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Gaza Strip
The Separation
-on Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza strip
» The Israeli Consulate in New York
This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land
-explains what's next for the Palestinians of Gaza
» Nubar Hovsepian (Chapman University)
The Tipping Point
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Tim Zagat, CEO and co-founder of the Zagat Survey
- on the debate over how much one should tip waitstaff at restaurants and whether ...
Beyond the Sympathy Card
- explores some less acknowledged responses to death and dying.
» Anneli Rufus' web page
Behind The Photo Shoot
A BL blog correspondent sent in this pic (taken a few days ago with a photo camera) revealing the machinations behind the Times' A1 photo of Gifford Miller.
The skyskrapers make me look taller, right Bob?
Feedback: Death
Our segment with Anneli Rufus today provoked an avalanche of emails about the inappropriate emotions we sometimes experience around someone's death. Here's a sampling:
Subject: DeathWhen my brother died suddenly, my first thought was, "At least that's one funeral where he won't show up drunk." At my sister's funeral, he stood up and argued with the minister. Later he similarly disrupted other family funerals and weddings. All this while insisting on a myth of family togetherness. I was glad in a way to have that particular struggle over with.
-ABP
Subject: the farewell chronicles: comment
Just last week I attended the funeral of my 86 year old grandfather,
who died of cancer and in a sever stage of alzhiemers. this topic is very real for me right now. One thing that I found most difficult about the funeral was how to responds to the sympathy of others when I felt more relieved than anything else about the entire situation. i think it is ironic that as soon as the person passes away, that the death becomes more about the feelings of the people left behind than the person that died.
-CP