June 23, 2008 5:20 PM
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Katie Couric's Notebook: George Carlin
When George Carlin died yesterday, at 71 from heart failure, the world lost one of its quirkiest, and bravest, comedians.
Video: He'll go down in history for challenging taboos - most famously, the "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV." And because of Carlin, eventually the Supreme Court ruled that, in fact, you really couldn't say them.
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