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☆ C.J. Sansom, Mystery Novelist Drawn to Tudor England, Dies at 71
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An 800-page novel about the peasant uprisings of 1549!” Marilyn Stasio, the longtime mystery and crime reviewer for The New York Times Book Review, began a column in 2019. It was an assessment of “Tombland,” the seventh work of historical fiction by C.J. Sansom to feature Matthew Shardlake, a hunchbacked lawyer-turned-detective whose exploits solving chilling murders in Tudor England come steeped in suspense and granular historical detail. Readers are made privy to the court intrigues of Thomas Cromwell and King Henry VIII, eavesdrop on women arguing in a market stall, and inhale the stench of London streets. “Sansom describes 16th-century events in the crisply realistic style of someone watching them transpire right outside his window,” she wrote.

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☆ Werner Spitz, Forensic Expert in High-Profile Murders, Dies at 97
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Dr. Werner Spitz, a pathologist whose accounts of the traumatic last moments in some of the most sensational American deaths of the past 60 years figured in cases involving President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., O.J. Simpson, JonBenet Ramsey, Mary Jo Kopechne and many others, died on April 14 in St. Clair Shores, Mich., a suburb of Detroit. He died in hospice care after a brief illness, his son Dr. Daniel Spitz said. Dr. Spitz’s career of more than 60 years traced to the early days of modern forensic pathology, and his textbook on the topic remains a gold standard in the field. Examining the remains of homicide victims was the one thing that did not bore him, he said.

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☆ Peter Schey, Tenacious Lawyer Who Defended Migrant Rights, Dies at 77
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Peter Schey, a driven defender of the human rights of migrants crossing the Southern border, who won landmark legal cases requiring humane care for undocumented children and the right of migrants to attend school and receive health care in states that tried to bar those services, died in Los Angeles on April 2. His death, in a hospital, was caused by complications of lymphoma, said Melinda Bird, a former wife. He took on both Democratic and Republican administrations in Washington. He was a leader of the legal team that negotiated the seminal Flores Settlement Agreement, a 1997 government measure safeguarding detained, unaccompanied migrant children. He fought the Trump administration when it tried to tear up the deal 21 years later.

Persons: Peter Schey, Melinda Bird, Schey, shay, Trump Organizations: Democratic, Republican Locations: Los Angeles, South Africa, Washington

☆ Frank Olson, Executive Who Linked O.J. Simpson With Hertz, Dies at 91
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Frank A. Olson, who as a top executive of Hertz cast the running back O.J. Simpson as the star of the company’s commercials — a corporate marriage that shined up both parties and that lasted two decades, until Mr. Simpson was charged in a double homicide in 1994 — died at his home in Palm Beach, Fla., on Wednesday, the same day Mr. Simpson died. Mr. Olson was 91. More than business partners, Mr. Olson and Mr. Simpson, both San Francisco natives, forged an alliance, beginning in the 1970s, that spoke of that mutually beneficial zone where corporate and social life intertwine. Mr. Olson, an avid golfer, sponsored Mr. Simpson for membership in the private Arcola Country Club in Paramus, N.J., where in 1992 Mr. Simpson, a former Heisman Trophy winner and Pro Football Hall of Famer, became the first Black member.

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☆ Richard Benedick, Negotiator of Landmark Ozone Treaty, Dies at 88
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A May 1985 report in the journal Nature was alarming. High above Antarctica, a massive hole had opened in the ozone shield that protects life on earth from the sun’s ultraviolet rays. The finding confirmed what scientists had warned of since the 1970s: Atmospheric ozone was being broken down by the wide use of chlorofluorocarbons, chemicals known as CFCs, which were found in aerosol sprays, refrigeration and air conditioning. Just over two years later, dozens of nations meeting in Montreal signed an agreement to significantly reduce CFCs, which the Environmental Protection Agency estimated would prevent 27 million deaths from skin cancers. “This is perhaps the most historically significant international environmental agreement,” Richard E. Benedick, the chief United States negotiator, said at the time.

