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Art Buchwald, who for decades wrote a humor column in Paris and then in Washington, died at age 81. Buchwald died of kidney failure Wednesday at his son’s home in Washington. Buchwald mined for humor political corruption, cultural differences between Europe and the United States, and a range of other topics in a column that was first published in the International Herald Tribune and then in the Washington Post.

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