Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four days and three nights per week, they must make some pretty significant compromises. Tom, who has a daughter, and Mike, who is married, both assure me that happy families and management consulting are not mutually exclusive. Mike says that it has always been challenging for him and his wife but that her recent return to school has made it less difficult. "She has class at night on each of the days that I'm out of town, so she doesn't even notice I'm gone," he tells me. Tom says that he and his family work around...
...public-health community must find a way to pry apart the beauty and disease-control facets of the obesity debate, as raised in the article "Will We Keep Getting Fatter?" [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 8]. Actress Camryn Manheim is overweight and lovely. So is my wife. No one wants a nation of size-8 robots. I'd settle for an effective battle against extreme obesity (starting in infancy) and getting everyone into exercising more. That should improve health without terrorizing the merely plump or pinning our hopes on a magic pill. CHRIS FOREMAN Takoma Park...
DIED. PAUL BOWLES, 88, individualistic Broadway composer and author of The Sheltering Sky; in Tangier, Morocco. A mentor to Allen Ginsberg and other Beat writers, Bowles delighted in rejecting American conventions. He lived as an expatriate--mostly in Tangier with his lesbian wife, writer Jane Bowles--and wrote disturbing tales of innocence corrupted by savagery...
...computer code for some time now, and you'll find they are hardly planning to head for the hills. "I have no stockpile of water at home and no generator," says Microsoft's Y2K director Don Jones, "and I have a nine-month-old son. My wife says, 'Shouldn't we at least do a little something?'" Only as much as you'd prepare for a three-day blizzard, goes the prevailing advice...
Remember when the U.S. attacked Kosovo, and everybody accused the President of "wagging the dog" - attacking a Central European country to divert public attention away from a sex scandal? Well, it turns out Bubba may have just been trying to get back in the good graces of his wife. At least that's the history of the Balkan conflict according to the First Lady's latest biographer, Gail Sheehy. In her forthcoming book "Hillary's Choice," Sheehy says that at the height of Monicagate, an enraged and humiliated Hillary went eight months without talking to her husband, before calling...