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...Them provides the backstories behind the tragic and manic last days of icons ranging from Kurt Cobain to Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf. Equally sad and shocking, Strauss's profiles help fans and cult followers better understand how these brilliant, tortured souls crossed the line from depression to self-destruction. TIME talked to Strauss about what it was like to report on death and the surprises she uncovered...
...have evolved, it's assumed a Mason is going to have a non-specific belief in a God or deity. It also asks if you've ever been convicted of a serious crime. That is a deal breaker. The main other thing is they want confirmation that you're self-supporting, that you're not joining the Masons to mooch off the lodge...
...National Congress Youth League, Julius Malema, who proclaimed the issue was not gender but race: Semenya was a victim of white officials, white media and unpatriotic white South Africans. And yet one miracle of Semenya's story is that in a nation of little tolerance and where apartheid crushed self-respect, Semenya's achievements have brought her both. Because in Berlin, as she broke from the pack and the crowd could measure her difference in astonishing distance, the other became not weird but wonderful...
...experience has proven I must," she writes. "Wash your hair. Clean your nails. Do not chew gum." Don't forget to remove all candy wrappers, old sandwiches and other garbage from your briefcase. And while you're at it, declutter your office. Other recommendations are part of the standard self-help-book checklist: always carry business cards, whether you're employed or not; make notes immediately after leaving meetings; keep abreast of developments in your field; shut thy mouth in elevators...
...documented. The Wall Street Journal has highlighted on its editorial page the potential crisis this may pose for the Obama administration, while the Los Angeles Times has featured an editorial arguing that Iran’s lack of cooperation in September could lead to a unilateral Israeli response in self-defense...