Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty had been the longest-serving finance minister among the Group of Seven leading industrial economies until resigning in March to return to the private sector. (Sean Kilpatrick / Associated Press)
British author Sue Townsend’s “Adrian Mole” diaries sold millions of copies. (Ben McMillan / EPA/Penguin Group)
Gary S. Becker, left, receives the 1992 Nobel Prize in economic sciences. Becker is credited with pioneering the approach to economics as a study of human behavior (Tobbe Gustavsson / Associated Press)
Colombian writer and poet Alvaro Mutis Jaramillo has died at 90. (Jorge Uzon, AFP/Getty Images)
Seen in 2005, Dr. Samuel Goetz, left, a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, with Bob Persinger, the American GI who commanded the tank corps that liberated the camp where Goetz was being held. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Scientist Colin Pillinger poses with a model of Beagle 2 in 2003. (Scott Barbour / Getty Images)
When human rights groups went to forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow for scientific proof of hidden atrocities, he helped out, sometimes on his own dime. Above, Snow in 1986. (David Longstreath / Associated Press)
Glenn Stassen, left, and Mark Harlan, a teacher and a student at the Fuller Theological Seminary, show their support for the Palestinians during a march in Pasadena in 2002. (Stefano Paltera / For the Los Angeles Times)
