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Tiller, who had originally planned to become a dermatologist, lived with the knowledge that his actions made him a target. There are only a handful of clinics in the country where women can obtain an abortion late in pregnancy; Tiller's was bombed in 1986. In 1993 he was shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fond Farewells: Paying Tribute to Notable People Who Died in 2009 | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

The abortion debate typically occurs within the boundaries a democracy sets, ones of peaceful, if not always respectful, debate and advocacy on both sides. But Tiller's murder reminds us that in matters of life and death, the argument itself can become a matter of life and death.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fond Farewells: Paying Tribute to Notable People Who Died in 2009 | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

Michael Jackson kept his most stunning performance for the very end. Always able to command an audience, he knew how to bring whole arenas to fits of exultation with his moves and then silence them to the point of tears with his poetry. He was brilliant, excessive, maudlin, tacky and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fond Farewells: Paying Tribute to Notable People Who Died in 2009 | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

News of this middle-aged man's sudden passing nearly broke the Web. Google's news section malfunctioned under the weight of "Michael Jackson" searches. The volume of Jackson-related tweets reached 5,000 per minute the day he died; Twitter was so overwhelmed that some users couldn't get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fond Farewells: Paying Tribute to Notable People Who Died in 2009 | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

George W. Bush used to insist that he didn't read polls, and on the off chance that he did, he didn't care anyway. "I don't give a darn," the former President famously said early this year just before the end of his term, when CNN's Larry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Has to Worry About Polls | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

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