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☆ O.J. Simpson, Athlete Whose Trial Riveted the Nation, Dies at 76
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The cause was cancer, his family announced on social media. The infamous case, which held up a cracked mirror to Black and white America, cleared Mr. Simpson but ruined his world. He paid little of the debt, moved to Florida and struggled to remake his life, raise his children and stay out of trouble. In 2006, he sold a book, “If I Did It,” and a prospective TV interview, giving a “hypothetical” account of murders he had always denied committing. A public outcry ended both projects, but Mr. Goldman’s family secured the book rights, added material imputing guilt to Mr. Simpson and had it published.

Persons: O.J, Simpson, Nicole Brown Simpson, Ronald L, Goldman, Goldman’s Locations: Los Angeles, America, Florida

☆ Joseph I. Lieberman, Senator and Vice Presidential Candidate, Dies at 82
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut’s four-term United States senator and Vice President Al Gore’s Democratic running mate in the 2000 presidential election won by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney when the Supreme Court halted a Florida ballot recount, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. In the ensuing campaign, the Gore-Lieberman team stressed themes of integrity to sidestep Clinton administration scandals. Mr. Lieberman also urged Americans to bring religion and faith more prominently into public life. They won a narrow plurality of the popular votes — a half-million more than the Bush-Cheney Republican ticket. But on the evening of Election Day, no clear winner had emerged in the Electoral College, and an intense legal battle took center stage.

Persons: Joseph I, Lieberman, Connecticut’s, Al Gore’s, George W, Bush, Dick Cheney, Lieberman’s, Lieberman —, Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky —, Gore’s, Gore, Clinton Organizations: United, Al Gore’s Democratic, New York Presbyterian Hospital, White House, Democratic National Convention, Cheney Republican, Electoral College Locations: United States, Florida, Manhattan, Riverdale, Upper Manhattan

☆ Mica Ertegun, Glamorous Interior Designer and Philanthropist, Dies at 97
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In 2015, her $9 million gift created an atrium for Jazz at Lincoln Center. In recognition of that gift, she was named grand commander of the Holy Sepulcher by the patriarch of Jerusalem. Her $41 million gift for humanities scholarships at the University of Oxford in 2012 was the largest of its kind in Oxford’s 900 years. Amid Allied air raids, Mica, as her German nurse called her, was sent to the family’s country estate. Others paid their fares to Paris, where Mica got modeling jobs to support them.

Persons: Mr, Ertegun, Christ, Jerusalem, Queen Elizabeth II, “, Ahmet, Mrs, ” Mica Ertegun, Ioana Maria Banu, Natalia Gologan, Gheorghe Banu, King Carol II, King Michael I, Hitler, Mica, Stefan Grecianu, Friends Organizations: Jazz, Lincoln Center, University of Oxford, Communist Locations: Manhattan, Jerusalem, American, British, Bucharest, Romania, Mica, Zurich, Swiss, Paris, Canada, Lake Ontario

☆ Charles Peters, Neoliberal Founder of The Washington Monthly, Dies at 96
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Charles Peters, the founding editor of The Washington Monthly, a small political journal that challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies and for decades was avidly read in the White House, Congress and the city’s newsrooms, died on Thursday at his home in Washington. His death was confirmed by The Washington Monthly, which reported that Mr. Peters “had been in declining physical health for several years, mainly from congestive heart failure.”Often called the “godfather of neoliberalism,” the core policy doctrine of the magazine, Mr. Peters was The Monthly’s editor from 1969 until his retirement in 2001. His work was not widely read, let alone understood by the general public. To the Washington cognoscenti, though, his voice was important in the capital’s cacophony. His neoliberalism offered liberals and conservatives reasons to step back and, if not to find compromises, at least to reassess their central beliefs.

Persons: Charles Peters, newsrooms, Peters “, Peters Organizations: The Washington, House, Washington Locations: Washington

☆ Wanda Poltawska, 101, Who Forged a Friendship With a Future Pope, Dies
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Her death was confirmed by her grandson Chris Dadak. The pope’s friendship with Dr. Poltawska (pronounced pole-DUS-ka), a married Roman Catholic with four grown daughters, was largely unknown until 2009, four years after John Paul’s death, when she revealed details of it in a memoir. They had exchanged letters and visits for almost a half-century, she wrote, starting in 1956 in Krakow, Poland, where she had begun a psychiatric practice and where the future pontiff was a dynamic young parish priest, the Rev. There, Dr. Poltawska told Father Wojtyla of the burdens she had borne for years as a victim of gruesome medical experiments performed on her and other women in the concentration camp at Ravensbrück, Germany. Their exchange led to further consultations and, over time, a bond that would extend from Poland to the Vatican.

Persons: Wanda Poltawska, Pope John Paul II, Chris Dadak, Poltawska, John Paul’s, Karol Wojtyla, Father Wojtyla Organizations: Roman Catholic Locations: Polish, Krakow, Poland, Ravensbrück, Germany

☆ Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Zulu Nationalist and a Mandela Rival, Dies at 95
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the Zulu nationalist who positioned himself as Nelson Mandela’s most powerful Black rival in South Africa’s tortuous transformation from a white segregationist society to a multiracial democracy in the 1990s, died on Saturday. His death was announced in a statement by President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa. Proud, ambitious, descended from royalty and intolerant of criticism, Mr. Buthelezi was a hereditary chief of the Zulus, South Africa’s largest ethnic group. Like his battle-hardened ancestors, who had challenged colonial invaders in the 19th century, Mr. Buthelezi sometimes wore leopard skins and wielded assegai spears, but only in ritual war dances for political advantage. He was also the prime minister of KwaZulu, the homeland of six million Zulus, and the founder of the Inkatha Freedom Party, a Zulu political and cultural movement with 1.9 million members.

