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Rain Man's Kim Peek And Super Human Feats Of Reading: 2009's Most Amazing Story

blog.seattlepi.com | Stephen J. Gertz | Posted 12.31.2009 | Books

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Kim Peek, the savant who was the inspiration for Barry Levinson's original screenplay and film, Rain Man, died last week at age fifty-eight. The New ...

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Loren Singer Dead: "Parallax View" Author Dies At 86

The New York Times | William Grimes | Posted 12.24.2009 | Books

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Loren Singer, whose 1970 conspiracy thriller, "The Parallax View," later made into a movie starring Warren Beatty, was one of the first novels to offe...

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Whom do you Have to Know to get an Editorial Obit in the New York Times?

Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media

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Would Merce Cunningham have felt diminished if he'd known he'd be linked in death with Martha Watson Stern, "Dog Breeder, 72," also recognized with an editorial obit in the New York Times?

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New York Times Obituary Correction Watch: We'll Fix It When We Get Around To It

Melissa Kirsch | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media

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Here we have a raft of errors that took over eight months for the Times to correct, even though the deceased's son brought the errors to the attention of the paper twice during that time.