Robert D. Novak, the pugnacious political columnist and cable television fixture whose scoops reached across five decades and whose nickname, ?the princeof darkness,? was invoked with renewed fervor in 2003 when, acting on a tip, he revealed the name of a C.I.A. officer, setting the stage for a criminal investigation, died Tuesday morning at his home in northwest Washington. He was 78.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08...ess/media/19novak.html
long obit... I've always enjoyed reading his articles, though, even when I disagreed with them.