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...dead will not use up more of China's arable land. Clearly, Ding's dilemma calls for a meeting of local party officials, some of whom are his enemies. Follow your conscience, they advise the bereaved and now relieved son, who has already arranged for his mother's coffin. A trap, says his friend: "If you bury your mother tomorrow morning, I'm sure they will report you to the higher-ups tomorrow afternoon." What is Ding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: ALIEN LAND | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

Penn later added another score to the board for the final nail in the Bulldog coffin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Game by Game Breadown | 11/26/1997 | See Source »

...pallbearers removed the coffin from the hearse, an honor guard from the Cambridge Fire Department saluted the coffin while bag pipers played a solemn rendition of "Amazing Grace...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Thousands Attend Slain Cambridge Boy's Funeral Mass | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

Robert and Barbara Curley, accompanied by Jeffrey's older brothers Sean and Bobby, greeted tearful guests by their son's coffin...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mourners Pay Respect To Jeffrey Curley | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

Mother would probably have recoiled at the extravagance. A state funeral televised around the world. A military guard bearing her coffin to a ceremony attended by the powerful and the famous. Billboards proclaiming her apotheosis. Mourning in a land of a multiplicity of idols for a woman who believed singularly in Jesus. "Mother Teresa, you're immortal!" came the cries as the citizens of Calcutta, the city she served for a half-century, broke through police barricades to run beside the carriage that bore her to her funeral. The same carriage bore the body of Mahatma Gandhi after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOR THE POOR, AN IMMORTAL | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

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