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DIED. LLOYD CUTLER, 87, consummate lawyer, mediator and Washington insider who, as a private attorney representing clients from IBM to American Express, and as White House counsel to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, won the admiration of Democrats and Republicans for his expertise in navigating crises; in Washington. The courtly intellectual's feats of diplomacy included persuading the deposed Shah of Iran to leave the U.S. for Panama during the Iranian hostage crisis; helping manage the media during Clinton's Whitewater flap; and urging onetime client Mick Jagger to wear a tie to Washington's tony Metropolitan Club...
...best documentary feature went to El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War, by director Peter Forgacs, a collage brilliantly assembled from the work of two amateur filmmakers of the period. The prize for best documentary short went to director Dan Krauss for The Life of Kevin Carter, the tragic story of a photojournalist who took one of the most memorable pictures of our time, of a vulture stalking a starving child in Sudan...
...spent nine years on the World Council of Churches and met with every U.S. president from Dwight D. Eisenhower to William J. Clinton. Jimmy Carter awarded him the Medal of Freedom...
Birk still remembers the time now-retired Vikings veteran Cris Carter said that a Harvard education “was pretty cool, and that he admired...
...Tribute to Benny Carter...