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...also an unmarried woman, and the state capital Phoenix is the fifth-largest city in the country. But the shame of this affair reveals that my state is not as far along as I thought: this sure ain’t Boston.According to his online biography, Bennett has a daughter, Dana, who is college aged. Does he act the same way in dealings with his daughter as he does in dealings with Jennifer Martin? I wonder what Dana Bennett thinks of her father’s good ol’ boy politics of late.Lucy M. Caldwell...
...context of both Pirates movies aims for similar subversions. You will recall that in the first film the bad pirates that abducted the governor's daughter (Kiera Knightly) turned out to be representatives of the undead, which involved her swain (Orlando Bloom) and Jack with a lot of special-effects figures (they turned into skeletons when night fell). This was, I thought, a drag, but it was rendered tolerable by the wit and originality of Depp's performance. This time, the plot device is quite similar: The eponymous chest contains something that will return Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), king...
...work but was worried that the gun's silhouette under her burqa betrayed her identity. Now her Smith & Wesson pistol--a gift from coalition forces--is her only source of protection. "I want to stay and do my job," she says. "But I have an 8-year-old daughter. If the government can't protect me, I will have to leave...
...Young Alice, a rambunctious tomboy, considered herself "the outsider in the nursery" and often clashed with her prim stepmother and competed with the rest of the children for her father's attention. "T.R. loved his daughter when he noticed she was there," says Stacy Cordery, a historian at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Ill., who is writing a biography of Alice with the cooperation of Alice's granddaughter Joanna Sturm...
...Though she may not have intended malice, Alice's sharp tongue did leave wounds, reducing Eleanor to tears. In 1957, Alice's quiet daughter Paulina died of an overdose of sleeping pills. A softened Alice adopted Sturm and reconciled with Eleanor, who sent her an affecting condolence note. "She was a lively grandmother," Sturm says of Alice, who spent two more decades entertaining Nixons and Kennedys in her home, which was covered with old animal skins, books and peeling paint. Alice would stay up late, teaching herself Greek and reading about science, propped beside a throw pillow embroidered with...