Adultery

Pentagon faces another sex scandal

2013-05-21 19:32:00

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...

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

2013-05-20 05:30:00

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...

'Mad Men' recap: Slave to love

2013-05-13 11:44:00

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...

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

2013-05-04 22:14:00

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...

Former Gov. Mark Sanford wins South Carolina House seat

2013-05-07 18:36:00

WASHINGTON — Two years after Mark Sanford left the South Carolina governor’s office tarred by an adultery scandal, he has completed an unlikely political comeback to win a special congressional election. Sanford defeated Democratic neophyte...

Sanford victory shows adultery, lies can't trump party loyalty

2013-05-08 11:14:00

It would be too easy to make fun of the good Christian voters of South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District who saw fit to return their disgraced former Gov. Mark Sanford to the office he once held. I won’t do it. Well, maybe just a...

Mark Sanford and the end of the GOP culture wars

2013-05-08 12:05:00

In April 1861, South Carolina fired the first shots of the Civil War. Almost exactly 152 years later, it may have fired the final shots of the Republican Party’s culture war. South Carolinians on Tuesday elected former Gov. Mark Sanford to the...

What happened when Baz Luhrmann moved 'The Great Gatsby' to Australia

2013-05-05 21:25:00

F. Scott Fitzgerald's ambition for "The Great Gatsby" was scarcely modest: "Something new — something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned," the novelist wrote to his editor of his plans for the 1925 novel. Tobey...

South Carolina sends Mark Sanford back to House

2013-05-08 03:30:00

WASHINGTON — Two years after Mark Sanford left the South Carolina governor's office tarred by an adultery scandal, he has completed an unlikely political comeback to win a special congressional election, holding the seat for Republicans. Sanford...

'Mad Men' recap: Trudy can't fail

2013-04-15 11:03:00

It seems to me things in Vietnam might have turned out differently for the United States if �only we’d had Trudy Campbell fighting on our side.� Because, as I’ve long suspected and as Pete discovered in Sunday’s “Mad Men,”...

Appalachian Trail still dogs ex-governor in South Carolina race

2013-04-30 06:25:00

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, debating for the first and only time in his comeback campaign for Congress, professed not to hear when his opponent brought up the Appalachian Trail. But there’s little doubt that voters...

Female Marine gets reprimand, loss of pay in adultery case

2013-04-25 12:25:00

SAN DIEGO — A military judge Thursday sentenced a female Marine convicted of attempted adultery and lying to investigators to a letter of reprimand and the loss of $3,000 in pay. Lt. Col. Leon Francis could have sentenced her to a year in the brig...

After CIA Director David H. Petraeus confessed to having an affair with his (much-younger) biographer and resigned from his post in November, much of the national conversation focused on whether Petraeus had jeopardized the country's safety by sharing classified information with his mistress.

2012-12-11 17:07:30

Rachel Uchitel is transitioning from mistress to wife and mother in record time. The TV personality and Tiger Woods' former girlfriend announced her and new hubby Matt Hahn are expecting their first baby in 2012.

2011-12-29 22:04:26

. The news came as a surprise to the entertainment industry which had just seen the two celebrating Bullock's Oscar for 'The Blind Side' earlier in the month. One month later Bullock announced she was adopting a baby from New Orleans, a process that began before James' announcement.

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