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...fact, some first wives feared that Hollywood would trivialize their plight. "I didn't think I'd like this movie," says Marilyn Nichols Kane, ex-wife of America's most famous deadbeat dad, precious-metals consultant Jeffrey Nichols, who has been jailed twice for his failure to pay the $642,550 he owes her. "I thought it might be offensive--making fun of the suffering we've all been through. But I wanted to stand up and cheer. Remember that part where Goldie Hawn strips her husband's house? I did that!" Marilyn Kane, meet fellow fan Lynn Landon, second...
...Bosnia's national library, caught the ear of Andras J. Riedlmayer, a bibliographer in Islamic art and architecture in the University's Fine Arts Library, and Jeffrey B. Spurr, Islamic art cataloguer in the Aga Khan Program. They then began to help him spread the news of the libraries' plight...
...blase approach of the administration toward sophomore move-in is epitomized in the ridiculous plight of Pforzheimer sophomores, who had to lug their stored belongings--futons, 'fridges and all--from the basement of Hollis to the Quad by handtruck...
...legendary figure at TIME. "Wilde lives up to his name," says senior editor Howard Chua-Eoan of the white-haired foreign correspondent. "He's the quintessential gonzo reporter." A longtime Nairobi bureau chief, Wilde was based in Istanbul during the Gulf War, during which he covered the plight of the Kurds. This week he delivers that story's next chapter, slipping into Kurdistan to report on Saddam Hussein's attack on the town of Erbil. The report includes an exclusive interview with Massoud Barzani, the head of the Kurdish faction allied with Iraq. "He had to negotiate for the interview...
There is something fascinating--and sometimes a bit tragic--about the plight of successful first-time recording artists faced with cutting their second album. Splashy debuts behind them, they stand poised between maturation and one-hit wonderdom. So many don't pass the test there's even a phrase for the failure: sophomore slump...