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...ANNOUNCED. The permanent burial of CHIANG KAI-SHEK, former Kuomintang leader and Taiwan's first President; in Taipei. Chiang's body will be transferred from the temporary grave where it has lain since his death in 1975 to a permanent site in a military cemetery outside Taipei in early 2005. Interred alongside him will be his son and presidential successor CHIANG CHING-KUO, who died in 1988. Both men had asked to be buried in mainland China if the Nationalists ever wrested control of the country from the Communist Party...
DIED. SIR RICHARD MAY, 65, British judge who adeptly steered the proceedings in former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes tribunal; of a brain tumor; in Oxford, England. The low-key but occasionally prickly barrister resigned in February owing to grave health, after two years of regular courtroom wrangling with the defiant Serbian leader over everything from cell-phone use to the former dictator's efforts to blame the Balkan wars on Western political leaders...
...principle, Helga Moser doesn't have anything against paying taxes. Like all Germans, the 49-year-old Bonn medical technician has long enjoyed a generous cradle-to-grave welfare system, including a free education and good health care, clean streets, cheap public transport and the reassuring knowledge that she'll get a guaranteed pension when she retires...
...cheekily comic, indefatigably romantic--is what Cole Porter was all about, whatever tests and traumas he endured. We need to see that unlikely triumph, maybe especially at this moment. Watching him stumble glumly to his grave is not an entertaining--or useful--alternative. --By Richard Schickel
...association's primary task is to maintain the graveyard at Monticello. Located just down the hill from the mansion, the half-acre plot is enclosed by an ornate wrought-iron fence and dominated by a granite obelisk that marks the Founding Father's grave. A key benefit of membership is the chance to be buried within a stone's throw. Much of the battle between the Hemings and the Jeffersons has centered on that privilege...