Souter

Justice Souter’s Class
By LINDA GREENHOUSE

Justice David H. Souter left the Supreme Court nearly a year ago without really saying goodbye. There were no pre-retirement interviews of the sort that Justice John Paul Stevens gave to several journalists this spring. There were no farewell press conferences like those that several justices who retired during the 1980’s and 1990’s were willing to endure for the sake of placing their own codas on their Supreme Court careers. More

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Rue McClanahan - Obit

Rue McClanahan, second from right, with her co-stars on the NBC sitcom “The Golden Girls”: from left, Estelle Getty, Bea Arthur and Betty White. The series ran from 1985 to 1992.
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: June 3, 2010

Rue McClanahan, who helped make “The Golden Girls” a long-running television hit playing the saucy, man-devouring Southern belle Blanche Devereaux (in one scene she made a date at her husband’s funeral), died Thursday in Manhattan. Unlike Blanche, she had no trouble admitting her age, 76.
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Still, in her book, she offered “fun in bed quotients” for married and unmarried lovers. And she had a pat answer when asked if she was like Blanche: “Well, Blanche was an oversexed, self-involved, man-crazy, vain Southern belle from Atlanta — and I’m not from Atlanta.” Link

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