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Obituary: Martin McGuinness died on March 21st
THERE were four moments, Martin McGuinness said, that made him a republican. The first—the one that made him raise his head from his job packing bacon for Doherty’s in Derry, and take an interest in...
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Obituary: Derek Walcott died on March 17th
OVER more than five decades of producing some of the 20th century’s best poetry, Derek Walcott found many local metaphors for his trade. He was a bent astronomer, tracing out the circle of time in the...
View ArticleDavid Rockefeller died on March 20th
WHEREVER he went in the world—and in his 35 years at Chase Manhattan Bank, from 1946 to 1981, he ran up 5m air miles—David Rockefeller carried a small jar in his pocket. It was in case he found a...
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Obituary: Adrian Coles died on March 23rd
“FROM Clee to heaven the beacon burns,” runs the opening line of A.E. Housman’s “A Shropshire Lad”. The Clee hills, rising to 1,700 feet, are the highest points in the county. From there, across green...
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Obituary: Yevgeny Yevtushenko died on April 1st
BABI YAR was the site of the most notorious massacre of the Holocaust. But when Yevgeny Yevtushenko visited the ravine outside Kiev in 1961, he found no monument there to the nearly 34,000 victims,...
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Obituary: Emma Morano died on April 15th
THOSE who live to be very old are never previously famous. Few in the world know them, and they know almost nothing of the world. Emma Morano had never been to Rome, let alone abroad. Her world was...
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Obituary: Albert Freedman died on April 11th
THERE was no doubt who sponsored “Twenty One”, the NBC quiz showAlbert Freedman took over in 1956. The word “Geritol” appeared above the stage and on the lectern of the host, Jack Barry. Barry gave...
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Obituary: Ueli Steck died on April 30th
THE most terrifying thing that happened to Ueli Steck was not the moment an avalanche caught him on Annapurna, the tenth-highest mountain in the world, and almost knocked him off. Nor was it the time...
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Obituary: Miriam Rodríguez Martínez died on May 10th
THE narcos who infested San Fernando, in Tamaulipas state in north-eastern Mexico, did not always trouble to bury their victims. They left them by the side of Highway 101, a road some people said was...
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Obituary: Roger Ailes died on May 18th
STROLLING down a corridor in a high-security jail in 1981, where he was directing an interview, Roger Ailes suddenly bumped chests with Charles Manson. America’s most notorious killer looked mean and...
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Obituary: Manuel Noriega died on May 29th
THE invasion of Panama by the United States in December 1989 involved more than 27,000 troops, a parachute assault, and tanks. It was the biggest American military operation since Vietnam. Manuel...
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Obituary: Roger Moore died on May 23rd
IT WASN’T a bad life, Roger Moore liked to reflect, when he looked back on it. He had saved the world several times: from nuclear war, immolation by solar power, the installation of a master race and a...
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