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...first reported last week in the Wall Street Journal, Welch--age 66, married and recently retired--ended up having an affair with Suzy Wetlaufer, 42, a divorce who edits the Harvard Business Review. Wetlaufer told colleagues that she became intimate with Welch after completing a series of interviews in which she asked him to elaborate on the management lessons contained in his best-selling autobiography, Jack: Straight from...
...film explores five intertwining family relationships which are all bought to a climatic point of self-awareness by the impending nuptials. The plot threatens to descend into a soap opera from the very beginning. Struggling to end a torrid affair with her former boss, the young professional Aditi (radiantly performed by Vasundhara Das) has just days to reconsile with her arranged marriage to Hemant (Parvin Dabas), a handsome if slightly dull engineer who remains clueless to Aditi’s extramarital shenanigans...
...constructed to demonstrate a clash between Easteran and Western cultural values. The relationships seem to have been constructed to demonstrate the ravages of globalization: Hemant, for example, has flown in from Houston and is clumsily out of touch with traditional Indian customs; Aditi’s cousin begins an affair with a distant Australian relative whose western norms of sexual permissiveness complicate the coupling; and the wedding planner, Mr. Dubey (Vijay Razz) threatens to become a mocking caricature of the upwardly mobile Indian, with his prized collection of digital gadgetry, dedication to “foreign fashion?...
...Bridges of Madison County" by Robert James Waller was a four-hanky production about the ill-fated love affair between Robert Kincaid and Francesca Johnson. Published ten years ago, it has been translated into 36 languages, with 12 million hardcover copies in print. Having spent over three years on the NYT bestseller list, it is now the No. 1 hardcover of all time, outselling "Gone with the Wind" and "Love Story." On April 23, John M. Hardy will publish "A Thousand Country Roads: An Epilogue to the Bridges of Madison County." Says his publisher, "For a decade, millions of readers...
...been molested by Fr. John J. Geoghan. Geoghan has subsequently been both defrocked and imprisoned, but the suffering for these people has continued unabated. The Church hopes that the settlement—which may total up to $30 million—may at last bring closure to the embarrassing affair. A meaningful resolution for the victims of these appalling crimes will only come with the removal of Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53 as archbishop of greater Boston...