Obit Desk
List of Obit Desk articles

The Wheeler-Dealer
Boris Berezovsky and Russia’s roaring 1990s.

A Real American Hero
Remembering George McGovern.

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

The Strange Life of Reverend Sun Myung Moon
The bizarre tycoon and church leader never lived to see his dream of a reunited Korea.

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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