Time Magazine Contents Page
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COVER: Boston is stunned by a bizarre murder case
Because he was white and affluent, Charles Stuart nearly got away with killing his pregnant wife. -- Why the press canonizes certain victims. -- The racial hysteria Stuart ignited fuels black fears that whites are plotting genocide.
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WORLD: Rebellion in Lithuania threatens to engulf the Soviet Union in the flames of secession
Gorbachev tries to head off his worst crisis, with the integrity of his country at stake. -- African wars envelop millions in famine and death. -- China's empty gesture. -- Voices of East Berlin.
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BUSINESS: A shaky empire loses its brash emperor
Canadian developer Robert Campeau became the most powerful retailer in the U.S. when he acquired Allied Stores and Federated Department Stores in the 1980s takeover wars. But his domain totters on bankruptcy, and Campeau has been relieved of command. -- Art Buchwald wins a court claim that he provided the idea for the blockbuster Coming to America, but how much will he be paid? -- After an oil spill in New York and New Jersey, Exxon faces more flak.
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LAW: A quartet of major Supreme Court rulings
The Justices open up college tenure files, drape protections around adult bookstores, slap the wrist of a trial judge and give criminal defendants a small break.
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LIVING: Miniature pigs are becoming the latest pet craze
Bright, affectionate and about one-tenth the size of their barnyard brethren, domesticated porkers are working their way into America's homes and hearts.
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VIDEO: The greening of Ted Turner
His Atlanta-based TV empire, after some rocky days, is thriving. But the man once known as "Captain Outrageous" has more on his agenda these days than just the bottom line.
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HEALTH: Why a woman can't drink like a man
It has nothing to do with macho and only a little to do with body size. A new study says the biggest factor is that men produce more of an enzyme that breaks down alcohol in the stomach.
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RELIGION: What? Married Catholic priests?
Forty-three Catholic fathers, mostly converts from the Episcopal Church, are also husbands. Oddly, some liberal priests and nuns are not applauding this breach in the celibacy rule.
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ART: Sotheby's, under fire, trims its loan policy
The world's most expensive painting, Van Gogh's Irises, may be up for sale again, but don't look to Sotheby's for the loan to buy it. The auction house has mended its ways.
4 Letters
6 Interview
54 Education
57 Cinema
57 Milestones
60 Music
62 People
68 Books
74 Essay
Cover: Photograph from WCVB-TV/Boston