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...cheaper, the utility bill hasn't gone down. "Even those who say they're doing O.K. now think that other people are losing ground," says Susan Mitchell, author of The Official Guide to American Attitudes. "They all know people who were laid off. Even if it was distant cousin Billy Bob, just knowing someone who was laid off shakes your faith...
...member Panama Canal Authority, the agency that will run the facility after 2000. In addition, the President has invited a storm of criticism by naming a passel of relatives and political cronies to the Canal Authority board. They include his former son-in-law, his cousin, two of his wife's cousins and his campaign finance chairman...
Many in Ball's family protested the project. "You're going to dig up my grandfather and hang him!" shrieked one cousin. Blacks met Ball with suspicion, sometimes with anger. "The name Ball meant enemy," says Charlotte Dunn, whose rebel slave great-grandmother barely escaped murderous Ball pursuers. Blacks, left with few documents or oral information, can rarely trace their lineage more than a few generations. Ball's discoveries took them back to first contact. The exchange was painful, with stories of stolen 10-year-olds or slaves beaten or killed. "I came bearing terrible tales," Ball sighs...
...apology, Ball's second, doesn't sit well with all members of his family. "Edward does not speak for me," says cousin Jeff Ball, who still wishes Ed well with the book. The apology, he says, doesn't "mean anything." Perhaps it doesn't. An apology doesn't take Tenah, Dunn's forebear, back to Africa. It doesn't change the disparate lives Dunn and Ed lead. But apology, she says, was never the point; what mattered was the accountability the apology symbolized: "I didn't go into this looking for a dollar put on the table. I was looking...
...which CBS will broadcast at 9 p.m. on Dec. 21. Based on the autobiographical story by Capote, it stars Patty Duke and is set in Alabama in the 1930s. Duke plays Sook, a childlike but loving old woman, who lives with her two sisters, her brother and her little cousin Buddy. Sook and Buddy (the adorable Eric Lloyd) are best friends. This relationship offends Sook's bossy, practical sister Jennie (Piper Laurie). They should be separated, Jennie decides, and Buddy must be sent to military school after the holidays...