Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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She tried to get out. She filed for divorce, got a restraining order, filed an assault-and-battery charge against him, forced him from the house they had bought with a large chunk of her money when they retired to Florida. But still, she says, he came, night after night...
The jury couldn't figure it out either. At Collins' first trial, for first- degree murder, her friends, a minister, her doctors and several experts testified about her character and the violence she had suffered. The prosecution played tapes of her threatening her husband over the phone and portrayed her...
In America, political movements need to police their extremes. Conservatism is no exception. It is a matter not just of principle, but of practical politics. Unless conservatism is prepared to divorce itself from its extremists, it will suffer the taint. As it suffered in 1964 when Barry Goldwater declared famously...
BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO -- ESPECIALLY FOR A prince and princess. This schism even warranted a statement from the floor of the House of Commons by the Prime Minister, who formally set some of the terms for what is, practically, the end of the 11-year marriage of Charles...
The real boggler was the statement that "there is no reason why Her Royal Highness should not become Queen." That message caused gasps in Parliament. The reaction reflects in part the fact that few believe the Waleses' assurance that they have no plans to divorce. Royal credibility is low on...