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Robert E. Brown; brought world musicto San Diego schools
Robert E. Brown envisioned world music, a term he coined in the early 1960s, as an amalgam of performing arts designed to promote cultural harmony and understanding.
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William P. Yarborough; Green Berets leader, intelligence planner
William P. Yarborough, a retired Army lieutenant general who was an early Special Forces commander who gained President Kennedy's blessing for them to wear green berets, and who also helped oversee a surveillance operation on thousands of Americans during the late 1960s, died Tuesday at a hospital near his home in Southern Pines, N.C. He was 93 and had complications from a broken hip.
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Liu Binyan; exposed corruption of China's communists
Liu Binyan, the forceful dissident writer who repeatedly exposed official corruption and openly challenged the Chinese Communist Party to reform itself before and after he was exiled from China to the United States in the late 1980s, died Monday in East Windsor, N.J. He was 80.
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Franz Jolowicz; record shop catered to classical-music fans
Franz Jolowicz, the owner of the former Discophile record shop, a Greenwich Village institution that was for decades a mecca for classical record collectors, from the ardent to the insatiable to the merely obsessive, died Nov. 8 at his home in the Village. He was 86.
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William P. Lawrence; high-ranking POW of the Vietnam War
William P. Lawrence, a retired Navy vice admiral who was among the highest-ranking members of the armed forces held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and who later served three years as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, died Dec. 2 at his home in Crownsville, Md. He had a stroke a decade ago. He was 75.
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Edward L. Masry; attorney portrayed in 'Erin Brockovich'
Edward L. Masry, a flamboyantly pugnacious lawyer who won millions of dollars from a utility in a toxic pollution suit and was portrayed by the actor Albert Finney in the 2000 movie "Erin Brockovich," died Monday at a hospital in Thousand Oaks. He was 73.
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