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Levi Horowitz; guided many as Bostoner Rebbe; at 88

Over the decades, thousands of college students in Boston were among those drawn to Grand Rabbi Levi Horowitz, seeking guidance from his wisdom and the example he set. (By Bryan Marquard, Globe Staff)

Rick Hube, 62; Republican was Vt. state representative

LONDONDERRY, Vt. - State Representative Rick Hube of Londonderry died Monday while visiting his sister in Florida, Patti Komline, Vermont’s House Republican leader, said yesterday. (Associated Press)

Yitzhak Ahronovitch; captained Exodus refugee ship

JERUSALEM - Yitzhak “Ike’’ Ahronovitch, the captain of the Exodus ship used in an attempt to take Holocaust survivors to Palestine, building support for Israel’s founding, has died. He was 86. (By Aron Heller, Associated Press)

Robin Wood, 78; film critic respected work of Hitchcock

NEW YORK - Robin Wood, a film critic who published the first serious work in English on Alfred Hitchcock and who applied formal rigor and moral seriousness in his book-length appraisals of Howard Hawks, Arthur Penn, Ingmar Bergman, and other directors, died Friday at his home in Toronto. (By William Grimes, New York Times)

Albert Scanlon; soccer player survived Munich air disaster

MANCHESTER, England - Albert Scanlon, one of Manchester United’s famed “Busby Babes’’ and a survivor of the 1958 Munich air disaster, died Tuesday. He was 74. (Associated Press)

John Edwin Smith, 88; Yale educator and philosopher

NEW YORK - John Edwin Smith, a prominent philosopher and author whose work tackled large questions about the nature of truth from a pragmatic, pluralistic, and specifically American perspective, died Dec. 7 in Arlington, Va. He was 88 and lived in New Haven. (By Margalit Fox, New York Times)