Add newspaper columnist Molly Ivins to the long list of women whose lives were claimed too early because of breast cancer. Ivins, who died this week at 62, suffered three times from breast cancer recurrence since 1999.
A Texan, Ivins’ personality and political columns were as outsize as her native state. Her column, unabashedly liberal, was syndicated in more than 400 newspapers, and she was known for poking fun at politicians, especially fomer Texas governor George W. Bush, whom she...
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