He also sat on the board of trustees at the Washington DC Shakespeare Theater Company. In 2010, at the age of 90, Harman bought Newsweek from the Washington post and put his efforts to restoring the magazine to relevance. Harman died at age 92 of complications from acute myeloid leukemia.  The company he founded and worked for  will be paying tribute to them in their own way - with a series of limited edition Sidney Harman commemorative products.