Word: wifely
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Then, in a surprising twist, Paxon announced last week that he would retire from the House of Representatives after his term expires this year. Flanked by wife Susan Molinari and their daughter Susan Ruby, Paxon claimed that he would "never run for office again," pointing to a commitment to family as his main reason for stepping down...
...that case, he was found to have violated a defendant's civil rights when he was Georgia state prosecutor. The defendant, Ronald Reeves, was arrested on a weapons offense, held for several days in jail without being charged, and was denied the chance to call his lawyer or his wife. A jury later found Udolf had "maliciously and arbitrarily" violated Reeves' civil rights and awarded Reeves $50,000 in damages. "I accept responsibility for that, and I regret it," Udolf said last week...
...college (Colgate, on a full scholarship) but had busted out after a few months with a case of what he calls "turbulence." By 19 he had married. By 20 he had fathered a child and would soon be divorced. (He has been married for nine years to his fourth wife, poet Chase Twichell.) He had written a novel, not published, and had run off to fight for Castro (not quite getting there; instead dressing mannequins for a department store in Lakeland, Fla.). Before this, at 16, he had stolen a car and Kerouacked off to California. Earlier still...
...local doctor). Director Egoyan, with whom he worked for two years advising on the script, overflows with praise: "One of the greatest living novelists." That may be gratifying, but Banks knows there's still more work to do. He'll quit teaching after this semester and move with his wife to their house in Keene, N.Y., not far from John Brown's grave. "You can start to see the horizon getting closer when you get to your late 50s," he explains. He has a writing cabin about a thousand yards from the Keene house. He will hike there each morning...
DIED. MARTHA GELLHORN, 89, war correspondent, novelist and, only incidentally, Ernest Hemingway's third wife; in London. Gellhorn's dispatches, first filed during the Spanish Civil War and continuing through World War II and Vietnam, focused on the ordinary and powerless. An avid traveler and prolific journalist, she also wrote novels and short stories. Gellhorn married Hemingway in 1940. She left him five years later, the only one of his four wives to do so. He reportedly remained bitter for the rest of his life, and she remained irritated for being best known as his former wife...