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...only listen respectfully to the reminiscences of men with lined faces and battle scars. After dinner, Yarrow grabbed a guitar and started a sing-along of his old standards like This Land Is Your Land and If I Had a Hammer, and the potential for embarrassment was high. But Elizabeth knew all the words, and Cleland chimed in with special intensity. When pressed by the table to demonstrate his developing guitar skills, Kerry demurred, and everyone walked away with the picture of a man confident of his instincts--one who had no intention of coming in second...
...next six months and probably longer, John and Elizabeth disappeared. Neither went to work. Friends went by daily to feed them and then put them back to bed. He was bad, and she was worse. He went for long jogs; she lost herself in the Weather Channel. Edwards began attending Bible fellowship classes. Over time, the couple pulled themselves together by focusing on how to best remember their son. They settled on a long stone bench for a picnic area at Wade's high school--designed to suggest a comet with its short but bright life. They plowed hundreds...
...When Elizabeth Edwards was a bankruptcy lawyer in Raleigh, N.C., she spent much of her court time in the "second chair," providing advice and often doing the heavy legal lifting for the lead attorney on a case. Being second chair was less glamorous than taking the lead, and it didn't come naturally to someone so outspoken, eloquent and whip-smart. But it gave Elizabeth what she wanted--more manageable hours and more time to spend with her children. And it was great training for advising her husband through a meteoric six-year rise from political neophyte to vice-presidential...
...John Edwards can sometimes seem too smooth, too charming, too eager for his own good, Elizabeth, 55, is his antidote. More than just a wife and the mother of his kids, she's the gravitational force that keeps his feet on the ground, the buffer between the man she knows and the political commodity he's become. Early in the Democratic primaries, when the candidate's schedule called for him to perform the photo-op ritual of flipping pork burgers at the Iowa State Fair, Elizabeth nixed the idea as too phony. Later, when she felt the ads produced...
...Navy brat who moved often and spent nine years in Japan, Elizabeth Anania majored in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was halfway through a Ph.D. program in American literature when she decided to trade in Henry James' The Ambassadors for Black's Law Dictionary. It was at law school, in her civil-procedure class in 1974, that she met John Edwards, a country boy four years her junior. He says he found her "smarter and more sophisticated than I'd ever be." On their first date, he took her to hear a band...