After a wave of outrage over the original story erupted not only on social media but among the newspaper's staff, the column in question was removed and replaced with the columnist's apology. The Herald's editor has expressed contrition as well. - The Guardian
Amid an absolute avalanche of online criticism, the SMH has activists shaking their heads. "The 42-year-old Australian actress, who is known for roles in Bridesmaids and Pitch Perfect among others, said it was a 'very hard situation but trying to handle it with grace.'" - BBC
Elizabeth Shaw had quite a life: "From a childhood living above the Ulster Bank in Belfast's York Street, via the London Blitz to four decades spent as an artist in communist East Germany, hers is a remarkable 20th century life story." - BBC
A teenaged Rego fled Portugal for London at her parents' urging when dictator Salazar came to power. Her series of paintings about women suffering after illegal botched abortions is considered to have helped Portugal legalize the medical procedure in 2007. - Hyperallergic
Merriman "plumbed dozens of French governmental archives for the information that invigorated his fast-paced books about anarchists, terrorists, leftists and ordinary people in France." - The New York Times
"At his peak, Mr. Lurie's evocative caricatures appeared in about 1,000 publications with more than 100 million readers in 100 countries. ... He welded drawing and writing into a mightier-than-the-sword instrument ... whose imagery, he said, conveyed even greater impact than photography." - The New York Times
In 1993, Ellen Futter she became the first woman to run a major museum based in New York - and she's had a long tenure, during which time she "has presided over a museum that seems both frozen in time and propelled forward by change." - The New York Times
The director/author/entrepreneur, who turns 80 on Labor Day, "thinks of himself primarily as a writer — he has written poetry and kept journals throughout his career — and has long maintained that his writing, not his films, will be his legacy." - The New York Times
Stalin was a man of ideas, to the point where he thought that by changing the ideas to which people are exposed he could redesign human nature itself. - New Criterion
"(She) influenced generations of dancers both as the founder of the noted dance department at Connecticut College and as the longtime dean of the school of the American Dance Festival." - The New York Times
Colleen Hoopes was killed by two bullets from a gun fired by her husband, Christopher Hoopes, in their bedroom. He told police that he was "startled" awake and shot at what he thought was an intruder before realizing it was his wife. - The Daily Beast
Pratt was often called one of Canada's greatest painters over the course of his extensive and successful career, which earned him appointment to both the Order of Canada and the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador. His work is held in galleries from coast to coast to coast. - CBC
“The moment you look at these early works you cannot help being fascinated they have such a strong physical presence. And the exhibits include one of the very few barrel structures still existing because most of them got destroyed when Christo and Jeanne-Claude moved to New York.” - The Guardian
He was sometimes called a post-minimalist, but he disliked the term, suggesting postmodernist as an alternative. But his music also embraced a time-expanding element — a sense of slowly unfolding — born of his fascination with the Indonesian gamelan. - Washington Post
For the last year, we have conducted interviews with people who have given at least one gift to a member of the royal family to try to understand the motivation of these present-givers. - The Conversation
