INSIDE PEOPLE 6
MAIL 8
PICKS & PANS 19
THE INSIDER 47
FIRST LOOK 80
PASSAGES 97
PUZZLER 114
CHATTER 138
STAR TRACKS 10
Whitney Houston gets grounded with Bobby Brown. Liam Neeson plays the fighting Irish. Woody Harrelson cozies up to Courtney Love, and more
UP FRONT
48 Now a Maternal Girl, Madonna counts her blessings—a healthy 6-lb. 9-oz. special delivery for her and beau Carlos Leon
52 In winning a $500,000 judgment involving her school district, 14-year-old Tianna Ugarte has helped bring the debate over sexual harassment among students to a boil
56 America's top cyclist, Lance Armstrong, vows to outpace his strongest opponent: cancer
PAGES 63
In a new memoir, Claire Bloom depicts life with Philip Roth as infinitely stranger than fiction
STYLE 71
Heather Locklear, Drew Barrymore and Mariah Carey are fans of Evgenia Gvozdetsky and Elena Nazaroff's ultrafeminine fashions
IN THE MONEY 75
Tongue firmly in cheek, veteran host Wink Martindale earns a high rate of (viewer) interest on cable TV's new hit game show Debt
IN COURT 83
Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki presides with an iron hand over the O.J. Simpson civil trial
SCREEN 91
With his role in Sleepers, and Speed 2 on the way, Jason Patric may finally be known as more than Julia Roberts's old flame
FAMILY 98
Suspecting that their adoptions four decades ago were part of a widespread baby-selling ring, three Americans travel to Greece in search of the truth
SEQUEL 103
Boston talk show host David Brudnoy and thousands of other AIDS patients are dramatically improving, thanks to a potent new drug cocktail
HAPPY 108
Haitian-born great-great-grandmother—and wrestling fan—Henriette Bolané becomes, at 105, the oldest new citizen in American history
ANGELS 111
As a memorial to her late son, Linda Bremner sends her Love Letters to some 1,000 ill kids
ON THE MOVE 117
Michael Coles, cookie magnate and cycling champ, is betting his can-do spirit will unseat Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich this fall
MEDICS 121
Fertility pioneer Dr. Alan Beer helps develop an innovative treatment that gives hope and healthy babies to hundreds of desperate couples
HEIRS 126
College senior Gautama Chopra is a chip off the old blockbuster: the son of mega-selling self-help guru Deepak Chopra has written a debut novel
JOCKS 129
Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre was on a downward spiral, but he has kicked his addiction to painkillers and is playing better than ever
GALLERY 134
The late Yul Brynner had a passion for photography, as his daughter Victoria's new book proves
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