Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just moved to a New York City suburb with my wife and the first two of our three children some years ago when a mildly panicked neighbor engaged me with her sudden child-care problem. Her nanny had quit without notice, and she was hitting me up for suggestions. "Have you considered an au pair?" I asked. Her response left me thunderstruck: "Never again. All they do is crack up your car, get homesick and leave...
...clashed with our second au pair, from Denmark, almost immediately. She was offended when I insisted on watching her drive before handing over our car. One day, as my neighbor had presciently warned, she was in a collision--with our kids in the car. The next day my wife started working from home full-time, and doing all the driving. Our third au pair, from Germany, was in way over her head. She spoke almost no English and complained that we hugged our kids too much. She left in a week. The fourth, also from Germany, had no energy...
...case has riveted the Philadelphia-Wilmington area for a year and a half, mostly because of the small-town renown of its central characters. Thomas Capano, the father of four daughters who separated from his wife Kay in 1995, is an unlikely murder suspect. A former deputy attorney general and legal counsel to ex-Governor Michael Castle, he was most recently employed at a prominent law firm as head of its bond department. "Tom was very much the consummate inside guy," says Charlie Butler, also a former deputy attorney general. "He was always fixing things. He spent a long time...
...with her parents, her grandmother and her little brother; and since her house is a day-care center, it is usually full of her friends. The show is sweet, but it is hard to follow. "Why does [it] have to be so cluttered?" asks Jerome Singer, who with his wife Dorothy directs the Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center. "I mean, the amount of jumping around and shouting and noise--there's difficulty for even us as adults in understanding the language...
...your article regarding fraud at Tulane University Medical Center titled "Dead Wrong?" [NATION, Nov. 3], you accused the late Dr. Michael Gerber, former chairman of pathology and laboratory medicine at the center, of embezzlement and other financial wrongdoings and implied that his (and his wife's) death in an automobile accident was staged. The story is based largely on allegations by a disgruntled former employee, Dr. Aizenhawar Marrogi, who is currently in litigation with the medical center. These allegations are wholly without basis...