Archive for the ‘Passings’ Category
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Liu Xiaobo: Keeping Alive
14 Jul 2017Liu Xiaobo, one of the world’s most courageous men, Chinese dissident, died of liver cancer in a Chinese hospital, died…
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Resisted War, Resisted Racism, Resisted Silence: George Houser
21 Aug 2015Ninety Nine years is only the last accomplishment of George Houser’s amazing life: WW II conscientious objector, 1940 Co-founder of the…
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Thinking About Good-bye
15 Feb 2015It’s been a week of saying good-bye, to those I’ve admired for work done and lives lived, most of whom…
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Gabo, Gone
17 Apr 2014Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” established him as a giant of 20th-century literature,…
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Pete Seeger: Gone
28 Jan 2014The legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger died Monday at the age of 94. For nearly seven decades, Seeger…
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Toshi Seeger Gone
12 Jul 2013What a great woman and companion Toshi Seeger was! A good life lived. Toshi Seeger, whose husband the folk singer…
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Carlos Fuentes: Passing On
16 May 2012Many obituaries for Mexico’s famed novelist and social critic, Carlos Fuentes. Here is what the Washington Post writes. Mr. Fuentes…
