STAR TRACKS 6
Dr. Ruth gets a lift from Fabio. Sharon Stone does a sister act. Mike Myers lends a hand, and more
UP FRONT
30 After years of pent-up rage and paranoia, mortgage broker Gian Luigi Ferri kills eight and wounds six before turning the gun on himself in what police have called San Francisco's worst mass murder
36 To portray rodeo hero Lane Frost, Beverly Hills, 90210's, Luke Perry goes to Texas and hangs in there, bull beneath him be damned
38 He may have been spurned at the polls, but George and Barbara Bush prove living well is the best revenge
PAGES 43
After 50 years of farming, South Carolinian Dori Sanders tries her hand at writing—and turns out to be a peach of a novelist
COVER 48
The emotional tug-of-war for Baby Jessica, now 2½, has finally been decided: She is to be taken from her custodial parents, Roberta and Jan DeBoer, and returned to her natural mother and father, Cara and Dan Schmidt
JOCKS 56
Cecil Fielder, the Detroit Tigers' king of clout, for years was deemed too bulky for the bigs
FAREWELL 58
The Ministers' endearing Fred Gwynne, dead at 66, was also a scholarly Harvard man
TO THE TOP 65
Benjamin Chavis, the new leader of the NAACP, rushes from one hot spot to another
ARTS 68
Linda Merk-Gould gives the Capitol's Statue of Freedom its first bath in 130 years
HAPPY 70
Hillary's brother Tony Rodham asks Nicole Boxer, daughter of Senator Barbara, to be his bride. Is there a White House wedding in the wings?
TRENDS 72
As summer sizzles, coolspeak catches fire among the young and hip
WEDDING 74
Robert Kennedy's daughter Courtney makes a controversial match with Paul Hill, an Irishman falsely convicted of an IRA bombing
FLASH! 76
A mere condiment to good taste, Green Jell brings papier-mch and mayhem to the pop charts
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? 78
After Flipper, TV brothers Tom Norden and Luke Halpin found a new porpoise in life
MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 9
THE INSIDER 29
PASSAGES 60
PUZZLER 62
CHATTER 80
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