Word: leukemias
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Donald Carswell ’50, NBC executive and leader of numerous community organizations in his native Brooklyn, died on March 25 of leukemia...
...Jackson in 2000, when the accuser was 10 and suffering from what was diagnosed as incurable leukemia. Surgeons removed his left kidney and spleen and a 16-lb. tumor. He was given large doses of chemotherapy, which doctors said would either save his life or kill him. The kid deserved a break. When he asked to meet his hero, Michael Jackson, it was arranged...
...people worldwide, from actress Pamela Anderson to U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry. Numerous other charities are now following suit with wristbands of their own?so many that the number of causes has surpassed the available colors, requiring some shades to do double duty. Green wristbands, for example, support both leukemia research and the legalization of marijuana. A guide to the colors on offer and the causes they represent...
...time of her death from leukemia last week at 71, Sontag was one of the most visible and indispensable figures in the world of letters. When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in influential little journals like Partisan Review, she emerged as the intellectual plenipotentiary of American cultural life, militantly contemporary, insatiable in her appetite for culture and truly, madly, deeply conversant with every new development in fiction, philosophy, film and art. With the great turbines of her critical judgment turning, Sontag patrolled the latest edges of world culture, bringing back news of the philosophers Simone Weil...
DIED. SUSAN SONTAG, 71, writer, critic and outspoken public intellectual; of leukemia; in New York City (see page...