Obit Desk

List of Obit Desk articles

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Warrick Page/Getty Images

The Wheeler-Dealer

Boris Berezovsky and Russia’s roaring 1990s.

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Cliff Owen-Pool/Getty Images

A Real American Hero

Remembering George McGovern.

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GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/GettyImages

Honoring Chris Stevens

How the U.S. ambassador killed this week in Benghazi would have handled Libya.

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Alex Wong/Newsmakers

The Strange Life of Reverend Sun Myung Moon

The bizarre tycoon and church leader never lived to see his dream of a reunited Korea.

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PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images

The Meles Zenawi I Knew

Ethiopia's late dictator was a complex and sophisticated leader -- a self-taught ex-guerrilla who brought his people economic growth and repression.

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