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...religious funeral? Adhering to Judeo-Christian principles, funerals in both countries used to be predictable. Between prayers and hymns, a clergyman spoke briefly about the departed before commending his or her soul to God. Change flowed from the secularizing of another rite of passage: weddings. Troubled that the only option available to couples who didn't wish to marry in a church was a legalistic ceremony performed by a pokerfaced official in a registry office, Australian Attorney-General Lionel Murphy in 1973 launched the Civil Marriage Celebrant Program, which soon gave couples the option of a personalized service. Officiating...
...their offer. Although UFJ has said it is "prudently scrutinizing" SMFG's latest bid, analysts do not expect the MTFG deal to be aborted. "It's hard to imagine that UFJ will switch partners at this point," says Nozomu Kunishige, an analyst at BNP Paribas. Still, Nishikawa has another option: mount a hostile takeover by offering to buy out shareholders directly. On Aug. 17 he told reporters waiting outside his home that that was still a distinct possibility...
...also aims to be America's first therapeutic museum, a place intended not just to arouse feelings but also to discharge them safely. Partly out of concern that people might exit the exhibition galleries with unresolved feelings of guilt (whites), anger (blacks) and resentment (both), the center offers the option of a final room that is not a gallery of any kind but a space for discussion. Trained facilitators will encourage visitors to examine their feelings and share them--without shouting...
...telling indicator of how the siege changed Iraq's power equation. Sistani has demanded that the U.S. and Iraqi forces withdraw from around the mosque and that Sadr's gunmen leave before he'll enter. The U.S. and the interim government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi may have no option but to comply, because alienating Sistani, the most influential cleric in Iraq, would be political suicide. Getting Sadr's fighters out of the mosque would, of course, accomplish one of the government's primary objectives. Doing so along the lines suggested by Sistani, however, also helps Sadr...
...throngs of tourists while driving his own gray 2CV in Paris. "It just clicked," he remembers. He experienced his car's pulling power again in the fall while driving from Paris to Berlin. "It's a French icon like the beret or the baguette," he says. Dargnies offers three options: the Essential Tour, a review of the city's must-see monuments (1 hr. 30 min., $90); the three-hour Magic Tour ($155), which covers a wider selection of Parisian attractions; and the Unique Tour, an ? la carte option allowing daylong excursions in and around Paris...