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Roland Dumas, a former French foreign minister, agile political fixer and star defense lawyer whose taste for living large proved his undoing, died July 3 in Paris. He was 101.
Sylvain Saudan, who was widely known as the “skier of the impossible” for his audacious and potentially life-ending descents down some of the steepest, most inaccessible slopes in the world, died July 14 at his home in Les Houches, France. He was 87.
Bob Booker, a veteran comedy writer best known for “The First Family,” the 1962 album lampooning President John F. Kennedy and his family, which was such a runaway hit that crowds gathered at record stores to hear it, died July 12 at his home in Tiburon, Calif. He was 92.
The foreign-policy thinker spent decades trying to solve the riddle of Middle East peace, twice as the United States ambassador to Israel and later as a special envoy for President Obama.
After decades as an activist and teacher, Dr. Reagon became a cultural historian and a curator at the Smithsonian Institution.
Mr. Lapham edited Harper’s magazine for nearly three decades, often in his columns ridiculing what he regarded as the inequities and hypocrisies of American life.
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Former UMass athletic director Bob Marcum dies days after suffering a strokeMarcum, who was 87, led the UMass athletic department from 1993-2002 before going to Marshall until he retired in 2009.
Ms. Cheng, a star of two of the most beloved kung fu movies of all time, “Come Drink With Me” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” died Wednesday at her home in the San Francisco Bay Area.
