Angela Caputo, for example, killed herself in an unimaginable manner: no one who had read her poems, with their charged and ambivalently childlike atmosphere, could have predicted such an atrocious death, stage-managed down to the finest detail for maximum terrifying effect.

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"His death at this critical stage that we are passing through is a great loss for Iraq, " al-Maliki said.

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Republicans cannot get out of their death spiral unless they stage an intervention into the very roots of their self-image.

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