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...King's vision. In fact, his namesake, Martin Luther King III, is starting his own organization to fight Connerly every step of the way. This is part of the King family's long-running struggle to gain financial control over his writings and speeches (which includes a recent multimillion-dollar pact with Time Warner, this magazine's owner). But the real issue here is not money but whether people who oppose nearly everything King stood for have the right to assert that his corpse is marching in their parade...
...only become more confusing. Boulder police have not named a suspect, while JonBenet's parents, John and Patricia, are now communicating with investigators only through their lawyers and a media consultant. And as a side effect of the intense scrutiny the case is receiving, JonBenet's world--the glittering, multimillion-dollar world of children's beauty pageants--has been thrust onto a stage...
...Geek-laden companies such as Pixar, Industrial Light & Magic and Digital Domain (effects houses for Toy Story, Jurassic Park and Terminator II, respectively) have been turning digital technology into blockbuster grosses for years. And more recently, as Websites flacking for the likes of 101 Dalmatians and ID4 score multimillion "hit counts," the studios have come to value the Internet's impressive promotional clout...
DIED. ELREY JEPPESEN, 89, ex-mail pilot who parlayed his meticulous terrain notes into a multimillion-dollar business publishing air-navigation charts and other flight information; in Denver. Jeppesen began jotting notes for his own use in the '30s, when charting a course by air meant reading road maps or "hugging" railroad tracks...
...member of the Standards of Official Conduct Committee, McDermott was a leader of the House investigation into the propriety of Newt Gingrich's multimillion-dollar book deal. One of the most liberal Representatives, he voted against this summer's welfare-reform bill and last year offered a Democratic alternative to the G.O.P.'s proposal to reduce planned Medicare spending by $270 billion. In liberal Seattle, he remains a favorite to repeat...