Obituaries

By DAVID ESPO and WHITNEY WOODWARD, Associated Press
July 4, 2008

RALEIGH, N.C. — Senator Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists, and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July.

Clay Felker, 85, Trend-Spotting Editor

By STEPHEN MILLER, Staff Reporter of the Sun

Victor Remer, 88, Led Children's Aid Society

By STEPHEN MILLER, Staff Reporter of the Sun

Leonid Hurwicz, 90, Nobel Winner

Wilbur Hardee, 89, Founded Burger Chain

George Carlin, 71, Wry Monologist

Brewster Yale Beach, 83, Clergyman-Psychotherapist

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