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The Rosewood Massacre 46 The lynching of a small black town would have just disappeared into history. Then the journalist, the lawyer, and the producer showed up.

1:1 The Big No 55 Why Kurt Cobain said never mind to his parents, work, mainstream music, fame, his wife, his daughter, and, finally, life itself.

Whitherwater? 64 At last, Whitewater solved! Four authors with the truth as we’ll never know it.

Is Karv Mu Ill's God? 68

Summer Reading: Bad Behavior

Special Section: Denim Style ’94

Man At His Best

Eschewing the Fat

They Go?

Yon can switch

down lo lower tar

and still get

satisfying taste.

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MERIT

After the Factory

THE MOST POWERFUL COMPACT RADIO IN THE WORLD!

Walter Shapiro

The Gramm Reaper Senator Phil wants to dismantle the government. He may get the chance.

fREtfree

THE SPORTING LIFE Mike Lupica

The Agassi and the Ecstasy

BH

bast ball teams^ Fvery „

W>rld Series? VoilA! Un Andrei

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Part scourge, part embarrassment, the greatest resurrectionist of our time

saved his best trick for last

NIXON IN

HEAVEN By Garry Wills

HE CONTRIVED TO DIE in tie odor of states- manship, though he had been driven from office as a stench in the Republic’s nostrils. Even Bill Clinton, an acolyte of John Kennedy,

of a man all the Kennedys held in contempt. Hillary Clinton joined

she transcribed what the impeachment staff called “the tape of tapes”—the tape of Nixon listening to another Nixon tape and ex¬

cause. Like the Thane of Cawdor, “He died/As one that had been studied in his death.” Talleyrand is supposed to have said, when an enemy of his died, that he wondered what the man had in mind when he took that move. Looking at our elaborate state machinery of mourning, one had to admire the way Nixon was still calling the

WHEN PEOPLE TALK NOW OF 5

a Nixon legacy that \ transcends Watergate, «

they are right (in a ;

way): Watergate was 5

small potatoes. It was \ nothing next to the , other crimes that his 5

agents committed. 5

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COLSON, WHOSE INTIMACY : with Nixon grew out of ■ ehortlings over what l they would do to foes, »

; says people would J

; come iii with stories of \ their dirty tricks like *;■ ^ ^ dog's bringing dead

rats to thei r master. y/Ssr’

amnesiac celebration

around the funeral

was a salute from one

hypocrisy to another.

Various people made

crass use of Nixon’s

name, doingso entire¬ ly in his own spirit.

Why Was This Man Laughing?

KAlt KlUltKS IN , »=ri, *. «• ori. W«h mm FLORIDA KILL 22: t ' "" ll^S bm „„od „„ ,h= fro„, BESEGE BLACKS j >h“s^t

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the rosewood MASSACRE Random killing spread 3’i”» throughout the area. dTrb" Twenty miles away, a ■ ' «t black man called Lord (iod was gunned down.

THE BIG m A brilliant outcast who made an

art of losing, Kurt Cobain said never mind to fame, wealth, family, and, finally, life itself

By Stephen Wright

THE BIG

Kurt’s distress was so apparent

that tie was often asked, “Kurt,

how you doing?” 'I hate myself,”

Finally, even the junkies kicked

Kurt out, frightened by the amounts of heroin he was shooting up. They

didn’t want a celebrity corpse on

their hands.

Whitherwater? Bored and confused by Whitewater? Let’s cut to the

chase. Four celebrated writers give away the end.

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After unloekingthe secrets of DNA, the prize-winning biochemist traded in his centrifuge for a life of wine, women, and surf. Besides, babes really diga Nobel.

Is Kary

JYEullis God?

(Or just the big kahuna?) By Bmily Yoffe

Summer Reading

urn Esquire’s edgy, hair-raisingtour

of the hidden precincts of the male soul. Enter at your own risk.

Bad Behavior

Suits By Vince Passaro

Negatives

The Metamorphosis By l-’rnnz Kal'ka ♦ Illustrations liy It. ('mini) fit)

Gentleman's Agreement

' 1 \N Special Section: Denim Style ’94

True Bine

True Blue

The Bridges of L. A. County

Photographs by Davis Factor • Text by Christa D’Souza

Christie and the Beast

CARS

The Quintessential Sports Car

E1EI Mark Jacobson

Sex Education For Me?

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