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...Amount of money former Playboy centerfold Anna Nicole Smith will get from her husband's estate, after a California court last week struck down an earlier ruling awarding her $88.5 million...
...unconscious mind is astonishingly good at filtering out superfluous data and seizing on essential truth, we learn, but too much time or information can confuse and blind it. And the unconscious mind can be trained. The psychologist John Gottman can watch a 15-minute videotape of a husband and wife about whom he knows nothing and predict with 90% accuracy whether they will still be married in 15 years. Gladwell, with his infernal gift for coining buzzwords, calls the rapid analysis performed by the unconscious mind "thin slicing...
DIED. PAULINE GORE, 92, mother of former Vice President Al Gore Jr. and the influential though reserved wife of gregarious longtime Congressman and Senator Al Gore Sr.; at her home in Carthage, Tenn. The 10th woman to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School, she became her husband's key adviser on campaign strategy and other issues, and in 1992 hit the road on a seven-week bus tour in support of the Clinton-Gore ticket...
...DIED. FAINA FANG-LIANG CHIANG, 88, Siberian-born widow of former Taiwanese President Chiang Ching-kuo; in Taipei. The shy Russian met her future husband, son of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, at a Soviet machinery plant at age 16. She married into the political dynasty in 1935. As First Lady from 1978 to 1988, Chiang avoided the public spotlight and lacked the glamour of her predecessor, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, but won respect for her modest lifestyle and dedication to her four children. Recalled Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, "She had the values of a traditional Chinese woman...
...police, including the branch's two founders: Yu Jie, a prolific essayist and frequent critic of Chinese political culture, and social commentator Liu Xiaobo. The police questioned the three about their writings and copied material from their computers. Yu's wife Liu Min says police told her that her husband was suspected of "endangering state security," and that she should "tell her old man to quit writing." All three men were later released, but as of Thursday night, Yu said police were still stationed outside his door and following him when he went out. Yu's lawyer said...