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Last Tuesday, national leaders gathered in Lithonia, Ga. to observe and partake in the funeral of the famed civil rights icon Coretta Scott King. Replete with hefty doses of pomp and spectacle, the nation watched with rapt attention as political and civil rights leaders paid their final respects to one...
Granted, a number of the liberal civil rights leaders in attendance were rightfully disgruntled at Bush’s reluctance to associate with them, and, further, much of their criticism had validity to it. Still, a funeral is not a political forum, and a civil rights hero’s...
It has often been remarked that there was a kind of bond between Coretta Scott King and Jackie Kennedy, two young widows of martyred men who themselves would make history, both by accident and design. Having played her part largely behind the scenes when her husband was alive, Mrs. King...
King's official cause of death is listed as cardio-respiratory failure, cerebral vascular illness and ovarian cancer, with her heart and lung failures owing in part to the stroke. Her cancerous condition had not been previously made public, and she was diagnosed last fall, according to family friends. That...
Nothing much happened here in Israel last week, which was something of a surprise to most Israelis, who were expecting big, dramatic, perhaps cataclysmic developments after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was incapacitated by a massive stroke. Sharon, ever stubborn, lived on, breathing a little, responding reflexively to pokes and proddings...