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From WTOP online on Matthew Perry as known so far:
https://wtop.com/entertainment/2023/10/matthew-perry-friends-star-dead-at-54/

Considering some of the things in the news right now, I feel like a tremendously pampered American, but I am really sad about Matthew Perry.  He had great comic timing and seemed to be a descent human being.  And way too young.  Damn.

At least early in Friends, they gave him the bulk of the "clever-isms" and he did deliver them well.
The last couple of years of the series were dull, including him, but not really because of him, even though it might seem that way in retrospect due to his difficulties with substance abuse. In any case, it sucks that he died relatively early, regardless of the exacts cause.

Charlie Munger (Berkshire Hathaway)
Sidekick to Warren Buffet.

at 99 (only about a month short of his 100th birthday).

QuoteHolly Maguigan, Who Fought for the Rights of Battered Women, Dies at 78
Through her scholarship and her teaching, she made it possible for women in abusive relationships to claim self-defense when fighting back.

Rosalyn Carter, (1927-2023)

Rosalyn Carter's life in photos.

Henry Kissinger, 100.

Obit in The Washington Post.

Shane McGowan, singer of The Pogues

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67546785

Sandra Day O'conner (1st woman on supreme court) at 93. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sandra-day-o-connor-the-first-female-supreme-court-justice-dead-at-93/ar-AA1kQwX7?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=dfb62838bef24991ac83d9420444a134&ei=10

Not having been old enough to recall Kissinger actually serving in public office, I do realize that he is an enormously partisan/ controversial figure, and it is therefore hard to discern accurate remarks from, well, propaganda, hagiography, etc.   Anyone who is old enough care to comment?

Quote from: kaysixteen on December 01, 2023, 10:53:11 PMNot having been old enough to recall Kissinger actually serving in public office, I do realize that he is an enormously partisan/ controversial figure, and it is therefore hard to discern accurate remarks from, well, propaganda, hagiography, etc.   Anyone who is old enough care to comment?

Here's his biographer in the Wall Street Journal: Henry

I was contemporaneously floored by his work in the opening to China. I saw tricky Dick Nixon's announcement on TV in which he used the expression "People's Republic of China" instead of "Red China", which had been his wont. The beer can I had been drinking from nearly fell out of my hand. I was further glad that he was instrumental in ending the Viet Nam war.

In the big picture, Henry was Metternich and Castlereagh rolled into one, and I would add -- a touch of Bismarck. Men who can wage war for the sake of a later greater peace. Realpolitiker.

Quote from: kaysixteen on December 01, 2023, 10:53:11 PMNot having been old enough to recall Kissinger actually serving in public office, I do realize that he is an enormously partisan/ controversial figure, and it is therefore hard to discern accurate remarks from, well, propaganda, hagiography, etc.   Anyone who is old enough care to comment?

He authorized the carpet bombing of Cambodian and Laotian villages, which did nothing at all to help the USA win its unwinnable war in Southeast Asia and, in the Cambodian case, facilitated the rise of the Khmer Rouge to power, who killed one-quarter of the country's population in less than four years.

Quote from: spork on December 02, 2023, 05:15:40 AM

Quote from: kaysixteen on December 01, 2023, 10:53:11 PMNot having been old enough to recall Kissinger actually serving in public office, I do realize that he is an enormously partisan/ controversial figure, and it is therefore hard to discern accurate remarks from, well, propaganda, hagiography, etc.  Anyone who is old enough care to comment?

He authorized the carpet bombing of Cambodian and Laotian villages, which did nothing at all to help the USA win its unwinnable war in Southeast Asia and, in the Cambodian case, facilitated the rise of the Khmer Rouge to power, who killed one-quarter of the country's population in less than four years.

Quotehttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/henry-kissinger-war-crimes-cambodia-bangladesh-b2457241.html

QuoteFrom Cambodia to Bangladesh: a brief history of Henry Kissinger's alleged war crimes
Henry Kissinger sided with military dictators and genocidal regimes in his pursuit of projecting US power during the Cold War, resulting in the deaths of millions of innocents, Bevan Hurley reports

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Quote from: clean on December 01, 2023, 08:27:10 AMSandra Day O'conner (1st woman on supreme court) at 93. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sandra-day-o-connor-the-first-female-supreme-court-justice-dead-at-93/ar-AA1kQwX7?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=dfb62838bef24991ac83d9420444a134&ei=10

Sandra Day O'Conner's legacy.

NYT obit

The old guy with severe memory loss I would meet on my walk two or three times a week. The path is about a 1/3 mile circle, and by the time we came around and saw each other again he would have forgotten that he had already met me that day. Always friendly though.

His daughter had been taking care of him and his old chubby Beagle for the last year.