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...have begun thinking outside the box, so to speak, about how they want to say goodbye to their loved ones. Not for them the weepy, organ-heavy ceremonies of their parents and grandparents. Funerals today are less about mourning a death than about celebrating a life. Custom-made coffins reflect the departed's devotion to NASCAR or deep-sea fishing. Harleys or Corvettes lead processions in place of hearses. Wakes are staged as garden parties and feature professionally made biopics of the deceased. Cremated remains are fashioned into jewelry, fused into artwork, and stuffed into fireworks for those who want...
...course, but today it is the hard-line anti-Oslo parties in Israel and among the Palestinians that appear to be acknowledging their inability to enforce a violent solution. There may also, this time, be a third element of conceptual progress: The "roadmap," for all its limitations, appears to reflect a growing recognition in Washington that the era when Israelis and Palestinians could find their own, bilateral route to a peace agreement may have passed, and that resolving the conflict may now increasingly require that the international community be ready not only to adjudicate between Israel and the Palestinians...
...secular ones. The First Amendment's Establishment Clause was designed not to put religion at a disadvantage, as the court had recently interpreted it, but merely to prevent government from promoting religion. Prohibiting aid to religious schools forces parents to pay once for the public school that does not reflect their values and once for a school that does. But last term Rehnquist correctly held that parents should be able to choose between using a voucher at a religious and at a secular school. This decision does more in a practical way for religious freedom than the court has ever...
...city known for its often-contentious town-gown battles over building projects and tax exemptions, Harvard’s pick of a new ambassador to Cambridge is already causing controversy among some residents, who say the pick could reflect a shift in Harvard’s focus away from neighborhoods and towards business...
...businesses, from the airier, more spacious, cheaper Toscanini’s to the dozen Indian restaurants to the numerous delicious and low-budget pizza joints, reflect an area that has little in the way of homogeneity...