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...absent husband. In the end these letters, and the replies she received, became the marriage and form the basis of this book. Through their letters they expressed their true emotions. "You would not really love me if I was the kind of wife you sometimes imagine I ought to be," Emily once wrote to Ned. The Architect and His Wife (Chatto & Windus; 484 pages) took Ridley, who is the couple's great-granddaughter, six years to research and write. The result is a balanced and accessible portrait of a marriage in which the architectural descriptions are informed but not arcane...
...unexpected postponement stems from a lack of clarity regarding “what a modern school of journalism ought to be,” Bollinger wrote...
...because they're doing something about it. We surely didn't help our efforts during the Republican presidential primaries when we had about a 45-day debate on the word compassion. I thought that was the craziest thing I'd ever seen. If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans...
Your story ought to have mentioned the greatest role of Cruise's diverse career: playing Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July. It was his riskiest character and another role for which he was nominated for (and should have won) an Oscar. JEANNIE FLINT Ocean Springs, Miss...
...that vegetarianism is bad for your health? That's a complex issue. There's a big, beautiful plant kingdom out there; you ought to be able to dine healthily on this botanical bounty. With perfect knowledge, you can indeed eat like a king from the vegetable world. But ordinary people are not nutrition professionals. While some vegetarians have the full skinny on how to watch their riboflavin and vitamins D and B12, many more haven't a clue. This is one reason that vegetarians, in a study of overall nutrition, scored significantly lower than nonvegetarians on the USDA's Healthy...