The Mogul's Ledger
Closed mid-January 1998 · On stands late January 1998
The Front
Index of the New Year
Numbers of January — resolutions kept past the second week, gym memberships sold, the market's first correction of the year
The Slip Dress, Nationally
A short note on how a runway silhouette — bias-cut, minimal, once a downtown affectation — reaches the mall chains and catalog copy by the same January it was still being called a trend
The Essay
The Second Winter of Reform
Welfare reform's first full year measured against its own promises, filed without a verdict
The Foreign File
Jakarta's Quiet Run
A stringer's early read on a currency crisis the wire copy hasn't caught up to
The Feature Well
The Mogul's Ledger
Sean "Puffy" Combs profiled as a business mogul following No Way Out's number-one debut
The City
Subject: A cold snap and the shelter system's January count
The Back
Books: Review of Richard Sennett's The Corrosion of Character · Art: A slow month for the regional museum circuit, noted briefly · Film: January's holdovers, briefly