This time of year always invites a stock-taking. It's almost as though cele- brating the good and mourning the bad from the 12 months behind us is a prerequisite for embracing the 12 that lie ahead. So we catalogue the best books and films, and the most noteworthy events (or the wackiest ones, as you see elsewhere in Focus), along with who was born, married, divorced - and, of course, those who died. My beat at The Globe and Mail is the dead. This year, I have chronicled such fascinating people...
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