Post Mortem Archive: Joe Holley
Farewell, Joe
Before his mug shot disappears from the Murderers' Row atop our blog, we want to say farewell to our colleague Joe Holley, who has just left the Post to begin plying the journalistic trade as a political writer for the Houston Chronicle. Joe, as longtime readers know, is a Texan...
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October 20, 2009; 4:45 PM ET |
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Autumn and Obits
At Salon, Garrison Keillor writes of autumn -- and obits: "That is what fall means in St. Paul, Minn. It's maple trees telling us about mortality and that life is short and can't be put on Pause and each of us is as fragile and forgettable as a maple tree....
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Joe Holley
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October 12, 2009; 11:04 AM ET |
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'Voice of the Voiceless Ones'
It would be hard to overestimate the power and influence of Mercedes Sosa, the Argentinian-born folk singer who died October 4 at age 74. As Adam Bernstein recounts in The Post, she released 70 albums over a career spanning nearly six decades. Known for her rich contralto voice and her...
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Joe Holley
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October 4, 2009; 5:05 PM ET |
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Just in Case
Among the many speeches Bill Safire wrote for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew was one he was surely glad Nixon never had to give. On the occasion of the Apollo moon landing in July 1969, he wrote two speeches -- one congratulating the astronauts and one eulogizing their sacrifce in...
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Joe Holley
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September 28, 2009; 4:00 PM ET |
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Father of the Green Revolution
It's easy to conjure up the names of the notorious who've been responsible for the deaths of millions -- think Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot -- but what about the name of a man responsible for saving millions? As writer Gregg Easterbrook noted in 1997, "America has three living winners of...
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Joe Holley
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September 13, 2009; 4:37 PM ET |
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The Bedford Boys
In my September 5 obituary for Elliot Berlin, I mentioned that the Alexandria-based documentary filmmaker had recently completed work on "Bedford: The Town They Left Behind." I noted that the documentary explores "the impact of the D-Day invasion upon a small southwestern Virginia town that lost several of its young...
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Joe Holley
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September 8, 2009; 3:05 PM ET |
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