Posted on December 28, 2007 by balev
IMH Editor’s Note: Michael B. Klein, 37, an ultra-successful businessman, and his daughter Talia Klein, 13, were killed in the crash of their private plane over a remote spot in Panama earlier this week. Michael Klein, who headed a hedge fund and was an early beneficiary of the first-wave Internet boom, has been written about [...]
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Posted on December 11, 2007 by balev
Karen Elizabeth Margalit, 29, a California-born olah to Israel in 1996 who died September 26, 2007, from an apparent drug overdose and was unidentified for two months, has been identified and reburied under her name.
Margalit became addicted to tranquilizers and painkillers after suffering a slipped disc. She was treated at drug rehabilitation and psychiatric [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2007 by balev
By Bob Keisser
Notes on a scorecard:
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then I hope Allan Malamud is smiling in some heavenly deli, surrounded by pastrami, plasma big screens and a room full of friends who are laughing in-between snorts about Barry Bonds and O.J. Simpson …
Malamud was the much-beloved sports columnist at the [...]
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