Persons: ” Richard E Organizations: Environmental Protection Agency Locations: Antarctica, Montreal, States

☆ Linda Bean, an L.L. Bean Heir and a Conservative Donor, Dies at 82
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Linda Bean, an heir to the Maine outdoor retailer L.L. Bean who created a company of her own to market other famous Maine products, chiefly lobster rolls and seaside rentals, and who was an outspoken conservative in a state with a tradition of favoring political independents, died on Saturday. She was 82. An obituary, which did not cite a cause or say where she died, was posted by the funeral home handling her burial. Ms. Bean was a granddaughter of Leon Leonwood Bean, the purveyor of rubber-soled duck boots and plaid flannel shirts that crossed over from hunters to preppies, fueling the company’s growth into a national catalog behemoth and one of Maine’s largest employers.

Persons: Linda Bean, Bean, Leon Leonwood Bean, Donald J, Wyeth Organizations: Trump Locations: Maine

☆ Ross Gelbspan, Who Exposed Roots of Climate Change Deniers, Dies at 84
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The cause was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, his wife, Anne Gelbspan, said. Mr. Gelbspan’s career included reporting on dissidents in the Soviet Union and on F.B.I. harassment of domestic critics, and his interest in the climate crisis, like those other subjects, came from a sense of outrage that powerful interests were suppressing information needed for democracy. “I didn’t get into the climate issue because I love the trees — I tolerate the trees,” he said on YouTube last year. “I got into the issue because I learned the coal industry was paying a handful of scientists under the table to say nothing was happening to the climate.”

Persons: Ross Gelbspan, —, Anne Gelbspan, Gelbspan’s, ”, “ Organizations: Republican, YouTube Locations: Boston, Soviet Union

☆ Bob Edwards, Longtime Host of NPR’s ‘Morning Edition,’ Dies at 76
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Bob Edwards, the host of NPR’s “Morning Edition” for nearly a quarter-century, whose rich baritone and cool demeanor imbued his radio broadcasts with authority in reaching millions of listeners, died on Saturday in Arlington, Va. His death, at a rehabilitation facility, was from heart failure and complications of bladder cancer, his wife, Windsor Johnston, said. Mr. Edwards, a Kentucky native who knew from an early age that he wanted to be in radio, joined NPR in 1974, during the Watergate hearings. Its success led to the spinoff “Morning Edition” in 1979. Mr. Edwards began as a 30-day temporary host of that program before going on to serve as its anchor for 24 and a half years.

Persons: Bob Edwards, Windsor Johnston, Edwards, ’ Organizations: NPR Locations: Arlington , Va, Kentucky

☆ Joe Madison, Radio Host and Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 74
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Joe Madison, an influential talk radio host with a rumbling musical baritone, who interviewed President Barack Obama in the Oval Office and numerous other political leaders in his Washington, D.C., studio, urging them to take action on civil and human rights issues, has died at his home in Washington. His family announced the death on Thursday but did not specify when it occurred. 6 most important talk show host in the country in 2023 by Talkers Magazine on its Heavy Hundred list, where he was also the highest-ranked nonwhite host. “Joe Madison was the voice of a generation,” President Biden said in a post on social media this week. “Whether it was a hunger strike for voting rights or his advocacy for anti-lynching legislation that I was proud to sign in 2022, Joe fought hard against injustice.”

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☆ Russell Hamler, Last of World War II’s Merrill’s Marauders, Dies at 99
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The soldiers’ mission was as dangerous as it was audacious: a trek of more than 500 miles through mountainous jungle in northern Burma to seize a Japanese-held airfield in World War II. The threats were constant: fierce attacks by superior numbers of enemy troops, monsoon rains, tropical diseases and malnutrition. When the airfield was finally taken, three months later, only 130 able-bodied soldiers remained of the 2,600 who had crossed into Burma in 1944 with Merrill’s Marauders, a fabled unit that was one of the forerunners of the Army’s Special Operations elite, the 75th Ranger Regiment. On Dec. 29, Russell Hamler, the last survivor of Merrill’s Marauders, died at a veterans’ hospital in Pittsburgh, his son Jeffrey said.

