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DIED. JOHN GARDNER, 89, influential Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Lyndon Johnson who introduced Medicare and later founded the 200,000-member grass-roots citizens' lobby Common Cause; of prostate cancer; in Palo Alto, Calif...
Families of those who died in the Sept. 11 tragedy say the vitriol directed at them when they talk about money feels like "a double victimization." Anthony Gardner, who lost a brother in the World Trade Center attacks, says he has received half a dozen e-mails calling him "greedy" and "a scumbag" for criticizing the proposed formulas for victim compensation. "One woman was so vulgar, I'm thinking about reporting her to AOL or something," he says...
...partly why he and other World Trade Center families sought comfort last week from those who lost loved ones in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. In the first of a series of videoconferences hooking up victims' families--one group in New York, the other in Oklahoma--a pained Gardner asked, "Did any of you experience anything similar?" Images on the screen showed the Midwesterners look at each other and shrug...
...author; in Berlin. Perhaps best known for her role in Germany's first movie after the war, Die M?rder Sind Unter Uns (The Murderers Are Among Us), the versatile blond leading lady went by the name Hildegard Neff in Hollywood, where she starred with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner in 1952's The Snows of Kilimanjaro. DIED. ASTRID LINDGREN, 94, internationally renowned Swedish author of more than 70 children's books, including the now classic Pippi Longstocking; in Stockholm. Lindgren originally conceived the tale of the feisty red-haired heroine as a bedtime story for her seven-year-old daughter...
...additions: Brandon Smith, F, 6-8, 215; Steve Callahan, G, 6-3, 190; David Gardner, C, 6-9 225 Mike McLaren...