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...Three weeks ago, a woman in Maine discovered a black widow crawling in her grapes. Since then, at least eight more of the poisonous arachnids have turned up in Southern California grapes shipped to New England, and both the Stop & Shop and Shop 'n Save supermarket chains have pulled the affected fruit off the shelves...
...diminished standing in the world. She does wonder why she and her husband were not happier together: "Now I realize that it is marriage which is the great temptation for a woman, and that one can, and perhaps should, resist it." But the car accident that left her a widow also took the resolution of this problem out of her hands...
Beijing sources say that Jiang Qing, 77, widow of Chairman Mao Zedong and ringleader of the infamous Gang of Four, committed suicide late last month. She is believed to have hanged herself at the suburban Beijing villa where she had been under virtual house arrest since her trial and conviction 10 years ago for helping to carry out the Cultural Revolution that bloodied China from 1966 to 1976. Jiang, who was known to have throat cancer, may have wished to cut short her suffering. Her death comes at an awkward time for the Beijing government, concerned just now with...
Beyond Rajiv's immediate family, there are other Gandhis and Nehrus interested in taking up the family business. Maneka Gandhi, 34, widow of Rajiv's younger brother Sanjay, is highly ambitious and politically astute, currently holding office as Minister of Environment. But she quarreled with the family when Indira cut her out of the succession after Sanjay's death, and joined the opposition. The only other possible choice is Arun Nehru, 47, a cousin of Rajiv's and a former corporate executive who once was Minister of Internal Security in Rajiv's Cabinet. But the two fell...
...doesn't come too often, doesn't stay too long"). And in front of the watercolor backdrops are horrors pitiless enough to mount a powerful indictment against a world in which women were taught that love means always having to say you're sorry. In traditional China, the old widow recalls, "a woman had no right to be angry...