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  • July 2008

    • Guarded Cindy Gives McCain Perfect Accessory

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jul 22, 08 11:46 AM CDT

      Guarded Cindy Gives McCain Perfect Accessory

      Cindy McCain has been a candidate’s wife for more than half her life, and she’s gotten pretty good at it, the Washington Post reports in a profile. The demur, good-looking, stay-at-home mom knows how to humanize her husband and avoid policy talk. “I don't see any chink in her armor,” says her mother-in-law, “and I'm not biased.” But Mrs. John McCain has an intensely guarded, even sometimes secretive, private side. More »

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      John McCain  • first lady  • drug addiction  • Cindy McCain  • wife

  • June 2008
  • April 2008

    • Hubbies Cost 7 Hours of Extra Housework a Week

      newser  |  Ann Arbor News  |  Apr 7, 08 5:47 AM CDT

      Hubbies Cost 7 Hours of Extra Housework a Week

      Husbands create seven hours a week of extra housework for their wives, while they themselves spend less time on housework than they did as singles, a new study has found. But it's not all bad news for women. Researchers tracking housework hours of single and married people also found that women devote less time now than they did in 1976, while men do more than twice as much, the Ann Arbor News reports. More »

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      marriage  • wife  • single women  • housework  • husband

  • March 2008

    • Another Pol's Wife Stands by Her Man

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Mar 11, 08 1:14 PM CDT

      Another Pol's Wife Stands by Her Man

      Silda Wall Spitzer, the Harvard-educated lawyer who stood grimly alongside her husband during his somewhat perplexing apology yesterday, joins the ranks of political wives who suffer publicly the sex scandals of their disgraced mates, ABC writes. She follows in the footsteps of Larry Craig's wife, Suzanne; Jim McGreevey's then-wife, Dana: and, of course, Hillary Clinton, an exception in that she didn't share the podium with Bill at his nadir. More »

  • September 2007

    • In Dispute Between Wives, Court Sides With Third

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Sep 5, 07 9:29 PM CDT

      In Dispute Between Wives, Court Sides With Third

      The North Carolina state appeals court affirmed yesterday that the body of a retired Army sergeant belongs to his third wife, though he left her five years before his death in 2005 to return to his first wife. John Burrell never divorced Valerie Burrell after he returned to Hazelene Burrell; Valerie had Burrell buried in 2006 following a lower-court ruling. More »

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      divorce  • North Carolina  • wife

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