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...When you're slinging pot in your suburban neighborhood to support your kids on your dead husband's meager insurance payout--that's when you can call yourself a desperate housewife. Mary-Louise Parker gave a performance so human and conflicted, you could practically see the needle of her moral compass spinning. Creator Jenji Kohan's writing put the new in nuance, as she drew not only Parker but her various upscale associates (including a surprisingly appealing Kevin Nealon as a stoner accountant) in a way that neither judged nor let them off the hook. The best comic suburban soap...
...parents. My mother’s comments about her arranged marriage to my father received quite a look of shock from my roommate’s mother—a Jewish woman from Brooklyn who agonized over “the perfect man” until she met her husband shortly before her 30th birthday. It was on that fated move-in day that my mother commented somewhat whimsically about how she met and married my father: “I wasn’t scared to marry him. My father had chosen him, our horoscopes matched. And that...
...Alexander Hamilton,” by Ron Chernow. (Penguin Books, 2004). Hamilton paid off his paramour’s husband so the fling could go on. And when faced with charges of adultery, he ‘fessed up without haggling over the meaning of the word ‘is.’ Perhaps the most dapper man to ever hold the position of Treasury secretary—at least until Larry Summers...
...EVER TALK SHOP WITH YOUR HUSBAND [KENTUCKY SENATOR AND MAJORITY WHIP MITCH MCCONNELL]? No, we're much too busy. We both love what we're doing. When we have time together, we talk about college football, about getting together with our friends--the usual kind of stuff--[like] who takes out the garbage...
...Hyman was also present. Deans from each of Harvard’s schools attended the reception. Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law School, and David Ellwood, dean of the Kennedy School of Government, were among the first to arrive. Drew Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute, attended with her husband, Charles E. Rosenberg, professor of the history of science and the Monrad professor in the social sciences. The wedding was the second for both Summers and New. The bridegroom is the son of Anita A. and Robert Summers, former economics professors at the University of Pennsylvania. The bride...