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appreciation stories: 9 news summaries
APPRECIATION

 Swayze: Not Afraid to Laugh 
 at His Own Hunkiness 

Actor didn't want to be just another pretty face, made sure he wasn't

Sep 14, 09 9:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Patrick Swayze, who died today at 57, wasn’t the first choice for the male lead in Dirty Dancing, the BBC notes, but “his performance earned him award nominations and a place on bedroom walls of lovelorn teenage girls around the world.” He eschewed Hollywood’s scene—preferring... More »

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Saturday Night Live • entertainment • Hollywood • obituary • pancreatic cancer • Patrick Swayze • Dirty Dancing • appreciation • Lisa Niemi • sex symbol • Chris Farley

Appreciation

 Ted Was the Greatest Kennedy 


Aug 26, 09 8:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - On the weekend of his inauguration, John F. Kennedy gave his youngest brother a cigarette case engraved with the words, “And the last shall be first.” Fifty years later, that prophesy has come true, writes Richard Lacayo of Time. The "long shadow of Chappaquiddick" may... More »

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John F. Kennedy • Ted Kennedy • Chappaquiddick • political dynasty • Robert F. Kennedy • senator • appreciation • Kennedy

Appreciation

 To Friends, 
 Hardliner Novak 
 Was a 'Pussycat' 

Hard work made him 'the ultimate insider journalist'

Aug 18, 09 2:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bob Novak called himself a “rough and tumble” journalist, “but to his friends and colleagues, he could be a pussycat,” writes Eleanor Clift in Newsweek. Despite their widely divergent views, Novak—who died today at 78—helped Clift get a spot on the then-all-male McLaughlin Group. When... More »

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Valerie Plame • journalist • columnists • Robert Novak • appreciation

Appreciation

 Somehow, 
 Aquino Kept 
 Her Halo 


Aug 1, 09 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Before his murder, Benigno Aquino predicted that anyone who succeeded Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos would smell like manure in six months. But his own wife would prove him wrong, writes Howard Chua-Eoan of Time. Corazon “Cory” Aquino, who died yesterday of heart failure, was a political saint who... More »

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democracy • Philippines • free elections • Corazon Aquino • Filipinos • appreciation

Non-Appreciation

 Rot in Hell, Mr. McNamara 


Jul 7, 09 7:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - At long last, Robert Strange McNamara has “shuffled off to join LBJ and Dick Nixon in the 7th level of hell,” writes journalist and author Joseph Galloway, who couldn’t be more pleased. “McNamara was the original bean-counter—a man who knew the cost of everything but... More »

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Vietnam • Lyndon Johnson • John F. Kennedy • defense secretary • appreciation • Robert McNamara

legacy

'Whiz Kid' McNamara Could Not Escape Vietnam


Jul 6, 09 3:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Robert McNamara led many careers but will be best remembered for his time as secretary of defense during the Vietnam War. Though he privately disagreed with some decisions, he maintained a public optimism about “McNamara’s War” that earned him derision, Reuters reports. Describing the impact of the war... More »

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Pentagon • Vietnam War • defense secretary • legacy • Pentagon Papers • appreciation • Robert McNamara • Evan Thomas • Birch Bayh

APPRECIATION

 He's In League
 With Sinatra, Elvis 


Jun 25, 09 9:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The King of Pop may have spent the latter part of his career “mutating into an ever more freakish version of himself,” writes Richard Williams in the Guardian, but for all his eccentricities and flaws, Michael Jackson was still the greatest performer of his generation. Jackson was “... More »

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Michael Jackson • appreciation • women's issues

APPRECIATION

 Farrah: 
 'America's Ideal of Itself'  


Jun 25, 09 2:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Farrah Fawcett’s time as a superstar may have been short, but she played her entire life—and career—with grace, Richard Corliss writes in Time. And no one can forget her 1970s heyday. “If the big, bulky computers of the day could have programmed America’s ideal of... More »

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entertainment • television • film • Farrah Fawcett • Charlie's Angels • Ryan O'Neal • appreciation • anal cancer • Richard Corliss • poster girl

APPRECIATION

 Deep Throat Made 
 Newspapers 'Cool' 


Dec 20, 08 1:10 PM CST
(Newser) - Mark Felt's life inspires an appreciation of a heroic man, but also of the romance and significance of journalism, Hank Stuever writes in the Washington Post. In fact, you could say “that the idea of him had died already, a few years ago, when he allowed the world... More »

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Washington DC • Bob Woodward • Carl Bernstein • obituary • Richard Nixon • Deep Throat • Mark Felt • appreciation

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