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When a senior Chinese leader dies, the order of names of the official pallbearers, the effusiveness of the obituary, the length of the mourning period, all provide signs of the individuals and policies that are in favor. Chen's death was long expected, and the delay in mounting his funeral...
Even that course has its own risks. Chinese officials remember all too well that corruption was a major issue among the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. If a similar public revulsion is building up again, then failing to pursue an anticorruption drive could make the country more difficult...
The wake will be held in Cambridge this Sunday and Monday, and the funeral mass will be Tuesday, according to the letter. There will be an event at Mather next week for those who knew Garside to pay their respects to the family.
I don't know. They are smart guys, all of them, but ask yourself this: a year ago, did you know--or even guess--that when the Academy Awards rolled around again the odds-on favorite to sweep a bunch of the big ones would be something called Forrest Gump...
VLADISLAV LISTYEV BECAME A posthumous cult hero in Moscow in less than a week. At his funeral Saturday, March 4, thousands of mourners piled his grave with mounds of mimosas, roses, carnations and spruce boughs. As thousands more continued to arrive in Moscow's historic Vagankovskoye Cemetery and place flowers...