Alex Traub

She spat in a policeman’s face at the Stonewall Riot, ran a nursing service during the AIDS crisis and boycotted Pride parades when they welcomed corporations.

His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar. But sexual-harassment allegations ended his career.

He and Tommy Boyce formed a hit songwriting duo of the 1960s, and were best known for the unexpectedly popular tunes of a made-for-TV boy band.

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He was a favorite of Coach Bear Bryant at Alabama, then helped make the Cowboys “America’s Team.”

Dan Tana’s was said to be as central to Hollywood as palm trees and Botox. On a scale of 1 to 10, the people watching was a 10. Even the steak came with pasta.

Some said he had shown nearly as much promise in the ring as Muhammad Ali. But he gave up his own career to join the champ’s entourage.

He surveyed the trash of record companies, haggled with aging photographers and scoured estate sales, building an archive widely seen as unmatched.

Motivated by the helplessness of his boyhood, he described the lives of vulnerable people in conflicts around the world and later his own terminal illness.

As co-founder and longtime head of the conservative Washington think tank, he picked policies and staffers for G.O.P. presidents from Reagan to Trump.