Persons: Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Nelson, Cyril Ramaphosa of, Buthelezi, ”, goh, de Klerk, Mandela Organizations: Zulu, Freedom Party Locations: South, Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, South Africa, KwaZulu, Zulu

☆ Mohamed al-Fayed, Tycoon Whose Son Died With Diana, Is Dead at 94
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mohamed al-Fayed, the Egyptian business tycoon whose empire of trophy properties and influence in Europe and the Middle East was overshadowed by the 1997 Paris car crash that killed his eldest son, Dodi, and Diana, the Princess of Wales, died on Wednesday. His death was confirmed on Friday in a statement by the Fulham Football Club in Britain, of which Mr. Fayed was a former owner. Forbes estimated his net worth at $2 billion this year, ranking his wealth as 1,516th in the world. In a sense, Mr. Fayed was a citizen of the world. He held Egyptian citizenship but rarely if ever returned to his native land.

Persons: Mohamed al, Fayed, Dodi, Diana, Princess, Wales, Tropez Organizations: Fulham Football Club, Hotel, Harrods, Forbes Locations: Europe, Paris, Britain, London, Paris , New York, Geneva, St, Genoa, Italy, Cairo, Persian, North Africa, Americas

☆ Warren Hoge, Who Covered Wars and World Crises for The Times, Dies at 82
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Warren Hoge, a former correspondent for The New York Times who covered civil wars in Latin America, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and numerous global crises before rising to the top ranks of the paper’s newsroom leadership, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. His wife, Olivia Hoge, said the cause was pancreatic cancer, which was diagnosed early last year. In a 32-year Times career, Mr. Hoge (pronounced hoag), was a versatile reporter and a vivid writer. Covering political turmoil and guerrilla warfare in South and Central America from 1979 to 1983, Mr. Hoge wrote hundreds of articles on the civil wars that had ebbed and flowed in red tides for years in Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador. “No cadaver is ever pleasant to look upon,” Mr. Hoge wrote in 1983, in a laudatory review of Joan Didion’s recent book, “Salvador.”

Persons: Warren Hoge, Diana , Princess of Wales, Olivia Hoge, Hoge, hoag, Pope John Paul II, ” Mr, Joan Didion’s, “, ” Organizations: The New York Times, Central America, Mr Locations: Latin America, Manhattan, Rio de Janeiro, South, Central, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, “ Salvador

☆ James L. Buckley, Conservative Senator in Liberal New York, Dies at 100
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

James L. Buckley, a conservative recruit from Connecticut who invaded the New York strongholds of Democrats and liberal Republicans in 1970 and against the odds won a United States Senate seat on the Conservative Party line, died early Friday in Washington. His death, in Sibley Memorial Hospital, resulted from complications of a fall, according to his nephew Christopher Buckley, the author and political satirist. With his improbable victory, Mr. Buckley became the first third-party candidate to land a seat in the United States Senate since Robert M. LaFollette Jr. of Wisconsin was elected on the Progressive ticket in 1940. In 1985, President Reagan named him to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Mr. Buckley served as a federal judge for 15 years, the last four as a semiretired senior judge.

Persons: James L, Buckley, Christopher Buckley, Robert M, LaFollette Jr, —, Ronald Reagan, Reagan Organizations: Republicans, United, United States Senate, Conservative Party, Sibley Memorial, United States, Progressive, Republican, State Department, Radio Free, Radio Liberty, Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit Locations: Connecticut, York, United States, Washington, Sibley, Wisconsin, Radio Free Europe

☆ Henry Kamm, Pulitzer-Winning New York Times Journalist, Dies at 98
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Henry Kamm, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times who covered Cold War diplomacy in Europe and the Soviet Union, famine in Africa, and wars and genocide in Southeast Asia, died on Sunday in Paris. His early displacement deeply influenced his 47-year career with The Times, Thomas Kamm, a former Wall Street Journal correspondent, said in an email in 2017. It “explains the interest he always showed throughout his journalistic career for refugees, dissidents, those without a voice and the downtrodden,” he said. Henry Kamm won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for articles on the plight of refugees from Southeast Asia who fled their war-torn homelands in 1977 and braved the South China Sea. Many sailed for months in small, unsafe fishing boats, suffering horrendous privations, only to find themselves unwanted on any shore.

Persons: Henry Kamm, Kamm’s, Thomas, Kamm, Thomas Kamm, “, ” Organizations: The New York Times, Joseph’s, The Times, Wall Street Journal Locations: Europe, Soviet Union, Africa, Southeast Asia, Paris, St, Indochina, China

☆ Peter Nero, Pianist Who Straddled Genres, Is Dead at 89
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

His daughter, Beverly Nero, said he died at the Home Care Assisted Living Facility, where he had lived in recent months. “We shall play ‘Tea for Two,’” he would say. My right hand will be playing ‘Tea for Two,’ while my left hand will play Tchaikovsky’s Fifth. My left foot will be fiercely tapping out the traditional rhythm to the Tahitian fertility dance. My right foot will not be doing too much.

Persons: Peter Nero, Beverly Nero, Nero, “, ’ ” Organizations: Home, New, Sun Locations: Eustis, Fla, New York

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