MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 13
CYBERCHAT 37
THE INSIDER 39
PASSAGES 91
PUZZLER 108
CHATTER 138

STAR TRACKS 6
Sharon Stone brings her ooh-la-la to Cannes. Mel Gibson reins in New York City. Prince Harry gets himself in a sticky situation, and more

UP FRONT

40 At Harvard a simmering feud between roommates turned lethal when junior Sinedu Tadesse stabbed Trang Ho to death and then hanged herself

44 Notre Dame's Ara Parseghian comes out of retirement to battle an ailment that is stealing the lives of his grandchildren

48 Apocalyptic cult leader Shoko Asahara is booked for murder in the March nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway

SCREEN 53
With costars like Hugh Grant and Ralph Fiennes, actress Tara FitzGerald is inspiring envy and applause in equal measure

DISCOVERY 57
Surfing-bum-turned-scientist J. Craig Venter has revolutionized the search for human genes

COUPLES 63
Teamed together on CNN's Moscow beat, Steve Hurst and Claire Shipman found love among the ruins of Russia

TRIBUTE 67
Former Maine Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, who opened political doors for women during her 32 years in Congress, dies at 97

COPING 75
A positive attitude is singer Laurie Beechman's best weapon in her struggle with ovarian cancer

PAGES 81
Stephen Covey's antics may mortify his family, but CEOs and even President Clinton seek advice from the unorthodox personal-development guru

ON THE JOB 85
Three million words later, O.J. trial court reporters Janet Moxham and Christine Olson are still listening to every syllable

COVER 92
When his horse stopped short of a jump at an equestrian event, actor Christopher Reeve—the star of Superman, Somewhere in Time and, most recently, Village of the Damned—took a tragic fall

CRUSADER 101
Harassed and fired for whistle-blowing, former Texas state employee George Green is now a millionaire pauper trying to collect his settlement

TUBE 105
When he's not putting down klutzy costar Tim Allen, Home Improvement's Richard Karn is putting golf balls in his own celebrity tourney

BYTES 111
J.C. Herz got lost in cyberspace but lived to tell the tale in her first book, Surfing on the Internet

STYLE 117
Being cool is nothing new to Siberian-born Eskimo Irina Pantaeva, the latest entry in the supermodel stratosphere

POLS 121
Hailed for his composed, compassionate response to the bombing, Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating emerges as a national figure

KIDS 125
As the Dilley sextuplets turn 2, parents Keith and Becki have become ringmasters in their own six-ring circus

JOCKS 131
This week, as the U.S. women's soccer team begins a defense of its world championship title in Sweden, it has youth—18-year-old Tiffany Roberts—on its side

SEQUEL 135
Vietnam War widow Ivy Spencer Bigbee expressed her grief through photography—now a photo she took illustrates the new POW-MIA stamp

ANGELS 136
Washington's Doo Wop Cops go to school with a song in their hearts and a hopeful message in mind