Word: widowing
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Endang Isnanik was stitching away at her sewing machine when she heard news of the Australian embassy bombing in Jakarta last month. Though hundreds of kilometers away in Bali, the 32-year-old widow began to cry, remembering the explosion that took the life of her husband in Kuta two years ago. "We cry every time we hear that a bomb has gone off," says the slight mother of three, trembling with an almost vacant look in her eyes. "I still have trouble sleeping...
...director who's open to everything around him. He just goes with the flow and I think that adds to the vitality of the movie." To get hold of the rights, they went to Gianni Minà, an Italian journalist and documentarian who had received permission from Guevara's widow, Aleida March, to publish her late husband's manuscripts and turn them into a film. "I worked on it for seven years," Minà says. "But eventually I realized it would be impossible for me to make this movie. It would be too difficult to travel across Latin America with...
...series of unlikely deaths left the trust without such an heir. Avery Clark died in 1957, his only child died in 1966 and his widow died in 2000 without having remarried...
...just had a dinner last week with [Sakharov’s widow] Elena Bonner and the leadership of the Davis Center to celebrate the moving of the archive,” said Joshua Rubenstein, the Northeast regional director of Amnesty International USA and a Davis Center associate. Rubenstein has extensively researched the archives for an upcoming book...
Last year, after a police officer's widow in Reinstein's district had packed all her belongings, she was told she could not move into federally subsidized housing because she made $38 more than the maximum allowed. Reinstein asked Kerry's office for help. A staff member immediately called the woman and her son, Reinstein remembers. "The son called me in tears ... All of a sudden, [he's] getting calls from Senator Kerry's office. You don't understand how much that means." The woman was accepted into the housing complex. Today, whenever Reinstein sees Kerry, he always remembers...