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DIED. Philip Rieff, 83, conservative sociologist and cultural theorist at the University of Pennsylvania best known for a trio of books on the destructive impact of Sigmund Freud; in Philadelphia. In January, Rieff published his last book, Sacred Order/Social Order: My Life Among the Deathworks--in which he cites legal abortion, the gay-rights movement and pop music as examples of cultural decline--and dedicated it to the memory of his first wife, essayist Susan Sontag...
...Senate. But the battle got even messier this week, as Republicans decided to hold public field hearings. The first, organized by House Republicans, took place Wednesday at a Border Patrol station near San Diego. Meanwhile, Republican Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter held his own hearings Wednesday in Philadelphia...
...recently returned to TIME after two years of running the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, a wonderful new museum and educational center on Independence Mall. While there, I got to know the great historian David McCullough, who has been on a one-man campaign to end the epidemic of what he calls historical illiteracy. I believe that our Making of America series is an antidote to historical illiteracy, which David describes as a great danger to our democracy. Being an American is not based on a common ancestry, a common religion, even a common culture--it's based on accepting...
...DIED. Arnold Newman, 88, who snapped 49-cent portraits in his native Philadelphia before creating photographs that graced the covers of LIFE, Look and other publications, and developing a technique that became known as "environmental portraiture"; in New York City. By exaggerating or minimizing his subjects' surroundings, he crafted impressionistic gems-most famously, a 1946 portrait of Igor Stravinsky in which a piano lid helps form the shape of a musical note, below-that suggested his sitters' personalities. In 1963 he infuriated Nazi-German industrialist and alleged Nazi collaborator Alfred Krupp with an intentionally demonic portrait. "As a Jew," Newman...
DIED. Eric Gregg, 55, beloved, sometimes berated major league baseball umpire known as the "plump ump," who fought a public battle with obesity as his weight crept at times to nearly 400 lbs.; after suffering a stroke; in Philadelphia. Just the third African-American umpire in major league history, Gregg thrilled fans by goofily dancing with mascots and infuriated those who claimed he had an unusually big strike zone...