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obitObitBringing out the dead.1NA=1154&NC=1249&DI=4098&PS=58331&PI=7315ObitfalsefalsespacernotembeddedobitDeath of a PoetGerald HowardfalseSaying goodbye to Jim Carroll.noDeath of a PoetSaying goodbye to Jim Carroll.noI went to Jim Carroll's wake and then to his funeral. It's what one Catholic boy does for another. Conventionally described as a "punk poet" (although there was nothing punk in the least about his Frank O'Hara-influenced/Arthur Rimbaud-inflected verse), Jim died this past Friday of a heart attack in his apartment in upper Manhattan. They found him at his desk, and those of us who loved and admired him like to think that he was putting the finishing touches on his long-awaited novel, The Petting Zoo.truenotochyperlinkno200991893451AMFridaySepSeptember99/18/2009 1:34:51 PM633888632910000000200991893451AMFridaySepSeptember99/18/2009 1:34:51 PM633888632910000000obitEdward M. Kennedy (1932-2009)Timothy Noah1/123122/2202502/noaht.gif4242http://img.slate.com/mediafalse200982644715PMWednesdayAugAugust168/26/2009 8:47:15 PM633869020358668684200982644715PMWednesdayAugAugust168/26/2009 8:47:15 PM633869020358668684200982644715PMWednesdayAugAugust168/26/2009 8:47:15 PM633869020358668684false2008101711643PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:16:43 PM6335984620300000002008101711643PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:16:43 PM633598462030000000falseThe Kennedy who most changed America.noEdward M. Kennedy (1932-2009)The Kennedy who most changed America.no"[T]his initial victory for Edward Kennedy is demeaning to the dignity of the Senate and the democratic process."truenotochyperlinkno200982670259AMWednesdayAugAugust78/26/2009 11:02:59 AM633868669790000000200982670259AMWednesdayAugAugust78/26/2009 11:02:59 AM633868669790000000obitJohn HughesDana Stevens1/123122/2202502/stevensd.gif4242http://img.slate.com/mediafalse200982644716PMWednesdayAugAugust168/26/2009 8:47:16 PM633869020360231234200982644716PMWednesdayAugAugust168/26/2009 8:47:16 PM633869020360231234200982644716PMWednesdayAugAugust168/26/2009 8:47:16 PM633869020360231234false2008101711658PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:16:58 PM6335984621800000002008101711658PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:16:58 PM633598462180000000falseHe reinvented the teen movie for an entire generation.noJohn HughesJohn Hughes, RIP.noJohn Hughes movies—the good ones, those five or six gems he wrote and directed in the mid-to-late '80s, before he stopped directing altogether and became a producer and writer of hack comedies—persist in the collective memory of a certain demographic (say, anyone born between the Kennedy assassination and the Watergate hearings) as foundational texts of adolescence. Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Breakfast Club were to the 1980s what Rebel Without a Cause or Catcher in the Rye were to the '50s. If that sounds grandiose, well, grandiosity has long been essential to the representation of teenagerhood: James Dean's lovingly cultivated sneer, Holden Caulfield's self-defeating purism, Judd Nelson's raised fist in freeze-frame at the end of The Breakfast Club. Each generation learns to express its alienation in the fashionable pose of its time. That the pose is an imitation doesn't make the need to strike it any less real.truenotochyperlinkno20098764536AMFridayAugAugust68/7/2009 10:45:36 AM63385224336000000020098764536AMFridayAugAugust68/7/2009 10:45:36 AM633852243360000000obitWalter Cronkite, 1916-2009  John Dickerson1/123122/2202502/dickersonj.gif4242http://img.slate.com/mediafalse200982644716PMWednesdayAugAugust168/26/2009 8:47:16 PM633869020360900647200982644716PMWednesdayAugAugust168/26/2009 8:47:16 PM633869020360900647200982644716PMWednesdayAugAugust168/26/2009 8:47:16 PM633869020360900647false2008101711620PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:16:20 PM6335984618000000002008101711620PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:16:20 PM633598461800000000falseWatching the anchorman in a news family.noWalter Cronkite, 1916-2009  Remembering Walter Cronkite.noWe were putting the kids to bed when word came that Walter Cronkite died. Immediately I went from being a father—shushing and threatening—to being a kid again. We watched Cronkite before dinner, in the library. I sat cross-legged on the rug. Mom sat on the sofa, and across the room sat Dad in the chair in which he'd fall asleep later that night. I had patches on my jeans and grass stains. I was wearing a Washington Redskins jersey. Everyone was in place, and no one was divorced.truenotochyperlinkno200971893056AMSaturdayJulJuly97/18/2009 1:30:56 PM633835062560000000200971893056AMSaturdayJulJuly97/18/2009 1:30:56 PM633835062560000000obitDeath of the Whiz KidFred Kaplan1/123122/2202502/kaplanf.gif4242http://img.slate.com/mediafalse200982662531PMWednesdayAugAugust188/26/2009 10:25:31 PM633869079313310991200982662531PMWednesdayAugAugust188/26/2009 10:25:31 PM633869079313467240200982662531PMWednesdayAugAugust188/26/2009 10:25:31 PM633869079313467240false2008101711636PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:16:36 PM6335984619600000002008101711636PMFridayOctOctober1310/17/2008 5:16:36 PM633598461960000000falseRobert Strange McNamara, 1916-2009.noDeath of the Whiz KidDeath of the whiz kid: Robert Strange McNamara, 1916-2009.noRobert Strange McNamara, who died today at age 93, was the personification of postwar America, the original and ultimate "whiz kid" who rose to power on the firm belief that arms and rationality can solve all problems—and tumbled to tragedy as the illusion shattered in the fields of Vietnam.truenotochyperlinkno20097663332PMMondayJulJuly187/6/2009 10:33:32 PM63382502012000000020097663332PMMondayJulJuly187/6/2009 10:33:32 PM633825020120000000200311442718PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:27:18 PM631781584380000000200311442718PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:27:18 PM631781584380000000falsetruetruetruetruetruetrue20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM631390436830000000200181561643PMWednesdayAugAugust188/15/2001 10:16:43 PM631334962030000000