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Filipino doctor dies while fleeing rebels in Congo
By Cynthia Balana
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 17:54:00 04/06/2010
Filed Under: insurgency, Overseas Employment, Foreign affairs & international relations
MANILA, Philippines—A Filipino doctor working with a United Nations contractor died on Easter Sunday while he and his colleagues were evacuating to safer ground after the town and airport in Mbandaka, Congo, where they were based were attacked by rebels, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday.
Citing a report from the Philippine embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, DFA spokesman Eduardo Malaya said in an interview that the doctor, Jay Basilio-Bool, suffered cardiac arrest while fleeing.
via Filipino doctor dies while fleeing rebels in Congo – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.

Sad day. I’ve watched Love Story about 15 times. I’ve read the book 4 times. The first time I rented Love Story I watched it 3 straight times, I wanted to numb myself by watching it repeatedly. I’m still unsuccessful. I’ve always hated the injustice of that film. How when they are finally going to have a much easier life, cancer takes Jenny away.

‘Love Story’ author Erich Segal dies aged 72
Agence France-Presse
First Posted 11:21:00 01/20/2010
LONDON, United Kingdom—”Love Story” author Erich Segal, whose popular romantic drama coined the phrase “Love means never having to say you’re sorry,” has died of a heart attack at the age of 72, his daughter said.
Segal, who also wrote the screenplay for the Beatles' animated film “Yellow Submarine,” died at his home in London on Sunday, his daughter Francesca Segal said.
The author had been suffering from Parkinson's disease for many years, she said Tuesday.
The United States-born writer was a classics professor at Yale University when he wrote the book “Love Story,” which was made into a 1970 hit film starting Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw.
The movie, which won an Oscar and was nominated for six others, tells the story of a wealthy young man, Oliver, who becomes estranged from his father when he marries Jennifer, a woman from a less privileged background.
But the tale takes a tragic twist when Jennifer develops leuaemia and eventually dies.
Oliver’s father has a change of heart when he hears what has happened and races to see him, telling his son he is sorry to hear the sad news.
This is when Oliver replies: “Loves means never having to say you are sorry.”
In a 2008 article for Granta magazine, the author’s daughter said “Love Story,” inspired by a true tale, captured her father’s imagination and made him “a world-famous author.”
“His agent begged him to put it aside, convinced it would ruin his reputation as a writer of macho action screenplays.
“But it had poured from him in what felt like a single sitting and, although he could not have known to what extent, he knew it was worth fighting for.”
“The two monoliths that dominated my father’s identity—the peak and the trough of his life—were 'Love Story’ and Parkinson’s disease,” she added.
Speaking at his funeral Tuesday, Francesca Segal paid tribute to her father’s tenacity.
“That he fought to breathe, fought to live, every second of the last 30 years of illness with such mind-blowing obduracy, is a testament to the core of who he was,” she told mourners.
via ‘Love Story’ author Erich Segal dies aged 72 – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.

Actress Brittany Murphy dies at age 32
12/21/2009 | 08:41 AM
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LOS ANGELES — Brittany Murphy, the actress who got her start in the sleeper hit “Clueless” and rose to stardom in “8 Mile,” died Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 32.
Murphy was pronounced dead at 10:04 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Sally Stewart said. Stewart would not provide a cause of death or any other information.
Murphy was transported to the hospital after the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call at 8 a.m. at the home she shared with her husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, in the Hollywood Hills.
via Actress Brittany Murphy dies at age 32 – Entertainment – GMANews.TV – Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs – Latest Philippine News.

Paul Samuelson, R.I.P.
Oh, my. Paul Samuelson has died. He had a long, good life; yet he will be sorely missed.
It’s hard to convey the full extent of Samuelson’s greatness. Most economists would love to have written even one seminal paper — a paper that fundamentally changes the way people think about some issue. Samuelson wrote dozens: from international trade to finance to growth theory to speculation to well, just about everything, underlying much of what we know is a key Samuelson paper that set the agenda for generations of scholars.
And he was a wonderfully down-to-earth human being besides. For a number of years I shared an office suite with him and Bob Solow; he always had time to talk, and was completely without airs.
via Paul Samuelson, R.I.P. – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com.