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By Gore Vidal
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By Michael Hudson
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Mr. Fish
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By Mr. Fish — One of the most obvious and deeply unsettling failings of our human character is our inability to accept just how much sway the lizard portions of our brains have over our behavior and just how short we continue to fall when attempting to achieve synchronicity with our highest ideals.
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Turns out that being married to Russian literary giant Leo Tolstoy wasn’t always a recipe for a good time. Sure, there was the excitement of helping him realize his loftiest artistic ambitions, but Sofia Tolstoy, wife of 48 years and mother of the author’s 13 children, eventually discovered that she would lose her husband to his religious convictions before losing him for good.
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Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, after enduring a great deal of hardship on the long road to his current position of sharing power with President Robert Mugabe, was injured and his wife of 31 years was killed in a car accident that occurred Friday when they were on their way to their home outside Harare.
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The Brits are in on the American election speculation game, judging by this Daily Mail article about John McCain’s first wife, Carol, which, despite reporter Sharon Churcher’s “tsk-tsk” tone about McCain’s possible philandering and his eventual wife-swap (enter Cindy, beer heiress, pictured), also allows that Carol McCain still cares about her ex-husband and supports him in his political ventures.
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AP Photo / Gerald Herbert
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Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani was busy sweet-talking a group of National Rifle Association members in Washington, D.C., on Friday when he received a call from a very special lady.
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AP Photo / Alex Brandon
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In a turnaround from an earlier statement in which she likened herself to Lorena Bobbitt, at a recent press conference Wendy Vitter resolved to stay with and continue to support her husband, joining a long line of politicians’ wives who endured their husbands’ indiscretions and the ensuing media attention.
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From A Foreign Affair
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A Harper’s reporter goes undercover on a tour designed to introduce Western men to Eastern European and Russian women. The tour company says men are treated ?like an alpha-male wolf ... having the sheep brought in.? (The picture above is a real company listing.)
Posted on Jul 24, 2006
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For over two decades, the couple allegedly passed on secrets about U.S. officials, FBI agents and anti-Castro groups. | story
Posted on Jan 9, 2006
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