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Weekly Feature
This weekly feature takes a more personal look at extraordinary people in the Washington area.
Odetta, 77, a forceful singer during the folk music revival and civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s and a self-described "musical historian" who championed the downtrodden by reviving slave, prison and work songs, died Dec. 2 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. She had heart disease and...
Ted Rogers, 75, founder of Canada's largest cable television and mobile phone company and owner of the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team, died Dec. 2 at his home in Toronto.