Obituaries

At the 1960 Summer Games in Rome, he set a world record in the 400-meter race and another in the 4

He identified the cause of a respiratory condition that once killed 10,000 infants annually in the United States and helped design

His art included cartoons for The New York Times, collaborations with Elie Wiesel and images that traced the history of antisemitism.

She sang with the Metropolitan Opera for decades, often on short notice, including after lodging a successful age discrimination complaint against

She steered vacationers and business travelers to choice destinations, talked about the best deals, and offered up savvy tips on how

His career was ruined when Time magazine reported that the Soviets had recruited him while he led The Washington Post’s Moscow

In series like Planetary, of which he was a creator, and Astonishing X-Men, his drawings conveyed a sense of realism in

In more than a dozen books and several hundred articles, he devoted himself, as he once said, to “questioning the unquestionable

He weathered the storm as the city’s chief financial officer for 16 years and jousted with Mayor Koch in a public

In his fiction and journalism, he sought to illustrate the story of the contemporary Middle East and his native Lebanon.