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...film could even have a happy ending of sorts. "I'm still married to my crazy husband [and he to his first wife]," says Rodriguez. "That's a miracle of God in itself. I don't know what I'd do without him. He's like Fred Flintstone with a rocket launcher. We'll get the money. Dammit, money or no, I'm going to do this." Never get in the way of a woman who travels with scissors...
What propels The Kabul Beauty School are the stories of its students. One of them faces shame and possible death because her husband-to-be is about to discover, on their wedding night, that she's not a virgin. (Rodriguez helps out with blood from her own finger, cleverly repackaged.) A young woman's husband insists she show her obedience by sleeping with other men; it turns out he's a pimp, and she narrowly avoids a lifetime of prostitution. Indeed, hardly a page goes by without somebody collapsing in sobs. Male readers especially will find the book sodden with...
...Boston boardinghouse owner Jessie Barron bought Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, with a down payment of $2,500. She did this at the behest of her longtime boarder and not-so-longtime second husband, financial writer Clarence Barron. But Mrs. Barron really was the owner, and when she died in 1918, her majority share passed to her daughter by her first marriage, Jane Bancroft...
...Bancrofts have held a controlling stake in Dow Jones ever since. Jane's husband Hugh Bancroft was company president for a time, but since his death in 1933, the family has mostly kept its hands off. "I want you to do what's best for the company," Jane reportedly told her husband's successor, reporter turned manager Casey Hogate. "Don't you and the boys worry about dividends." The modern, globe-spanning Journal was thus built by "the boys" from the newsroom while the Bancrofts stood benignly by (though they did, as the Journal returned to health after the Depression...
...Wednesday that his wife, Tracey, will be joining the Crimson coaching staff as an assistant. Tracey brings a wealth of playing and coaching experience to Cambridge, having won three world championships playing with the U.S. National Team and one as a coach of the under-19 National Team. The husband-wife duo coached together most recently at Arizona State University, where they compiled a 60-45-4 record. Leone, who was named head coach in February after previous coach Erica Walsh departed for Penn State University, announced in March that Katie Shields ‘06, who starred in goal...