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...DIVORCED. Pakistani cricketer and politician IMRAN KHAN, 51, and his wife, British socialite JEMIMA, 30; in London. Jemima, daughter of late billionaire Sir James Goldsmith, converted from Judaism to Islam and went to live modestly with her husband in Pakistan while he pursued his political career. Jemima's return to London with their two sons last year and her recent appearances at celebrity events sparked rumors that she'd had difficulty adjusting to her new life and that the marriage was in trouble. Imran called the divorce a "mutual decision," and said, "my home and my future is in Pakistan...
...scenes for shocking indictments of trench warfare. Viewers can marvel at these apocalyptic paintings, along with Nash's more serene vistas from the interwar years and his work from World War II, at the U.K.'s Tate Liverpool until Oct. 19. He has been "too long overlooked," says curator Jemima Montagu, as an innovator and also as a key figure in interwar efforts to preserve the English landscape. Born in London in 1889, Nash joined up in 1914 but didn't see action until 1917. Injured after three months in France, he was sent back to Britain, where...
Franklin and his wife Deborah purchased slaves--Peter and Jemima--for the first time in the late 1740s, but he was uneasy about keeping them in the succession of small rented houses where the Franklins lived. Franklin believed that owning slaves diminished the master's work ethic and ruined the white children in the families that owned them because they are "educated in idleness." Yet, while rearing son William, the Franklins bought more slaves, named Othello, King and George. The last two were in tow when Franklin left for England with his 26-year...
...American Revolution, they grew to dislike slavery but not so much as to sacrifice their investments. When he returned to Philadelphia in May 1775, five months after Deborah died, Franklin passed along ownership of one slave, George, to his daughter Sally and her husband but kept Peter and Jemima at his side...
...Goldsmith and the husband of Pakistani cricket hero turned politician Imran Khan, tried to tell the Western media about the terrible misery in the refugee camps where so many Afghans are forced to live. Nobody was interested. But they were very keen on a photo-shoot of beautiful, blond Jemima in her Pakistani clothes...