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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...morning to news of his seizure, the exiles arrived in force, one man carrying a crucifix with a bloody doll nailed to it, and accused Janet Reno of playing Pontius Pilate. For Elian's Miami relatives, the morning was a kind of death, after five months of hope and power and fame and the satisfactions of righteous rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Elian Grab | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...tells of getting a telephone call from Steinem while in bed with a married father of five, and of fooling around with another old flame who fell out of bed and broke his toe. "Despite all this stuff about feminism and the ongoing complaint that men have all the power," she writes, "in some ways we are better off as women. We don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Friedan Mystique | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...Belafonte (their collaboration won a Grammy), singing for President John F. Kennedy (she performed the same night in 1962 that Marilyn Monroe cooed Happy Birthday) and touring with Paul Simon. Her personal life was sometimes tumultuous--she's been married to South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela and American black-power activist Stokely Carmichael. Now single, she laughs and says she is "too old to marry again." In 1990, after Nelson Mandela's release from prison, Makeba returned to South Africa. On Homeland Makeba's music sounds timeless and tireless. The succulent African pop songs are in English and in Xhosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Voice from The Veld | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...energy is in any way connected to perpetual motion is wrong. My theory states that energy can be derived from reducing the size of a hydrogen atom. The theory has been successfully tested in independent labs, and I have presented it to the American Chemical Society. RANDELL MILLS BlackLight Power, Inc. Cranbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 1, 2000 | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...task of preparing a will. You can enter such estate-planning information as the amount of your assets and the number of your beneficiaries and get an estimate of the cost of completing the document. Netwills estimates that a basic package that includes health-care directives and designation of power of attorney can cost anywhere from $300 to $500 per couple, depending on where you happen to live and the complexity of your will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: May 1, 2000 | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

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