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Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, 58, Dies

Posted on 03/5/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez was a fighter. The former paratroop commander and fiery populist waged continual battle for his socialist ideals and outsmarted his rivals time and again, defeating a coup attempt, winning re-election three times and using his country’s vast oil wealth to his political advantage. Más información en español A self-described “subversive,” Chavez fashioned himself after the 19th Century independence leader Simon Bolivar and renamed his country the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. He called himself a “humble soldier” …

2012 Endings and 2013 Beginnings –

Posted on 12/31/2012 by | News, Culture, Sights and Sounds | Comments

Entertainment | LegacyWe’ve looked back at the year’s departures to remind us about our own mortality and consider how notable personalities have shaped our lives and the wider culture. From Neil Armstrong to Whitney Houston, spend some time with old friends, while you also consider the complex and unsettling legacy of Joe Paterno, who we thought we knew, but didn’t really. It’s our first People to Remember special on the web. What will you remember of your life from the past year? …

Letitia Baldrige: A Woman of Manners

Posted on 11/1/2012 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyWhat do you wear to a cocktail party at the boss’s house? How do you remove a fish bone from your mouth at a fancy restaurant? What’s the graceful way to enter and exit a cab you’re sharing with co-workers? Letitia Baldrige always had all the answers. You could ask her anything about the proper way to do things, especially in sticky situations. After all, she had been chief of staff for first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Baldrige, 86, one of …

Ray Bradbury’s Future — Are We There Yet?

Posted on 06/6/2012 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Legacy | News RoundupsScience fiction great Ray Bradbury, who died this morning in Los Angeles at age 91, started his writing career in the early 1940s, in an era when radios with tubes were state-of-the-art technology. But Bradbury envisioned a different world, one in which scientific and technological advances radically altered human existence, and not necessarily in positive ways. Though he published 59 books in his lifetime, including the classic story collections The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, for most of us the …

In Honor Of Ted Kennedy

Posted on 08/26/2009 by | General News | Comments

PoliticsSenator Ted Kennedy died late last night after a hard battle with brain cancer at the age of 77. Our thoughts go out to his family, who said in their statement: “Edward M. Kennedy — the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply – died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port . . . We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, …