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ELECTED. MICHELLE BACHELET, 54, physician and socialist; as Chile's first female President; in Santiago. An agnostic divorc?? with three children, she was imprisoned and tortured under right-wing dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s. Her win is seen as a sign of a cultural shift in conservative, Roman Catholic Chile and was the latest in a series of leftist victories in Latin American elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 30, 2006 | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...America re-evaluate its ageist conceptions about love. So put down the Nintendo, fellas, and get ready to see some December-May sex with thirty-something Thurman. “Prime” is billed as a romantic comedy in which Rafi (Uma Thurman), a 37-year-old recent divorc?? begins a relationship with 23-year-old Dave (Bryan Greenberg). The twist is that Dave also happens to be the son of Rafi’s therapist, Lisa (Meryl Streep). At first, only Lisa realizes their convoluted connection and must listen uncomfortably to Rafi disclose intimate details in therapy...

Author: By Kathleen A. Fedornak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prime | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

...Apostle" of God, Armstrong taught that Christians should deny the Trinity, shun medical care (though he used it as his own health deteriorated) and that remarried members should divorce their second spouses and rejoin their first (though he repealed that dictum in 1976 and a year later married a divorc??e). Fanatically loyal members, many of them poor, tithed as much as $75 million a year to his church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 27, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...restraint soon ended. In November, even before Wallis Simpson's second divorce was final, the King informed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of his intention to marry her. Baldwin vowed to resign rather than allow an American divorc??e to become Queen; he also argued that tradition did not permit a morganatic marriage, in which she would not assume royal prerogatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor: 1896-1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Whatever they thought of the American divorc??e he was to marry or of his abdication as King of England after just ten months on the throne, Britons and millions of others around the world were deeply moved when King Edward VIII spoke on the radio in December 1936. The King's voice swelled with emotion as he made his declaration: "You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do, without the help and support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor: 1896-1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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