September 23, 1996

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Starting Over

Five Months After She Suffered a Breakdown, Disappeared and Turned Up Filthy and Battered in a Stranger's Backyard, Margot Kidder Talks About the Manic Depression That Brought Her to the Brink

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The Emmys Heat Up

With 94 Degrees of Perspiration, TV's Finest Sweat It Out in Their Finery

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Living Dangerously

Rap Star Tupac Shakur Is Gunned Down Again—This Time in Las Vegas

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Pluck of the Draw

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Saving Grace

Hunky Mexican Goalie Jorge Campos Helps Keep the New U.S. Soccer League on Its Feet

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The Max Factor

Ex-Ph.D. Candidate Maxine Bahns—She's the One in She's the One—Graduates to Stardom with Boyfriend-Director Edward Burns

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After the Fall

42 Years Later, Survivors of a Mysterious Air Disaster Meet to Look Back on the Trauma

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Dispatch from a Combat Zone

Mary Karr's Memoir of Her Battling Parents Is Scathingly Honest and Funny

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Truly Raven-Ous

As the Crow Sequel Flies, So Does Vincent Perez

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Without a Trace

A Governor's Aide Vanished 11 Weeks Ago, Leaving Behind a Mystery, a Suspect and a Troubling Diary

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And Away They Went

What Did the Stars Do This Summer? Just About What You Did, but Moreso

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No End to the Pain

Edye Smith, Whose Two Young Sons Died in the Oklahoma City Bombing, Is Divorcing—Again

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Party Girl

Bubbly Teen Queen Jennifer Love Hewitt Grabs the Spotlight

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Icebreakers

Kathrine Baumann's Glittery Purses Get People Talking

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The Original

Out of His Sweat and Soul, Uncompromising Bill Monroe Fathered a Music He Called His Own

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Harried...with Children

Novelist, Columnist, Single Mother of Five, Jacquelyn Mitchard Juggles Life

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The Enemy Within

Frustrated by Helpless Doctors, the Parents of An Autistic Child Fight Back Against His Mysterious Illness

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Rocky-by Baby

Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin Share a Blessed Main Event

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One Kind of Freedom

For Ohio Prison Inmates, Raising Guide Dogs for the Blind Is a Labor of Love

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Harry Houdini

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Starting Over

Five Months After She Suffered a Breakdown, Disappeared and Turned Up Filthy and Battered in a Stranger's Backyard, Margot Kidder Talks About the Manic Depression That Brought Her to the Brink

Table of Contents

Harry Houdini

J.Lo's Sound Check

Kim: A Real Cutie-Pie!

Katy & Russell's Movie Date

5 Funniest Moments from Daytime TV

David Beckham's Boys Day Out

Adam Lambert's American Music Awards Preview