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...century, TIME has chosen a score who articulate the longings of the time they lived in. There are the extraordinary tales: of Charles Lindbergh's courage, Mother Teresa's selflessness, Marilyn Monroe's exuberance, Pele's superhuman skills, Anne Frank's immortality. And the parables: the Kennedy melodrama, the latter-day silence of Muhammad Ali, the brutal grace of Bruce Lee's art, the all-too-human Diana, Lindbergh's dalliance with Hitler. Iconoclasm is inherent in every icon, and heroes can wear different faces in the afterlives granted them by history and remembrance...
What's in a name? When you're called CHARLES DE GAULLE and you are the grandson of France's legendary President, quite a lot. That's why 57 members of le general's family published a petition last week denouncing the latter-day Charles for joining forces with far-right leader JEAN-MARIE LE PEN, head of the racist and xenophobic National Front Party. "Non!" the petitioners said to De Gaulle's decision to accept the No. 2 slot on the National Front ticket for next month's European Parliament elections. "The name you bear does not belong...
...Harris' website, he and Klebold were busy making their first pipe bombs. But they gave few clues to the people around them. Appearing before Jefferson County magistrate John DeVita on March 25, after being arrested for breaking into a car and stealing electronics equipment, Harris and Klebold made like latter-day Eddie Haskells: "Yes, Your Honor...No, Your Honor." That persuaded DeVita (who knew nothing of Harris' website) to agree to put them in a juvenile diversion program, and charges were dropped in return for their performing community service and enrolling in "anger management" classes...
MILLENNIA'S LEGACY FAMILY TREE ($49; Windows) is a favorite of many Mormons because it includes ready-made templates for Church of the Latter-day Saints documentation. (The software has plenty of non-Mormon admirers as well.) If you have an Apple computer, consider the no-frills, straightforward interface offered by Reunion from Leister Productions...
...Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mormon records of 2 billion people in 64 countries--the world's largest collection--could soon be on its website. www.familysearch.org...