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...first two years I lived in Washington, I was "the wife." My husband was an editor at the Washington Post, but my career lottery number had yet to come up. Tagging along in the modest swirl of D.C. cocktail parties, I was the half of the couple who watched people's gaze drift during conversation as they searched the room for someone a little more plugged in. No one remembered my name or asked for my card or paid for my lunch. I was unexpensable. My husband twice received handsome engraved invitations to presidential dinners. For those events and many...
Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson at his best) is a mediocre private investigator hired by Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray to investigate the possibility her husband, Hollis Mulwray, the chief engineer of the water department, is having an affair. Soon, Hollis is found dead and the real Evelyn (Faye Dunaway) threatens to sue Jake if he doesn’t drop the case...
...when he was an appeals court judge Sam Alito upheld such a provision. But the Supreme Court ruled in Casey that "it cannot be claimed that the father's interest in the fetus' welfare is equal to the mother's protected liberty...." Requiring a woman to notify her husband before an abortion, the Justices argued, "embodies a view of marriage" that is "repugnant to this court's present understanding of marriage and of the nature of the rights secured by the Constitution...
...year-old South African mother with HIV, Babalwa Mbono, held First Lady Laura Bush and an East Room audience OF 200 spellbound on Monday as she told how she had turned an abusive marriage into a happy one by confronting her husband about her diagnosis despite the shame that she felt. "He was shocked," she said. "I was so angry." She said he went straight to a clinic and discovered that he, too, had the virus. "He was ashamed of himself," she said. "He apologized. After that, we had a good life, me and him." Their baby was born...
...Babalwa Mbono, the mother who had told of confronting her husband, had one more surprise for the already entranced audience. She told about going along as a single mother - the youngest of five children - told her mother and siblings about having HIV. "The mother was like this," she said, clapping her hand to her mouth, "and the brothers looked down." She said that one of the brothers hugged his sister and said, "I?m also HIV-positive, but I didn?t know how to tell mother and all of you guys." In the tears that followed, it turned out that...