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...Abraham Lincoln couldn't be faking it as well. Many of them, with their flimsy umbrellas breaking in the wind and icy rain, didn't know Brown but knew someone who did or benefited from some project he got off the ground. Jasper Johnson, who passed by the casket early Wednesday morning, cut Brown's hair every two weeks for 20 years in Shaw. It was the neighborhood Brown often frequented, where he dropped off his shoes to be repaired and ate lunch on Saturdays; nearby, he played his weekend basketball games and lived in a split-level town house...
...MASTER Ben Crenshaw hadn't won a major tournament since the '84 Masters, his putting stroke had left him, and he teed off at Augusta the day after bearing mentor Harvey Penick's casket. But with Penick as spiritual caddy, the reverential Crenshaw won golf's most revered tourney...
Fairy-tale princesses, however, are not bludgeoned to death by their mothers. They are not violated with a toothbrush and a hairbrush, and the neighbors do not hear them moaning and pleading at night. Last week, two months before her seventh birthday, Elisa Izquierdo lay in her casket, wearing a crown of flowers. The casket was open, which was an anguished protest on someone's part; no exertion of the undertaker's art could conceal all Elisa's wounds. Before she smashed her daughter's head against a cement wall, Awilda Lopez told police, she had made...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel is buried today in the hills of Jerusalem. He was born in Jerusalem and he fought there twice, securing its peace and that of Israel. As he is lowered into the hard and hallowed earth, an Israeli flag draped over his pine-wood casket, Rabin is not alone. A part of the state is buried with...
...jotted "party favors?" and directed that his hearse should be made to "look ridiculous" and his casket covered with smiley faces, in order to "foil Satan's ploy" of making death a somber, black event...