1999 March 15 Time Magazine Monica Lewinsky Antiques Road Show Tar-Bo

Description: 6 AMERICAN SCENE: Death of a Sales Palace 8 CONTRIBUTORS. 8 TO OUR READERS NOTEBOOK. 21 25 29 JOEL STEIN on personal germ warfare EULOGIES: Harry Blackmun; Dusty Springfield. NATION COVER: "It Was Wrong, but It Was a Private Wrong"...30- In an interview with TIME, Monica Lewinsky is remorseful- to a degree-but tougher and even more unbowed than in her talk-TV debut. She's had a past. What future can she expect? The Makeover: A guide to Monica's new image.. Public Eye: Margaret Carlson on Clinton's secret bio. CAMPAIGN 2000: Leader of the Pack-for Now..... Does George W. Bush have the G.O.P. nomination locked up? CRIME: The Killing of Billy Jack.. .38 .41 42 A gay man is beaten and burned in a small town in Alabama JUSTICE: A shocking verdict in the gondola disaster. 47 BOOK EXCERPT 48 YEARS OF RENEWAL: Kissinger on the Record A personal tour of the crisis years of U.S. democracy Review: Walter Isaacson on Kissinger and idealism. WORLD 59 CONGO: The Bloody Scramble for Africa...... 62 A massacre of tourists illuminates a nightmarish struggle Slaughter in the Jungle: Carnage in Uganda........... .64 BUSINESS FASHION: A Couple of Alterations for Ralph Lauren...68 He created the best company in fashion, but a dip in profits has raised doubters on Wall Street. What now? Life After Jerry: Hosanna! Shoshanna's in fashion. .70 AIRLINES: The Stolen-Ticket Caper. .71 Travel agents are victims of a scheme to smuggle illegal aliens ----------- 3 ----------- MONICA UP CLOSE In an exclusive interview, Lewinsky regrets what the past year has done to the country, but regrets even more what it has done to her By MICHAEL DUFFY NEW YORK "YOO-HOO!" MONICA LEWINSKY SWEEPS INTO HER stepfather's penthouse apartment for her first American print interview since the scandal began. Removing the hat and sunglasses she wears by way of disguise, she complains of a cold and jet lag (the night before, she signed the first copy of Monica's Story, her tell-almost-all book, in midair while fly- ing from Los Angeles to New York City). As Moni- Ica huddles for a moment with her team of media and legal advisers, her mother Marcia Lewis brings in coffee and shows two visitors around the tidy 34th-floor apartment, with its panoramic views of Manhattan and Central Park. "It sounds corny," says Lewis, "but it's peaceful up here. We're above the fray." Monica has been doing her part to keep the fray going. She exploded back onto the scene last week to promote her book, the saga of an insecure and over- weight child of a broken Beverly Hills home whose need for love and attention led her to seduce a President. In her two-hour appearance on ABC, she came off as sad and, she admits, often silly ("I smiled too much... I was a little too candid"), a woman-child who couldn't keep quiet during or after her affair with Bill Clinton. Speaking to TIME, she was even tougher and more unbowed. She says she knows what she did was wrong and that most Americans would like her to be more contrite. But she insists that her feelings of remorse are no bet- ter than mixed. "I'm not going to pretend that it was always about something bigger than me," she says. "Because for me, it wasn't." Even after a year of therapy and a lifetime of tears, there are plenty of colors Monica still can't see. Her affair with Clinton did not interfere with official busi- ness because they were "together mostly on the weekends." Even her lack of dis- cretion is a relative thing. "For me, only telling 10 people was being pretty dis- 30 Exclusive portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders ----------- 4 ----------- ΝΑΤΙΟΝ LONE STAR RISING George W. Bush is so far ahead in the race for the G.O.P. nomination, some call him a sure bet. While he decides whether to run, he's running hard ----------- 5 ----------- By HENRY KISSINGER T IS DIFFICULT TO WRITE ABOUT RICHARD NIXON, WHO COMBINED BRILLIAN E, patriotism and courage with self-destructive flaws as in a Greek tragedy. The hatred he evoked in his political opponents was extraordinary even by the tur- bulent standards of American democracy. I served as his principal adviser on foreign policy for 5% years and often saw him several times a day. Yet to some extent I still remain mystified by the personality of the perhaps most complex President of the 20th century. One of the questions posterity will surely ask is what it was about Nixon that caused passions to run quite so deep. Was it because almost everything one could say about Richard Nixon was both true and yet somehow wrong? He was politically ----------- 6 ----------- WINDI NATIONAL PARK SITS ON border B Uganda's southwestern with Rwanda and Congo, riven by lush green valleys and sprinkled with running streams. It had al- ways been an oasis. But since 1994, as political extremism and military vi- olence began tearing at the region, it has been a transit center for Hutu guerrilla fighters moving in and out of Rwanda. Yet it remained a popular destination for ad- venture travelers in love with the idea of an Africa blessed with limitless natural beauty. Early last Monday, death emerged from the wilderness. Deep in the park's misty hills, a band of more than 100 Rwandan Hutu guerril- las, driven into a fury by months of fighting in the ruleless Congo, turned on a group of Western tourists, killing eight (see following