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The priest who became the face of The Brazilian surgeon who nipped and tucked Northern Irish Protestants loyal Edward On Jan. 30, the rich and famous Daly 1972, Father to Britain and Catholics who Ireland. Known as the "Michelangelo 1933-2016 Edward Daly wanted a reunited was on a civil In 1971, he administered the of the scalpel" and the rights march in Londonderry, last rites to a 14-year-old girl "Botticelli of the breast;' , when British fatally shot in crossfire between No Pitanguy was arguably the IRA and the British army. the world's most famous soldiers opened fire on the cosmetic sur- protesters. Jackie Dudley, a Bloody Sunday convinced Ivo geon. Though 17-year-old standing near the Daly "that violence in pursuit Pitanguy he never Catholic priest, was shot in of political goals could never 1926-2016 revealed the the back. As gunfire continued to ring out, two be justified," said (U.K.). names of his men picked up the youth and Daly led them to Appointed bishop of Londonderry in 1974, he many famous patients— safety, waving a bloodstained white handkerchief "used the weight of his office to condemn terror- "I'm a doctor, I have to be in front of him. Dudley died that day, along with ism and to urge the authorities to abandon coun- discreet7 he said—he was 12 other unarmed civilians, and photographs of terproductive security policies." Daly described believed to have sculpted IRA gunmen as "followers of the gospel of Satan," and tightened the faces and his attempted rescue became the iconic images of bodies of Sophia Loren, the Bloody Sunday massacre. Yet Daly, who later and declared that Catholics who supported the Jackie Onassis, and Frank became a powerful voice for peace as bishop of militants' campaign of bombings and shootings Sinatra.Yet Pitanguy never Londonderry, lamented his newfound fame. "It "had effectively excommunicated themselves." felt the need to go under changed my life completely," he said. "All the worked "tirelessly to promote peace" the knife himself."The most Bishop Daly important thing is to have a other things I did were forgotten. I was the priest until a stroke forced his retirement in 1993, said with the handkerchief and that was it." good ego7 he said. "Then BBC.com. The Good Friday Agreement largely you don't need an operation:' Daly was born "in the village of Belleek, County brought an end to five years later, surgeon, Pitan- Fermanagh, near the border with Ireland," said and in 2010, the British government belatedly The son of a apologized for Bloody guy was born in Brazil's The New York Times. After studying at the accepted responsibility and mountainous Belo Horizonte Pontifical Irish College in Rome, he was ordained Sunday. "I felt a sense of uncommon relief that region, said TheTimes (U.K.). as a priest in 1957, and made a curate at the this burden has been lifted off my shoulders, and "He fainted the first time Roman Catholic cathedral in Londonderry five the shoulders of the people in this city," said Daly he saw an operation, but at years later. He soon gained firsthand experience afterward. "It was good to have lived to witness 15, with his father's help, he of the Troubles, the sectarian conflict between this unforgettable day." lied about his age to enter medical school:' After a resi- dency in Rio de Janeiro, he studied at hospitals in the The eccentric prosecutor who took on the mob U.S., France, and Britain. On his return to Rio, he set up a leisure suits, and shoulder-length David David Margolis plastic surgery department at Margolis was a rumpled and hair, he "cut an eccentric figure," a public hospital, and in 1961 Washington Post. He 1939-2016 irreverent presence said The treated dozens of children in buttoned-down made his name early in his career who were badly burned and Washington, D.C. During his when—dressed in a blue Edward- disfigured after a fire tore 14 years as head of the Justice ian suit—he "single-handedly through a circus tent. Department's Organized Crime coaxed an armed robber into That event "projected him and Racketeering Section, the surrendering." After he took over into the national spotlight7 prosecutor sent dozens of mafiosi the department's organized crime said (U.K.). to prison, including John "Teflon team in 1979, prosecutors and Two years later, Pitanguy Don" Gotti and Carmine "The Snake" Persico. agents used wiretaps, stings, and the RICO anti- launched his private clinic, he inves- racketeering statute to, as Margolis put it, bring where he developed tech- Among other high-profile assignments, niques that have become tigated the 1993 suicide of Bill Clinton aide "the mob to its knees all over the country." standards in plastic surgery, officer Vince Foster and the outing of covert CIA Margolis "went on to become the most senior including the Brazilian butt lift 51 years Valerie Plame. In all, Margolis worked career lawyer at the Justice Department," said and tummy tucks with scars adminis- at Justice, through eight presidential NPR.org. In the case Margolis said he "agonized low enough to hide under survived so a bikini bottom. Believing trations. Asked in 2011 how he'd over the most," he decided against punishing gov- long, he said: "I rely on guile, bluff, balls, and that everyone has a "right ernment lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee, "who to beauty;' he ran a weekly the good work of my colleagues, not to mention approved waterboarding and other brutal inter- some luck." clinic for the poor, treating rogation techniques during the George W. Bush burn victims, children with Growing up in Hartford, Conn., Margolis years." He took the ensuing firestorm of criticism cleft palates, and people with "wanted to be a disc jockey," said The Times with the same calm and good humor he showed deformities free of charge. (U.K.). But his interest in politics and law was in 1995 while testifying before the Senate commit- Plastic surgeons should con- cemented at Brown University, where he led the tee on Foster's suicide. Aware that Margolis had sider themselves "artists of in picketing of local chain stores that had operations recently suffered a heart attack and undergone the living form" he said Demo- 2014. "[We bring] serenity to in the segregated South. After graduating from quadruple bypass surgery, the committee's those who suffer by being Harvard Law School, Margolis joined the Justice cratic counsel asked, "Are you comfortable?" betrayed by nature:' Department in 1965. With his cowboy boots, pink "No," Margolis quipped. "But I make a living." THE WEEK August 19/August 26, 2016