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TABLE OF CONTENTS
90 60 MINUTES AND COUNTING
By Josh Young
For three decades, this hard-nosed Sunday evening TV newsmagazine has been home to the world’s most feared journalists. But as the show marks its 30th season, its anchors fear only two things: a weekly spin-off—and Candace Bergen.
96 IF LOOKS COULD HEAL
By Sally Wadyka
In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we salute members of the beauty and fashion industries who are fighting the disease with style.
102 OUR COUNTERFEIT HISTORY
By Oliver Stone
The provocative director of JFK challenges Americans to look beyond the headlines for the truth and see the conspiracies swirling around us.
106 DEAD POETS SOCIETY
By Cathy Scott
Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were two of rap music’s biggest icons. Their unsolved murders have some people wondering whether there’s been a cover-up.
110 EDWARD NORTON’S PRIMAL FEAR
By Douglas Brinkley
Hollywood’s hottest scene stealer portrays a neo-Nazi in his new film American History X. Norton—rocker Courtney Love’s companion—talks about America’s racist underbelly.
114 TALE OF THE SHADOW CHASER
By Richard Lamb
Before Watergate brought down Richard Nixon, Navy yeoman Charles Radford had been spying on the White House for his superiors. An exclusive interview with the Pentagon’s mole.
120 PRIVATE LIES
By David Brock
When a war of partisan mudslinging is waged against a flawed politician, some charges are bound to stick. This journalist dismisses some seedy Clinton stories only to find America ready to believe them.
125 THE OVERSEXED AMERICAN FEMALE
By Stanley Crouch
Everyone has questioned the morality of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, but one writer wonders why no one has bothered to analyze Kenneth Starr’s value system. A meditation on scandal.
COVER
Edward Norton goes undercover swathed in Emporio Armani. Photographed by Satoshi Saikusa. Styled by Don Sumada. Hair by Frida Aradotti. Makeup by Julie Pearce.
35 PRIMARIES
Lea Thompson’s take on women’s rights…The guide to Secret Service disguises…Bank robberies by state…A day in the life of Adolf Hitler.
48 EYEWITNESS
A Race for Justice
In the 1968 Olympics, two athletes scandalized the games by raising their fists in protest. A teammate remembers the gesture and ponders whether it made a difference.
BY BOB BEAMON
50 WHITE HOUSE
The Beef About Hormel
James Hormel, a nominee for ambassador to Luxembourg, is in a pickle: Republicans oppose him because he is gay, and Democrats would just as soon have him become a martyr as an ambassador.
BY GWEN IFILL
52 AMERICAN DREAMS
12 Small Steps for America
After five decades of snorting, inhaling, and injecting drugs, the country is finally in rehab. This author believes we can all learn something from the recovery movement.
BY NAOMI WOLF
56 BETWEEN THE LINES
The Life of a TV Talking Head
George’s man on the right gives the skinny on the political talk show circuit, where debate and dead air are as common as stale bagels.
BY TONY BLANKLEY
58 BUSINESS
LETTER FROM GUCCI
GULCH Health Care Beware!
Hotshot HMO lobbyist Charles Kahn II is bracing himself for battle as the proposed Patients Bill of Rights threatens his clients’ bottom line.
BY SHEILA KAPLAN
62 HISTORY
Top Ten Political Ghosts
If you think live politicians are scary, check out these ghost stories in which long-dead pols haunt houses and wreak havoc on the citizenry. A Halloween hair-raiser.
BY MATTHEW COWEN
70 OPINION
Rant!
Why should a document describing an 81-year-old door key be classified? Ask the government, which spends $4.1 billion a year keeping secrets.
BY TOM BLANTON
72 QUIPS
The World According to Me
Believe in free speech if you must, but this humorist concocts a conspiracy theorist’s tale of America’s legacy.
BY BILL SCHEFT
74 SCANDAL
The Mysterious Death of Jim McDougal
Did prison personnel ignore harrowing calls for help from the president’s former business partner in the hours before his death? A George exclusive.
BY JACK DOUGLAS, JR.
78 CRIME
The FBI’s Open Case File
While this law enforcement agency has solved some of the century’s biggest crimes, some culprits have slipped away. A look at the G-men’s most frustrating cases.
BY ERNEST VOLKMAN
82 WASHINGTON
The Spies Who Lost $4 Billion
Not much was known about the National Reconnaissance Office, a supersecret government agency, until Congress discovered it had misplaced $4 billion of its budget.
BY DAVID WISE
DEPARTMENTS
18 Editor’s Letter
20 Letters
26 Contributors
28 We the People
46 Scoop
134 Horoscope
136 If I Were President: Tony Brown
The author and PBS host plans his days in the Oval Office: reading Bill Clinton’s Bill of Impeachment while flanked by a deadly pet serpent, Illuminati.