U.S & World World News Milestones
Icon remembered for toughness
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Technology icon Steve Jobs died Wednesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 56.
Jobs helped found Apple Inc. in the 1970s with Steve Wozniak and angel investor Mike Markkula in a garage on the edge of California's Silicon Valley. They designed, developed and marketed the first successful personal computer.
Last lion’s last segment
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One of the last lions at CBS news has faded from view from the network’s fabled news magazine 60 minutes.
Andy Rooney, 92, and his folksy and often curmudgeonly essays have been a staple of 60 Minutes since 1978. His essays about the foibles of daily life, politics and business have been described as both insightful and irritating.
Ted Kennedy: A champion of working people
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Edward M. Kennedy wore the word Democrat like a badge of honor.
JFK speech still resounds
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Fifty years ago, Jan. 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy addressed the nation for the first time as president. Historians score it as one of the four best inaugural speech ever spoken.
Halberstam, the horse's ass
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David Halberstam, another great reporter at the gray lady, has died and followed the route of the legendary R.W. Apple Jr. The writer was a real man. He never apologized for his friends. His friendship lifted many people who needed lifting.
