EditorialBettina Plevan in her office at the law firm Proskauer Rose in New York on March 9, 2006. She worked there for nearly 50 years and was the first woman partner in the firm’s litigation department. Plevan, a top litigator who made her name defending employers in sexual harassment and gender discrimination cases, and who helped pave the way for women to advance in the legal profession after shattering glass ceilings herself, died on Oct. 29, 2021, at a hospital in Manhattan. She was 75. The cause was acute myeloma leukemia, her law firm, Proskauer Rose, said in an announcement. (Nicole Bengiveno/ New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by Werry Crone shows the Dutch climate scientist Geert Jan van Oldenborgh in De Bilt, Netherlands on Dec. 19, 2019. Geert Jan van Oldenborgh who pioneered ways to help the public see the influence of climate change in heat waves, floods and other extreme weather disasters, died on Oct. 12, 2021, in Gouda, Netherlands. He was 59. His death, in a hospital, was caused by pneumonia, a complication of multiple myeloma, for which he had been treated for years, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute said. (Werry Crone via The New York Times)
EditorialDonald Rumsfeld, then the incoming counselor to then President Richard Nixon, in his office on Dec. 3, 1970. Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense for Presidents Gerald R. Ford and George W. Bush, who presided over America’s Cold War strategies in the 1970s and, in the new world of terrorism decades later, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, died on Tuesday at his home in Taos, N.M. He was 88. The cause was multiple myeloma, said Keith Urbahn, a spokesman for the family. (George Tames/The New York Times)
EditorialThen Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during a hearing in Washington on April 27, 2005. Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense for Presidents Gerald R. Ford and George W. Bush, who presided over America’s Cold War strategies in the 1970s and, in the new world of terrorism decades later, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, died on Tuesday, June 29, 2021, at his home in Taos, N.M. He was 88. The cause was multiple myeloma, said Keith Urbahn, a spokesman for the family. (Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)