Here is a Strange

Paul Harvey used to introduce an unusual story with the opening line, “Here is a Strange.” As noted in this link, http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/dec96/body_double6.html,
Denice Denton was Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Washington (my college at my alma mater) from Dec. 1996 through late 2004.

Now here is the strange part. This intelligent and successful woman committed suicide last Saturday. From James Taranto’s Best of the Web Today (June 26) at http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/:

Ivory Tower Suicide

A tragic follow-up to a January 2005 item ... [about] Denice Dee Denton, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, who was embroiled in a scandal involving her creation of a $192,000-a-year job for her lesbian partner, Gretchen Kalonji. The San Jose Mercury News reports that Denton "apparently jumped to her death Saturday morning from the 44th floor of a San Francisco building where she shared an apartment with her partner."

Very strange.