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By Michael Paul Mason
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Alexander V. Litvinenko is dead after suffering an extensive illness he believed was caused by poisoning. A former KGB agent, Litvinenko had become critical of the Russian government. He began feeling ill after meeting in London with two Russians and an Italian security specialist.
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U.S. National Archives
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The woman known as “Tokyo Rose” has died at the age of 90, almost 60 years after she was imprisoned for broadcasting propaganda messages to U.S. soldiers in WWII. Pardoned in 1977, the Japanese-American Iva Toguri never agreed to renounce her citizenship, and was convicted of treason in a sham trial in 1949.
Posted on Sep 28, 2006
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Ann Richards, the sharp-tongued trailblazer from Texas, died on Wednesday at the age of 73. Though she served only one term as governor, Richards left her mark on Texas and the nation. Known for a keen wit, Richards also accomplished an unprecedented promotion of minorities and women to positions of influence.
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Archives.gov/Joe Rosenthal
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Now that the Iraq war has lasted longer than the U.S. role in World War II, it seems an appropriate time to pause and reflect on the death of a man who provided one of the great icons of that earlier conflict.
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Enron Corp. founder Ken Lay, who six weeks ago was found guilty in one of the biggest corporate scandals in U.S. history, and who was expected to face decades in prison for his fraud and conspiracy convictions in the Enron collapse, died of a heart attack on Wednesday. He was 64.
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