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Richard Stites, Historian of Russian Culture, Dies at 78

Richard Stites, who opened up new territory for historians with a landmark work on the Russian women’s movement and in numerous articles and books on Russian and Soviet mass culture, died on Sunday in Helsinki, where he was doing research. He was 78 and lived in Washington.

The cause was complications from cancer, his son Andrei said.

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Country music impresario Johnnie High dead at 80

Johnnie High, a north Texas country music showman who gave such performers LeAnn Rimes and Boxcar Willie their early exposure, has died at the age of 80.

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British DJ and music historian Charlie Gillett, who helped popularize world music, died yesterday. He was 68.

Among the artists Gillett helped popularize was Dire Straits.
 


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Jerome York, the director for Apple and a financial wizard credited with helping Chrysler and IBM turn around, died today of an aneurysm. He was 71.
 

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Samurai Champloo Composer Jun 'Nujabes' Seba Passes Away

The official website of hydeout productions has announced on Thursday that Jun Seba, the hip-hop producer better known as Nujabes, passed away due to an automobile accident in Tokyo late in the evening of February 26. He was 36 years old. An ambulance had rushed Nujabes to a hospital in Tokyo's Shibuya ward, but the live-saving efforts of the medical staff were ultimately unsuccessful.

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H.M. Koutoukas, a prolific playwright who helped create Off Off Broadway with wildly surreal plays such as Medea in the Laundromat, died March 6 of diabetes. He was 72.
 

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