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...Strauss's new book, Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious, is a pop-culture take on one of society's most painful topics. Focusing on 20 famous figures who took their own lives, Death Becomes 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...
...This tragic discovery came just hours after Le was expected to marry Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky in an outdoor ceremony at the North Ritz Club on Long Island. The families canceled the wedding last Friday—three days after Le first went missing...
...Congress this year as an annually observed National Day of Service and Remembrance. ServiceNation and MyGoodDeed have long worked to establish 9/11 not only as a day of remembrance but also as a forward-looking day that honors all the people who rose in service in response to the tragic events...
...relationship already strained by the fallout over the Mohamed Haneef incident, in which an Indian physician was wrongly accused of aiding terrorists, and the acrimonious Sydney Cricket Test last year, in which opposing players Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds were embroiled in a racist name-calling row. "The tragic thing is the people [in India] most vulnerable to this message are aged 12 to 30," says Unni. "These are the future leaders and diplomats and students...
...Jewish people have a “tragic history that cannot be denied. Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust. […] Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to death by the Third Reich. Six million Jews were killed—more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. Denying that fact is baseless, it is ignorant, and it is hateful.” These powerful and courageous words were spoken by President Barack Obama on June 4th, in his landmark address...