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...Staff writer Margaret W. Ho can be reached at mwho@fas.harvard.edu...
...opinion saying that under the state's constitution, gay people do not have the right to make burial arrangements for their partners. The generally civil members of the Massachusetts court were barely civil to one another by the time they issued their second opinion. In her ruling, Chief Justice Margaret Marshall said Justice Sosman, who had dissented, "so clearly misses the point that further discussion appears to be useless." It is a small sign that tempers are likely to flare when the national debate begins...
DIED. M.M. KAYE, 95, author whose 1978 masterwork, The Far Pavilions, was sometimes likened to Gone With the Wind; in Lavenham, England. Born Mary Margaret Kaye to British parents in pre-independence India, she dabbled in painting (and amateur theater, left) but earned worldwide fame as a novelist. Her richly detailed story of a British orphan who is raised as a Hindu and falls for an Indian princess became a best seller and, in 1984, an HBO mini-series...
...Staff writer Margaret W. Ho can be reached at mwho@fas.harvard.edu...
DIED. ALEXANDRA RIPLEY, 70, author of Scarlett, the sanctioned sequel to Gone With the Wind; of unspecified natural causes; in Richmond, Va. She had written five historical novels before being selected by the estate of Margaret Mitchell to pen a sequel to the beloved Civil War saga. Published in 1991, Scarlett got poor reviews but spent 34 weeks on the best-seller list...