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...Eulogy The City of Brotherly Love doesn't generally weep for brothers who love and leave it, but REV. LEON SULLIVAN was a towering, 2-m exception. Though he grew up in West Virginia, died in Arizona and is best-known globally for his antiapartheid crusading and ties to Martin Luther King Jr., it was in 1960s Philadelphia that the proud but pragmatic pastor of Zion Baptist Church preached, perfected and first put into action his message that "black power without green power is no power." In North Philly, that meant pooling black parishioners' greenbacks to build grocery stores...
...time being, it seems, fashion mavens, editors and retailers will continue to weep in adoration over the beauty and artistry of Japanese design, but look to the European collections to see what...
...Here was a defining moment. The house divided between (1) those of us who believe in the stiff upper lip and the essential privacy of authentic human feeling, including grief; and (2) those who weep along with Elton John as he sings "Candle in the Wind" to the prostrate world, or who deposit teddy bears and such mementoes at the doorsteps of celebrities they never met. Intimacy on parade: Sorrow as pornography. Americans staged the same spectacles when John Kennedy Jr. died...
...imprisoned by fear of being killed by a sniper on the road or by a mortar fired into a back yard as a Palestinian is by trenches dug across roads. Perhaps they do not understand that Israelis are as human as Palestinians, and that we all weep when our sons, daughters or ten-month-old infants are caught in the crosshairs of a sniper’s scope and then blown into pieces...
...animated trifle about characters made from those useless bits of fuzz and stuffing that come loose from your clothes in the dryer. If cleaning the lint filter is the highlight of your lazy Saturday, then the film’s final shot will make you break down and weep tender, knowing tears. Otherwise, don’t rush...