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...mother said at least she knew he died doing what he loved to do." Valerie Chapman, widow of Air Force Technical Sergeant John Chapman, 36, who lived in Fayetteville, N.C., had the same thought. "You have to love it to do what they do," she said of her husband, who died with Anderson and four others in the fire fight after the Chinook crash-landed. "And he loved...
...Three days later, Gore was thinking about another title: candidate's spouse. As word spread that Tipper Gore was considering a run for the Senate seat being vacated by Tennessee Republican Fred Thompson - an idea that shocked those who knew her, since she barely tolerated her husband's campaigns - Al told friends he would support whatever decision she made. Daughter Karenna was said to be strongly in favor. But on Sunday, Tipper said she would not run for the seat...
...making new friends. When Debra Crapo, vice chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, got home from a Gephardt event two weeks ago, she found a message on her answering machine from a political operative for Edwards, just checking in. Edwards had already written a note to Crapo's husband, thanking him for taking the time to meet with Edwards when he was in the state a few weeks ago. But the newcomer has a bit to learn: his note to Randy Crapo began, "Dear...
...perhaps it shouldn't have come as such a shock. It used to be that the preferred way for political spouses to gain elective office was to have their husbands keel over. Most of the century's first women in Congress were political widows such as Margaret Chase Smith, the legendary Republican Senator from Maine who succeeded her husband and took on Joe McCarthy. The first woman elected to the Senate was Arkansas's Hattie Wyatt Caraway who was appointed to fill her husband's term in 1932 and was elected on her own later that year. Edith Wilson effectively...
...thoughts on human relationships—conception, filial ties and friendships. While suggested by the pure form of her sculptures, von Rydingsvard also explicitly references these subjects through titles. The name of the monolithic, honeycombed work “For Paul” references the artist’s husband. “Mama, Your Legs” harkens to something more elemental, as the artist herself has commented...