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...Kate, headmistress of a school in an English village. Each week Kate and her best friends--a physician (Anna Chancellor) and a policewoman (Imelda Staunton)--meet to spill their latest ordeals d'amour and decide who among them is the most pathetic of all. Then Kate tumbles into an affair with Jed (dishy Kenny Doughty), a former student who moonlights as a church organist. This steams her friends, who see the affair as a threat to the only family they know. Chicanery and worse follow, as the film dares a violent shift of tone but ends up in a sadder...
...Michael Lammers received a surprise phone call. A woman with whom the ambulance attendant had once had an affair told him he was the father of her 12-year-old daughter. Like others in his situation, a stunned Lammers couldn't help but wonder whether the child was truly his. So he commissioned a private DNA test and, a few days later, knew for a fact that...
...exiled Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov once wrote that Lolita was the record of his love affair with the English language. Well, it’s no Lolita, but John Crowley’s new novel, The Translator, is also a love affair of sorts—a college girl’s love affair with the Russian language, with her poetry professor and with the power of poetry...
Though the University archives bear no trace of Union College’s involvement in Harvard’s return to crimson, the small school in Schenectady, N.Y., insists its role in the color change was central. For Union, too, had a similar love affair with magenta in the mid-19th century. In 1866 a committee of Union undergraduates chose magenta as the school’s official color, according to Union archivist Ellen Fladger. Fladger says that when Union and Harvard faced off in an 1875 Rowing Association Regatta, “a crisis ensued when each team claimed...
Nowhere in the reporting on the extramarital affair of GE's former CEO Jack Welch and Suzy Wetlaufer, editor at the Harvard Business Review, have I seen the word adultery [BUSINESS, March 18]. Instead, there are references to romantic escapades. As for Wetlaufer, there is a descriptor for a woman who accepts jewelry in exchange for sex, and it is not "talented editor." If the media want to use trite euphemisms, why not just say Welch and Wetlaufer are "good friends"? LINDA RHOTEN Stillwater, Okla...