He was applauded for broadening the bureau’s ranks to include more black, Hispanic and female agents. But many of his other actions drew severe criticism.
By Robert D. McFadden
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A once-promising director and actor who struggled with mental illness and drug addiction, she performed for years on the city’s streets. She died of Covid-19.
He was compared to Heller, Mailer and Styron, and though he never achieved their celebrity, he was beloved by his students and readers. He died in the coronavirus pandemic.
A child of Hmong refugees, she was chair of the St. Paul school board. The coronavirus struck her and her father on the same day. He survived; she didn't.
The more than 70 cases he tried in Brooklyn included the prosecution of a college dean accused of embezzlement and forced labor. He died of the coronavirus.
Cowell is the first woman known to undergo sex reassignment surgery in Britain. But after a splash in the 1950s, she withdrew from public life and died in obscurity.
Lee and Gee never met, but as the only two Chinese-American women pilots during the war, their lives ran a strikingly similar course, and both thwarted layers of prejudice.
By Katie Hafner
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Foote’s ingenious experiment more than 150 years ago yielded a remarkable discovery that could have helped shape modern climate science had she not been overshadowed.
By John Schwartz
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Souza, who started a collective of renegade artists in 1947, embraced the sacred and profane in erotically charged images. Several of his paintings fetched record auction prices for Indian art.
