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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!This year saw the deaths of artists and athletes, politicians and pioneers, the seemingly ordinary and the obviously extraordinary. The deaths were sometimes expected, like the loss of the world's oldest woman. But often, they were so sudden and stunning, like the death of superstar Michael Jackson, they seemed to take our breath away. There's a common thread for the passings noted here: The lives and deaths of these individuals were felt far beyond their circle of family and friends, a testament to their influence and their simple ability to stand out in the crowd. In looking over the deaths ...
Eunice Kennedy Shriver has died at the age of 88 in a Cape Cod, Mass., hospital. Shriver founded the Special Olympics in 1968 and was a younger sister of the late President John F. Kennedy, as well as an older sister of Sen. Ted Kennedy. Eunice Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass., in 1921 as the fifth of nine children of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. She grew up in Massachusetts, Florida and London, when her father served as U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, and received a bachelor's degree in sociology from Stanford University. ...
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