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This Week In Death
March 8, 2013
Mike Madden
Adios, Presidente
What Hugo Chávez's obituaries revealed
March 1, 2013
Mike Madden
C. Everett Koop: The Man, The Beard, The Legend
How the obituaries remembered our most famous surgeon general
February 22, 2013
Mike Madden
R.I.P., Jerry Buss
Which obits dared detail Jerry Buss' exploits?
February 15, 2013
Mike Madden
Facebook Beats the Obit Pages
The week that Donald Byrd, Ronald Dworkin, and David Hartman died.
February 8, 2013
Mike Madden
Grading Ed Koch's Obits
February 1, 2013
Mike Madden
The Obituarists Remember Stanley Karnow

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