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...well do you know your husband? For Kaliammal Sinnasamy, a Hindu married to a member of the first Malaysian team to scale Mt. Everest, the answer, she thought, was obvious. "I married a Hindu man, lived with him as a Hindu, bore him a Hindu child and watched him die as a Hindu," says the now 32-year-old office cleaner. But when Kaliammal went to the hospital in December 2005 to claim her spouse's body after he died of a protracted illness, she received another shock. Her husband, Maniam Moorthy, had secretly converted to Islam before his death...
...Kaliammal, her husband's ultimate choice will never be known for certain. He was buried as a Muslim, but she wants to move the remains to a Hindu grave. Kaliammal's appeal, one of several involving alleged conversions to Islam, is pending before a higher court, though no date has been fixed for judgment. "My husband never once told me he had secretly converted to Islam," says Kaliammal, showing off a wall in her apartment dedicated to her husband's mountaineering achievements for the glory of the Malaysian nation. "He was always a Hindu and drank alcohol and ate pork...
...last third of the book concerns her final move, to France, along with her husband and their child. It's easily the least interesting part of the book as it's also the most narcissistic of an already intensely self-involved work. It ends poorly, with pointless photos of her French chateau alongside a fatuous interview by her publisher. Filled with advice like, "shopping can pick you up, just by distracting you from grim realities..." It reads more like a spread from InStyle magazine than a continuation of the earlier, penetrating work. Giving benefit of the doubt, it could...
Kirkland House Master Verena Conley was one of the people who alerted the police about the intruder, according to her husband and co-Master Tom Conley...
...will be a 15-month primary process, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are already in a battle over who has the meanest supporters. After David Geffen, the Hollywood producer who held a fundraiser for Obama this week, blasted Hillary Clinton in the New York Times as "ambitious," called her husband "a reckless guy" and said the pair "lies" with "such ease, it's troubling," Clinton's campaign attacked Obama for allowing his supporters to practice the sort of "slash and burn" politics the Illinois Senator preaches against. Obama's campaign responded by attacking the Clintons for letting Geffen stay...