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Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and intellectual provocateur, dies at 68

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By ADAM BERNSTEIN, WASHINGTON POST Charles Krauthammer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist and intellectual provocateur who championed the muscular foreign policy of neoconservatism that helped lay the ideological groundwork for the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, died Thursday at 68. The cause was cancer of the small intestine, said his son, Daniel Krauthammer. He […]
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A Harder Death for People With Intellectual Disabilities

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By TIM LAHEY, M.D. THE NEW YORK TIMES Hanover, N.H. — Several weeks after my patient was admitted to the intensive care unit for pneumonia and other problems, a clear plastic tube sprouted up from the mechanical ventilator, onto his pillow and down into his trachea. He showed few signs of improvement. In fact, the […]