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Dabney Coleman, a Texas-born character actor who created an acclaimed gallery of comically macho throwbacks in films including “9 to 5” and “Tootsie” and TV shows such as “The Slap

With a stout frame, bushy whiskers and a weathered visage, Bernard Hill embodied men of authority facing down danger with weary stoicism.

Mr. Hill became the first actor to star in more than one film to gross over $1 billion.

Daniel R. “Dan” Burke, a many-sided man who over a long life was a vigorous presence in Dorchester as a dedicated officer and coach of youth sports programs, a civic activist in the Neponset and Pope’s Hill Neighborhood Associations, a member of the Ward 16 Democratic Committee and of the Boston School Committee (where he served as president), and an active member of St. Ann’s

"His life was marked by the many students he helped, as a teacher, coach, and mentor."

POLITICAL NOTESLázaro Cárdenas, proletarian President of Mexico, lastweek published a decree confiscating 1,723 hectares (7 sq. mi.) of aranch near El Aguaji belonging to farmer…

It was during a particularly intense early summer Little League game in the former Cedar Grove baseball league when A’s coach Jim English called a timeout to calm his young pitcher, who was getting flustered as the opposing team rallied. English ran out to the mound and began talking with the young hurler, and soon the boy was smiling and firing strikes, recalled English’s

Capricorn One tells the story of an ill-fated Mars mission and the conspiracy that follows. We examine whether a fake Mars mission is actually possible.

Norman Lear tried to recapture his old sitcom magic by revisiting All in the Family with the 1990s spinoff 704 Hauser, but it didn't work out.

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