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Brian Lenihan's cancer has 'stabilised'...

 

Wonder how the stress of being the man who has to go cap-in-hand to the European Union asking them to play International Wonga.com will be for Bri's health?

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Lee Huan

 

"LEE Huan, the former prime minister of Taiwan, who played an important role during the island's transition from a one-party state under martial law to a semi-democracy, has died, aged 93"

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Brian Lenihan's cancer has 'stabilised'...

 

Wonder how the stress of being the man who has to go cap-in-hand to the European Union asking them to play International Wonga.com will be for Bri's health?

 

I can't imagine being in a cabinet meeting whilst they discuss health service cuts and pay freezes that will drive talented oncologists abroad is likely to help him feel better.

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Former Italian economy minister and an intellectual architect of the single Euro, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, died at 70.

 

regards,

Hein

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Perceptive, gap-toothed political journalist and commentator, Anthony Howard has died aged 76...

 

Shame, I liked him...

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Former Italian economy minister and an intellectual architect of the single Euro, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, died at 70.

 

regards,

Hein

 

Probably a lucky escape for him...

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Anthony Howard dies

 

Anthony Howard

 

 

:(

 

That works both as a reaction to TheDeadMan's perceptiveness and also the smiley does look a lot like Anthony Howard.

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Salvador Jorge Blanco

 

The President of the Dominican Republic between 1982 and 1986 has died at the age of 84. he had been in a coma for over a month after falling out of bed and receiving a traumatic brain hematoma.

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Former Venezuela president Carlos Perez died on Christmas Day aged 88.

 

He was a miss, having been picked in 2009...

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Sir Ellis Clarke

 

The man who became Trinidad and Tobago's first President in 1976 when it became a Republic (having been its last Governor General under British colonial rule) has died aged 93 having suffered a massive stroke last month.

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Has anyone mentioned Sir Rhodes Boyson, the former Tory Cabinet member and renowned CP-advocate? Will turn 86 this year and is now in a nursing home according to Wikipedia.

 

Mugabe turns 87 on 17th February, may not see the year out, has a pretty demanding job after all, perhaps his loathsome regime will die with him.

 

Ex-Free World leaders Jimmy Carter and George Bush Sr. both turn 87 this year also, Carter has even made his own funeral arrangements already...

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Famed former New York County District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau served from 1975-2009, now aged 91, oversaw many famous cases including the trial of Mark Chapman, said to be the inspiration for DA Adam Schiff in Law & Order, continues to serve as Chairman for the Museum of Jewish Heritage and apparently still practising law

 

http://www.wlrk.com/Page.cfm/Thread/Attorn...20Robert%20%20M.

 

Very likely his passing would generate some UK media coverage

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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse is in America for medical treatment and rumoured to be suffering from cancer...

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Hosni Mubarak (b. 1928) said to still be ailing, however right now, given current events, question is will he die in office or will he end up in exile? Speculation that Egypt's long-standing regime may suffer the 'domino' effect spurred on by events in Tunisia, perhaps Mubarak will do his bit to 'move things along', after all is the kind of stress a sick octogenarian can do without.

 

Dr. Hans Blix (b. 1928) Swedish politician famously appointed by the UN to locate Iraqi WMDs and (obviously) failed to do so. Still active on the political scene apparently.

 

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin (b. 1926)

Col. Gadaffi (b. 1942) doesn't look too well these days...anyone else reckon he and Diego Maradona look like long-lost brothers?

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Fiji's President Josefa Iloilo, 88, who has often been mentioned hereabouts, is to retire next month.

Dead. http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/67897/...-president-dies

 

I'm gobsmacked that Ratu Iloilo hasn't got a UK obituary yet. He was a often mentioned in the British press when he was alive and was a significant figure in Melanesian politics for many years. The two teams who picked him on the DDP possibly have similar concerns.

 

Iloilo was also the paramount chief of the district of Viseisei in Fiji's Ba Province (just up the road from the airport, for the benefit of anyone who's ever visited Fiji), where the consumption of kava is still practised with enthusiastic vigour. Traditionally when a great ruler such as Iloilo dies, the menfolk hold a several day long vigil consuming gallons of the stuff and getting so numbed in body and mind that they are unable to even speak for up to a week. I doubt that there is anywhere in the world right now where the male populace are more incapable of anything than they are here.

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Fiji's President Josefa Iloilo, 88, who has often been mentioned hereabouts, is to retire next month.

Dead. http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/67897/...-president-dies

 

I'm gobsmacked that Ratu Iloilo hasn't got a UK obituary yet. He was a often mentioned in the British press when he was alive and was a significant figure in Melanesian politics for many years. The two teams who picked him on the DDP possibly have similar concerns.

 

Iloilo was also the paramount chief of the district of Viseisei in Fiji's Ba Province (just up the road from the airport, for the benefit of anyone who's ever visited Fiji), where the consumption of kava is still practised with enthusiastic vigour. Traditionally when a great ruler such as Iloilo dies, the menfolk hold a several day long vigil consuming gallons of the stuff and getting so numbed in body and mind that they are unable to even speak for up to a week. I doubt that there is anywhere in the world right now where the male populace are more incapable of anything than they are here.

 

Devon? :birthday2:

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Fiji's President Josefa Iloilo, 88, who has often been mentioned hereabouts, is to retire next month.

Dead. http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/67897/...-president-dies

 

I'm gobsmacked that Ratu Iloilo hasn't got a UK obituary yet. He was a often mentioned in the British press when he was alive and was a significant figure in Melanesian politics for many years. The two teams who picked him on the DDP possibly have similar concerns.

 

Iloilo was also the paramount chief of the district of Viseisei in Fiji's Ba Province (just up the road from the airport, for the benefit of anyone who's ever visited Fiji), where the consumption of kava is still practised with enthusiastic vigour. Traditionally when a great ruler such as Iloilo dies, the menfolk hold a several day long vigil consuming gallons of the stuff and getting so numbed in body and mind that they are unable to even speak for up to a week. I doubt that there is anywhere in the world right now where the male populace are more incapable of anything than they are here.

 

Obit will probably be in the Independent within the next couple of months, with most papers struggling and under pressure to prioritise and save space etc. stuff like this is considered less relevant

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Necmettin Erbakan

 

"Turkey's first Islamist prime minister, Necmettin Erbakan, has died at the age of 85. Mr Erbakan served only a year as prime minister before he was forced to stand down in 1997 by Turkey's staunchly secular military."

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