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Thursday, May 2
Jeffrey Zaslow, best-selling author and one of two journalists who replaced Anne Landers as advice columnist at the Sun-Times, was killed in a car accident in Michigan on Friday. He was 53.
Here's an interview with Zaslow from 2001, when he ended his column. And here is a recording of him speaking at TEDx Alva Park.