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That description could also fit Fernàndez and her husband Néstor Kirchner. Both cut their political teeth not amid the upper crust of Buenos Aires but in his home province of Santa Cruz, in the country's Patagonian south. When they moved to the capital, she was already a seasoned politician, known for anticorruption and human-rights crusades. Although she had greater name recognition with voters, the couple decided that Kirchner would run for President in 2003 because his greater familiarity with economic policy made him better suited to a country on the verge of bankruptcy. Smart call...
...wife run instead. Fernàndez says it was part of an effort "to set an example" of relinquishing power in a country that has seen too many leaders overstay their welcome at the presidential palace, the Casa Rosada (Pink House). Their critics see another motive. They believe husband and wife will rotate the presidency, thereby getting around the constitutional ban on holding more than two consecutive terms. By this logic, Kirchner will run again in 2011, then Fernàndez in 2015 and so on, like a couple alternating driving duty on a long road trip across the pampas...
...testimony of a young woman who at 14 had been "placed" in an arranged marriage to her cousin by Warren Jeffs, 51, leader of a polygamist sect, secured Jeffs' conviction. He now faces life in prison as an accomplice to rape for directing the girl to submit to her husband, who was charged with rape the day after Jeffs was found guilty...
...Jake Gyllenhaal. Sean Penn, directing his fifth feature film, likely used some of his celebrity muscle to pull in supporting cast members Vince Vaughn, William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Jena Malone, and Catherine Keener. Like Hirsch, most of the actors play against type. For example, Hurt portrays an abusive husband, and funny-man Vaughn is a mundane grain farmer. Like something out of an IMAX movie, the sweeping shots of natural vistas in the film are breathtaking, heightening the rawness and cruelty of nature. The beautiful images are perfectly captured by the crisp, wandering guitar chords of Eddie Vedder...
...after sharing my hunger, he was so human to me that, if he were before me, I would have readily forgiven him. This intensely self-critical, self-reflective stranger who is so beleaguered by shame, this art stamp collector, stonemason, fledgling artist, eventual writer, master dancer, lover, husband...Günter Grass became me, his mouth rubberbanded shut. I was him, playing dice with a religious Bavarian, discussing the future. Strange, isn’t it, the power of a good book...