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...arrest of the two women who head the main opposition groups -- Sheik Hasina Wazed of the Awami League and Begum Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party -- but the two remained undaunted. As it happens, Hasina is the daughter of a slain former President, and Zia is the widow of another. Vowed Hasina: "Ershad's last days have arrived. We shall not leave the streets until the dictator is removed...
...historian's dream -- a major discovery about an important person -- is more of a nightmare for Stanford University professor Clayborne Carson. An admirer of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and an expert on black America, Carson was picked by King's widow Coretta to head the team that is compiling the civil rights leader's papers. Two years ago, Carson's staff came upon unsettling signs of plagiarism...
...difficult to write a biographical play about a man who died in an accident at 22, having achieved everything he wanted in life with barely a ripple of difficulty. It's harder still when his widow controls many of the rights to his works and image and remains a controversial figure in his story. For those reasons, Buddy bears a striking resemblance to the 1978 film The Buddy Holly Story, starring Gary Busey, including a tendency to make saints of the singer and his wife and cartoon cads of almost everyone else. The real reason for telling Holly's story...
Behind each woman in power was a powerful man or an influential political dynasty. In their election campaigns, Aquino and Chamorro constantly reminded voters that they were carrying on the work of their deceased husbands. Aquino is the widow of Benigno Aquino Jr., Ferdinand Marcos' most bitter rival, who was assassinated in August 1983; Chamorro is the widow of Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, the newspaper publisher whose murder in 1978 led to the downfall of the brutal Anastasio Somoza regime. During her 1988 election campaign, Bhutto never ceased alluding to the legacy of her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was executed...
...least 10,000 Israeli women, known as the Agunot (the anchored) have husbands who are unwilling to give that permission. Says Ora Sasson, who has been trying to get a divorce for eight years: "I don't know where I stand. I'm not married. I'm not a widow...