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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081226/tv_nm/us_lennon

Imagine: Lennon in TV ad 28 years after his death

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Imagine, John Lennon makes a television
commercial for charity -- 28 years after his death.

Through the use of digital technology, the former Beatle urges people
across the United States to support a campaign by "One Laptop per
Child" to deliver tough, solar-powered XO laptop computers to the
world's poorest children.

"Imagine every child no matter where in the world they were could
access a universe of knowledge. They would have a chance to learn, to
dream, to achieve anything they want," a voice and video image of
Lennon has been created to say.

"I tried to do it through my music, but now you can do it in a very
different way. You can give a child a laptop and more than imagine,
you can change the world," says the musician in a play on one his best
known songs -- 1971's "Imagine."

LONDON (AP) ‹ Faith Williams, the month-old conjoined twin who survived
a lengthy surgery to separate her from her sister, died on the
afternoon of Christmas Day, London's Great Ormond Street Hospital said.

Her doctor, Agostino Pierro, said in a statement that while Faith's
death was very sad, it was not unexpected.

"We were always clear that Faith was very sick," he said. "She required
the full range of skills of our intensive care staff, and underwent a
number of further procedures. However, she succumbed to the
complexities of her condition."

Faith and Hope were born Nov. 26, joined from their chests to the lower
part of their stomachs. They had separate hearts, but shared a liver
and intestines.

On Dec. 2, the pair underwent an 11-hour surgery to separate them, an
operation that doctors had hoped could wait until the girls became
stronger. But the infants' deteriorating condition made it necessary
for the surgical team to separate the twins.

Hope died hours after doctors completed the 11-hour operation.

http://sports.aol.com/story/_a/bbdp/jockey-dies-after-being-thrown-from/287659?icid...

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. (Dec. 26) - Jockey Sam Thompson Jr. died
Christmas Day, five days after he was thrown from a quarter horse
following a race at Los Alamitos.
The 36-year-old rider had been on life support at Los Alamitos Medical
Center since the Dec. 20 accident. Thompson's family had him taken off
life support Thursday, medical center spokesman Orlando Gutierrez
said.
Harems Dynasty, a 2-year-old filly, threw Thompson after finishing
seventh in the eighth race. The Los Alamitos Race Course season ended
Dec. 21.
Thompson, who lived in Long Beach, missed much of the 2008 season
because of a broken foot.
He is survived by his father, Samuel, mother Gloria, brother Eric and
sister Kim.
A memorial service is planned when the 2009 season opens Jan. 2.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-mulligan21-2008dec21,0,2215697.stor...

Robert Mulligan dies at 83; directed 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

By Claire Noland

Robert Mulligan, who was nominated for an Academy Award for directing the
1962 film classic "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Saturday, December 20, 2008,
at his home in Lyme, Connectucut. He was 83.

Mulligan had heart disease, his nephew Robert Rosenthal said.

The director began working in live television in New York in the early 1950s
and won an Emmy Award for the TV movie "The Moon and Sixpence" in 1960. His
first film, "Fear Strikes Out," was released in 1957 and told the story of
mentally ill baseball player Jimmy Piersall, played by Anthony Perkins.
Mulligan directed 19 more films, including "Summer of '42," "The Other" and
"Same Time, Next Year" before capping his career in 1991 with "Man in the
Moon," featuring actress Reese Witherspoon in her movie debut.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ellis21-2008dec21,0,3291785.story

Dock Ellis, former major league pitcher who counseled drug addicts, dies at
63

By Helene Elliott

Dock Ellis, the former major league pitcher who claimed to have thrown a
no-hitter while on LSD but later turned his exploits into the basis of an
anti-drug crusade and counseling career, died Friday, December 19, 2008, of
liver disease at [Los Angeles] County-USC Medical Center. He was 63.

Ellis, a Los Angeles, California, native who lived in Apple Valley,
California, was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver the day after
Thanksgiving last year [2007].

"It was very tough," she said. "He basically was on life support."

Ellis pitched in the major leagues from 1968 through 1979, mostly with the
Pittsburgh Pirates, and compiled a career record of 138-119.

He was a member of five National League East championship teams in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, including their triumphant 1971 World Series team,
and was named to the All-Star team that year. He also had a record of 17-8
for the American League champion New York, New York, Yankees in 1976.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-kotchian21-2008dec21,0,450818.story

A. Carl Kotchian dies at 94; ex-Lockheed chief admitted paying bribes to
foreign officials

By Peter Pae

A. Carl Kotchian, the former president of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. whose
admission of paying millions of dollars in bribes to foreign government
officials led to the imprisonment of Japan's prime minister and political
upheaval in several countries in the 1970s, has died. He was 94.

Kotchian, who had been ill with ailments related to aging, died December 14,
2008, at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, California, said his son, Robert
Kotchian.

Kotchian was a key figure in what became one of the biggest bribery scandals
ever. His testimony before a Senate committee in 1976 later contributed to
sweeping reforms and passage of U.S. laws against Americans and U.S. firms
paying off foreign government officials.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dumas22-2008dec22,0,6044300.story

Frederick Dumas, first L.A. County director of Head Start preschool program,
dies at 92

By Valerie J. Nelson

Frederick Dumas, a school administrator who in the 1960s was the first
director of Operation Head Start in Los Angeles County, California, and who
co-founded an organization to push for equal treatment of minority teachers
and students in Los Angeles, California, schools, has died. He was 92.

Dumas died December 15, 2008, of complications related to Alzheimer's
disease and old age at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center,
said his daughter Diann Dumas.

The federal Head Start program to help impoverished preschoolers came to Los
Angeles in January 1966. By June, Dumas was refereeing meetings of parents
who protested tightened eligibility requirements and cutbacks in the Head
Start budget that reduced classroom supervision.

"This is a cause where fairness has been ignored," Dumas told the parents,
according to a 1966 article in The Times.