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...pictures in advertising too. The 2004 Bush campaign used images from the World Trade Center, including firefighters carrying off a flag-draped body--and was criticized for it by the Kerry campaign. (Indeed, Bush admaker Mark McKinnon told the New York Times he thought the Democrats' use of the coffin pictures was entirely appropriate.) After 9/11, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was one of the strongest advocates of showing horrible visuals of the attacks, to ensure that we never forget...
...coffin flap is just the latest battle in a campaign to make the acknowledgment of American deaths in the war a traitorous act, as when conservatives assailed Ted Koppel for reading the names of war dead on Nightline in 2004. And it raises a question more important than a midsummer political blip: Why, after more than three years, are images of coffins returning from a war controversial...
...body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul...
...holding a fair hearing reeks of fusty politics. And whether or not Bennett’s opposition to holding a fair vote stems from Martin’s status as a mother or status as a conservationist, his refusal should be worrisome, at the least.As if to nail the coffin shut on this sorry episode, the Arizona media has paid slim attention to the incident. This is surprising, given the state’s typically moderate conservatism: Sen. John McCain is Arizona’s favorite son; Gov. Janet Napolitano is not only a Democrat, but also an unmarried woman...
...proving that tale true was always a long shot, say the scientists who excavated the tomb, which is near Tut's and is known as KV63. And as the last of the coffins was opened to great fanfare last week, the skeptics turned out to be right. There was no mummy--and no Mummy--inside. Still, that doesn't put KV63 in the same category as Al Capone's infamously empty vault. The coffin was filled with ancient embalming materials, strips of linen and funerary garlands and collars made of dried flowers. That, says lead excavator Otto Schaden...