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...Mitchell, once an icon of independence and 1960s wanderlust, the little girl who was to be her only child never quite left her mind. Over the years, as her fame grew, she wondered about the child's parents, her health, her future. It was not until a Canadian tabloid published the story of her adoption four years ago that Mitchell began speaking openly about it. But she was besieged by pretenders and began to lose hope...
...OTHER MOM'S AN ICON...
...change," says Gordon Sullivan, the retired Army Chief of Staff whose 1994 commitment to the information revolution led to last week's exercise. In fact, soldiers tend to be such traditionalists that the Army is having trouble getting them to believe what appears on their computer screens. "Trust the icon" is a new slogan the Army is trying to promote...
...background of victim and suspect could not be more different. Cosby, 27, was the son of a cultural icon whom many Americans felt they knew as part of his father's sitcom family, only to discover that the real-life son led a quieter yet deeply inspiring life. Markhasev came to the U.S. at age 10. After a start in a gifted-students program, he drifted in and out of schools in Los Angeles, West Hollywood and Orange County, picking up the nickname "Pee-wee," for a purported resemblance to Pee-wee Herman. Eventually, Markhasev found...
...like the age itself, honored human progress: it assumed almost all respectable people would reach heaven; if there were problems, they could continue working them out once they got there. The happiest prospect in this heaven was a slightly more idealized (and eternal) version of that already sugar-coated icon, the Victorian family. The model finessed the doubts about God that were seeping into the cultural mainstream by relegating God and even Christ into a nearly invisible role in the background. But it did so at a price. Without a compelling spiritual center, the vision of the future was hostage...