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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author has died at 89. His son said late Sunday that he died of heart failure. Solzhenitsyn was a world symbol of censorship and oppression in the Soviet Union.

It's been 40 years since the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was yanked off the air, but don't think that Tommy Smothers has gone quietly into the night. The outspoken political humorist is more fired up than ever.

It was the incident that made the phrase "Wardrobe Malfunction" part of our everyday vocabulary. It also set off a firestorm of censorship debates that have led straight to the US Supreme Court.