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At Ivana Trump’s Funeral, a Gold-Hued Coffin and the Secret Service
In death, as in life, her famous former husband loomed over Ivana Trump’s story.On Wednesday afternoon, when a funeral was…
Highgate Cemetery: A City of the Dead That Inspires the Living
Highgate Cemetery is the final resting place for about 170,000 Londoners, among them the famous, the infamous and the ordinary.…
With a Simple Funeral, South Africa Bids Farewell to Desmond Tutu
CAPE TOWN — In an almost empty cathedral, with an unvarnished, rope-handled coffin placed before the altar, South Africa said…
In Remembering Tutu, South Africa Reckons With Lasting Challenges
JOHANNESBURG — In a requiem Mass that interwove several southern African languages, in the style of Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s own…
South Africa Begins a Week of Mourning for Desmond Tutu
CAPE TOWN — The bells of St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town rang out on Monday as South Africans began…