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Mark Singer, a staff writer for The New Yorker for 23 years who expanded the magazine’s rich reporting and witty prose about offbeat, complex and quintessentially American characters, died Friday in Manhattan. He was 75 years old. His son Tim said in hospital that the cause of death was salivary gland cancer. Mr. Singer wrote