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...Harvard Business Review." TV trucks camped outside her home; paparazzi pursued her. Before long, Suzy, then 42, had been fired, and Jack, then 66, was in court with his understandably angry soon-to-be ex-wife. Seven years later, Suzy is happily married to Jack, and she is willing--nay, eager--to discuss the love affair that cost her a prestigious job and cost her paramour more than a reported $75 million settlement. Suzy and the former General Electric chieftain "work together 24/7," write together and raise her children (and their profile). And she pens smart self-help books...
...continue in Iraq after Dec. 31, when the U.N. mandate expires. But it's too early to pop the champagne. The bilateral U.S.-Iraqi security pact is by no means a done deal: it must still be ratified by a fractured parliament. The Cabinet vote had only one nay to 27 ayes, but nine Cabinet members chose to withdraw from the final tally, a foreboding sign of the controversy the agreement will face in the legislature...
...white pillars and spare mahogany furniture seemed to dissolve into one streak, like a spirit. She sank to the floor, clasping her hands. And as if a voice had spoken to her, she knew with a sudden strength and certainty that the stranger was not good—nay! that he was evil on earth. She knew that he had come to the villa to contaminate its residents, to possess them with his wickedness. And she also knew, or so whispered the voice that resonated in the inner chambers of her pure white ear, that only she could save Frederick...
...princes kiss her. She wouldn't last an hour at One Fifth Avenue. Bushnell knows this. She even slyly hints at it: Lola, the gold digger, "had watched every single episode of Sex and the City at least, as she claimed, 'a hundred times.'" Lola arrives in Manhattan expecting--nay, demanding--a West Village apartment and a Mr. Big. Suffice it to say that the show doesn't turn out to be a very practical guide to real life and real estate in the big city. She should have read the book instead...
...What the nay-sayers don't understand is that this election has never been about me." Obama declared shortly before the fireworks burst and the confetti flurried. It's one of his favorite lines, and usually it provokes a quibble: Isn't that your name on the buttons and your face on the T-shirts? But as a closing note for this historic convention, it was another selection of perfect words. This is the wager the Democrats have pushed to the center of the table this week: that they can make this election not about...