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...were marred by corruption scandals. She actively supported the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. She twice squandered the opportunity to make any tangible difference in the lives of the masses who voted her in. Her legacy is one not of democracy but of kleptocracy. Her will, which named her husband as her successor, underlines her lack of commitment to democracy. To her, political power was something you could inherit and pass on to family members. Pakistan has been declared a failed state, but I for one am optimistic. The economy is growing at 6-7% a year. I see a country...
Miriam Kamin's husband Mark agrees. "As a man, I'm more concerned with making sure the oil has been changed in the last 3,000 miles than with whether I had a physical lately," he says. "Miriam's much more likely to notice something is wrong with me than...
Data also show that the stress of a bad marriage can undo much of the good that comes with a happy one. In a series of studies, Kiecolt-Glaser and her husband, immunologist Ronald Glaser, also of the Ohio State University College of Medicine, found that "negative marital interactions," such as arguments, name-calling and nonverbal cues like eye-rolling lead to increases in cortisol and decreases in immune function and even wound-healing. The effects were observed in both sexes, but particularly strongly in women. The eye-rolling studies go even deeper than that, with related research conducted...
...Mary Shelley, famous now (and even then) as the author of Frankenstein, was casting about for a new idea for a novel. She was in emotional straits. She had already buried three children before her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, drowned in 1822. Their friend Lord Byron had just died in Greece. She felt as if everyone she knew?the age itself in which she lived?was passing away around...
...Julie Jensen testified in her husband's murder trial?even though she died in 1998. Mark Jensen is charged with having murdered her, but attorneys have only now been able to introduce key evidence from Julie?a letter she left with a neighbor about Mark's "suspicious behaviors" and her "fear for [her] early demise...