But the hard part of being an activist is that people want to hold me to a very grave and serious standard, when I am at heart a jazz-singing showgirl with a filthy, transgressive sense of humor and an ever-diminishing capacity to suffer fools gladly.
One enterprising cemetery owner offers those unwilling or unable to keep up the payments on graves a standard 70% of the market value to take a grave off their hands.Different as they are, one thing all funeral rites have in common is cost: nowhere are they getting cheaper.
Most recently, in Salazar v. Buono, Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority, treated a Christian cross as though it was the standard grave marker for all fallen American soldiers.
According to the International Cemetery, Cremation, and Funeral Association, the standard grave size is 2 ½ feet wide by 8 feet long by 6 feet deep.
A second report – published by the editorial standards committee of the BBC Trust – that examined the circumstances around the disastrous misidentification ofMcAlpine by Newsnight – also revealed that three unnamed employees had been subject to disciplinary action following a "grave breach" of standards.
Mr. Giuliani, who led the Republican pack in national polls for a time last year only to see his campaign lose steam and then collapse in Florida's primary on Tuesday, flew here to endorse Senator John McCain at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, just steps from the sun-drenched grave site of the standard bearer of the Republican Party.
The train seats are sufficiently roomy that there is little reason to pay to upgrade — a grave error by airline standards.
Although there is no difference in the funeral director's charges for cremation or burial, the price of a standard-size grave has risen 42% to £612 since 2007.
A grave, rich by the standards of any period, was uncovered at a site called Lefkandi on Euboea, the island along the eastern flank of Attica (the territory controlled by Athens).
