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NEWS ABOUT: widows

widows stories: 7 news summaries

Sen. Vicki Kennedy? No Consensus on What's Next

Widow was deeply involved in Ted's political career

Aug 29, 09 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - All agree that Vicki Kennedy turned around husband Ted’s life, but there is little consensus on where the 55-year-old widow will go from here, Politico reports. “All this stuff about her going to the Senate is completely wrong,” says longtime family adviser (and speechwriter) Bob Shrum. Indeed,... More »

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Congress • Senate • Ted Kennedy • health care reform • special election • widows • Victoria Reggie Kennedy • Vicky Kennedy

(Newser) - Hundreds of women marched through Kathmandu yesterday to protest a government plan to offer $600 to anybody who marries a widow, the Independent reports. The government says the scheme will help overcome social stigmas attached to widowhood, but the women say it is insulting and warn that it will lead... More »

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women • protests • Nepal • human trafficking • widows • women's issues

(Newser) - An apparently harried congressional aide picked the wrong woman to threaten with police action, Fox News reports. Marianne Stringer, widow of a Vietnam veteran, was petitioning congressmen to oppose a decrease in benefits for veterans’ spouses. When she politely emailed the office of a reticent lawmaker, the aide shot back... More »

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Congress • veterans • US military • House of Representatives • widows • Gold Star Wives of America • Mac Thornberry • Michael Clauser • Bill Posey • Capitol Police

 Quake Survivors 
 Find Love 
 Among 
 the Ruins 

Hundreds remarry in quake-devastated Chinese city

May 13, 09 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - A year after the quake that devastated China's Sichuan province, many survivors have new loves if not new homes, the Guardian reports. In Beichuan—where only 4,000 of the town's 22,000 people survived—some 600 widows and widowers have remarried, and the government hopes more will soon follow... More »

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China • marriage • disaster zones • Sichuan province • China earthquake • widows

 Hunter Thompson 
 Left Gonzo 
 Sperm Behind 

Writer's widow considering having the child he wanted to have with her

Dec 12, 08 5:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Gonzo journalist and general wild man Hunter S. Thompson left more than just his writings behind when he committed suicide in 2005 at the age of 67, his widow tells Scotland's Sunday Herald. Anita Thompson, who was 35 years his junior, has the outlaw journalist's frozen sperm and is wrestling... More »

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suicide • sperm • Hunter S. Thompson • widows

 Gift Cows Give Hope
 to Kosovo War Widows 

Aid group helps heal the wounds of war in Europe's fledgling country

Jul 12, 08 8:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Dutch organization is helping steer Kosovo's war widows toward a brighter future, Radio Free Netherlands reports. Many were left to fend for themselves after losing loved ones in the war against Serbia; now the Dutch group The Bridge is giving them cows to put food on the table and... More »

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Kosovo • cows • reconstruction • Balkans War • dairy products • humanitarian aid • widows

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 Sex and the Pity:
 A Widow Ponders Limbo 

Friends, relatives mean well, but platitudes are patronizing

May 17, 08 5:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - After her first weeks of widowhood, one woman noticed the kind yet patronizing treatment she was getting from loved ones—especially when it came to her sex life. Among the platitudes she came to despise: "You look like you could use a hug," and "You're not ready... More »

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death • widows • grieving • friendship

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