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...state in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court of the U.S. From 10 in the morning until 10 that night, a steady flow of people filed past his casket, which was draped with a flag and supported by the same bier on which Abraham Lincoln's coffin had rested. By evening, the number of mourners had reached nearly...
...AIDS crisis has been the inspiration for countless works of art, and "Building a Collection" contains some of the most interesting pieces on that theme. The painting "AIDS Count I, 1988," created by Luis Cruz Azaceta, is an unmounted black canvas with a small figure in a coffin in the center. Surrounding the figure are white numbers that fill the remainder of the canvas, evoking the constantly growing number of AIDS victims...
...Only the victory of socialism can deliver the working class from unemployment and poverty. The capitalist world is crumbling -- the Five-Year Plan is driving in the coffin nails of world capitalism...
Bill Clinton's election may put the final nail in the coffin of the ROTC controversy, which has raged at Harvard for more than 20 years in the form of ultimatums, angry protests and unsuccessful compromises...
...before the demise of the Soviet Union, Russians learned to dismiss as absurd the civil defense training courses imposed on them at school and work. They refer to the courses as grob, taken from the first two letters of the words for civil defense -- grazhdanskaya oborona. Translation of grob: coffin. The cynicism was justified. In 1988 an accidental air-raid alert in the industrial city of Perm sent hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for safety. As a test of civil defense, the accident proved a disaster. Perm residents found many shelters locked, flooded or infested with mosquitoes...