Obituaries

He rose to fame leading the Romanian and U.S. Olympic teams. He was later caught up in scandals involving the abuse

The Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, which announced the death, did not say how or where he died.

He was the first African American to become president of a large white university, C.E.O. of a major corporation and deputy

Ms. Thaler, a former dean at N.Y.U., used her last interview to reminisce about her brother, Ed, and to publicize the

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work

Credited with designing the first eco-friendly office building, he never forgot the lessons he learned observing communes in the 1960s.

Her unusual approach to building bridges between her wealthy campus and its beleaguered hometown led to a Supreme Court case and

Her death reduces Japan’s rapidly dwindling imperial family to 16 people, and only 4 men, as the country faces questions about

In “Prospero’s Daughter” and other novels, she explored the legacy of colonialism in her native Trinidad and the struggle for belonging

He headed a commission that documented widespread abuse in Canada’s boarding schools for Indigenous children and sought to correct the history