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...funeral will take place Friday at 10 am, local time. On Thursday night, they'll clear St. Peter's Square to prepare it for the funeral, and also ready the pontiff's body for burial. Archbishop Dziwisz will place a white silk veil over the pope's face, and his body will be placed in a simple cedar coffin, which will be put into a zinc coffin and then into an oak coffin, which will then be covered in marble and placed in the flat tomb inside the crypt. Inside the cedar coffin will be a small bag containing silver...
...electric lights, and none in individual homes. Some have only one outside privy for a row of houses. Night soil is collected by a clanking tractor and trailer. The smoke of coal fires hangs in the air, softening the ugly outlines of the settlements behind a gray-brown veil...
...loud, flashy cover deter you from reading this one in public. Beneath the closet scene cover complete with wedding veil and feather boa, James tells you that the flaming sambuca is “a trademark drink of Euro hotties!” But get to know the girl drinking margaritas, and “soon you’ll be dancing on the bar and bonding...
...trip of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice through Asia has briefly lifted this veil of ignorance. For seven days, Asia seeped into the consciousness of Americans. But soon it will be forgotten again. Few Americans know how dramatically Asia has changed. Fewer understand how the region will transform the world in the 21st century...
...veil of a reason that the Bush administration uses to justify shipping these suspects overseas is threadbare. Recently, Bob Herbet, a columnist for the New York Times, interviewed Pete Jeffries, the communications director for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, on the House’s support for Bush’s rendition program. According to Jeffries, Speaker Hastert “believes that suspected terrorists should be sent back to their home countries” because “U.S. taxpayers should not necessarily be on the hook for their judicial and incarceration costs.” Herbert was flabbergasted...