Word: affair
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There are some sharp challenges to the poll's roseate view of American wedlock. Says June Reinisch, director of the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Ind.: "We estimate that approximately 37% of married men and 29% of married women have at least one extramarital affair." A survey conducted by Lillian Rubin, a sociologist at Queens College in New York City, shows a 40% infidelity rate for spouses. Greeley and Harris have two explanations for the disparity between their poll's results and the conventional wisdom: 1) most sexual surveys are either obsolete or unscientific; 2) people are victims of what...
...stating unambiguously that "error has no rights," and that if Catholics ever became a majority in America, freedom of religion would be allowed to Protestants and Jews only out of political necessity. To many Catholics, nonetheless, Kennedy's argument that a President's religious views are "his own private affair" created what theologian James Burtchaell of Notre Dame University calls a "violent separation between morality and public policy...
...with a history of lying. Kite claimed that he had an eight-month-long sexual relationship with Ritter after the priest brought him from New Orleans to New York City in 1989. He also alleged that Ritter diverted up to $25,000 in Covenant House money to finance the affair. Ritter denies Kite's story, although he says he helped get Kite a scholarship at Manhattan College. Covenant House officials say they paid Kite's board at the college, gave him pocket money and bought him a computer. They also say a Covenant House contact in upstate New York provided...
Frank's appearance at Harvard comes just two days after a Boston press conference held by his former lover, male prostitute Steven Gobie. Their two year affair and Gobie's assertions that Frank knew that he was running an escort service out of Frank's Washington apartment are the subjects of a current House Ethics Committee investigation...
...seen with a certain sentiment, he is seen with a certain bracing irony too. When he achieves adolescence (and is played at this stage of his life by the appealing Marco Leonardi), he conducts his first and, as it turns out, only great love affair with the remote Elena (Agnese Nano) as if it were an old-fashioned movie romance, something like one of those doomy weepers Garbo used to do. Poor Toto. In this realm he has only screen conventions to guide...