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...At the security guard’s funeral, the famed, one-eyed Israeli general, Moshe Dayan, foretold the violence to come....
...What are the implications as buyout funds in the US acquire more and more hospital emergency rooms, hospices and funeral parlours? What about buyouts of private homes to turn into rentals?...
...The choristers from the Thomanerchor sang a motet, “Jesu meine Freude”, Jesus my Joy, from 1723 and believed to have been composed for the funeral of the wife of the Leipzig postmaster....
...Born in 774AD, he travelled to China to study as a young man and returned home two years later to found the Shingon sect of Buddhism....
...One day we joined a funeral party, where we drank pink milkshakes and made offerings to Shiva. Many of the mourners were from Malaysia, their first time back in 30 years....
...Terry, a young, handsome funeral home director given a winning serenity by Korey Jackson, sets this interval-less evening’s theme. “Grief does strange things to people,” he says....
...One confidant, who until two years ago spoke to him most weeks, confirms to me the widespread assumption that he has returned home to die. Tutu will preach at the funeral....
...Few Japanese groups are taking advantage of low rates and a strong yen to take over competitors whether at home or abroad....
...The effect is luminous, transcendent, but also casts a series of overlapping shadows – just threatening the serenity of a cultural epoch that would not outlast Kobke....
...Some embody the popular image of the old sage, whose work reflects a new serenity and reconciliation with the world....
...Mr Biondi has since favoured the relative serenity of life as an investor and board director of groups such as Cablevision and The Bank of New York....
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