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Do we love the rascal?

Cover Story | The president's much-touted job approval ratings mask a deep public ambivalence: While voters register disgust with Clinton the man, they say they are pleased with Clinton the president. But polling data showing public concern over his honesty, values, and moral leadership receive little emphasis in daily journalism. In those categories, he is at rock bottom. Here's a closer look at some of the underreported polls.

In this issue: "Clinton's great escape," Feb. 6, 1999

Features

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Can't take it with you

National |  IRS auctions off the worldly possessions of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, missing atheist

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Next, embryo farms?

National |  Government moves ahead with funding controversial stem cell research, despite congressional ban

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Claim to shame

National |  As the Senate trial proceeds, the case of Andrew Johnson proves that history is the ultimate jury

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Victims of a Hustler

National |  Sometimes citizens have a duty to listen to dirt about their politicians, but Flynt can make no such claim

Dispatches

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Quotables

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This Week

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Reviews

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Books: The poetry of science

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You are what you eat

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Wandering in the desert

Culture |  The Prince of Egypt was a box-office bust, but will the film have a longer-term cultural impact?

Voices

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Mailbag

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Rebel with a cause

Finding excitement in the counterculture

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Only about sex

If someone can't get the basics right, why trust him at all?

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Never, ever give up

Six lessons from the Washington impeachment debate

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