NEWS
By Erika Niedowski | March 10, 2007
MOSCOW -- Time is running out on the single - and certainly the swinging - days of the man known as Russia's most eligible bachelor. Mikhail Prokhorov, the tall, fine, feverish spender who amassed a worth of $13.5 billion running the world's largest nickel producer, is getting hitched on May 3. To win a bet. Or so the story goes. Perhaps that's the only way to get him to settle down. The 41-year-old Prokhorov, after all, is known as quite a party man, throwing decadent bashes with women aplenty, where the cognac alone costs more than most Russians make in years.
NEWS
December 3, 2007
More reason to serve better food in school I was pleasantly surprised by The Sun's article "Good for you, schools' bottom line" (Nov. 26), which presented reassuring findings from a University of Minnesota study that suggest, contrary to past findings, that healthy school lunches may not cost schools more and that children may not object to eating nutritious meals. I hope this research will add more fuel to the fire of the movement to promote healthy food for the nation's children. As is widely recognized, abnormally high levels of caloric intake contribute to weight gain among children.
NEWS
February 4, 2007
The Fugitive Wife By Peter C. Brown The year is 1900, in gold-prospecting Alaska. Essie, a Midwestern farm girl fleeing from a stormy marriage, joins up with prospectors bound for Nome, where the golden sands teem with dreamers, schemers and high-rollers. You will not forget the lives met here, those thrown-together fortune-seekers who left behind marriage, betrothal, family and ultimately so much else in one of the great American quests.
NEWS
By Sheila Rauch Kennedy | July 19, 2007
A decade ago, the Catholic Church tried to annul my marriage. My former husband, Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II, wanted to remarry and stay in the good graces of the church; to do so, he needed the ruling. Despite 12 years of marriage and two children, a tribunal of the Archdiocese of Boston decided that our union was never valid, nor were our children the offspring of a true Catholic marriage. I did not agree with the archdiocese's decision. I was sure that our marriage, though failed, had been real.
NEWS
By Justin Fenton | May 31, 2007
For more than 20 years, the husband-and-wife developer team of Clark and Debbie Turner had the routine down: He built the homes, and she sold them. Together, they made millions working on some of the highest-profile projects in Harford County. When they separated in late 2003, they resolved to continue working together to reap the benefits of their combined skills. The post-marriage business honeymoon didn't last long. Within a year, she had accused him in court filings of siphoning tens of millions of dollars from their businesses to a "parasitic, secretly-formed" company that didn't include her and said he was taking lavish trips using company money.
FEATURES
By susan Reimer | June 12, 2007
Ask any of your friends to name one sociological statistic, and I bet this is the one you will get: 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. Our kids probably think the figure is higher. Many of them have friends whose parents are separated or divorced. Children must think divorce is contagious, like the flu. But it isn't true. Half of all marriages don't end in divorce. Only half of some marriages end in divorce. There are ways to prevent divorce, and I am not talking about marriage counseling or sharing the chores or using "I" messages to diffuse arguments.
NEWS
April 13, 2007
M. CARROLL RAVER, writer, photographer, cinematographer and film director, died Monday April, 9th. He was 67. A native of Carroll County, Md., he attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where he was a National Collegiate Athletic Association champion fencer. Early in his career, while at J. Walter Thompson Advertising (NY), he served as a copywriter, producer and director working on television commercials for national clients including Ford. Later, as an award-winning director and cameraman, he directed commercials for Hertz, General Motors, the U.S. Army, BMW and others.
NEWS
By Ellen Goodman | July 6, 1999
BOSTON -- Now is the summer of our content. The economy is up, help is wanted, the stock market is humming along -- and book sales are off by about 30 million books.What's going on here? The folks who survey the industry tell us that sales to adults are down 3 percent for one simple reason: "It's the economy, stupid." When people have money in their pockets they actually spend less on reading.So are we working more and reading less? Are we too busy reading IPOs to have time for hardbacks?
NEWS
By Michael Dresser | March 17, 1999
An Anne Arundel County official joined advocates for children in urging the General Assembly yesterday to ban marriage under the age of 16, calling the current statute permitting such unions "a shotgun law for pregnant adolescents."Robert P. Duckworth, clerk of the county Circuit Court, noted the well-publicized marriage of a pregnant 13-year-old girl and the baby's 29-year-old father last August in Annapolis. The case of Tina Lynn Akers and Phillip Wayne Compton Jr. received international attention, bringing calls for legislation to ban such marriages.
ENTERTAINMENT
By David Daley | April 25, 1999
"Slackjaw," by Jim Knipfel. Tarcher/Putnam. 235 pages. $22.95 pages.Jim Knipfel has slowly gone blind over his 30 years, the light gradually fading from his eyes because he was born with a rare degenerative disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which attacks the rods and cones in the retina that make vision possible.Blindness, Knipfel says, is ultimately just another thing to deal with. Indeed, worse things have happened to him. Like madness. During his 20s, Knipfel also learned that his suicidal depression and emotional free-fall was the result of an inoperable brain lesion.