April 19, 1999

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Brat Race

The Brat Pack Actors, Once Everywhere, Went Mostly Nowhere. Now 15 Years Later, These '80s Faves Are Back

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The Way We Were

A Look Back at the Year People Began

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Lethal Force

The Police Shooting of An Unarmed New York City Street Vendor Ignites a Firestorm of Outrage and Protest

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Life from Death

Four Years After She Lost Her Husband, Gaby Vernoff Gives Birth to the First Known Child Conceived with a Dead Man's Sperm

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Jilted Joe

Once a Playboy, Joe Namath Now Plays Golf—which Is One Reason Why His Much Younger Wife Wants Out

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Captured

For the Families of the First U.s. Pows in Yugoslavia, Anxious Days Lie Ahead

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The Longest Yard

Ravaged by Liver Disease, Football's Walter Payton Waits for a Life-Saving Transplant

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Encore, Encore

Now Behind the Camera, Dina Merrill and Ted Hartley Make Movie Magic Together

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Bad Vibes

Colorado Judge Paul Sacco Has His Own Remedy for Teenage Noisemakers—barry Manilow and Barney

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War Stories

Gathering Images of War's Worst Abuses, Ex-Actress Pippa Scott Wages Her Own Battle—against Inhumanity

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Her Parting Gift

As Death Approaches, a Rural Doctor Searches for Someone to Do Her Precious Work

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Virtue's Reward

Author Wendy Shalit Says Women's Lives Would Be Safer and Sexier If They Tried a Bit More Old-Fashioned Modesty

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The Ice Storm

The Men Who Traced a Ford's Stolen Jewels Are Still Waiting for the Promised Reward

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Courting Laughter

As Jackie Chiles, a Johnnie Cochran Knockoff, Actor Phil Morris Proves There Is Life After Seinfeld

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Out of Luck

For Clarence Jackson, a Forgotten $5.8 Million Winning Lottery Ticket Promised Riches He May Never Collect

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Riding High

Gardner Mckay, Former Tv Hunk, Gets Back into the Swim, as a Novelist

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A Girl, a Boy, a War

As Horrors Unfold in Kosovo, a U.s. Teen Keeps a Tenuous Link to a Treasured Friend

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Not So Rosy

Tom Arnold and His Wife, Julie, Go Their Separate Ways

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Friend of the Flock

Bird Lover Mark Bittner Has San Francisco's Wild Parrots Eating Out of His Hand

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Hip Hop Hooray!

With a New Baby Daughter and Five Grammys, Singing Sensation Lauryn Hill Hits the Heights

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Star Struck

October Sky's Hero, Homer Hickam, Left Home on His Way to the Heavens

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The Avenger

When Angry Consumers Hire Ellen Phillips, Her Sharply Pointed Pen Rights Corporate Wrongs

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Ringling's Brother

Johnathan Iverson, the Greatest Show on Earth's First Black Ringmaster, Fills the Big Top with Song

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Brat Race

The Brat Pack Actors, Once Everywhere, Went Mostly Nowhere. Now 15 Years Later, These '80s Faves Are Back

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