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TABLE OF CONTENTS
30 PRIMARIES
Ladies Choice: How do you like your news?...
Israel’s 50 years of blood, sweat, and triumph...States with the most high school graduates...The batting order for the presidency.
40 QUIPS WORLD BEGINS...DETAILS AT 11 P.M.
If today’s media had been around when the world was young, even God’s Q rating would have suffered. BY ELAYNE BOOSLER
46 OPINION RANT!
The nation’s most venerated weekend newspaper is too fat, too ponderous, and no substitute for morning sex. But like a faithless man hurrying to church, this writer still buys the Sunday New York Times. BY LARRY BEINHART
48 BETWEEN THE LINES GRAND OLD PARTY CRACK-UP
Newt Gingrich won’t be relinquishing the Speakership anytime soon. So why are the House Republicans fighting like relatives at a rich man’s funeral? BY TONY BLANKLEY
52 WHITE HOUSE GEORGE TAKES AIM AT THE WHITE HOUSE
He used to be Clinton’s right-hand man. But when scandal shook the Oval Office, neophyte journalist George Stephanopoulos was among the first to say “impeachment.” The story of the biggest breakup in D.C. BY CLAIRE SHIPMAN
58 AMERICAN DREAMS THE BOOBLESS TUBE
When will the Big Three television networks finally let women into the evening-anchor pantheon? Our columnist takes aim at the media’s toughest glass ceiling. BY NAOMI WOLF
60 LETTER FROM GUCCI GULCH BULL MARKET BRAWL
The hot story on Wall Street is actually on Capitol Hill, where the Uniform Standards Coalition—a group of financial service and high-tech companies—wants a law to protect itself from disgruntled investors. BY SHEILA KAPLAN
62 NATIONAL TOP 10 NEWS EXCLUSIVES
The reporters who broke the year’s most influential news didn’t just stumble their way to glory. They pulverized the competition with tenacity and fast thinking. This is how they scored. BY MARY BETH REGAN
66 HISTORY THE DECLINE AND FALL OF MARY TODD LINCOLN
The assassination of her husband was a national tragedy, but the insanity trial brought against Mary Todd Lincoln by her son was a personal catastrophe. A cautionary tale of family values on Mother’s Day. BY A.E. HOTCHNER
70 SCANDAL THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN GEORGIA
After taking his crusade against sodomy all the way to the Supreme Court, Mike Bowers, a Georgia gubernatorial hopeful and former state attorney general, confessed to an extramarital affair. Now his own bedroom behavior is a debatable issue. BY KRISTA REESE
74 AWARD THE MOST GENEROUS COMPANY
George and Newman’s Own, Inc., announce the results of our six-month search for the Most Generous Company in America. The envelope, please ...
DEPARTMENTS
18 EDITOR’S LETTER
20 LETTERS
24 CONTRIBUTORS
26 WE THE PEOPLE
42 SCOOP
124 IF I WERE PRESIDENT DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK
The late, great guru of child care teaches America one last lesson.
80 THE BOLD AND THE BORING
BY David Coleman and the editors
What makes one pundit a prophet, another a poet, and yet another a putz? We turn the tables on TV’s top talking heads and dish up a few unsolicited opinions. Predictions?
88 THE CAREER OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
BY Greg Donaldson
Irish reporter Liz Allen knows Dublin’s criminal underworld inside out. But as she doggedly covers the thugs who are believed to have killed her predecessor, Veronica Guerin, some colleagues wonder whether she is flirting with disaster.
92 OLD YELLER
BY Verne Gay
ABC’s bombastic Sam Donaldson made his name barking at presidents. Now, back on the network’s White House beat, he’s sinking his teeth into a presidency that he finds beneath contempt.
98 THE DEVIL IN MS. DOW
BY Lisa DePaulo
With a stroke of her pen, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd eloquently dispatches Bill Clinton to a fiery hell. The jury’s out on what fuels Dowd’s judgmental zeal—truth or bile.
102 CAPITAL GANGSTER
BY David Brock
Conservative Robert Novak is an influential and fearless veteran of print and television punditry. But beneath his grimaces and growls lurks the lonely outsider who can never get enough respect.
106 THE WHOLE WORLD WAS WATCHING
From student protests in Paris to the uproar outside the Democratic convention in Chicago, revolution rocked the globe in 1968—and photographers from the Magnum agency were there. A year in pictures.
COVER
Christy Turlington, photographed by Satoshi Saikusa.
Hair by Serge Normant. Prop styling by Jerry Schwartz. Makeup by Scott Andrew for Jed Root, Inc. Styling by Lisa von Weise.