Colman McCarthy, 87, journalist who waged peace in the classroom, dies

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Colman McCarthy, a pacifist who wrote a crusading column in The Washington Post for nearly three decades and taught nonviolence to high school and college students, urging them to oppose war, capital punishment and the consumption of meat, and to hand out carrots on Halloween, died on Feb. 27 in La Romana, a city in the Dominican Republic. He was 87.

His death, at his son John’s home, where he had been living, was caused by complications of pneumonia.

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