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Jay Mazur, Zealous Advocate for Garment Workers, Dies at 92
Jay Mazur, a blunt-speaking, Bronx-born labor leader who was president of American garment workers’ unions in the 1980s and ’90s, a…
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Charles Phan, Whose Slanted Door Elevated Vietnamese Food, Dies at 62
Charles Phan, a self-taught chef whose family fled Vietnam when he was a teenager and whose sleek restaurant helped change America’s…
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David Schneiderman, Village Voice Editor and Publisher, Dies at 77
David Schneiderman, an editor turned publisher turned chief executive of The Village Voice, the granddaddy of alternative newspapers,…
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Jean Jennings, Who Wrote With Verve About Cars, Dies at 70
The first time Jean Jennings confronted the Mexican federal police, they had just arrested one of her friends for public urination. It was…
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Oliviero Toscani, Driving Force Behind Provocative Benetton Ads, Dies at 82
Oliviero Toscani, an Italian photographer who used images of an AIDS patient and death row inmates to break the boundaries of fashion…
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James Arthur Ray, Self-Help Guide Whose Retreat Became Deadly, Dies at 67
James Arthur Ray, an Oprah-endorsed motivational speaker who spent two years in prison for manslaughter after the 2009 deaths of three…
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Richard M. Cohen, News Producer Who Wrote of a Health Challenge, Dies at 76
Richard M. Cohen, an outspoken and award-winning television news producer whose career was eventually derailed by the ravages of multiple…
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Paul Oreffice, a Combative Chief of Dow Chemical, Dies at 97
Paul F. Oreffice, who as the pugnacious head of Dow Chemical grew and diversified the company at the same time that he rebuffed Vietnam…