Word: stroke
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DIED. LUTHER VANDROSS, 54, winner of eight Grammys whose heart-tugging ballads made him one of the most celebrated R&B singers of his generation; of undisclosed causes, two years after suffering a massive stroke; in Edison, N.J. In 1981, after years of backing artists like David Bowie and Roberta Flack, he released the first of 15 well-received solo albums, which included such R&B hits as Give Me the Reason, Here and Now and Love Won't Let Me Wait. But he longed for a chart-topping crossover and in 2003 achieved it with the starkly intimate Dance...
Lincoln's political resume was meager, his learning derided, and his election considered a stroke of luck. And yet the prairie lawyer from Springfield would emerge the undisputed captain of his distinguished Cabinet, earning the respect of colleagues who had originally disdained him, and become, as Whitman wrote, "the grandest figure yet, on all the crowded canvas of the Nineteenth Century...
...impeachment trial): Arroyo, his Vice President, who had been elected separately. The current President might be in serious jeopardy if her challenger in last year's election, movie star Fernando Poe Jr., were around to say he had been robbed of victory. But Poe died of a stroke in December. No other political figure has come forward to rally the people...
...company's 525 telephone "agents" and their customers in the U.S. It was a wonderfully surreal experience. The agents-all college graduates, mostly in their early 20s-had undergone a two-week "accent neutralization" program designed by a speech pathologist whose techniques were originally developed to help stroke victims. The results were startling, with Filipinos spouting cheery Americanisms like "Alrightee," "You have a wonderful day," and "How y'all doing today?" Most spoke with an uncanny approximation of an Indiana accent...
DIED. Eugen Gerstenmaier, 79, West German political leader who helped establish democratic reforms after World War II and served as President of the Bundestag from 1954 to 1969; of a stroke; in Bonn. Imprisoned by the Nazis for his involvement in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, Gerstenmaier in the 1950s vigorously supported reconciliation with Israel and negotiated reparation payments to help ease bitter feelings...