Shirley Abrahamson, an indefatigable jurist known for her activist voice and tart dissents who was the first woman on the Wisconsin Supreme Court and later…
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Carrie Dann, Defender of Her Ancestral Land, Dies
Carrie Dann, who spent decades fighting the United States government to reclaim the ancestral land of the Western Shoshone Nation, died on Jan. 1 at…
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Robert Thacker, 102, Dies; Survived Pearl Harbor to Fly in 3 Wars
Robert Thacker, who found himself caught in the middle of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor when he was piloting an unarmed B-17 bomber to…
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Ezra F. Vogel, Eminent Scholar of China and Japan, Dies at 90
Ezra F. Vogel, an eminent scholar of East Asia at Harvard University whose writings about modern politics and society in China and Japan helped shape…
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Benny Napoleon, Michigan Sheriff and Ex-Detroit Police Chief, Dies at 65
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. — Benny Napoleon, the sheriff of Wayne County in Michigan and a former Detroit police chief who ran unsuccessfully for the city’s…
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Don Fowler, Democratic Co-Chairman Under Clinton, Dies at 85
Don Fowler, a former co-chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a mainstay of South Carolina and national politics for decades, died on Tuesday in…
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Doug Scott, Part of First Team to Summit Everest by Southwest Face, Dies at 79
LONDON — Doug Scott, a British mountaineer who was part of the first team to summit Mount Everest via its southwest face and later founded…
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Suhaila Siddiq, Afghanistan’s First Female General, Is Dead
Also a renowned surgeon, she rose through the ranks of the Afghan Army and practiced medicine during the Soviet invasion and the Afghan civil war…
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Bruce Boynton, Plaintiff in Landmark Civil Rights Case, Dies at 83
“All he wanted was a cheeseburger,” Judge Myron Thompson of United States District Court in Alabama said at an event two years ago honoring Bruce…
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‘Jetman’ Who Flew Beside a Plane Dies While Training in Dubai
Vincent Reffet, a French stuntman known for limit-defying jumps from the world’s tallest towers and highest mountains, and aerial feats alongside planes using a jetpack,…
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Syria's veteran foreign minister Walid Moalem dies
CAIRO/AMMAN (REUTERS) – Syria’s top diplomat and long-time foreign minister Walid al-Moalem, a staunch defender of Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s bloody crackdown on peaceful…
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Joanna Harcourt-Smith, Lover of Timothy Leary, High Priest of LSD, Dies at 74
Joanna Harcourt-Smith was a 26-year-old European socialite in Switzerland in 1972 when she met Timothy Leary, the psychedelic Pied Piper to the flower children of…
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Pearl Chin Dies at 71; Her Knitting Store Was a Haven and a Hub
Pearl Chin, the founder of Knitty City, a yarn shop on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that became an inclusive sanctuary for urban knitters…
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Saeb Erekat, veteran Palestinian negotiator, dies aged 65
RAMALLAH, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES (AFP) – Mr Saeb Erekat, who died on Tuesday (Nov 10) at the age of 65, weeks after being hospitalised with Covid-19,…
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