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Palestinians Turn Out to Lay Beloved Poet to Rest

RAMALLAH, Aug. 13 -- Seventeen-year-old Irjwan Assi never met Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, but she was in mourning all the same Wednesday as she craned her neck to watch his flag-draped coffin pass through the center of this West Bank city.
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By Linda Gradstein