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In the course of this odyssey, Hesburgh has collected a record 112 honorary degrees (runner-up: Herbert Hoover, with 89). These days are being filled with further honors as Father Ted says adieu. Last Saturday he gave a televised address via satellite to some 50,000 Notre Dame alumni around...
Linder was killed while working, without wages, on a rural-electrification project in Nicaragua's north-central Jinotega province. But those simple facts quickly drowned last week in a flood of self-serving political rhetoric from all sides. At the funeral, Ortega charged that Linder had been "assassinated by mercenaries...
The adult Anton (Derek de Lint) tries to bury his past and his feelings. Tellingly, he becomes an anaesthetist. But history keeps intruding upon his life. The Korean War draft, the 1956 anti-communist riots in Amsterdam, the funeral of a famous Resistance leader in 1967, and the present-day...
The tabloids gave Andy Warhol a Viking funeral last week, as well they might. At 58 he suffered cardiac arrest following gall-bladder surgery. To the end, he remained surrounded by an aura of popular fame such as no other American artist had ever known in his or her lifetime...
Iron and Silk is not so much a treatise on modern Chinese mores as a series of telling vignettes. When a clerical worker at the college committed suicide, her funeral could not be held or her family consoled until, four days later, local Communist Party officials announced that "her problems...