WASHINGTON - Elisabeth Soderstrom, a Swedish soprano who was greatly admired for her sensitive operatic roles and for her refined, delicately shaded voice, died Friday of a stroke in Stockholm. She was 82.By: Matt Schudel|Date: Nov 23, 2009

Herbert J. “Jack’’ Miller Jr., who led the US Justice Department’s war on organized crime in the 1960s and later brokered the pardon of former president Nixon and prevented the release of Nixon’s White House tapes after the Watergate scandal, died Nov. 14 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Md.By: Matt Schudel|Date: Nov 21, 2009

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