Post Mortem: April 27, 2008 - May 3, 2008
Here's to the Crazy Ladies
We just got a note from a reader from Scotland who asked for an obit of Deborah Palfrey, the D.C. Madam, who committed suicide yesterday at her mother's house. He argued for a formal obituary on this basis: " -- If one of her diaper wearing clients from the senate...
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May 2, 2008; 1:43 PM ET |
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His Dying Wish
Vladimir Nabokov, the celebrated Russian author of "Lolita," "Pale Fire" and other monuments of 20th-century literature, was working on a new novel, "The Original of Laura," at the time of his death in 1977. He ordered that the manuscript be burned. His command makes you wonder about any relative's "dying...
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Matt Schudel
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May 1, 2008; 1:06 PM ET |
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Are You Sure?
Many, many years ago, on my first government job -- picking up trash and dead dogs for the Texas Highway Department -- I came across a puppy carcass beside IH-35 and, sadly, tossed the little body into the back of our converted gravel truck. An hour or so later, I...
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Joe Holley
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April 30, 2008; 3:14 PM ET |
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Remembering Texas City
Imagine an explosion so powerful it blows two light planes out of the sky, kills more than 500 people -- including a number of firefighters incinerated at the scene -- injured more than 7,000 others and destroyed 500 homes. All that happened on April 6, 1947, when the Grandcamp, a...
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Joe Holley
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April 30, 2008; 11:47 AM ET |
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Another Craigslist Wannabe
Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor is hoping to wrest control of obituaries and death notices from the newspaper industry, just as he did with employment postings....
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April 28, 2008; 4:44 PM ET |
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Watergate's Enduring Stories
One of the major reasons that the Washington Post became nationally prominent was its coverage of the Watergate scandal, starting in 1972. It's a complex story but the ramifications continue to this day. (The Post's online operation has a pretty good special report, with a useful timeline.) The key players...
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Patricia Sullivan
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April 28, 2008; 6:00 AM ET |
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Pearl Harbor?
So I was thinking I might write an obituary on this slow Sunday for "la Dinamitera" (the Dynamite Girl), an 88-year-old heroine of the Spanish Civil War named Rosario Sanchez Mora. But then I remembered an interview with the writer Susan Jacoby on C-Span yesterday. Jacoby told her interviewer, Nick...
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April 27, 2008; 4:31 PM ET |
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