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 Australia’s most famous couple, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, have been reunited in Sydney – just days after a woman claimed she’d had a long-running affair with the troubled country music star. Urban, who had spent the past couple of months in rehab for alcohol abuse in the United States, reportedly flew back into Australia yesterday to be with his wife of six months. The couple were caught by paparazzi leaving the United International Pictures office in the city today. Holding hands, the couple said nothing to the waiting snappers and quickly left in a luxury black car. It’s the first time Urban has been home since the couple’s lavish and romantic June wedding at Manly. He had been due to present an award at November’s ARIAs, but withdrew after he checked himself into rehab in October. He has previously acknowledged a former addiction to cocaine. But Kidman was in Sydney just before Christmas. The couple gave no sign of tension following an American model’s claim of an affair with Urban which she said ended only a month before his wedding to Kidman. Amanda Wyatt, a 23-year-old part-time model who met Urban at a bar, told a London newspaper their relationship began in 2004 and continued until May this year – the month before Urban and Kidman married.
Sydney Morning Herald
It is nice to see the two of them looking so happy! I am really hoping they can make it work!!!
BTW what is up with hair?
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 Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon’s scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America’s history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He was 93. Ford had battled pneumonia in January 2006 and underwent two heart treatments — including an angioplasty — in August at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He was the longest living president, followed by Ronald Reagan, who also died at 93. Ford had been living at his desert home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., about 130 miles east of Los Angeles. Ford was an accidental president, Nixon’s hand-picked successor, a man of much political experience who had never run on a national ticket. He was as open and straight-forward as Nixon was tightly-controlled and conspiratorial. Ford was an accidental president, Nixon’s hand-picked successor, a man of much political experience who had never run on a national ticket. He was as open and straight-forward as Nixon was tightly controlled and conspiratorial. He took office minutes after Nixon flew off into exile and declared "our long national nightmare is over." But he revived the debate a month later by granting Nixon a pardon for all crimes he committed as president. That single act, it was widely believed, cost Ford election to a term of his own in 1976, but it won praise in later years as a courageous act that allowed the nation to move on. The Vietnam War ended in defeat for the U.S. during his presidency with the fall of Saigon in April 1975. In a speech as the end neared, Ford said: "Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. But it cannot be achieved by refighting a war that is finished as far as America is concerned." Evoking Abraham Lincoln, he said it was time to "look forward to an agenda for the future, to unify, to bind up the nation’s wounds." Ford also earned a place in the history books as the first unelected vice president, chosen by Nixon to replace Spiro Agnew who also was forced from office by scandal. He was in the White House only 895 days, but changed it more than it changed him. Even after two women tried separately to kill him, the presidency of Jerry Ford remained open and plain. Not imperial. Not reclusive. And, of greatest satisfaction to a nation numbed by Watergate, not dishonest.
AP (story) and Gerald R Ford Presidential Library (photo – check out this site for more info on him)
So sad.
Here is Betty Ford’s statement:
"My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age," Mrs. Ford said in a brief statement issued from her husband’s office in Rancho Mirage. "His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country."
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