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...there-a marriage that may or may not have been legal. In the end, Ann decided not to follow him. "She was under no illusions," says Abercrombie. "He was a man of his time, from a very patriarchal society." Ann filed for divorce in Honolulu in January 1964, citing "grievous mental suffering"-the reason given in most divorces at the time. Obama Sr. signed for the papers in Cambridge, Mass., and did not contest the divorce...
...told the applicant in question “yes”—“enter to grow in insouciance.” According to a heedless survey of less than four of my classmates, this was a grievous error. For these few, Harvard is still less “chill” than it is poor or populistic. Many may submit that, more than anything else, Harvard is defined by its lack of perspective on the simple pleasures, its utter divorce in stress and striving from the Frisbee-hurling good nature that has come to epitomize other...
...lights flicker. Upon the elapse of some decent, manageable labor, she pushes out her baby with honest grunts. While that may be true for some, for most women natural childbirth is one of the most violent physical traumas they will ever experience, bar a serious accident or grievous assault. The average length of labor for a first-time mother is anything from seven to 12 hours, but it can easily be 20 hours or more. During that time, she is wracked by contractions - a euphemism that doesn't even come close to conveying the violent spasms that take hold when...
...film’s only footage of Halberstam himself featured the author’s criticism of the Iraq War. “This is a grievous, grievous thing and I think our children and our grandchildren will pay for this,” he said...
...their relatively secure strongholds in the capital and scattered in smaller units into more dangerous neighborhoods to patrol and live. Since the surge began, sectarian violence among Iraqis has declined slightly in Baghdad, but U.S. casualties have increased, as President George W. Bush predicted. So has the frequency of grievous single days when multiple service members are killed...