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...came for Elvis during the 1970s, a time when no worthwhile American Dream stumbled to a halt without first exposing its dark side. Elvis, despite his tremendous success, is generally believed to have been a depressive, even, it has been suggested, manic-depressive, or bipolar. When he died in 1977 from a cardiac arrhythmia, his finances were in wild disarray, he was overweight and (it is believed) he had been abusing alcohol and prescription drugs for years. His private life was also a mess; his marriage to Priscilla Presley had hit the rocks four years earlier...
...interest in her husband's work and was unable to persuade him that any of her passions - literature, feminism, theosophy (an occult religion), pacifism - was worthwhile. Her "litany of grievances" began on her honeymoon and never ceased. Sex was an issue from day one and came to a complete halt some time between 1911-14. Ambitious and blinkered, Emily, the daughter of a Viceroy of India, sought out heroes. Her husband, with his obscure origins and shameless pursuit of the rich and powerful, was never to be one. And yet, as Ridley capably demonstrates, the marriage survived through numerous lengthy...
Even before he was killed by an Israeli missile things had not been going well for Hamas military commander Salah Shehade. His movement's spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, had begun publicly discussing a halt to attacks on Israelis in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal from West Bank towns, an end to assassinations and the release of prisoners. The idea of halting "martyrdom" operations was anathema to Shehade and other hard-liners in Gaza and the West Bank, and they were faced with making the case that their aims could only be achieved through violence. But any emerging debate...
...decision to halt a study of hormone-replacement therapy because of an increased risk of cancer came as a blow to millions of women. But the potential dangers of hormones were well known when TIME ran a cover story on ESTROGEN...
...Brinkema called a halt, telling Moussaoui that her courtroom was not the place to strike a deal with the prosecution, and sent him away for a week's reflection...