The Red Cross is paying for family members of some surviving partners to travel to New York for the Sept. 11 observances this week, but like most organizations it is limited in what it can allocate to people who cannot demonstrate that they were financially dependent on the deceased.
As we begin our religious observances this week, I hope that we will keep in mind the Maureens and Megans among us: dear to God even in death, but so deserving of a life of love and beauty here on earth.
OUR FAR-FOUNG CORRESPONDENTS about observances last fall, in Assisi, Italy, of the 25th anniversary of the World Wildlife Fund International (now the World Wide Fund for Nature).
The observances yesterday took place under the orange glow of a threat warning that said the risk of terrorism was high.
By Lis Harris The New Yorker, April 27 , 1987P. 80 OUR FAR-FOUNG CORRESPONDENTS about observances last fall, in Assisi, Italy, of the 25th anniversary of the World Wildlife Fund International (now the World Wide Fund for Nature).
Photo: Staff members and others affiliated with Phase Piggy Back, a community service organization, took part in their Kwanzaa observance yesterday in Harlem.
With a barbeque as its defining ritual observance, Memorial Day is an event virtually devoid of remembrance.
On Tuesday, financial markets, government offices and most businesses will be closed in observance of New Year's Day.
Throughout Iraq, churches canceled or toned down Christmas observances this year, both in response to threats of violence and in honor of the nearly 60 Christians killed in October, when militants stormed a Syrian Catholic church and blew themselves up.
The observances this year of the two-hundredth anniversary of Ralph Waldo Emerson's birth, in 1803, have been measured but widespread: conferences were scheduled in the great man's adopted home town of Concord, Massachusetts, and, this fall, in Beijing and Rome.
By John Updike The observances this year of the two-hundredth anniversary of Ralph Waldo Emerson's birth, in 1803, have been measured but widespread: conferences were scheduled in the great man's adopted home town of Concord, Massachusetts, and, this fall, in Beijing and Rome.
