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  "textContent": "The man who spent decades betting Americans wouldn't give up the mall has died. David Simon , the hard-driving chief executive who turned his family's Indiana real-estate outfit into the country's dominant mall owner, died Sunday at 64 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2024, the Wall Street Journal reports....",
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