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(Newser) - He wasn't always the most articulate person in one-on-one conversations, but Ted Kennedy gave powerful speeches, writes Gail Russell Chaddock in the Christian Science Monitor. Three that resonate:
  • His 1980 concession: “For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures,
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SLIDESHOW

 Ted Kennedy: A Life in Pictures 


Aug 26, 09 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. Ted Kennedy's office wrote about 2,500 bills during his nearly half-century of service, points out the Boston Globe, more than 300 of which have become law. But when it comes to illustrating highlights, a picture speaks a thousand words. Click on the image box to the left for... More »

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Ted Kennedy • obituary • political dynasty • US Senate • women's issues

OBITUARY

 Ted Kennedy Dead at 77 


Aug 26, 09 1:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. Ted Kennedy, patriarch of one of the most powerful political dynasties in American history and long-time liberal lion of the Democratic Party, died late last night at his Massachusetts home in Hyannis Port, reports the New York Times. “We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family and... More »

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 Test-Prep Giant 
 Stanley Kaplan 
 Dead at 90 


Founder of test-prep firm challenged thinking about SAT

Aug 25, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stanley Kaplan, founder of the test-prep behemoth that bears his name, died this weekend of heart failure at age 90, the Washington Post reports. Kaplan’s company not only helped millions of students level the playing field in what he described as a “poor man’s private school” but... More »

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SAT • Washington Post • obituary • standardized testing • College Board • SAT prep • Kaplan

OBITUARY

Economist
Rose Friedman Dead at 98

Collaborated with husband Milton on foundational texts

Aug 19, 09 2:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rose Friedman, economist and collaborator with husband and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, died yesterday of heart failure, the Chicago Tribune reports. Rose was the co-author of Capitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose, two foundational texts of the Chicago School of economics. Though birth records from her birthplace in modern-day... More »

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economics • University of Chicago • obituary • Chicago School • Ukraine • Milton Friedman • Rose Friedman

Obituary

 60 Minutes Creator 
 Don Hewitt, 86, Dies 

TV legend directed Cronkite, Murrow in nearly 60 years at CBS

Aug 19, 09 11:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don Hewitt, one of the pioneers of TV news, died today at 86 of pancreatic cancer, CBS reports. Hewitt all but invented television news over the course of his more than 60-year career, directing legends Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. He was behind the 1968 launch of 60 Minutes,... More »

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obituary • pancreatic cancer • 60 Minutes • CBS News • Walter Cronkite • television news • Don Hewitt • Edward R. Murrow

APPRECIATION

 Novak: Last of the
 Shoe-Leather 
 Columnists 


Aug 19, 09 5:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Most Americans will remember Robert Novak as the acerbic right-winger on CNN, but he saw himself first and foremost as "a shoe-leather reporter," writes Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz. Novak prided himself on getting scoops and uncovering secrets via a wide network of Republican officials. But that... More »

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Valerie Plame • Karl Rove • conservative • obituary • CNN • columnists • Robert Novak • Howard Kurtz

Obituary



 Robert Novak 
 Dead at 78 

Columnist, known as 'Prince of Darkness,' was 78

Aug 18, 09 11:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservative Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak died this morning at 78, after a year-long battle with brain cancer, the Sun-Times reports. Known, to his delight, as the “Prince of Darkness,” Novak’s “Inside Report” column has been syndicated since 1963. He was at the center... More »

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cancer • Valerie Plame • obituary • Robert Novak • brain cancer

(AP) - Kim Dae-jung, the former South Korean president who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his reconciliation efforts with the North, died today at age 85. He had been hospitalized with pneumonia since last month. As a pro-democracy opposition lawmaker, Kim built a reputation as a passionate champion of human rights... More »

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North Korea • South Korea • obituary • Kim Jong Il • Nobel Peace Prize • Kim Dae jung • Nobel laureates

 'Trailblazer' 
 Shriver Laid to Rest 

Special Olympian: she was 'Queen of humanity'

Aug 14, 09 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - At today's funeral Mass for Eunice Kennedy Shriver, daughter Maria called her a “trailblazer” who “was scary smart and not afraid to show it,” the Cape Cod Times reports. Oprah Winfrey, Stevie Wonder, Joe Biden, and Arnold Schwarzenegger attended the private service for the Special Olympics founder... More »

