Susan Sontag, feminist fighter, dies aged 71
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NEW YORK: Feminist and author Susan Sontag, who died yesterday in a New York cancer hospital at the age of 71, was one of the most respected US writers of her generation, a leading campaigner for women and an ardent human rights activist who stirred
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Susan Sontag, an intellectual and human rights activist who wrote on subjects as diverse as photography, philosophy and AIDS, died today in New York City.
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Kate Winslet was awarded substantial libel damages Friday after a British magazine wrongly stated that she had visited a diet doctor. The 31-year-old actress, known for her criticism of excessive dieting, wasn't at London's High Court for the hearing on an article published last month by women's magazine Grazia.
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Author and social critic Susan Sontag, one of the strongest voices of intellectual opposition to US policies after the September 11 attacks, has died at the age of 71.
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NBC News is apologizing again Â this time for Jane Fonda. The 70-year-old actress used a vulgar slang term on the "Today" show Thursday while talking about the play "The Vagina Monologues." Fonda is appearing in a 10th-anniversary performance and was on "Today" with author Eve Ensler.
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Tributes flooded in Tuesday for Anita Roddick, the British founder of The Body Shop cosmetics chain and &quot;capitalist with a conscience&quot; who has died at the age of 64 after a major brain haemorrhage.
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CONCORD -- Carola (Rosenthal) Domar, 84, of Concord, a former social worker, died of breast cancer Sept. 24 at the Wayside Hospice in Wayland.
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Suzanne Pleshette, the husky-voiced star best known for her role as Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on television's long-running ''The Bob Newhart Show,'' has died at age 70.
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Susan Sontag's impassioned political pronouncements and her advocacy of the avant-garde made her a lionized and polarizing figure in 20th-century letters.
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Novelist, essayist, critic, filmmaker, political commentator and lesbian Susan Sontag -- one of America&#39;s leading intellectuals -- died Tuesday at Memorial Sloan-Kettring Cancer Center in Manhattan from leukemia complications.
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Hungarian poet Gyorgy Faludy, a legend  of resistance to the rise of Nazism and Communism, died at the  age of 95 at his home in Budapest, national news agency MTI  said on Saturday.
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Author Susan Sontag, an almost lone  voice of intellectual opposition to U.S. policies after the  Sept. 11 attacks, died on Tuesday at age 71 at a New York  cancer hospital.
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American intellectual and author Susan Sontag has died in New York at the age of 71. Her son, David Rieff, said the cause was complications stemming from acute myelogenous leukaemia, one of the deadliest forms of leukaemia.
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SAN FRANCISCO Mary Elaine Gennoy--a San Francisco resident and an avid medical marijuana activist--has died at age 53. Close friends say Gennoy died September fifth from complications after undergoing throat surgery for cancer of the larynx.
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Four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher died Saturday in a Seattle hospital of a reoccurrence of leukemia after a recent stem-cell transplant, her doctor said. She was 51.
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Mary Rettig Irish, a philanthropist and wife of Hearst Newspapers President George B. Irish, died Sunday after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was 59.
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Mary Elaine Gennoy, a medical marijuana activist and a ubiquitous and popular figure in the Castro, where she lived and once ran as a write-in candidate for San Francisco supervisor, died Sept.