Washington Post columnist Judy Mann dies

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-obit-judy-mann,0,3936123.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

Judy Mann, a longtime columnist for The Washington Post who often wrote about issues facing women in American society, died Friday. She was 61.

Mann was suffering from breast cancer when she died at a hospital in Palm Springs, Calif., where she and her husband had a home, her daughter, Katherine Mann, said in a statement.

Mann retired from the Post at the end of 2001 after writing a column for the paper for more than 23 years. She told readers that she was fortunate to have been able to have a voice over concerns that were frequently unpopular and at odds with mainstream thinking. She also lamented that there were so few liberal columnists and women writing serious commentary.

"I have always felt that the media mirror society and that a society in which women are invisible in the media is one in which they are invisible, period," she wrote.

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1. gosh, that's too bad