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As chairman of the Federal Trade Commission in the Clinton administration, he looked beyond traditional views of antitrust enforcement.

A Cuban immigrant, he and his brother started a tiny hardware store on the Upper East Side that grew into the sprawling Gracious Home emporium.

She was shunned by the space community after she sued North American Rockwell in the launchpad death of Gus Grissom. She won a settlement.

He had an active single term as what the White House called a “liberal radical” from Maryland. He later objected to Trump’s appropriating his family seal.

Professor Lobel was among the first historians to explore the economic and social elements of city life in the 19th century through the lens of eating.

After leaving a forced labor camp in Lithuania under his uncle’s coat, he found his way to America, where he eventually commanded the Special Forces.

A defender of apartheid, he also showed a moderate streak rarely found among hard-liners, predicting that the country would one day have a black president.

After learning to skate on a small pond in Massachusetts, she went on to become the first U.S. woman to win a speedskating medal in the Winter Olympics.

He was that kind of owner. He kept abreast of his teams and was even in the war room of the Trail Blazers’ draft day.

Ms. Hall was a moderately successful songwriter until she and two collaborators came up with one of the biggest Broadway hits of the 1970s.