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TABLE OF CONTENTS
64 UPRIGHT & PERSONAL
By Josh Young
As Air Force One takes off this summer, Harrison Ford gets presidential. Read the classified file on this strong, silent type who couldn’t help let slip how he really feels about politics, Hollywood, and the press.
68 GERRY ADAMS’S LAST SHOT
Despite the rash of recent violence in Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein head Gerry Adams has a chance to end centuries of anger on the Emerald Isle. John Kennedy talks to this man in the middle about what may be a last best hope for peace.
74 IN THE WAKE OF DISASTER
A flood of biblical proportions engulfed Falmouth, Kentucky, this spring. But that’s not the only hardship its citizens endured. As the U.S. government fought about whether to help rebuild this town and others like it, residents turned to each other and muddled through. A photo essay on survivors.
78 LIFE IN PRISON
By Webb Hubbell
President Clinton’s former associate attorney general went from top dog to jailbird. In this exclusive memoir, the confessed con man recounts his life behind bars and explains why his prison term for fraud was actually time well spent.
82 JAWS OF DEATH
By A.E. Hotchner
Grover Cleveland was the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms and the only one to get married in the White House. But there was another one-of-a-kind feat he kept secret: his staging of the clandestine operation that saved his life.
86 WILD THING
By Mark Johnson
Last year, Janet Reno’s enemies (and supposed friends in the White House) were ready to pack her bags. But the attorney general stayed the course, baffling Washington with her unpredictable rulings and outsider ways. An insider look at the nation’s top law enforcer and most inscrutable public figure.
92 ATTACK OF THE KILLER RABBITS
By Catharine Lumby
Forget plagues of locusts. Australia has something worse: bunnies, billions of them. Even a killer virus couldn’t stop these cottontails from doing what bunnies do best. The fuzzy little creatures just keep going and going and going…
28 PRIMARIES
Bill Clinton vegging on the Vineyard…Skin cancer zapped on state senate…Bubba’s kneecap caper…Thrilling Pentagon pages.
44 WHITE HOUSE
TATTLE TALES
The lure of book deals turns insiders into ingrates the minute they pass outside the iron gates of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
BY CLAIRE SHIPMAN
46 BETWEEN THE LINES
CONSERVATIVES, START YOUR ENGINES
Is it true time for the Republican revolution? Stop the whining and take a lesson from history. There’s no time like now to seize the day.
BY TONY BLANKLEY
48 EYEWITNESS
WATCHING THE PRESIDENT
Ten years ago this month, the Iran-contra lead prosecutor learned something that changed the course of his investigation.
BY LAWRENCE E. WALSH
50 GLOBAL TOP 10
EMERGING MARKETS
America wants a part of the action in these booming economic hot spots. Insider tips on the world’s new cash cows.
BY JEFFREY E. GARTEN
52 HOW IT WORKS
SATELLITES
Big players in the broadcast industry are wishing upon these twinkling little flying objects. Here’s how they beam into your abode.
BY PAUL FARHI
54 RANT
An airplane ride used to be a heavenly respite. But today, airliners take passengers to new heights of discomfort.
BY FRED FERRETTI
56 MUSIC
AGENT ELVIS
The King had a dream: to be a badge-totin’, federal narcotics agent. And President Nixon granted his wish.
BY ELIZABETH KAYE
58 HOLLYWOOD
AMERICAN GLADIATOR
George Wallace never backed away from a fight. Now, Hollywood’s version of his life has made his family spitting mad.
BY DAVID HOCHMAN
60 HISTORY
GONE FISHIN’
Teddy Roosevelt went to his love shack. Coolidge dressed in feathers. And Nixon barely loosened his tie. A retrospective on summertime presidential R&R.
BY TED WIDMER
62 TRIBUTE
SO LONG, MILLIE
The Bush family’s spotted springer spaniel is laid to rest. A dog-eared page in our nation’s history.
BY DAVID COLMAN
103 OUPS
POLITICS NOT SPOKEN HERE
Want to talk deficit reduction, Clinton’s legal problems, or why your mayor is a creep? Save it for the call-in shows.
BY ANDY RICHTER
DEPARTMENTS
16 Editor’s Letter
20 Contributors
24 Letters
38 We the People
42 Scoop
101 Puzzle
104 If I Were President
MARLA MAPLES
Forward her mail from the penthouse to the White House.