Author and Activist Susan Sontag Dies in NYC
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(Dec. 28) -- Author and activist Susan Sontag has died. She was 71 years old. News of her death came from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City Tuesday morning.
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Actor Jerry Orbach, who earned a  reputation as the quintessential New Yorker through his work in  films and as a longtime star of the "Law & Order" television  series, has died from prostate cancer. He was 69.
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, tireless liberal activist and confidant to President John Kennedy, has died at 89 of a heart attack.
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As she lay ill last summer following a bone marrow transplant, Susan Sontag would listen to music, keep up on current events and indulge a passion seemingly too light for one of
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U.S. historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Schlesinger Jr. died of a heart attack in Manhattan on Wednesday night, the New York Times reported on Thursday. He was 89.
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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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NEW YORK -- Susan Sontag, an author and activist who called herself a &quot;zealot of seriousness,&quot; died Tuesday at the age of 71.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 28 -- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st century, has died, his son said. He was 89.
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NEW YORK -- Fred Ebb, who lyricist for such hit Broadway musicals as &quot;Chicago&quot; and &quot;Cabaret&quot; and the big-city anthem &quot;New York, New York,&quot; has died of a heart attack.
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Social critic and author Susan  Sontag, one of America's leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday  at age 71 at New York's Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle  with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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Susan Sontag, who has died at the age of 71, was one of the most respected American writers of her generation and an ardent human rights activist who opposed the Vietnam war and stirred controversy with her thoughts on the September 11 attacks.
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U.S. playwright Arthur Miller has died  after battling cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition, The New  York Times reported on its Web site on Friday.
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NEW YORK - Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics for such hit Broadway musicals as "Chicago" and "Cabaret" as well as the big-city anthem "New York, New York," has died of a heart attack.    Ebb died Saturday at his home, said David McKeown, an assistant to composer John Kander, Ebb's longtime collaborator...
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The death of one of the greatest figures in modern French literature, Henri Troyat, is announced in Paris.
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New York Times journalist R.W. Apple, a lead writer on war and politics for decades before he returned to the noodle shops of Saigon and restaurants of Paris to write about the food and wine he loved, died on Wednesday. He was 71.
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Susan Sontag, the writer and activist whose powerful intellect helped shape modern American thinking for nearly half a century, died yesterday at the age of 71.
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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.