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...mourn the loss of a plaster saint. That saint, the venerated one with the windblown corona, was a dried husk. The man who had the great thoughts and spun the strange theories that inspired that veneration was young, full of vigor and turbulence and passion. He was hardly alone; all his organs worked as well as his brain. His household was squirming with babies when he began his greatest work, on general relativity. Einstein's physics flourished not in the absence of life but in its fullness. His scientific life blossomed at the same time as the rest...
...clenched fists into the air. One year ago to the day, on April 9, 1989, Soviet troops had broken up a peaceful demonstration on the very same spot with tanks, shovels and poison gas, killing 20 people. Last week residents gathered in the streets again -- but not just to mourn their dead. As one impassioned young speaker put it, they were celebrating "a great victory on the difficult road to freedom and complete independence...
...Baku-based Muslim Religious Board for Transcaucasia, still resents the Soviet President's claim that Islamic fundamentalism played a role in Azerbaijan's upheaval. He led the Muslim ceremony in honor of the dead when 1.5 million people gathered at the Cemetery of the Martyrs above Baku to mourn the people killed in Azerbaijan during January's Soviet army attack -- more than 300, claim Popular Front officials. "It's a sin when the head of the country uses religion in politics," Allahshukur says. "I didn't expect Gorbachev to play with the souls and religious feelings of Muslims...
...combination that felled the champ. Another slow count could not save Tyson. He rose to all fours, grabbed for his mouthpiece and pathetically placed its end between his teeth, like a dazed dog with an old toy. The war was over. For Douglas, it was time to celebrate and mourn. In a TV interview, he told his dad that he loved him. Douglas said he won the fight "because of my mother, God bless her heart." And then the new undisputed heavyweight champ dissolved into manly tears...
...been inflamed by a bitter blood feud with neighboring Armenia over control of the mountainous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Last week black flags waved from housetops, sirens wailed and ships' horns echoed over Baku harbor as some 800,000 Azerbaijanis thronged the streets, in defiance of emergency regulations, to mourn their hundred or more "martyrs" killed in street clashes with Soviet troops. Among the marchers' signs: a photograph of Mikhail Gorbachev over the word WANTED...