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A little more than a year ago, I was asked to read something at a ceremony for a wonderful man then in the latter stages of cancer. It wasn't a funeral. The man was still alive and would, in fact, attend the ceremony, along with dozens of friends. It...
Tuesday, Jan. 23. The day we buried you. "Yes," you once said, "we Turkish Armenians do have a claim to the soil of this country, but not to take it away, as some accuse us of secretly plotting, but to be buried deep under it." Your funeral was spectacular. Tens...
The E.U. wants Turkey to abolish that law, Article 301, which is used by nationalist prosecutors and lawyers to charge writers and journalists with "insulting Turkishness." At Dink's funeral today, many in the procession carried posters that read "301 is the real killer." "His murder has started some soul...
For Thant, such histories are not an abstract or far-off thing. Fully Burmese himself, he is descended from courtiers, and grew up (in Riverdale, New York) in the same house as his maternal grandfather, U Thant, the onetime small-town Burmese headmaster who became the U.N.'s third Secretary...
Two years and seven months ago, Ford and his wife, Betty, sat in the same cathedral for the funeral of the next Republican to succeed him in the White House, Ronald Reagan. Now, the tributes were pouring out for Ford, who became President after Richard Nixon's resignation and served...