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newsindiatimes.com | Ela Dutt |Brian Murphy
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washingtonpost.com | Brian Murphy
Robert Monks, who championed shareholder activism, dies at 91 (washingtonpost.com) Robert Monks, who championed shareholder activism, dies at 91 By Brian Murphy 2025050319531700 While campaigning in Maine's U.S. Senate primary in 1972, Robert Monks asked about a smell overnight that was so noxious his eyes teared up. That, Mr. Monks was told, was a paper mill's nightly discharge of "junk" — machine oil and solvents — into the Penobscot River.
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Jill Sobule, musician of same-sex anthem ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ dies at 66 (washingtonpost.com) Jill Sobule, musician of same-sex anthem ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ dies at 66 By Brian Murphy 2025050222065300 Jill Sobule, a singer and songwriter who found inspiration in social commentary such as a satirical jab at beauty obsessions with "Supermodel" and the hit "I Kissed a Girl" that became a same-sex anthem, died May 1 in a house fire in Woodbury, Minnesota. She was 66.
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Ruth Buzzi, famed as dowdy purse slinger on ‘Laugh-In,’ dies at 88 (washingtonpost.com) Ruth Buzzi, famed as dowdy purse slinger on ‘Laugh-In,’ dies at 88 By Brian Murphy 2025050213581900 Ruth Buzzi, a comedic actress with a high-beam smile who often played sidekicks both wisecracking and wise, and who scowled her way to pop-culture fame on the comedy-variety show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" playing a matron who wields her purse like a cudgel, died May 1 at her home near Mingus, Texas. She...
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Peter Lovesey, best-selling novelist who mixed history and murder, dies at 88 (washingtonpost.com) Peter Lovesey, best-selling novelist who mixed history and murder, dies at 88 By Brian Murphy 2025043019051300 Peter Lovesey, a prolific British crime fiction author whose first whodunit was written as a contest entry and launched a career that took readers into Victorian salons and sooty back alleys as he mixed history and murder, died April 10 at his home in Shrewsbury, England. He was 88. The...
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fredericknewspost.com | Brian Murphy
Alexis Herman, who as a child in Alabama watched Ku Klux Klan members assault her father and who rose to become the nation’s first Black labor secretary in a tenure that included intense mediation to end a strike by United Parcel Service workers in 1997, died April 25 at age 77. The death was announced in a statement from the Labor Department, which Herman led from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. No other details were given. kAmw6C>2?’D 2D46?E :? (2D9:?8E@? 3682?
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bostonglobe.com | Brian Murphy
Ms. Herman greeted then-Secretary of State Colin Powell at a White House dinner during George W. Bush’s presidency. Susan Biddle/Washington PostShe also formed a consulting partnership in the 1980s with a former assistant secretary in the Labor Department, Ernest G. Green, who was once at the center of the Civil Rights Movement as one of the nine Black students escorted by federal troops into a Little Rock high school in 1957 under a desegregation order.
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washingtonpost.com | Brian Murphy
Alexis Herman, labor secretary raised in segregated South, dies at 77 (washingtonpost.com) Alexis Herman, labor secretary raised in segregated South, dies at 77 By Brian Murphy 2025042621415800 Alexis Herman, who as a child in Alabama watched Ku Klux Klan members assault her father and who rose to become the nation's first Black labor secretary in a tenure that included intense mediation to end a strike by United Parcel Service workers in 1997, died April 25 at age 77. The death was announced...
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Virginia Giuffre, accuser in Prince Andrew sex scandal, dies at 41 (washingtonpost.com) Virginia Giuffre, accuser in Prince Andrew sex scandal, dies at 41 By Brian Murphy 2025042602085300 Virginia Giuffre, who roiled the British monarchy with detailed allegations of being coerced as a teenager into sex with Prince Andrew as part of a suspected sex-trafficking network led by financier Jeffrey Epstein, died April 25 at her home in Western Australia.
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flipboard.com | Brian Murphy
3 hours agoOther Epstein victims credited Giuffre with giving them the courage to speak out. Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse, has died by suicide, her family said Friday. Giuffre, 41, died in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living for several …
