Adultery

Life Out Here: Let's stay together

At a fundraiser at which Al Green performed last week, our president, apparently quite spontaneously, sang a snippet of the Reverend Al’s soul and lovers’ classic “Let’s Stay Together.” He hit it beautifully, with a little...

Tags: Political Candidates, Al Green, Elections, Republican Party, Politics

Life Out Here: These two or a Mormon?

An alleged pervert, a documented serial philanderer or a Mormon? Given those choices, many Republicans are leaning toward the alleged pervert or the renowned philanderer. Four women have come forward in recent weeks saying Republican presidential...

Tags: Christianity, Mormonism, Parties and Movements, Herman Cain, Elections

INKED! Whoopee, sports and cheese; what to know when

How well do we know our spouses? We want to think we know each other like chocolate knows peanut butter, like eggs know bacon, but do we? I’m really not sure how well I know my wife, because I have yet to be fundamentally tested. The same goes...

Tags: Game Shows (genre), Bacon, Peanut Butter, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Employees

Pentagon faces another sex scandal

WASHINGTON — The Army suspended the commander of its main basic training camp Tuesday for alleged adultery, the latest in a string of military officers accused of sexual misconduct. Brig. Gen. Bryan T. Roberts, a 29-year Army veteran, was...

Tags: Chuck Hagel, Sexual Assault, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Armed Forces, U.S. Department of Defense

DSM-5 is here: Are psychiatrists ready to stop arguing about it?

Finally. After many contentious years, the American Psychiatric Assn. has unleashed DSM-5, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. If you know one thing about the DSM, it’s probably that this book is...

Tags: Eating Disorders, Arts and Culture, Harvard University, Psychiatrists, Science and Technology

'Mad Men' recap: 'The Crash'

For The Baltimore Sun

Get ready for one wild, drug-induced ride. "The Crash" begins with what the audience will essentially endure the rest of the episode: A hostage-like frenzy with drug-induced maniacs. There’s a car crash, a drug crash, a tap dance and a sex...

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Pat Robertson clarifies his recent comments on infidelity

 Pat Robertson, the televangelist from Virginia Beach, is trying to clarify comments he made last week to a woman whose husband had cheated on her.  Many viewers of "The 700 Club" were puzzled by Robertson telling her to stop focusing on the adultery...

China trying to manage exposure of corruption online

Tags: China, Arts and Culture, Brookings Institution, Xi Jinping, Wen Jiabao

Sarah Polley: Family secret becomes a quest for 'Stories We Tell' filmmaker

All families have their mysteries, their complications. Some more overt than others. For the most part, though, we go through life not really questioning the certainties. These are our parents. These are our siblings. These are the stories we tell....

Tags: Celebrities, Entertainment, Stories We Tell (movie), Movies, Take This Waltz (movie)

'Mad Men' recap: Slave to love

Being a "Mad Men" fan these days feels a little like being a woman who, after dating a string of jerks, finally gives a nice guy a chance and discovers that, hey, there's something to this after all. One of the ongoing debates about this season is...

Tags: Mayo Clinic, AMC (tv network), Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Linda Cardellini

In South Carolina, an ex-governor's quest continues

CHARLESTON, S.C. — At a harborside reception overlooking Ft. Sumter, where the Civil War began, Mark Sanford batted away a TV reporter's question about the latest insult to his comeback campaign: an unwanted endorsement from pornographer Larry...

Tags: John Boehner, Comedy Central (tv network), Republican Party, Fox News Channel (tv network), Ron Paul

Dysfunction gets hot in 'August'

South Bend Tribune

Among other things, Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County” includes characters with various addictions, a pedophile, incest, intergenerational resentment, extramarital affairs and suicide. “It checks all the boxes,” Aaron...

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