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People Who Died: Our Annual Alt-Obits

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Baltimore City Paper | January 6, 2009

Death took its usual toll this year, and seemingly then some. Genocide, war, terrorist attacks, disease -- yikes. But for the purposes of City Paper's annual tribute to influential cultural notables whose deaths deserve a little extra note, it was a terrible harvest.

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