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Among the finalists, Duff Wilson of the Seattle Times is the only former recipient of the prize. He previously received the award in 1998 for his report on the use of hazardous waste as fertilizer...
...when it comes at the end of a long, full life? How simple a trajectory that is, and yet the death of older parents often blindsides their children, no matter how much time they have had to prepare. "It takes a lot of adults by surprise," says Patty Donovan Duff, a registered nurse at the Bereavement Center of Westchester in Tuckahoe, N.Y. "Our society says, 'Your mother had a very good life; she was 70 years old.' Yes, but you've lost your mother...
Such losses often bring new opportunities for reassessing one's life. "Even in mid-life people still defer to their living parents," says the Bereavement Center's Duff. "There's freedom to explore without parental approval how one votes, careers, the expression of sexual preference, marriage, religion," adds Levy. There is also, for many of the grieving children, a heightened sense of mortality and of being fully--and solely--responsible for one's life...
...couple of weeks I pretty much lost interest in Perelman's midsection. Then the press began to dwell on his divorce case with Patricia Duff and his new romance with Ellen Barkin--both women who have been the object of fervent male desire. We've always assumed, it occurred to me, that the attraction Perelman held for such women was, not to put too fine a point on it, $4.2 billion. Was his Times quote meant to indicate otherwise? Was Ron Perelman positioning himself to be considered a hunk...
...PATRICIA DUFF In court, billionaire's ex whines for more $$$. Hey, you're a Dem. Try slummin...