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DIED. MARY McGRORY, 85, liberal, no-nonsense columnist for the Washington Star and Washington Post whose career stretched from the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings to last year's Iraq war; in Washington. She wrote eloquently of President Kennedy's assassination ("Write short sentences in the presence of great grief," she said) and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for her columns on Watergate--which had already earned her a spot on President Nixon's notorious enemies list.

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