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...they've come from. This is especially so in light of the fragmentation of families. Genealogical pursuit, says Ralph Crandall, director of Boston's New England Historic Genealogical Society, "is an attempt to reconstitute the family, at least symbolically." Shirley Wilcox, president of the National Genealogical Society in Arlington, Va., acknowledges that "computers and the Internet are also responsible for fueling interest." Masses of material can be organized more efficiently with software programs such as Family Tree Maker, the Master Genealogist, Ultimate Family Tree, Family Origins and Personal Ancestral File...
...said, wasn't a "medical necessity," nor was it on their list of covered therapies. Despite a letter from an expert at the National Institutes of Health testifying that this was Matthew's best chance at life, the HMO would not budge. Today Cerniglia, a computer technician in McLean, Va., is trying to scrape together enough money to pay for the procedure himself. His son's bills already total...
...overpaid, that nobody was that good. But no more. He's turned playing basketball into an art form. He is the Lord of the Hardwood Floor, a unique athlete and classy human being. We've seen basketball played with perfection by the greatest player ever. JOHN L. HORTON Norfolk, Va...
...grim. Far more accurate was your reference a few months back to the American Spectator as a "gleefully anti-Clinton magazine" [Nation, April 13]. That captured the spirit. Somehow, political ineptitude can be as amusing as it is dismaying. R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR., Editor in Chief American Spectator Arlington, Va...
...They made 86 cuts and changes ("mutilations," said the author), but the work still became an American best seller. Last week Thomas Jefferson got to say the last word, every single one, when the full draft of his Declaration of Independence went on display at the Newseum in Arlington, Va., on loan from the New York Public Library. An angry Jefferson underlined Congress's changes. One of its telling deletions: a denunciation of King George for maintaining slavery...