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Obituary: Actor Richard Griffiths, 65, has died. He died of complications from heart surgery:

Griffiths won a Tony Award for “The History Boys” and appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows. But he will be most widely remembered as a pair of contrasting uncles — Harry Potter’s Uncle Vernon Dursley and Uncle Monty in cult film “Withnail and I.”

Griffiths was among a huge roster of British acting talent to appear in the “Harry Potter” series of films released between 2001 and 2011.

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No surprise here.
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Barack Obama is trying very hard to be the worst president in the history of the United States.

Is there any doubt at all his lamebrained attempts to screw over people on "entitlements" shows he is in the pocket of crook Peter J. Peterson?
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Another obituary: Paul Williams, founder of the music magazine Crawdaddy, has died at the age of 64.

He died from complications of a 1995 bike accident.
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