Edward Said, Leading Advocate of Palestinians, Dies at 67

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Krista Niles/The New York Times
Edward Said, a polymath scholar and literary critic at Columbia University who was the most prominent advocate in the United States of the cause of Palestinian independence, died in New York City today. He was 67.

The cause of death was leukemia, which Mr. Said had been battling for several years.....

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/obituaries/25CND-SAID.html?pagewanted=all&position=

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