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From the Jan. 23 Toronto Globe & Mail

...(Kerry's) wife, who earlier vowed never to take the Kerry name or become a Democrat, has quietly done both, calling herself Teresa Heinz Kerry and becoming central to her husband's campaign, appearing with him at rallies and meeting potential voters on her own.

Born in colonial Mozambique, the daughter of a Portuguese physician, she met her first husband when she was working in Geneva as a United Nations interpreter. After Mr. Heinz's death at the age of 52, she became active in philanthropic activities, including the defence of the environment. The romance with Mr. Kerry reportedly began soon after they met at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

Introducing his wife to the crowd at a rally last weekend in the industrial town of Davenport, Iowa, Mr. Kerry said that he "married up," only half joking. Mrs. Kerry, looking much younger than her 65 years, then took the mike and in slightly accented English made it clear that she is much more outspoken than her husband.

She praised the "idea of America" with its belief in tolerance and its can-do mentality, and seemed to be as comfortable before the crowd as is her husband.

From the SmarterCop blog

"November 25, 2003

HEINZ'S LOGICAL DISCONNECT

Here's a good one from the silver spoon-fed wife of John F. Kerry:

The wife of Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry said yesterday that suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay should be given prisoner of war status. "They were captured while fighting a war," Teresa Heinz Kerry said at an informal discussion with minority activists in Seattle. "They should have the rights that other prisoners of war have had."
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Prisoners of war, eh? There's just one teeny weeny little bit of information Ms. Heinz-Kerry is leaving out: they aren't soldiers! They didn't and don't wear uniforms, nor do they carry their weapons openly during military operations. Their intent is to deceive, surprise, and cause terror.
Thus, according to the Geneva Convention,

Combatants who deliberately violate the rules about maintaining a clear separation between combatant and noncombatant groups — and thus endanger the civilian population — are no longer protected by the Geneva Convention.
As illegal combatants, therefore, they are not afforded Prisoner of War status.
Heinz-Kerry should ask her husband what a true prisoner of war is (if he's willing to admit the truth) before shooting her mouth and blindly assuming she's read up on international law."