Word: jon
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...example, are enjoying their time of family closeness after almost two years of enforced separation, an interlude that would have caused many less committed couples to turn in their cards and give up. A lasting marriage is the reward, usually, of hard work and self-sacrifice. The Ballad of Jon and Kate...
Reality stars Jon and Kate Gosselin have also made headlines recently for their marital woes. Do you think people in the public eye tend to cheat more often than the rest of us, or do we just hear about their indiscretions more frequently? Based on all the studies I've seen, roughly half of all marriages will be touched by an affair at some point. The prevalence of affairs is a function of two things: less-than-happy marriages and opportunity. And these celebrities have many more opportunities than most people. (See the top 10 skanky reality TV shows...
...book, Strokes of Genius, L. Jon Wertheim reconstructs the 2008 Wimbledon final between Switzerland's Roger Federer and Spain's Rafael Nadal. That epic match - which took more than seven waterlogged hours to complete and ended with a Nadal victory in near darkness - is widely considered to be the greatest tennis match ever played. Strokes of Genius uses the match as a scaffolding to talk about the two tennis greats, their rivalry and the sport's beauty. TIME caught up with Wertheim, Sports Illustrated's tennis writer, as he prepared to cover Wimbledon 2009, which began on June...
...private health-insurance coverage; and Senator Mike Enzi, the top Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has said he too is working on legislation. Some of the bills aren't actually meant to be comprehensive. The patients' bill introduced by Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator Jon Kyl would simply bar the government from using comparative-effectiveness research to reduce costs in Medicare and Medicaid; the two say such approaches are used in socialized health systems...
...weeks ago, Jon Rubinstein was booking up the side of Mount Tamalpais in Northern California while I wheezed like a steam engine in his wake. This was irritating on two levels: 1) I do this hike all the time, and 2) he had already gone for a long run earlier...