Word: widowing
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...etoiles was not quite enough. "Bernard was pretty much a manic depressive," says Chelminski. He once told a fellow chef he would kill himself if he lost a star. "All these exceptional beings who give you the impression of so much assurance, they are all very fragile," Loiseau's widow Dominique said on television last week. "They all have such strong moments of doubt...
Before the Americans take Baghdad, they'll have to roll over the dead body of Muntaha Keithem. The plump, brassy 40-year-old war widow has sent her family's AK-47 assault rifle to be repaired, and fully intends to use it to defend Iraq's capital. As she contemplates deadly gun battles in the streets around her brother's modest two-story home in the middle-class suburb of Bayaa, her leonine eyes blaze fiercely and she throws back her head to thrust out a defiant jaw. "The Americans should be warned that Iraqi women know...
...toiles was not quite enough. "Bernard was pretty much a manic depressive," says Chelminski. He once told a fellow chef he would kill himself if he lost a star. "All these exceptional beings who give you the impression of so much assurance, they are all very fragile," Loiseau's widow Dominique said on television last week. "They all have such strong moments of doubt." Like France's other great chefs, Loiseau found he had to peddle his personality in order to afford to maintain three-star luxury. He became a TV personality and started selling a line of soups, champagne...
...DIED. ELEANOR DALEY, 95, widow of former Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley; in Chicago. Daley was matriarch of a political family that includes sons William M. Daley, a former U.S. commerce secretary, and Richard M. Daley, Chicago's current mayor. Although rarely in the public eye, Daley campaigned behind the scenes for her husband, who ran the city for 21 years, and sons...
ARRESTED. COURTNEY LOVE, 38, rock-star widow of Kurt Cobain; for verbally abusing the cabin crew on a flight from Los Angeles to London; in London. After British police released her with a warning, Love said the event had been exaggerated, and explained, "My daughter always said I had a potty mouth...