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...want to be a First Lady? Wives with careers are cast as Lady Macbeth; wives without are dubbed dull. What's more, the most casual comment about your spouse can generate headlines. In a rare interview last week, Lyudmila Putin let slip that her husband comes home late and doesn't often discuss his day at the office. Russian President Vladimir Putin "works too hard," she said, adding that his long hours make him forget that "one needs not only to work but also to live." Judging by the recent chorus of complaints from leading ladies, there's more than...
...whistled at a white female store clerk helped galvanize the civil rights movement; to collect evidence for an investigation reopened last year after a documentary filmmaker told authorities he believed several who participated in the 14-year-old's murder are still alive; in Alsip, Ill. The clerk's husband and his half brother were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury but later admitted their involvement to Look magazine...
...course, men taking over the kitchen from officebound wives is not entirely new. Martin Ginsburg, husband of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has been the main cook in his household for nearly 50 years--ever since he took a bite of Ruth Bader's tuna casserole ("as close to inedible as food could be"). Their daughter Jane agreed with this assessment at an early age, he recalls, and mounted "a campaign to exclude Mommy from the kitchen, which Mommy fully supported." Upon Mommy's nomination to the bench, Jane remarked that she grew up "in a home with...
...created holes that had to be filled and that began to feel like a contagion. First, grade-school librarian Nolan Brown, a grandfather, Vietnam vet and National Guardsman, was called up for a desk job in Baghdad. Math teacher Kathy Mannon stepped into his post. Eleven days later, her husband Dennis, the librarian at the high school, was called up by the Air Force Reserve. Retired teacher Judy Gray, nearing 60, volunteered to fill in for him. Gray's own daughter Regina Jones had just seen her husband Albert leave for Iraq too. Jones, an elementary-school teacher, says...
...pregnant with the police chief's first child, moved in with her mother even as she continued working as a sales rep for a uniform company. Angela Bunn, the mayor's wife, found herself with four kids at home, trying to juggle her regular substitute-teaching job with her husband's insulation business. Handling mold complaints while worrying about his living or dying was tough. "I was taking Paxil and Prozac," she says. "People said, 'You're handling this well,' and I'd say, 'That's the purpose of the medicine.' But I still worried. I would have panic attacks...