date: November 1, 1999

• Are Hillary's brothers driving off course?
• What kind of Democrats are they?
• Espionage
• The Fruit of Its Labor
• Gore Unleashes on Bradley
• The McCain Irony: Reform's Champion Rakes In the Bucks
• The Search for Authenticity

Cover Date: October 25, 1999

• The empire strikes back
• Is It Trick or Treaty?
• Mutually assured destruction
• For McCain, Flak Becomes Fuel

Cover Date: October 18, 1999

• The next triangulator
• My evening with the Donald
• The $150 billion shell game
• Politics

Cover Date: October 11, 1999

• The problem with Bradley's big idea
• Back into the inferno
• The most fearless governor in America
• The Gore campaign
• In the name of their fathers
• Shock for shock's sake?
• Let Jesse Be Jesse...

Cover Date: October 4, 1999

• The art of being Bradley
• The importance of being Ernestine
• How Gore's campaign went off the rails
• Eulogy for Raisa
• Mixing fact and fiction: Our review of the new Reagan bio
• A speechwriter's--sorry, scriptwriter's--D.C. series

Cover Date: September 27, 1999

• U.S. presidency: The job that keeps on giving
• The world according to... Pat Buchanan
• Jesse Ventura may not run for President in 2000--but he wouldn't mind if Donald Trump joined the fray
• Donald Trump: He's the dream, in supersize
• Fight over sludge starts to get dirty
• George W. Bush's foreign-policy adviser is a future superstar
• The Republican: George W.'s ambassador
• Should Congress prohibit "right-to-die" measures?
• An in-the-trenches look at how the war against Big Tobacco got won
• Missing the man in the middle

Cover Date: September 20, 1999

• With his presidential bid picking up steam, "Dollar Bill Bradley" leads a mythopoeic tour of his old hometown
• Bush wants failed schools to lose federal funding. As reforms go, good; but it's still just a baby step
• For all the screaming about spending and tax cuts, the truth is, the money's already gone
• A defense contractor may have escaped punishment because the Marines depend on it too much
• If Buchanan bolts the G.O.P., it's bad news for Bush. So he's sending love signals and a warning or two
• Sexual harassment, chapter 999

Cover Date: September 13, 1999

• Is George W. just a brand name, or part of another political dynasty?
• Prez N the Hood
• New Yorkers want to know if Hillary Clinton can deliver
• Will a new federal law give protect religious freedom or erode other liberties?
• Feuding over Waco

Cover Date: September 6, 1999

• The return of Waco
• Calls are mounting for an end to the deluge of campaign cash
• A court ruling on privacy riles the FCC
• John McCain's campaign bio is compelling, but does it mean he'll be President?
• Richard Holbrooke finally takes his seat at the U.N.--and tackles Kosovo's growing chaos
• On their vacation, the Clintons pass the torch: now it's Hillary who can't rest
• The trouble with the race for mayor in Baltimore is that one of the candidates is going to win
• Congress stamps out animal-snuff videos

Cover Date: August 30, 1999

• Taking care of our aging parents
• Elder care: Making the right choice
• Bush says he's been drug-free for seven--no, 25 years. You got a problem with that?

Cover Date: August 23, 1999

• Is nothing private? Candidate Bush is trying to avoid questions about drugs
• George W. Bush owes his Iowa win to history-loving, manic strategist Karl Rove
• 'Listening' is the trendiest posture on the campaign trail. It's a scam, of course
• As kids head back to class, schools rush to install the latest security measures. Here's one of the best

Cover Date: August 16, 1999

• Who should still be on welfare?
• Criminals are afraid to arm themselves in a Virginia city that simply enforced the law
• The Ford file and its surprises
• A closer look at the cornerstone of George W.'s compassionate conservatism
• Sen-a-tor! Sen-a-tor! Sen-a-tor!

Cover Date: August 9, 1999

• How ATF and local police have dramatically turned the tide in the battle against crime guns
• State and local governments are taking aim at the gun industry, either by enacting legislation or by filing lawsuits
• Get rid of the damned things
• While the nation sizzles, Congress fiddles over measures to slow down future climate change
• Bush wants to please rich Republicans and keep his pledge to be compassionate
• Vote for Forbes and get a gold pin
• The Ventura way: 'If it isn't fun, I quit'

Cover Date: August 1, 1999

• John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.: Giving more than money
• Farewell, John
• Goodbye to our boy
• The last day
• Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg: Champion of civility
• It's all in the family
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend: Just like her father?
• Representative Patrick Kennedy: Idealist in the house
• Bush gets specific with a plan to fund private charities. Did someone say 'points of light?'
• Affirmative-action face-off
• Who needs a tax cut?
• Scoring the chances of a Y2K peace agreement

