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Because of the logistical difficulties involved in getting world leaders to Israel within the customary 24-hour period between death and burial, Rabin's state funeral was put off a day--until Monday afternoon. But Israelis themselves poured out their confused and troubled emotions on Sunday in a remarkable rite of homage. As a motorized cortege bore the warrior statesman up the highway from Tel Aviv to the Holy City, teary-eyed mourners lined the route. And when he came to rest in the brilliant blue November afternoon on a catafalque outside the Knesset, hundreds of thousands of Israelis...
...yearly rite of passage for the college-bound, and as the only nationally comparative factor, thousands of colleges and universities weigh scores heavily in their admission processes. It is used to narrow the field for designating Presidential Scholars, and (in the PSAT form) to hand out thousands of National Merit Scholarships. If the noble souls who write this test can't even figure out that giving an identical exam to the same people twice is unacceptable, should they be entrusted by students and learning institutions with such extraordinary power...
Courtroom as religious rite: Apollo--the law--sifts through the disorders of Dionysus--human nature in the wild, where Medea's children and Orestes' mother and Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman all are murdered. To re-establish order, the rational takes the irrational to court. Sometimes the result is itself irrational, but in the drama, you may see for a moment into the society's heart...
...taken only six months for the average American baseball fan to exchange his or her guarded loyalty for lemming-hood. The protests and low attendance figures that greeted players and owners at the beginning of this strike-shortened season have been replaced by the annual rite of pennant fever...
While the council was out on the issue, Harvard undergraduates and professors have again undergone the semi-annual rite...