Francis Lewine, trailblazing journalist, dies
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Frances Lewine, who covered the White House for the Associated Press during the administrations of six presidents and spent nearly three decades as a CNN assignment editor and field producer, died Saturday of an apparent stroke. She was 86.
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Pham Xuan An, a reporter for TIME during the Vietnam War later revealed to be a communist agent, has died. TIME's former Saigon bureau chief remembers him
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Pierre Berton, whose populist tales of Canadian history made him one of the country's best known writers and media personalities, has died at age of 84.
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Lucien Carr, a journalist and a member of the inner circle of literature's Beat Generation, died Friday. He was 79.
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âWalter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at M.I.T. And he has now emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the global classroom the institute created to spread knowledge through cyberspace,â writes Sara Rimer (New York Times). Due to MIT OpenCourseWare, the âglobal classroomâ that delivers more than 1800 courses via the MIT website, Lewin receives fan mail from students all over the world. âProfessor Lewin revels in his fan mail and in the idea that he is spreading the love of physics. âTeaching is my life,â he said.â Like to sit in on a physics course taught by Professor Lewin? You can download free video podcasts of his lectures on iTunes.
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TORONTO (CP) - Author and broadcaster Pierre Berton, "a great Canadian voice" whose numerous books on Canadian history and culture contributed to this country's collective identity, has died at age 84.
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The Daily Mail's editor pays tribute to the "brilliant" diary writer Nigel Dempster, who has died aged 65.
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, has died in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.
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Pierre Salinger, who served as press secretary to two US presidents, has died of a heart attack near his home in southern France, and is to be buried in his native United States, his French wife said.
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The shooting at Northern Illinois University became a personal story for reporters at the campus paper when they learned that a fellow staffer was among the dead.
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NEW YORK - Richard Avedon, who chronicled the famous with his camera and elevated fashion photography to a 20th century art form, died early Friday.
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Lester Tanzer, 75, a longtime Washington journalist who was managing editor of US News &amp; World Report for nine years, died Dec. 8 at his home in Arlington.
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Walter H. G. Lewin, a physics professor at M.I.T., has found devotees across the country with his online lectures.
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Richard Avedon, one of the most  influential portrait and fashion photographers of the 20th  century, died on Friday at age 81 in Texas, where he had been  photographing an essay on democracy for the New Yorker  magazine, a magazine spokeswoman said.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the late U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a distinguished journalist, died of a heart attack on Saturday, his family said on Sunday. He was 79.
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Pierre Salinger, the spokesman for the Kennedy White House who later became a European correspondent for ABC News, died yesterday at a hospital near his home in Le Thor, France.
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Richard Avedon, who turned fashion  and portrait photography into art forms and captured  unforgettable images of some of the world's most famous  figures, died on Friday at 81, a spokeswoman for the New Yorker  magazine said.