Rep. Murtha Remembered As Military Advocate
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Remembrances
Remembering Roy DeCarava's 60 Years Of Photos()
October 30, 2009 The photographer, who died Oct. 27 at age 89, dedicated his decades-long career to capturing images of African Americans. Roy DeCarava's subjects ranged from daily life in his hometown of Harlem to the Civil Rights movement.
Politics
Rep. Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, Dies At 77()
February 8, 2010 U.S. Rep. John Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77. The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery.
Opinion
Rest In Privacy, J.D. Salinger()
January 30, 2010 He lived on the other side of the world from Brangelina and Octomom. In a culture where people dream of fame for the sake of fame alone, the reclusive novelist, who died this week at 91, was the anti-celebrity.
StoryCorps
Meeting J.D. Salinger — Courtesy Of A Rainstorm()
January 29, 2010 As a young man, Jim Krawczyk's favorite writer was J.D. Salinger. And in the late 1960s, Krawczyk decided to take a road trip to meet his hero. But in Cornish, the small New Hampshire town where the reclusive author lived, nobody seemed to know Salinger.
'Catcher In The Rye' Author J.D. Salinger Dies At 91()
January 28, 2010 The author of The Catcher in the Rye died of natural causes, his literary representative has said. Salinger was famously reclusive, and his fans hoped for decades that stores of unpublished fiction might be stashed in his New Hampshire home. His last published work was a short story that took up almost the whole New Yorker magazine in 1965.