sto- ry). For the outside world, was a vivid reminder of the terror that still grips the heart of Africa. L The latest turmoil has its roots in the meltdown of a once hopeful alliance that united four African nations-Uganda, Ango- la, Rwanda and Burundi-with the promise of establishing a stable, democratic Congo. But the alliance, formed in 1996 to speed the ouster of longtime Congolese leader Mobu- tu Sese Seko, was split almost instantly by self-interest, greed and ambition. Laurent Kabila, the onetime Congolese rebel in- stalled at the head of the new Congo gov- ernment, is fighting against three of his ex- allies-Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi-in a desperate war to preserve his rule. The ----------- 7 ----------- By CHRIS TAYLOR HERE'S A SCENE THAT SHOULD warm the heart of any executive in the video-game industry. It's a muggy Manhattan morning late last June. Liam McLaughlin, 23, a full-time games bootlegger, opens the door of his Bleecker Street co-op to find three armed U.S. marshals dressed in swAT gear, and four suits from the Interactive Digital Software Association, a sort of Pin- kerton agency for games manufacturers. The marshals have a warrant. Can they come in and look at his game collection? McLaughlin, it transpires, has been making copies of more than 250 CD-ROM game titles for the Sony PlayStation. He's been selling them via his website, hundreds a week, at $20 a pop-around 60% off the cover price. Fast-forward to last month, and McLaugh- lin cuts a deal, pays a large fine and makes a very public apology. And the forces of law and order confiscate his PlayStation. Now here's the bad news for video- game execs: there's a whole new piracy threat on the horizon that is set to make McLaughlin's scam look like a parking vio- lation. It is now possible for you to go online and-for a price ranging from nothing to $50-download software known as emula- tors, which can transform your computer ----------- 8 ----------- T'S TIME FOR Y'ALL TO PUT SOME GAS IN your tanks," shouts Billy Blanks. He cranks up the volume on the stereo, and the Billy Blanks' World Training Center in Sherman Oaks, Calif., is flooded with the ragged sounds of Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock and human agony. Teeth clenched, sweat dripping, 150 men and women kick out their right feet, then bow at the waist and kick back their left feet. "Lean, guys, lean!" commands Blanks, as he demonstrates the move from a stage emblazoned with the message GOD IS GOOD. He then adopts a fighter's stance, and on cue the class punch- es left, right, left! Walking amid the flailing limbs, Blanks holds his palms out to the hail of fists, like a minister blessing his flock. Tae-Bo is not for the faint of spirit, or the weak of back. It is a grueling combina- tion of punches, kicks and squats set to the rhythms of hip-hop. Blanks first experi- mented with the karate-like sequences in his basement in Erie, Pa., two decades ago. He later opened a studio in California, where he has taught the routine to such famed hardbodies as Paula Abdul, Lisa Rinna and Wayne Gretzky. Last August he brought Tae-Bo to the people. Or at the very least to your television set. Tae-Bo marketers shell out about $2 mil- ----------- 9 ----------- By DANIEL EISENBERG OR THE LOYAL VIEWERS OF PBS'S spring Antiques Roadshow, cleaning will just have to wait. Really, what's a little clutter when that rickety sideboard or dusty cup-and-saucer set might be your ticket to paradise? By now, tales from this televised traveling carnival of collectibles, where folks have their cherished trinkets and ancestral hand-me- downs professionally appraised, are legendary. There's Claire Wiegand- Beckmann, the retired New Jersey schoolteacher whose beloved wood- en table, bought for $25 in 1965, turned out to be a John Seymour masterpiece that eventually fetched close to $500,000 at a Sotheby's auc- tion. Or the Houston man who learned that although his oil paint- ing of the Titanic, purchased in Eng- land decades ago, was worthless, the menu pasted on the back was an orig- inal from a last meal on the ship, worth close to $100,000. (It had been owned by the son of a surviving crew member. The doomed dined on grilled mutton chops.) Now in its third season, which kicked off in late January, Roadshow (Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.) has become the top-rated weekly program on public television, overtaking Barney and such staples as This Old House and Nova. A knock-off of a long-running British show, it's being propelled by a booming interest in col- lectibles and Americana, from Beanie 78 ----------- 10 ----------- AZIANO ARICI-SYGMA HALLE DREAMS OF DOROTHY "I've been a crackhead and a glamour girl," says HALLE BERRY, "but never before both at the same time." Such are the rewards of portraying DOROTHY DANDRIDGE, inset, the rav- ishing but doomed actress who died of an overdose in 1965 at the age of 41. Berry will play Dandridge, the first black woman nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, in an upcoming HBO film. "I understand the struggle of a black actress wanting to do so much but having so many limitations," she says. Berry won the role, coveted by such stars as Whitne Houston and Janet Jackson, by upping the stakes. "I pro duced it," she says. "If I'm the producer, I get the part."

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