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Every so often the public surprises an established class by a great display of public grief for a figure who has died. The funeral takes on the quality of a demonstration. One such occasion was the funeral of Cardinal Manning--an unlikely public hero, you would think, if you read...
He is now turning his attention to the U.S., his adopted country. The reason? The good guys won abroad; there's work to do at home. The collapse of the Soviet Empire, he says with typical forthrightness, "was a historical opportunity, and I rose to the occasion, so there was...
My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it," said the famously cantankerous Georgia O'Keeffe. Last week, when a new museum dedicated to her art opened in Santa Fe, N.M., that quiet world she cultivated disappeared in the crush of celebration. The occasion fueled the sort of media...
Despite the party-like atmosphere before the ceremony and the loud applause upon Robinson's arrival, the crowd's quiet during the dedication showed that it was, as Famine Memorial Committee co-founder John Flaherty said, "a great and solemn occasion."
Vice President Al Gore called J.P.L. shortly after the landing to congratulate the controllers. President Clinton issued a statement hailing the occasion in more formal tones. "Our return to Mars today," he declared, "marks the beginning of a new era in the nation's space-exploration program."