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...recorded digital file before releasing any cash. Thanks to the iris's "fraud-proof" reliability, NCR and Sensar predict that banks will soon be selling everything from airline tickets to insurance policies through the local ATM. Sadly the innovation comes too late to save the life of Jonathan Levin, son of Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin, who was murdered several weeks ago by thieves who wanted his PIN number so that they could hit his bank account...
Rabbi William Lebeau gives the final eulogy of the day. He speaks of Jonathan's "joy" in teaching and, in a tacit reference to the murder, warns against cynicism and despair. Even God despaired, he says, when he decided to drown the world. It took Noah to prove that a human being could be a worthwhile invention...
...service ends. The students mix with the others as the vast crowd flows out into the bright cool New York afternoon. It was not true that Jonathan had left them alone in the cold world. They had one another, and they had themselves. He had not taught them how to live (Who can do that?), but he had taught them to live. And this was the immutable gift of one who knew how to love and teach kids...
...students paint their own pictures. A colleague of Jonathan's reads their responses to his death. One writes, "You were one of the few to understand us." Another: "Who will be there to tell me I can make it?" One laments that there will be no one around to argue with about the Knicks and the Yanks. Jonathan used to take the kids to ball games, and he never missed theirs. A student writes, "He has left me alone in this cold world...
Another colleague tells the congregation that Jonathan believed "no student should get a free ride." He could be playful with them because he took them seriously. That is what touches the depths of their sorrow now. They weep for him and for themselves. Maybe they wonder if he dreamed it all up, if they are in fact as valuable as he found them. These kids are used to disappointment and desertion...