Persons: Russell Hamler, Merrill’s, Jeffrey Organizations: Merrill’s Marauders, Operations, 75th Ranger Regiment Locations: Burma, Pittsburgh

☆ Karen Davis, Who Battled for the Rights of Birds, Dies at 79
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Trip Gabriel | More About Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Karen Davis, an animal-rights activist who led campaigns to recognize the dignity of chickens, turkeys and other farmyard fowl — and whose fervor was such that she compared the industrial slaughter of poultry to the Holocaust — died on Nov. 4 at her sanctuary for rescued chickens in Machipongo, Va. She was 79. United Poultry Concerns, the advocacy group Ms. Davis founded and led, announced that she died “surrounded by her beloved birds,” but did not cite a cause. The animal rights movement was well established when Ms. Davis became an activist in the 1980s. “In our culture, fowl is ignored by the animal protectionist community,” Ms. Davis said at a candlelight vigil in 1992 at a farm in Virginia where customers could reserve a Thanksgiving turkey. “We’re talking about a universe of pain and suffering that far exceeds virtually all other animals combined.”

Persons: Karen Davis, —, Davis, “, Ms, ” Organizations: Ms Locations: Machipongo, Va, Virginia

☆ Byron Wien, Wall Street Seer of the Unexpected, Dies at 90
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Trip Gabriel | More About Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At age 80, Byron Wien compiled “20 Life Lessons” from a long career as a Wall Street soothsayer. “If you work forever, you can live forever,’’ he explained. “I know there is an abundance of biological evidence against this theory, but I’m going with it anyway.”Mr. Wien (pronounced ween) didn’t outrun biology. But when he died on Oct. 25, at 90, he was still engrossed daily in reading the economic tea leaves for his most recent employer, the private equity firm Blackstone. He continued to call politicians, central bankers and financial titans around the world for intelligence to help shape his strategic reports for his firm.

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☆ Mel Sembler, Developer and G.O.P. Fund-Raiser, Is Dead at 93
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Trip Gabriel | More About Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mel Sembler, a gregarious developer and major Republican fund-raiser whose largess was repaid with prize ambassadorships by two presidents, and who founded a controversy-courting “tough love” drug rehabilitation program, died on Oct. 31 at his home in St. Petersburg, Fla. Mr. Sembler, who developed more than 350 shopping centers and other retail projects in the Southeast, was a sought-after fund-raiser for Republicans, capable of shaking the money tree for $11 million at a single dinner. establishment who had an open lane to power in the era before the rise of Donald J. Trump. Mr. Sembler was candid about the role of money in politics. “Money gives you a voice,” he told The Tampa Bay Times in 2019.

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☆ Pence’s 2024 Bid Confronts Murky Future, as Campaign Cash Dwindles
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Trip Gabriel | More About Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At a town hall-style event hosted by the right-wing broadcaster Newsmax on Tuesday, Mike Pence was asked questions about Israel, Ukraine and the disarray among House Republicans — all of which he answered in familiar ways. But he was not asked about the one subject that may now matter more than any of his policy views: his campaign’s perilous financial state. A campaign finance report that Mr. Pence filed over the weekend painted a dire picture. The former vice president had just $1.2 million in his campaign account, a skimpier reserve than any of the six Republican rivals he shared a debate stage with last month. Mr. Pence has struggled to achieve the goal he announced when he rolled out his campaign in June — to “reintroduce” himself to voters as his own man, allowing him to step out from the shadow of Donald J. Trump.

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☆ Striking Autoworkers Are Cool to Biden’s Embrace
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Trip Gabriel | More About Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In 2020, Mr. Trump won about four in 10 voters in union households, according to exit polls and an internal survey by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. “The demographics of union members are the ones who’ve been trending away from Democrats for quite some time,” he said. Mr. Trump emphasized “a set of issues that union members never agreed with Democrats on,” most prominently immigration, Mr. Podhorzer added. But Mr. Thompson, who joined Ford two years ago and has worked up to $20 an hour, did not blame the president. “I would say he’s doing the best under the circumstances that he can,’’ Mr. Thompson said.

