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Closed mid-January 1991 · On stands late January 1991
The Front
The FCC Writes a Letter
The Commission issues its first Notice of Apparent Liability against Howard Stern's show
The Meridian Index: January
First-class postage, the average price of a gallon of unleaded, the national median home price
The Essay
The Foreign File
The Lottery Beyond the Bloc
The Immigration Act of 1990's Diversity Visa lottery read for its global reach — Little Senegal, the Ethiopian and Nigerian settlement, Albanian arrival after Hoxha's collapse
The Feature Well
The Pool
Tomás Vega's account of the coalition press-pool system from Dhahran, filed as the air campaign opens over the desk's caution that a story about how journalists are made to work had no readership appeal beside the war itself
The City
Subject: The city's homicide count peaks at 2,245, the highest total in its modern record
The Back
Books: [object Object] · Art: A short item on Elizabeth Taylor's outsized bid at a Los Angeles benefit auction, jewelry sold beside the paintings · Film: A preview of next month's awards-season word-of-mouth title, built entirely on an unnervingly quiet lead performance · Television: [object Object]