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...revealed. But lately it has become fashionable to be a first-fleet Australian. Likewise, in the new South Africa, nonwhite ancestry for an Afrikaner is not only politically correct but socially advantageous. Former President Frederik Willem de Klerk, once a defender of apartheid, now admits to a Bengali-slave forebear. In the U.S., blacks and whites are cooperating in joint genealogy searches. Says Colorado land appraiser James Rogers, a Caucasian who unearthed a slave ancestor: "It certainly brought home to me that we are all related...
DIED. WILLIAM LAMBERT, 78, Pulitzer-prizewinning forebear of modern-day investigative journalists whose 1969 LIFE expose of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas (he accepted $20,000 from a stock swindler) led to the jurist's resignation nine days later; in Bryn Mawr...
...second, doesn't sit well with all members of his family. "Edward does not speak for me," says cousin Jeff Ball, who still wishes Ed well with the book. The apology, he says, doesn't "mean anything." Perhaps it doesn't. An apology doesn't take Tenah, Dunn's forebear, back to Africa. It doesn't change the disparate lives Dunn and Ed lead. But apology, she says, was never the point; what mattered was the accountability the apology symbolized: "I didn't go into this looking for a dollar put on the table. I was looking for acknowledgment...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Sixteen descendants of F.D.R. say their jaunty forebear should be depicted in a wheelchair...
...billion universe of computer games, these are days of feverish anticipation. The twitchy teenagers and addicted adults who spend hours at a time blasting away the phosphorous phantoms on their PC screens know that Quake is coming. It's more like a second coming: Quake's forebear, the virtual reality, blast-'em-up sensation called Doom, is probably the most popular PC game ever created. Countless fans are currently searching 75 Websites looking for signs of Quake as if it were a visiting comet...