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This weekend, two events drew huge crowds--the funeral of Morocco's King Hassan, and Woodstock '99.
New York Times Description of Crowd Funeral: "hundreds of thousands of mourners" Festival: "marauding bands of shirtless bellowing men"
The self-immolation of widows, known as sati — a widow becomes sati, a “virtuous woman,” by climbing onto her husband’s funeral pyre — has disappeared, but the monkey-god Hanuman and elephant-headed Ganesh are still idolized, and nobody will dare to deny the sanctity of the cow and all her products: milk, curd, butter, and dung, the last of which is used for fuel.
When Nikita Sergeevich bragged that the USSR would bury the USA, he meant that technologically and economically the Soviets would leave us in the dust, would be around for our funeral, not that they would put us six feet under.
The remarkable work on civil rights done by Robert Kennedy's Justice Department bore a distinctly Republican stamp: John Doar, a celebrated member of that team--who single-handedly stopped an incipient riot at Medgar Evars' funeral by stepping into an angry crowd and yelling, "Anybody around here knows that I stand for what's right!"