Marginalia
July, 2008
FROM A COLUMN by Anne Applebaum, wife of Polish politician Radek Sikorski, about po-litical wives who stand next to their sex-scandal-embroiled husbands at press conferences: "Speaking (ahem) as a political wife myself, I can see one clear advantage to this option: It's all over quickly. And no one asks you for a follow-up interview. You appear once—and then you vanish forever, alone with your husband'scareer. If you've been clever about it, you've kept your maiden name and can thus ret...