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☆ ‘Virginia Is the Test Case’: Youngkin Pushes for G.O.P. Takeover This Fall
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Trip Gabriel | More About Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Virginia, whose off-year elections are usually closely watched as an indicator of the national mood, has been mostly out of the spotlight this year, overshadowed by the Republican presidential primary and the looming general election clash. But with every seat in the Legislature up in eight weeks, the stakes are unusually high, with Republicans in position to swing the entire state, just four years after Democrats did the same. Glenn Youngkin, a popular Republican with national ambitions, is likely to serve as an early read on the politics of 2024, spinning out lessons for both parties, especially on abortion. Democrats have made abortion rights their top issue, warning that if Republicans win full control of the General Assembly, then Virginia will join other Southern states by sharply restricting abortion access. A winning night for Democrats on Nov. 7, however, will show that abortion remains just as potent a get-out-the-vote issue for the party as it has been in a string of state elections since the reversal of Roe v. Wade.

Persons: Glenn Youngkin, Roe, Wade Organizations: Republican, Gov, Republicans, General Assembly Locations: Virginia

Earlier this year, the Republican presidential primary looked as though it would be driven by conservative cultural battles, especially fights over education that had animated the party’s base since the pandemic. Even Donald J. Trump seemed to be trying to outflank Mr. DeSantis on education policies, promising to root out “Marxists” in the Education Department. But anti-wokeness has not played as large a role as expected in the Republican race so far. On the campaign trail, Mr. DeSantis has refocused his stump speech on the economy and border security while leaning less into culture-war issues. Former Vice President Mike Pence called in a speech this month to redistribute federal education spending to states — a traditional Republican goal dating from long before anti-woke crusades.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Donald J, Trump, ”, DeSantis, Mike Pence Organizations: Republican, Mr, Education Department Locations: Florida

Eight candidates will appear onstage for the first Republican debate on Wednesday. Many far more politically experienced contenders have met their end under the bright lights of the debate stage. How Republican voters respond will offer some early clues into the ideological future of the party, particularly in a post-Trump era. He participated in eight face-offs during the 2016 campaign and helped coach Mr. Trump for his presidential debates in 2020. The debate offers Mr. Christie an opportunity to take aim at those aligned with Trumpism, even if they are opposed to Mr. Trump.

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☆ The Long-Shot Candidate Playbook: Make the Debate, Then See What Happens
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Trip Gabriel | More About Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Donald J. Trump holds a commanding lead over his nearest rivals for the Republican presidential nomination. One or two might make a dent in the numbers at the first debate this week. But the rest of the field, featuring little-known candidates, is unlikely to make an impact. In fact, there is almost no plausible path for them to the nomination, especially in a race with Mr. Trump as the dominant force, which raises the key question: Why do they do it? Perhaps the biggest reason is the debate stage itself: National broadcasts have the potential to provide a biotech entrepreneur, a Miami mayor and a North Dakota governor the chance to become household names and position themselves for future success in politics — or whatever field they pursue.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, — Organizations: Republican, Miami, North Locations: North Dakota

☆ Four Major Challenges Facing Ron DeSantis’s Campaign
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Trip Gabriel | More About Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Solving the Trump problem is the master key to this election, and no one has found it. Mr. DeSantis, like almost every other Republican in the race, adopted a strategy of never criticizing Mr. Trump, for fear of alienating his ardent base. The theory was that at some point Mr. Trump would disqualify himself, and Mr. DeSantis would be positioned to inherit his supporters. But now, after three criminal indictments have failed to dent Mr. Trump’s popularity with Republican voters, pressure is mounting on Mr. DeSantis to stop pretending Mr. Trump isn’t in the race and take him on directly. “Trump is the de facto Republican incumbent, and in order to beat an incumbent you have to give voters a fire-able offense,” said Terry Sullivan, who managed Senator Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign in 2016.

