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...wasn?t just that he left us hanging that hardened the city against him. It wasn?t merely bruised pride. It was his utter lack of civility, his cursory attention to team dynamics, his outspoken disdain for Pittsburgh and its fans that turned me against him. He was cold and downright mean - a far cry from players like Willie Stargell and Bill Mazeroski, whose names still elicit a misty tear or two from die-hard Bucs fans...
...DIED. DONALD WOODS, 67, outspoken white South African newspaper editor and apartheid foe whose friendship with black activist Steve Biko was depicted in the 1987 film Cry Freedom; in Sutton, England. When Biko died in police custody in 1977, Woods wrote a scathing editorial blaming the government, was banned from writing and fled to exile in England where he published a biography of Biko. DIED. FRED HOYLE, 86, controversial astrophysicist who in the 1940s coined the term "big bang" to deride the theory that an explosion formed the origin of the universe, a concept now widely accepted over his "steady...
...first senior official to leave the Bush White House was that it didn't come sooner. From the moment in January when the professor and registered Democrat was tapped to oversee Bush's faith-based-charities initiative, DiIulio struggled in the job. As the program faltered in Congress, the outspoken, proudly impolitic DiIulio clashed with lawmakers, alienated religious conservatives and feuded with White House colleagues. A month ago, he sent a memo to the President's top three aides laying out his plan to leave by early fall. Lately he has been coming to work so infrequently from his home...
DIED. MAUREEN REAGAN, 60, strong-willed, outspoken daughter of Ronald Reagan and actress Jane Wyman; of melanoma; in Granite Bay, Calif. Maureen avowed that she "was a Republican before the President was," though her views often--and publicly--clashed with his. Just like Dad, Maureen tried her hand early on at TV and film (bit parts on The Partridge Family and in the Elvis Presley film Kissin' Cousins), then at politics (unsuccessful bids for Senate and House seats in California in 1982 and 1992) and at writing (a memoir, First Father, First Daughter, published in 1989). In 1981, she married...
...case of Beijing-born Li Shaomin, a scholar and U.S. citizen, who was recently convicted of spying for Taiwan and then expelled. His "crime": collecting material that's actually in the public domain but not meant for foreign eyes. And then there's He Qinglian, an economist who is outspoken about the cost of corruption and cronyism but, in China's authoritarian context, qualifies as a dissident. Police broke into her home several times, looking, she believes, for evidence of contact with foreigners to support a phony charge that she, too, is a spy. In June she left...