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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...
Penn later added another score to the board for the final nail in the Bulldog coffin...
...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...
Robert and Barbara Curley, accompanied by Jeffrey's older brothers Sean and Bobby, greeted tearful guests by their son's coffin...
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...