Cover Date: July 26, 1999

• America's Prince: John F. Kennedy Jr., 1960-1999
• The art of being JFK Jr.
• Look homeward angel, once again
• The boy we called John-John
• The most eligible bachelor and his bride
• Brought up to be a good man
• And then there was one
• Through fate, folly or the evil of others, the Kennedys have become the first family of pain
• Everyone says brainiacs Clinton and Barak are made for each other. But can they cut a peace deal?
• Political malpractice: In taking on HMOs, the Senate produced lots of drama

Cover Date: July 19, 1999

• Hillary Clinton opens her undeclared candidacy for the U.S. Senate by making a show of listening--and sidling away from Bill
• While Hillary tours Upstate, Giuliani shows that he still holds the home-field advantage
• With no more deficit, what can conservatives use to keep the spenders in line?
• The tobacco industry loses its first class action. It could cost $200 billion

Cover Date: July 12, 1999

• One man's past is threatening the other man's future. But while Gore tries to distance himself, Clinton is privately fuming
• Can it be that Bill Clinton is merely a prequel, the horse Hillary rode in on?
• Washington resorts to a bag of tricks to try to get Yugoslavia a new leader

Cover Date: July 5, 1999

• Who will swallow Medicare's bitter pills?
• Senator McCain wants to raise hell about campaign-finance reform
• Why did Bush pass up a chance to help the poor get decent legal help?

Cover Date: June 28, 1999

• Crimes of war: Chilling evidence of Serbia's well-organized, vicious killing machine
• U.S. troops are moving warily into Kosovo. Their top mission: maintaining a zero-casualty record
• The three ifs of a Clinton Doctrine
• Gore's first weapon against George W. Bush is a freebie from the G.O.P. Can gun control jump-start his campaign?
• Meet George W. Reagan
• Bush's vagueness on abortion means we're losing a chance to forge consensus

Cover Date: June 21, 1999

• Luck, hard work and a brand name for Governor Bush of Texas made him the front runner. Can he make it to the White House?
• How the late-blooming Bush changed his life and found a road that led him to the statehouse and beyond
• Dad says, 'I don't miss politics,' but that may be because he's got something better
• Most of the post-Littleton lawmaking has focused on guns. Now it's Hollywood's turn to squirm
• Why carding kids is a bad idea
• Upstaged by Russia, NATO now faces the thankless task of occupying Kosovo
• Is this the end for Milosevic?
• With Chicago's antiloitering law struck down, California is a model for how to fight street gangs

Cover Date: June 14, 1999

• Doyenne of the Dollars: Can Beth Dozoretz bring Democrats the dough?
• Politicians call for an end to 'social promotion.' Will it hurt kids?
• Analysis: Getting up for Gore
• Gore's role in the peace plan: Deep in the details
• Why Milosevic blinked and why NATO isn't celebrating
• Racial profiling prevelant nationwide

Cover Date: June 7, 1999

• The Cox report hypes the China danger, but the rivalry is real and growing.
• Is China's military the biggest winner from the boom in trade with U.S. technology firms?
• China wants to be a world power on a par with the U.S., but it has a lot of catching up to do
• When the U.S. bungles, the world sees a conspiracy. The story may be simpler
• Gore joins the choir, saying that faith has a role in public life. How did the idea go mainstream?
• Mental health reform: What it would really take
• Inside Kosovo: A visit to a devastated land
• On the stump, Hillary comes down in size and sounds more like Al than Bill
• Judicious spending

Cover Date: May 31, 1999

• Just a routine school shooting
• The Senate passes the first major gun-control bill in six years. Did Littleton really change everything?
• Israel bets that an enigmatic ex-commando can make peace and heal the nation's religious divisions
• If NATO can't win from the air and won't go in on the ground, it has to find a diplomatic way out
• Memorial Day is a great time to gather the clan--and better if we remember to remember

Cover Date: May 24, 1999

• The secret passion of Al Gore
• The Tipper effect
• Brainy economist Larry Summers replaces Wall Street wizard Robert Rubin
• His G.O.P. rivals can't wait to take down George W. Bush
• All in the family
• Sensing disaster, a Littleton-addled G.O.P. tries to fix its fumble on gun control

Cover Date: May 17, 1999

• Madeleine's war
• Dole's New Hampshire debut, while scripted to the last breath, showed some nimble reflexes
• The power of the purse: More and more, it's women who control the charity
• The trouble with Jesse
• Campaign finance: Being a governor can really hurt your coffers

Cover Date: May 10, 1999

• Jesse Jackson's trip to Belgrade produces a dramatic announcement. Will it help or undermine the allied campaign?
• Explosive allegations of Chinese espionage raise new fears about U.S. nuclear security
• How we can fix Social Security
• The public has had its fill of politicians who won't touch the gun problem