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Joe Biden • Arnold Schwarzenegger • obituary • Massachusetts • Oprah Winfrey • mass • Stevie Wonder • Cape Cod • Kennedy family • memorial service • Maria Shriver • Special Olympics • Eunice Shriver

appreciation

 Les Paul's 
 Genius 
 Will Be 
 Missed


Aug 13, 09 3:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Les Paul's death today at age 94 has the accolades pouring in:
  • Lou Carlozo, True/Slant: "The solid-body Les Paul guitar that Lester developed with Gibson in the early 1950s is rock and roll. Like the Fender Stratocaster, its shape is so synonymous with the genre that any
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 Music Legend  
 Les Paul Dead at 94 

Inventor, guitarist 'changed the course of 20th-century popular music'

Aug 13, 09 1:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Musical innovator and guitar legend Les Paul died today in White Plains, NY. He was 94. A “virtuoso guitarist” himself, in the early 1940s Paul pioneered the “log” guitar, “probably the first solid-body electric guitar," writes Jon Pareles of the New York Times. His popular Gibson... More »

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(Newser) - Not too long ago the mentally disabled—or "retarded" people, as we called them then—were often hidden away in medical institutions, neglected by their families, and subjected to horrific policies such as forced sterilization. Eunice Kennedy Shriver changed all that with the Special Olympics, which started in her... More »

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APPRECIATION

 Modernist Architect 
 Gwathmey Dies at 71 


Aug 5, 09 7:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Charles Gwathmey, who died of esophageal cancer at 71 this week, began his architectural career as a steely, pared-down Modernist and never wavered from his style over decades of work, writes the New York Times. His larger buildings, such as an extension to Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark Guggenheim Museum, were... More »

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architecture • New York • obituary • modernism • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • architect • Charles Gwathmey

OBITUARY

Breakthrough Black Model Naomi Sims Dead at 61


Aug 3, 09 4:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Naomi Sims, the first black model to grace the cover of Ladies Home Journal—and arguably the first black supermodel—has died at 61, the New York Times reports. Her family says the cause was cancer. Sims burst onto the scene in the late 1960s, but chose in the ‘... More »

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African Americans • Andy Warhol • obituary • black women • supermodel • magazine cover • Jay-ZTV • designer fashion • Salvador Dali • Naomi Sims • cover girl

OBITUARY

 Corazon Aquino Dead at 76 

Former president restored democracy in the Philippines

Jul 31, 09 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Corazon Aquino, former president of the Philippines, has died at 76, the Los Angeles Times reports. Aquino became Asia’s first female president, leading a “people power” movement that eventually toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986—and arguably set off a wave of democratic revolutions that ended with the... More »

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democracy • obituary • Philippines • dictatorship • free elections • Corazon Aquino • Filipinos

NY Times Video Obits Give the Departed 'The Last Word'

Non-Bush ex-president  has already made one

Jul 30, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Obituaries are a newspaper standby, but the New York Times has removed the journalistic middleman with its series of video obits, Editor & Publisher reports. After starting 2 years ago with humorist Art Buchwald’s greeting of “Hi, I’m Art Buchwald and I just died,” the Times... More »

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New York Times • Jimmy Carter • Bill Clinton • obituary • video • George HW Bush • George W. Bush • former presidents • celebrity death • Art Buchwald • video obituary

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 Jazz Pioneer 
 George Russell  
 Dead at 86 

His theory influenced Miles Davis, John Coltrane

Jul 28, 09 11:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jazz innovator George Russell died at 86 yesterday in Boston of Alzheimer’s complications, the Globe reports. Russell developed a jazz theory that played a key role on landmark records like Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue and John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme. Russell’s theory “gives you a... More »

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entertainment • music • obituary • jazz • Miles Davis • Herbie Hancock • Jay-ZTV • John Coltrane • George Russell • Dizzie Gillespie

Obituary

 Dance Legend Cunningham 
 Dead at 90 


Jul 27, 09 10:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Merce Cunningham, one of the most influential dancers and choreographers of the 20th century, died last night at age 90, the New York Times reports. Hailed as the creator of new classicism, he remained productive to the end; this year saw the premiere of his final work, “Nearly... More »

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obituary • dance • Fred Astaire • choreography • Merce Cunningham • Twyla Tharp • Martha Graham • Margot Fonteyn

(Newser) - Harry Patch, the last British man to survive World War I’s trenches, has died at age 111, the BBC reports. He was the oldest man in Europe, and the third oldest in the world. “I had the honor of meeting Harry, and I share his family's grief at... More »

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