AP - Randy Pausch said obstacles serve a purpose: They “give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” Confronted with incurable cancer, he devised a last lecture that became an Internet sensation, a best-selling book and a celebration of a life spent achieving his dreams.
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AP - Dr. Victor A. McKusick, a key architect of the Human Genome Project and a winner of the National Medal of Science, has died. He was 86.
AP - Dallas police Detective Paul Bentley, who helped arrest presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theater, had a ready retort for those who didn’t accept the official story that Oswald acted alone.
AP - Larry Haines, a two-time Daytime Emmy winner for his 35-year role on the soap opera “Search for Tomorrow,” has died. He was 89.
AP - Charles Z. Wick, who as director of the U.S. Information Agency under Ronald Reagan expanded American broadcasts to Cuba and Russia but whose agency was accused of blacklisting liberals from a government program, has died. He was 90.
AP - Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV’s “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 84.
AP - In a July 18 obituary for singer Jo Stafford, The Associated Press incorrectly spelled a high school production in which she was cast. The show was “Roberta,” not “Robert.”
AP - Theater and TV producer Gladys Nederlander has died. She was 83.
AP - Dinko Sakic, the last known living commander of a World War II concentration camp, died overnight in a Croatian hospital while serving a 20-year sentence for war crimes, officials said Monday. He was 87.