Persons: DeSantis, Trump, ’ ’, Barbara Comstock, “ Trump, ”, Terry Sullivan, Marco Rubio’s Organizations: Trump, Republican Locations: Virginia

“They want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom,” Mr. Trump told the crowd at a campaign event in New Hampshire on Tuesday. “They want to silence me because I will never let them silence you.”In two previous campaigns, 2016 and 2020, Mr. Trump presented himself to voters as an insurgent candidate who understood their grievances and promised to fight for them. Now, however, Mr. Trump has made his 2024 race principally about his own personal grievances — attempting to convince supporters to see themselves in him. He continues to argue, falsely, that the 2020 election was stolen from him, and to present it as a theft also against his voters. The legal jeopardy he now faces from multiple indictments, he tells followers, is the sort of persecution that they, too, could suffer.

Persons: Donald J, “ I’m, ”, Trump, “, Mr Organizations: Trump, Mr Locations: New Hampshire

☆ In Iowa, the Cattle Calls. And Republican Candidates Look to Answer.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Trip Gabriel | More About Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The SceneDid you hear? There was a mass gathering of Republican 2024 hopefuls in Iowa on Sunday — near Cedar Rapids, amid the midsummer seas of ripening cornstalks and the darker hues of rows of soybeans. This was after a Republican Party fund-raising dinner in Des Moines nine days earlier, and just before the Iowa State Fair begins Thursday, where the state’s Republican governor plans one-on-one public “chats” with 12 presidential hopefuls. Political types call such gatherings, somewhat unkindly, “cattle calls,” as if voters were assessing candidates like so much meat on the hoof. But the fact is that even as Iowa voters and power brokers — along with the national Republican Party — go through the motions of sizing up a fulsome presidential field, the prize has never looked so far beyond the grasp of all but one person, Donald J. Trump, who dominates as if he were a White House incumbent.

Persons: Republican Party —, Donald J, Trump Organizations: Republican, Republican Party, Iowa, White House Locations: Iowa, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines

☆ In Iowa, Pence Is Put on the Spot Over Jan. 6
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Trip Gabriel | More About Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Mr. Pence, after listening with hands clutching his belt, offered a forceful rebuttal. Digging into the polls suggests why: About one in three potential Republican primary voters views Mr. Pence unfavorably. base that embraces Mr. Trump and his continued lying about the 2020 election blames Mr. Pence for his actions on Jan. 6, when he refused to block certification of the results. No vice president in American history ever asserted the authority that you have been convinced that I had. Still, the exchange was a crucial moment for Mr. Pence, in the eyes of the candidate, his campaign, a super PAC that supports him and outside Republican strategists.

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☆ Ramaswamy Investments Seem at Odds With His Position on ‘Woke’ Culture
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Trip Gabriel | More About Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Ramaswamy has argued that such goals are a distraction from earning a profit, and that social objectives should be left to elected officials. Tricia McLaughlin, a senior adviser to Mr. Ramaswamy, said that he did not manage his own stock portfolio. “Vivek’s stock portfolio is independently managed by a third party. The filing reported that Mr. Ramaswamy owned up to a $25 million investment in Rumble, the video platform that styles itself a refuge for right-wing commentators shunned elsewhere. Mr. Ramaswamy, 37, is a Cincinnati native who holds degrees from Harvard and Yale.

Persons: Ramaswamy, Tricia McLaughlin, Vivek, ” Ms, McLaughlin, “, Mr, Donald J, Trump Organizations: Republican, Harvard, Yale, Roivant Sciences Locations: cryptocurrency, Cincinnati

☆ Christie Lashes Trump, to the Slice of the G.O.P. Open to It
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Chris Christie brought his Talking Truth to Donald Trump performance back to New Hampshire on Wednesday evening, aiming a fresh quiver of poison darts at the former president. His talk pleased a small Trump-skeptical crowd, but raised the big question about Mr. Christie’s candidacy: Where are all the other Republican voters? For the most part, Mr. Christie was preaching to the choir. “What in your opinion,” asked one man, “happened to the Republican Party? At the same time, Mr. Christie, who has positioned himself as Mr. Trump’s most direct critic, tops the list of 2024 candidates that Republicans say they will never consider.

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