Word: widowers
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Though Barnes spent over half of his life at Harvard, he never took himself too seriously, according to his widow and former student, Julie C. Wang, 62, who used to head her own medical public relations firm...
McCarrick himself noted at the brief final rite of committal and prayer that the reading was an idea he and Kennedy's widow Victoria had agreed to, apparently using a copy of Kennedy's letter that the senator had kept. The subsequent response from a papal aide offering Benedict's prayers for his health, according to a veteran ambassador to the Holy See, was likely of a pro forma nature. Such letters are typically handled either by the office of the sostituto, the No. 2 official in the Secretary of State's office or by the Pope's private secretary...
...this point Kennedy's widow, Victoria, passes by, and Kerry - hip be damned - pops up with a grimace. He hugs her and, teary eyed, she says, "I just want to make him proud." Kerry nods. He too knows well the feeling of having big shoes to fill. See TIME's complete Ted Kennedy coverage...
This time the task of leading the country through yet another ritual of grief fell to Ted Kennedy. First he had to tend his family, shuttling between his stricken parents in Hyannis Port and Bobby's widow Ethel and 10 children in Virginia. He and his mother Rose taped a five-minute television message of thanks to the nation for its condolences. By 1968 she had lost four of her nine children - and here, the Kennedy way of death was given its clearest expression: "We shall honor him not with useless mourning and vain regrets for the past," Rose Kennedy...
...policy has affected U.S. citizens. This week, Betty Najjab, an American from Centreville, Virginia and the widow of a Palestinian, was given one of the new visa stamps after visiting in-laws in Jordan. She told TIME she didn?t know if she would be able to fly home: the return leg of her ticket departs from Israel?s Ben-Gurion airport. "We have made it quite known to the Israeli Government... that we expect all American citizens to be treated the same regardless of their national origin," U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters this week. "These kinds...