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Ayckbourn, 69, is explaining this in the sunny and spacious Scarborough house (actually three Georgian townhouses that he connected) where he lives with his second wife, former actress Heather Stoney. The effects of his stroke are visible. He walks unsteadily, and his left hand is fairly useless, reducing his two-finger typing method to just one. Yet his speech and mental acuity are undiminished. ("My head's working fine," he says - though "I still have a problem with a group of people, if they're all talking at once.") He laughs frequently, dives into anecdotes with an actor's relish...
...that no objective person could help but understand. McCain and party call Obama an élitist because he went to the Ivy League schools Columbia and Harvard. Yet McCain went to Annapolis and became a pilot, and when asked he couldn't remember how many homes he and his wife owned! Talk about élitism! And do some people think that going against the party line one out of 10 times is a maverick? And he cannot answer a simple question about how he defines honor. No doubt he will later say how he regrets giving up his honor...
...attendance that he got an “amusing invitation from the Hague” to serve as chief prosecutor for the Criminal Tribunal dealing with the Yugoslavian conflict. Though he initially rebuffed the idea, Goldstone said his opinion was swayed by two factors: the encouragement of his wife and a personal phone call from then-South African president Nelson Mandela, who told him he had already informed UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali that Goldstone would accept the position...
...structure of hiring and promotion at Harvard militates against the hiring and promotion of people who care about being married,” he said, adding that Harvard failed to secure a job for his wife who holds a master’s degree from the University...
...itself on running on an even keel, has rarely tried to push the same emotional buttons. The only comparable effort came shortly before the Democratic Convention, when the campaign latched onto McCain's admission in an interview that he did not know how many houses he owned with his wife, who is heir to a considerable fortune...