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Oct.25.2012
A few days ago I decided, on a whim, to see if I could find out just what some of my friends were up to, friends I’d lost touch with over the years. Naturally, the Internet afforded me the flexibility to simply enter the names of certain friends and see what I could bring up, thanks to Google and...
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Dec.15.2011
It is probable that the English language book store, Shakespeare and Company in Paris, is one of the most famous book stores in the world. Any avenue which promotes books on a global level is fine by me. George Whitman, the owner, just died at 98 - which is a good old run by any estimation. In a...
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Oct.11.2011
My beloved father Xiao Ma passed away in Beijing October 10 at 3:17 p.m., aged 81.
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Jul.24.2011
E. E. Cummings once wrote that "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." Many of us, me included, have let life kind of happen to us. We've not created what we wanted us to be, but have just reacted to whatever way the wind blew us. Jobs, friendships, situations seem...
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Jul.22.2011
Arnold Weinstein
By
Kenneth H. Brown
Arnold and I were talking about the modern world. He thought a moment and then said, “History is a thing of the past.” The comedic surface of that remark, coupled with its profound undertones, was...
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May.26.2011
Readers of my newspaper lost a graceful, elegant essayist, I lost a father-in-law, and the world lost a gifted teacher and aviator when Stanley Peter Andersen passed away on November 5, 2006. He was 84.
I’m not the right guy to write a proper obituary for Dr. Andersen, and this isn’t...
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Oct.26.2010
Until today when I read New Yorker cartoonist Leo Cullum's obit in the Times. Then I couldn't stop laughing.
This man has entertained New Yorker readers for decades with his lampooning of lawyers, salary men and doctors. And with his depiction of animals suffering from human neuroses.
The line in...
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Jun.14.2010
William Bauer1932-2010 Bauer, William Alfred
William Alfred Bauer died at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital on June 12th, 2010. Among those mourning this gentle man’s passing are his wife of 54 years, Nancy Bauer; children, John (Kimberly), Grace and Ernie (Marie-Josée); grandchildren, Marie-Luka...
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Sep.12.2009
RIP, Larry.
If you know this Chicago-born writer's work only through M*A*S*H (the TV- series version), you're missing the full measure of his talent. He wrote films and plays you've no doubt seen and enjoyed immensely, but which most people associate only with the actors or directors who were...
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Aug.27.2009
(continues from Part I: First Responders)This is the obituary that really stuck to Poe's reputation. Even the use of the full name, Edgar Allan Poe, whereas it was Edgar A. Poe in the earlier obituary we looked at, seems to herald a change in his perception, a practice that we might still wish to...
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