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...word of advice for Barbara Bach: if the American-born actress is wondering about a Christmas present for her husband, she could do worse than buy him a thick pair of long johns. He'll need them where he's going. Not because he has become enfeebled by age or excess, far from it: at 67, Richard Starkey, a.k.a. Ringo Starr, the oldest member of the Beatles and - despite a notorious bout of overindulgence - one of the band's two survivors, seems unstoppable. His musical output is prodigious. Next month, Ringo releases his 16th solo studio album of songs written...
...realize there are many different varieties [of English]. In that particular context, if they’re in that position, they have a much greater responsibility. To just say that it’s not standard English—that’s not really helpful. 12.FM: Your husband, Lawrence D. Bobo, is also an esteemed race sociologist. Do you consider yourselves the power couple of Af-Am studies? MM: We’re a couple, we’re a very happy couple but—we’re a couple, you know what I mean? I don?...
...Their relationship wilted under the strains of the arrangement. At one point, Anne Darwin said, her husband travelled to Kansas to pursue a woman he met on the Internet. She resented him for forcing her to conceal the secret from her sons, Mark, 31, and Anthony, 29, and tried to talk him out of returning to England. But "he had had enough of being dead," she said, adding that "John desperately wanted contact with the boys again and thought he could pick up the pieces of his life." Mark and Anthony Darwin issued a statement this week saying they felt...
...Citing a need for closure, Anne Darwin lobbied for an inquest, and her husband was declared legally dead in April 2003. The judgment enabled the couple to reap a life insurance policy of about $50,000 and wiped out an additional $260,000 in mortgage payments on their home...
...freewheeling interview published in Sunday's Daily Mirror, Anne Darwin said her husband, gaunt and filthy, materialized on her doorstep in February, 2003, 11 months after he disappeared. Until that point, she told the newspaper, she had thought he was dead - even though he had mentioned faking his death to escape from their swelling debt. "He said he had done it for us so we didn't lose everything, which I know seems rather ironic now," she said...