Word: wifely
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...than Jimmy Carter, and so it somehow seems appropriate that the 39th President, now 74, has become a guru of his latest stage of life. His book The Virtues of Aging (Ballantine) has become a best seller because of its unpretentious wisdom. Carter writes about how he and his wife Rosalynn have adjusted to getting older, even addressing their sex life. ("Rosalynn and I have learned to accommodate each other's desires more accurately and generously.") Not surprisingly, their retirement is busier than the entire careers of most younger people (Carter's mother Miss Lillian set the example: she joined...
...performing an X-Files skit with Hillary and showing a video of the actual cast singing "Happy Birthday, Skippy." Down Pennsylvania Avenue, the Senators too were in the mood to party. Perhaps because bliss may be fleeting, they got drunk on consensus. After the unanimous vote, Kennedy and his wife Victoria ran into Lott in a private room just off the Senate chamber. Lott gave her a big kiss: "How about some crawfish etouffe?" Lott joked when the discussion turned to favorite foods. Kennedy tried on his best Mississippi accent: "I want me a po'boy." The suggestion...
...with history, a fling she says she might tell her grandkids about. (Linda Tripp suggested the same thing to Monica.) If only Monica had been so clear eyed. She made the mistake of thinking she was in love with a self-involved, pudgy 50-year-old who had a wife and a killer schedule that left no time for champagne, candlelight or pillow talk. If she'd realized it was the presidency she was swooning over, not the President, and spent more time pushing her ideas for education reform and less time moaning to Tripp, the Senate might...
...survived by his wife, Ann; a son, Daniel, of Boston; a brother, Morris, of Newton; a sister, Helen, of Sydney, Australia; and two grandchildren...
Consequently, Professor Thompson's participation in my tenure review created a conflict of interest not only for his wife, the associate dean for academic affairs, but also for Jeremy Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and all the members of Dean Knowles's staff, including former faculty Associate Dean Peter Ellison, a scholar of the biological bases of behavior and a professor in the Department of Anthropology, who assembled the ad hoc committee that advised President Rudenstine on my tenure...