Cover Date: May 2, 1999

• In sorrow and disbelief
• Coming to clarity about guns
• What politicians can't do
• The McCain moment
• It's flight or flight
• No to a ground war
• Espionage

Cover Date: April 26, 1999

• A week of gruesome bombing is a haunting overture to NATO's 50th-birthday party
• A first report card on vouchers
• Starr's last gasps
• Bill Bradley finds his voice--and a surprise beachhead in New Hampshire
• Is Al Gore a hero or a traitor?
• The first lady gets into a New York state of mind

Cover Date: April 19, 1999

• Inside Clinton's war
• The Pentagon's new media strategy
• Classrooms for sale
• Zhu-ish humor
• A visit to the National Archives, The American people's library
• The Y2K bug goes to court

Cover Date: April 12, 1999

• The road to hell was paved with good intentions--but muddled planning. Now what?
• Now that we're in, we have to win
• As thousands of refugees pour out of Kosovo, the world confronts the awful cost of hate
• Sticking to the air, Pentagon planners are marshaling more and nastier weapons to hit Milosevic
• Zhu Rongji is ready for a cool welcome in the U.S. this week. But if he can't reform China, who can?
• Sooner than expected, the candidates have to commit to a visionfor America's role in the world
• On the road with Hillary and Chelsea

Cover Date: April 5, 1999

• The U.S. leads NATO's ferocious assault against the Milosevic regime--and finds itself tested in the harsh crucible of combat
• The Clinton doctrine
• Slobodan Milosevic has lost almost every battle he's fought--except the one to stay in power
• Clinton: Making peace with war
• The new Adolf Hitler?
• Al Gore learns that mistakes are more glaring--and dangerous--because he's the No. 1 contender
• America, love it or leave it: What used to be the right's battle cry is now the right's dilemma

Cover Date: March 29, 1999

• The Bush rolodex
• Ready to rumble again
• Kosovo's army in waiting
• Talking with a queen
• Hillary hears strains of the music she will face

Cover Date: March 23, 1999

• Liddy the closet liberal?
• Microsoft and the G.O.P.: Antitrust insurance?
• How not to catch a spy
• Hillary's encounter with a runaway snow bunny
• The all-news TV channels face life without Monica
• Sweepstakes under scrutiny
• A tell-all that doesn't
• Born to run
• Forbes, version 2.0
• A Senate candidate waiting in the wings?

Cover Date: March 15, 1999

• Monica up close
• Monica's makeover
• The story within the story
• Lone star rising
• A realist faces reality
• More Chinese fireworks

Cover Date: March 8, 1999

• Monica up close
• Monica's makeover
• The story within the story
• Lone star rising
• A realist faces reality
• More Chinese fireworks

Cover Date: March 8, 1999

• The old well runs dry
• Speech class
• Campaign fund raising

Cover Date: March 1, 1999

• A race of her own
• In case she wants some free advice...
• Packing heat

Cover Date: February 22, 1999

• Nightmare's end
• D.C.'s best grudge match
• New rules of the road
• Pundits: Out of gas?
• The Republicans were right, but--
• Star Wars: The sequel
• Margaret Carlson: Sighs and whimpers
• James Carville: How I'd throttle the GOP
• Mary Matalin: How I'd whip the Democrats
• Lance Morrow: Why I'm still angry
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: How history will judge him
• Deborah Tannen: Freedom to talk dirty
• Notebook

Cover Date: February 15, 1999

• Waiting for the bell
• When will Starr pull the plug?
• What's next For Bill and Hillary?
• Monica, we hardly knew you

Cover Date: February 8, 1999

• The Al And Dick show
• Fasten your seat belts
• Older and wiser, Monica returns
• Driven to distraction
• The year of living foolishly
• Larry's watching

Cover Date: February 1, 1999

• The last campaign
• Can Bradley catch up?
• The people vs. HMOs
• The worst idea of the decade
• All quiet on the insider front
• Social Security: Sticking his neck out
• Publishing
• Sexgate

Cover Date: January 25, 1999

• The great disconnect
• The Arkansas connection
• The Boredom of proof
• Why the G.O.P. wants to call witnesses
• Medicine: The AMA gets (even more) political

Cover Date: January 18, 1999

• Order in the court
• And now it's her turn
• Ready to rumble
• The once and future Hillary
• Throwing the book at Washington
• Starr grazing
• Party of five

Cover Date: January 11, 1999

• Lott's Trial Balloon
• A Very Public Trial for a Very Private Justice
• Stealth Tax Hikes
• Two for the Low Road
• What Ever Happened to the Class of '98?
• Hey, Pops, Remember The Crack Old Days?
• Bill and Hill: Once More On the Public Couch
• Notebook