Indicia

February, 1994

Last Month, to begin our 40th-anniversary year, we showed you where we've been and where we're going. This month it's time to look at where we are. Call this our social studies issue, complete with fieldwork. King of the World is an exposé of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich by sleuthing reporter Jim Hougan. Rich is a scary fiction come to life (not unlike the renegade arms dealer in John le Carré's thriller The Night Manager)--a shadowy commodities broker based in Switzerland who sneaks oil past...